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Act 46 RED goes to voters: What will merger mean?

Act 46 RED goes to voters: What will merger mean?

By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Next Tuesday, May 2, the voters of Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish and Chester will decide whether they will join their existing school districts into a new, unified one to fulfill the requirements of the state’s school consolidation law. The Regional Education District — or RED — that will […]

Between school mergers and splits: How did we get here?

Between school mergers and splits: How did we get here?

By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Enacted by the Vermont legislature in the spring of 2015, Act 46 was designed to improve education opportunities for Vermont students while lowering the cost of providing those opportunities through mergers that would scale up the state’s schools and help create efficiencies. And that’s more than just […]

Students from GMUHS, Cavendish Elementary Rally for Planet

Students from GMUHS, Cavendish Elementary Rally for Planet

By Tuckerman Wunderle ©2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC MONTPELIER On Wednesday, April 12, students from Green Mountain Union High School and Cavendish Town Elementary School flocked to Montpelier to participate in the 2nd annual Rally for the Planet, organized by the Vermont Youth Lobby. The Green Mountain and Cavendish contingents joined about 1,400 other students from […]

State Ed Board OKs TRSU RED plan; town votes eyed for May 2

State Ed Board OKs TRSU RED plan; town votes eyed for May 2

By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC At its Tuesday, March 21 meeting, the Vermont State Board of Education gave the go-ahead to four area towns to put an Act 46 merger proposal before their voters on Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The approval by the Agency of Education and the Board of Education was […]

TRSU Act 46 merger committee approves four-town RED proposal

TRSU Act 46 merger committee approves four-town RED proposal

By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Two Rivers Supervisory Union Act 46 Study Committee voted last night (Thursday, Feb. 23) to approve the subcommittee report that recommends the creation of a Regional Education District (RED) from Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish and Chester.  If approved by the Vermont Board of Education at its March […]

Green Mountain RED merger moves forward; Ludlow, Mt. Holly reject plan

Green Mountain RED merger moves forward; Ludlow, Mt. Holly reject plan

By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC On Monday night, school merger study committee representatives from Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish and Chester who are working to form a Regional Education District heard from Mount Holly and Ludlow reps that those towns will not participate in the RED – even as a fallback position in their […]

TRSU 'Red' Sub-committee meeting agenda for Feb. 13, 2017

TRSU ‘Red’ Sub-committee meeting agenda for Feb. 13, 2017

© 2017 Telegraph Publishing, LLC The Two Rivers Supervisory Union Act 46 Sub-Committee studying a Regional Education District for the towns of Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish and Chester will hold a meeting on Monday, Feb. 13 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the Library Learning Commons at Green Mountain Union High School, 716 Route 103 South […]

Act 46 RED meeting rescheduled for Jan. 31 in Andover

Act 46 RED meeting rescheduled for Jan. 31 in Andover

Two Rivers Supervisory Union has announced it has rescheduled the meeting of its Act 46 Sub-Committee for Tuesday Jan. 31. at 5:30 p.m. at Andover Town Hall.  The original meeting was postponed due to the weather. The subcommittee is looking at setting up a regional education district (RED) among the towns of Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish […]

UPDATE: Tonight's Act 46 RED Subcommittee meeting postponed

UPDATE: Tonight’s Act 46 RED Subcommittee meeting postponed

© 2017 Telegraph Publishing, LLC The Two Rivers Supervisory Union Act 46 subcommittee meeting at the Andover Town Hall this evening is being postponed due to bad weather. TRSU has announced it has rescheduled the meeting for Tuesday Jan. 31. at 5:30 p.m. at Andover Town Hall.  The subcommittee is looking at setting up a […]

Four TRSU towns look to merge; Ludlow, Mt. Holly seek 'Plan B'

Four TRSU towns look to merge; Ludlow, Mt. Holly seek ‘Plan B’

