All Entries in the "Chester" Category
Chester board questions Fire Department expenditures
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC With nearly all the income and expense for 2015 accounted for, the Chester Select Board used a short special meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 30, to move another step closer to finalizing a 2016 budget proposal to present to voters at Town Meeting in March. Town Manager David […]
Deadlines approach for Chester election petitions
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The following elective offices in Chester are open for 2016. An asterisk denotes a paid position. Petition forms to get on the ballot for these offices are available at the Town Clerk’s Office, 556 Elm St., between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Petitions for elective office must […]
Chester board talks party to celebrate N.Y. charter; Townscape recaps volunteer work
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Select Board continued to wrestle with funding capital expenditures by municipal bond rather than through current tax revenues and worked on the budget at its Dec. 16 meeting, but not before talking about some partying. In fact, while it did not delve into the question […]
Kids, adults alike light up over holiday village at Chester Town Hall
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC Time is running out to see the Christmas village constructed by Ken Barrett at Chester Town Hall. Town Clerk Deb Aldrich kept her office open until 7 last night and Ken and Shirley Barrett were on hand to welcome visitors. At one point there 15 visitors crowded […]
Evening hours for Chester Christmas display
© 2015 Telegraph Publishing, LLC Chester Town Clerk Deb Aldrich will be staying late and keeping her office open on Monday, Dec. 21 so kids of all ages can stop by to see Ken Barrett’s annual holiday display. According to Aldrich, the town office, located at 556 Elm St. in Chester, will be open until […]
Christmas village returns to Chester Town Hall
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC After a year’s hiatus and a town office remodeling that gave him more space in which to work, Ken Barrett – Chester’s own Father Christmas – is back creating a spectacle of light and movement, nostalgia and whimsy with his annual Christmas village. It’s like having a […]
Chester board moves toward capital bond plan, discusses 2016 anniversary
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC In years past, late November and early December was a time of wrangling over what would go into – and what would come out of – Chester’s municipal operating budget. But at two recent meetings – Nov. 24 and Dec. 2 – the plan for capital spending […]
Early morning blaze destroys farm machine shop
UPDATE Dec. 4, 2:25 p.m. Vermont State Police fire investigators responded at the request of the Chester Vermont Fire Department, and found the cause to be undetermined, and not suspicious. The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources also responded to assist with a HAZMAT spill of glycol that was a result of the fire. In addition […]
Chester wrestles with health insurance co-pay, bidding process
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC In a contentious Nov. 18 meeting that saw Chester’s Select Board set a special meeting for 7 p.m. tonight to finish the agenda rather than continuing late, members questioned whether the town should take possession of the information booth, whether to require town employees to pay something […]
Woman, girl hospitalized after being hit by car in Chester
UPDATE Nov. 25 8:45 a.m. According to Chester Police, the child who was hit on Monday was released from the hospital yesterday. The woman remains at Dartmouth Hitchcock in critical condition. © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC A woman and a child walking together to Chester-Andover Elementary School around 7:30 this morning were hit by a […]
Spate of home, business burglaries alarms Chester
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC With seven burglaries in the past two weeks, Chester is feeling the sting of drug-related crime that has touched neighboring communities this year, according to Chester Police Chief Richard Cloud. Three homes, three downtown businesses and a construction equipment facility in Chester been broken into and, because […]
Bottle rockets start brush fires in Chester: mischief or arson?
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC Firefighters from Chester and Proctorsville responded to, and quickly put out, a brush fire on Popple Dungeon Road Monday afternoon. But in a worrying development, it was the third such fire in one week and the second in one day. “We believe we have someone who is […]
Businesses urge Chester to take over info booth/restroom as ‘commitment to economic growth’
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC With the opening of the budgeting season, the age old question of what is necessary and what is not took center stage for much of the Wednesday, Nov. 4 Chester Select Board meeting that included weighing items on the proposed new capital bond plan, town-wide master planning […]
Road upgrades in Chester continue with Route 11 paving
Pike Industries, which has been upgrading the roads in Chester since the end of July, announced Friday that it has paved VT 103, Depot Street and the Green including the parking area along VT 11 this week. “Today and tomorrow (Saturday) Pike will be paving VT 11 and plans to finish VT 11 and intersecting […]
Car gas leak is first time for new Chester FD turnout gear
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC Moments before The Telegraph arrived at the Chester fire station to photograph firefighters in new turnout gear donated by a second homeowner to honor the service of former Fire Chief Harry Goodell, the trucks went rolling out, lights flashing on their way to a call. According to […]
Firefighters in Londonderry, Chester throw open doors to trick-or-treaters
For the second year, South Londonderry’s Champion Fire Company teamed up with the nearby First Baptist Church to put on an all-encompassing Halloween gala for kids and adults alike. The church sponsored the trunk-or-treat, getting more than 20 cars to line Thompsonburg Road between the firehouse and Route 100, an area that the Fire Department […]
Minor injuries in mini-van dump truck collision
©2015-Telegraph Publishing LLC No one was seriously injured in the mini-van-dump truck collision on Route 103 this morning. According to police, at 8 a.m. Thursday, a mini-van traveling north toward Chester crossed the center line and collided head-on with the southbound dump truck, owned by the Town of Chester, in front of the Chester-Andover Family […]
Haunted house at MacLaommain’s Pub to benefit Food Shelf
MacLaommain’s Scottish Pub will be holding a haunted house in its Great Hall from 7 to 10 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 31 to benefit the Chester-Andover Food Shelf and the Vermont Foodbank. On Saturday, it will host a storytelling and a “friendlier” haunted house for younger children from 1 to 3 […]
Borrowing plan put forth as capital needs in Chester double annual set-aside
By Shawn Cunningham ©2015-Telegraph Publishing LLC With budgeting season approaching quickly, Town Manager David Pisha gave the Chester Select Board a draft budget at its Wednesday, Oct. 21 meeting. He also introduced a plan that he believes will even out the impact of the town’s capital expenditures over the next five years. Pisha told the […]
Lack of documentation on ownership of Yosemite artifacts raises questions
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC While members of the Chester Select Board have asserted that the town has no ownership interest in the historic Yosemite Firehouse, questions arose at its Oct. 7 meeting regarding the building’s contents, namely those that are or might be the property of the town of Chester. On […]
