All Entries in the "Grafton" Category
Missing Grafton man found less than a mile from home
By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Search and rescue teams from the Vermont State Police, New England K9 and Upper Valley Wilderness Response picked up the search for Thomas Brown, 84, of Grafton, on early Tuesday and within a couple of hours found the man “conscious and alert” at 198 Fire Pond Road. […]
Grafton man missing from his home
PLEASE NOTE: Thomas Brown has been found. To read more, click here. © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Vermont State Police are looking for a Grafton man who wandered away from his home last night. According to a VSP press release, Thomas Brown, 84, left his house on Monday night at about 9 p.m. He was […]
Grafton board votes to move meetings to new town garage
By Cynthia Prairie ©2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Grafton Select Board voted 4 to 1 on Monday to move its meetings to the new town garage on Tom Bell Road, more than 2 miles east of the center of town. The meetings are currently held in the gym/cafeteria at the Grafton Elementary School, 58 School […]
Grafton residents to vote on using surplus to buy tractor
By Cynthia Prairie ©2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Grafton Select Board Monday night decided to ask town voters to approve using funds from the town surplus to help pay for a new tractor and attachments that would help the town comply with Act 64, which was signed into law in summer of 2015 and is […]
Earle Everett Pinkham, 98, an avid book collector, reader of histories who loved his friends, family
Chester resident Earle Pinkham, 98, died at Springfield Hospital of a heart attack on Friday, March 10, 2017. He was born on Dec. 2, 1918 to Earle Everett Pinkham Sr. and Aletha Florence Parrott in Lynn, Mass. Mr. Pinkham graduated from Lynn English High School in 1936 and attended Burdett Business College. A World War […]
Weston Select Board gets a raise; town to buy a new fire truck
By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Voters in Weston passed all of the articles on its warning and returned most town office incumbents to their positions on Tuesday morning during a Town Meeting that went by so quickly that the Little School, which was making lunch to be served, had to scramble to […]
Grafton votes ‘no’ on school merger; Mack ousts Turner from Select Board, Pollio beats Hall for Lisle seat
By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing, LLC The voters of Grafton voted overwhelmingly to nix the proposed merger that would create a Windham Northeast Unified School District. As a “necessary” town, Grafton’s rejection of the plan defeats it, but it was not alone. According to a report in VTDigger, two other necessary towns – […]
Grafton boards host solar energy info meeting March 3
The Grafton Select Board and the Grafton Planning Commission are hosting an informational forum on solar energy at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 3. The event will be held at the White Church. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. The purpose of the forum is to provide basic information on solar energy and how […]
Meadowsend Timberlands buys 600 acres; looks to renewable project down the road
By Cynthia Prairie ©2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Meadowsend Timberlands has purchased 600 acres of land adjacent to the southern portion of its Stiles Brook Tract, straddling Grafton and Townsend, Jeremy Turner, managing forester for the company, confirmed on Tuesday. He added that a quarter of the tract is in Grafton, with the remaining acreage n […]
Cash stolen in burglary at Grafton Elementary
© 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC A small amount of cash was stolen over the weekend from the Grafton Elementary School, Vermont State Police have announced. Police say a burglar entered the school, at 58 School St., and took cash from the school’s office. Police say they are not sure how the burglar was able to get […]
Grafton addresses solar energy in Town Plan, grant for possible project
By Cynthia Prairie ©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The public vote against a proposed wind farm for Grafton in early November did not dampen the interest nor the need to address renewable energy in its Town Plan. On Monday night, the Grafton Select Board voted — 3 in favor with 2 abstaining — of backing the […]
Grafton man charged with domestic assault, cruelty in puppy’s death
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC A Grafton man was arrested this morning and charged with 2nd degree aggravated domestic assault and aggravated cruelty to animals in the death of a 16-week-old black Labrador mix puppy. According to a Vermont State Police press release, troopers responded to a 911 call from a house […]
Stiles Brook landowner, wind foes take a breath, consider next steps
By Cynthia Prairie ©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC While Iberdrola Renewables has said it will not move forward with a 24-turbine wind project straddling the Windham and Grafton line following a decisive vote, the owners of the 5,000-acre project site have made no such promise. When asked on Monday, what happens next, Meadowsend Timberlands’ managing forester […]
Second-homeowners against Iberdrola wind project as well, surveys find
By John Hoover and Cynthia Prairie © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Like their full-time resident counterparts, second-homeowners in both Windham and Grafton overwhelmingly rejected a proposal by Iberdrola Renewables to build a 24-turbine wind farm on property straddling the towns. Second-homeowners in both towns had been mailed surveys asking whether they were for the proposed […]
Grafton, Windham voters deal fatal blow to Iberdrola wind proposal
By Cynthia Prairie © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC In a decisive blow to a proposed industrial wind project, the voters in Windham and Grafton have voted against putting a 24-turbine industrial wind project along the Stiles Brook tract of land that straddles the two towns. When the votes were counted on Tuesday night, Grafton defeated […]
Grafton Planning Commission meeting Nov. 1
The Planning Commission for the town of Grafton will hold its meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 1 at Grafton Elementary School, 58 School St. Below is its agenda. Public Comment Minutes: Oct 11, 2016, Sept 26, 2016 (revised) Town Plan Revision Review marked-up maps in map chapter Review Education Chapter Review Recreation Chapter […]
Wind tax info meeting canceled on legality concern
©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC What was intended as an informational workshop for Grafton property taxpayers to show them how to figure out the impact of the tax benefits derived from the proposed Iberdrola wind proposal on their personal property taxes did not come off as planned on Saturday. The meeting had been warned as a […]
Ornithologist downplays turbine danger to rare bird
By Cynthia Prairie © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC A Vermont ornithologist is downplaying concerns that the at-risk Bicknell’s thrush will be imperiled should the 24-turbine Stiles Brook wind project go through. Some in the anti-wind community in Grafton and Windham are hoping to use the plight of this small songbird as the Nov. 8 vote […]
Grafton sets wind project info meeting dates
©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Grafton Select Board on Monday has set dates for meetings and workshops to disseminate information on the effects of a proposed industrial wind project on taxpayers, homeowners and residents when it comes to economics, health and the environment. With only 20 days before the Nov. 8 election, which will include […]
Grafton Planning Commission meeting for Oct. 11
The Planning Commission for the Town of Grafton will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 11 at Grafton Elementary School, 58 School St. Below is its agenda. Public Comment Minutes: Sept 13, 2016, Sept 26, 2016 Town Plan Revision: Review revised Flood Resiliency Chapter with pictures and diagrams; Review marked-up maps in map chapter; […]