By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC After presentations on the scenario recommended by its superintendent and often emotional but inconclusive discussions of the plan, the Two Rivers Supervisory Union Act 46 Study Committee voted to allow Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish and Chester to study forming a Regional Education District (RED) within TRSU. That subcommittee […]

Guns, coins stolen in Cavendish burglary

Guns, coins stolen in Cavendish burglary

© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Sometime between Nov. 4 and this morning, Nov. 14, someone entered a house on Hill Road in Cavendish through an unlocked front door and stole a number of valuables, according to the Vermont State Police. Police responded to the house at about 10:25 this morning. Among the items taken were […]

Police ask for help with Proctorsville burglary

Police ask for help with Proctorsville burglary

© 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC Vermont State Police are asking the public for help in solving a burglary that took place early this morning in Proctorsville. According to a press release a burglar alarm was received at about 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday Oct. 26. Upon investigation, police found that a break-in had occurred at Table […]

State Police looking for escaped 'high risk' sex offender

State Police looking for escaped ‘high risk’ sex offender

UPDATE – May 14, 6 p.m. – Vermont State Police are now reporting that Dale Adams, Jr. was found and taken into custody by the Hartford Police Department this afternoon. © 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC Dale Adams, Jr, 28, of Perkinsville was put on “escaped status” on by the Vermont Department of Corrections on Monday, […]

Vermont State Police Incident Log for May: April 3-April 29, 2016

Vermont State Police Incident Log for May: April 3-April 29, 2016

© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Editor’s Note: The Vermont State Police incident report is a sampling of incidents directly from Vermont State Police. We do not identify individual victims of crimes nor those who have been arrested. Sunday, April 3, Windham – A 55-inch flat screen television was taken in a burglary from a residence […]

Public forum on school consolidation options in Chester

Public forum on school consolidation options in Chester

© 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC There will be a public forum on Act 46, Vermont’s school consolidation law, on Wednesday, May 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the library at Green Mountain Union High School, 716 Rt. 103 South in Chester. A committee consisting of school board members, educators and the public have been studying the […]

Vermont State Police incident log for Jan. 4 - Jan. 31, 2016

Vermont State Police incident log for Jan. 4 – Jan. 31, 2016

© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Editor’s Note: The Vermont State Police incident report is a sampling of incidents directly from Vermont State Police. We do not identify individual victims of crimes nor those who have been arrested. Monday, Jan. 4, Londonderry – Vermont State Police received a report of a burglary on Landgrove Road in […]

Police seek assistance in Cavendish theft

Police seek assistance in Cavendish theft

By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Vermont State Police are reporting that between yesterday afternoon and this morning, tools were stolen from a Davidson Hill Builders job site on Twenty Mile Stream Road in Cavendish. Among the tools stolen are a Makita 16-inch beam saw, Dewalt drills, a Bostitch nailer, a Dewalt chop […]

Vermont State Police incident log for September 2015

Vermont State Police incident log for September 2015

The Chester Telegraph’s Vermont State Police Log is a sampling of incidents in Andover, Grafton, Londonderry, Weston and adjacent communities. We do not identify individual victims of crimes nor those who have been arrested. Tuesday, Aug. 4, Londonderry – A woman called the state police to report that she believed that her daughter was staying […]

Two injured in Proctorsville Gulf crash

©2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC Vermont State Police report that a two-vehicle accident occurred at the bottom of the Proctorsville Gulf around 12:50 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8. Ludlow Ambulance and Proctorsville Fire Department were dispatched to the crash on VT103 in the town of Cavendish. Police say that a 2012 Ford Fusion driven by a Brattleboro […]

Motorcyclist injured in early morning crash

A 48-year-old Cavendish motorcyclist was injured in a 7 a.m. accident involving a Volvo driven by a Ludlow resident at Routes 103 and 131 in Cavendish, Vermont State Police said this afternoon. According to police, the Volvo was traveling south on Route 103, with the driver intending to turn left onto Route 131. At the […]