All Entries in the "Londonderry" Category
Derry absentee ballots available for school district merger
Absentee ballots are now available at the Londonderry Town Clerk’s Office for the Taconic and Green Regional School District Merger vote. Contact the Town Clerk’s office, 100 S. School St. in South Londonderry, to request a ballot at 824-3356. All ballots must be returned by 7 p.m. on March 7 in order to be counted. […]
Derry Candidates Night: Three vie for open Select Board seats
By Bruce Frauman © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC With the death of Londonderry Select Board chair Steve Prouty and members Wayne Blanchard and Bill Wylie deciding not to run for re-election, three Select Board seats will change hands on Town Meeting day. Emmett Dunbar and Cathy Aragi each came to the town’s Candidates Night on […]
Full Derry board meeting opens with tribute to Prouty
By Bruce Frauman ©2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC With his voice breaking, Londonderry Select Board chair Paul Gordon opened the meeting of Feb. 13 saying, “It is with great sadness that I step in as vice chairman. The sudden passing of our chairman and friend, Steve Prouty, leaves us without our dedicated leader.” Prouty, 66, who […]
Residents hear Act 46 merger proposal at Flood Brook School
By Bruce Frauman ©2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Around 50 people braved the single digit temperatures and blowing snow on Thursday, Feb. 9 to attend an Act 46 School Merger Forum at Flood Brook School in Londonderry. The hour-long presentation by study committee member Debra Lyneis outlined the proposed merger of schools for nine towns into […]
Memorial service set for Steven Prouty, Derry Select Board chair
A service for Steven G. Prouty, who died earlier this week, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017 at the South Londonderry Town Hall, 139 Middletown Road. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the West River Railroad Depot Project or the Town of Londonderry for tree planting on […]
Steve Prouty, champion of Londonderry, Select Board chair, dies at 66
By Bruce Frauman © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Steve Prouty, chair of the Londonderry Select Board, died at his home on Monday morning, Feb. 6, 2017. He was 66. Prouty was elected to the board in 2011 and rose to chair last May after Jim Ameden resigned for family reasons. Prouty’s father, Clyde, served 36 […]
Derry Candidates Night set for Feb. 16
The annual Candidates Night will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 at the Twitchell Building on Old School Street. The list of positions to be voted on at Town Meeting on Tuesday, March 7 can be found on the town website. The evening will provide a forum for candidates to announce their […]
Derry board OKs article on shed spending capped at $200,000
By Bruce Frauman © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC As expected, the Londonderry Select Board on Tuesday Jan. 17, agreed to ask voters at Town Meeting to fund a new wooden salt and sand shed for a total “not to exceed $200,000.” While the wooden structure itself is expected to cost around $59,000, the bulk of the […]
Wooden salt shed to be put on Derry Town Meeting ballot;
Transfer Station fee hike proposed
CORRECTION: While the Londonderry Select Board did discuss on Jan. 12 the amount that it would ask the voters to approve, the board did not vote on that dollar amount that night. It only decided to ask voters to approve the wood-frame shed. However, at the Tuesday, Jan. 17 meeting, the board did decide to […]
Derry policing board urges town to renew VSP contract
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Londonderry’s Policing Committee came out in force on Monday to recommend to the Select Board that it place on the 2017 Town Meeting warning a proposal to renew the Vermont State Police contract for one year of 25 hours a week of patrol and community policing for […]
Regional police force stalls out for ‘Mountain Towns’
CORRECTIONS: Jeanette Haight, Andover Town Clerk, has informed us that Andover actually pays $7,000 annually for five hours of policing a month. And also Al Peters was misidentified. He is the Andover Town Constable. By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC After two meetings this fall, members of area select boards and Londonderry’s […]
Genser property buyout hung up by Fairpoint pole
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Bette Genser, owner of the former Barn Outlet store at Routes 11 and 100 in Londonderry, came to the Dec. 5 Londonderry Select Board meeting looking for an update on the buyout of her property after flooding from Tropical Storm Irene. She left with promises to “do […]
Londonderry moves ahead with salt shed planning
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Moving ahead on plans for the construction of a salt and sand shed on the Prouty property on Route 100 between Londonderry and South Londonderry, Londonderry Select Board member Bill Wylie showed the board an engineering drawing for a wood frame shed at its Nov. 21 meeting. […]
Magic deal finally closes; new owners take over
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC “The journey begins,” said Geoff Hatheway, “as an operating company, not just an investment.” Sitting in an office that looks out on the slopes of the Magic Mountain ski area on Thursday Nov. 3 Hatheway looked forward to the ski season ahead but cautioned that the closing […]
Northshire Act 46 panel to vote on merger plan Monday
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The changing landscape in education governance in Vermont surfaced during the Londonderry Select Board meeting of Monday, Nov. 7. Northshire Merger Committee member Dick Dale told the board the committee will reach the end of its process at its Monday. Nov. 14 meeting. In the meantime, Board […]
South Derry Fire Station, church host annual Halloween events
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC For the eighth year, the Champion No. 5 Fire Company of South Londonderry will present its Haunted Firehouse on the second floor of the fire station at 60 Main St. on Halloween, Monday, Oct. 31. In conjunction with the event, the First Baptist Church of South Londonderry is sponsoring trunk-or-treating […]
Police looking for burglar of Londonderry restaurant
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC Did you see anything suspicious around the Londonderry’s Mountain Market Place between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. Tuesday morning? During that time, according to the Vermont State Police, someone broke into and burglarized Jake’s Restaurant. If you saw suspicious people or vehicles around that time, please contact Trooper Matthews at […]
Derry board unhappy with state delay in repaving Route 11 east
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC In a response to a letter of apology received by Rep. Oliver Olsen, the Londonderry Select Board on Oct. 17 voted to send a letter to Agency of Transportation Secretary Chris Cole expressing its “dissatisfaction” of the agency for not repaving Route 11 from Londonderry to Chester […]
Months in, Derry residents upbeat on State Police presence
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Thirty-three residents of Londonderry gathered at the town office building on Wednesday, Oct. 12 for an information session held by the Londonderry Policing Committee to help it in making a new recommendation during the Select Board’s budget review process starting in November. Londonderry contracts with the Vermont […]
Derry area solid waste group to hold public meeting Oct. 18
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Londonderry Solid Waste Group, which serves the towns of Landgrove, Londonderry, Peru, Weston and Windham, will hold a public meeting from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18 at the Londonderry Town Office, 100 Old School St., South Londonderry. The purpose of the meeting is to offer members of the […]
