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As bond vote looms, Cavendish board takes 2nd look at Rt. 131 site for garage
By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC As the clock ticks down toward Tuesday, Sept. 26 — when Cavendish voters will decide whether to borrow up to $400,000 to build a new town garage to replace the one that burned in February — the question of where to build it resurfaced at September’s Select […]
Mural incident spills over as resident asks Mora to resign Derry board
By Bruce Frauman ©2017-Telegraph Publishing LLC The controversy over the Route 10 mural painted over 10 days ago by a local restaurateur spilled over to the Sept. 18 Londonderry Select Board meeting, when resident Chad Stoddard asked Select Board member George Mora to resign from the board or be removed, if she refused. Stoddard was […]
Weston board to look into Markham Road washouts; decides for early school payments
By Bruce Frauman © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Weston residents Barbara Lloyd and Jenny Server told the Weston Select Board on Tuesday, Sept. 12 that in the past seven years — but especially this year — water has rushed down from Orton Lane to Markham Road where they live, damaging their driveways and garden beds. […]
Andover to celebrate long tenure, retirement of roads foreman
The Town of Andover will celebrate the career and retirement of road crew Foreman Kevin Baker in the Town Hall, 953 Andover Road, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 1. Baker is an Andover native whose parents moved to the town when they got married. For he past 23 years, Baker has been […]
Chester DRB public hearing for Sept. 25, 2017
The Development Review Board for the town of Chester will hold its public hearing at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. following a site visit at 5:25 p.m. at 81 Gold River Road. Below is its agenda. 1) Comments from citizens 2) Review Minutes from September 11th public hearing 3) […]
Police look for leads in Grafton burglary
On Sept.11, the Vermont State Police received a report of a burglary on the Chester Road in Grafton. According to police, sometime within the past year someone broke into the house through a back window and stole a Charlie Hunter painting. In addition to the painting, a red Sunfish sailboat with a red and white […]
Chester Select Board agenda for Sept. 20, 2017
The Chester Select Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Below is its agenda. 1. Approval of Minutes from Sept. 6, 2017 Select Board meeting 2. Citizen Comments 3. Old Business 4. 2016 Audit Review; Ron Smith 5. Flag Pole at Town Hall; Jeff Holden 6. Approve […]
Grafton Select Board agenda for Sept. 18, 2017
The Grafton Select Board will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18 at Grafton Town Garage, 220 Bell St. Below is its agenda. 1. Adopt Agenda 2. Minutes: September 5, 2017 3. Highway Report: Salt Pricing 4. Public Use of Meeting Room at the Town Garage 5. GIA/Solid Waste Tire Recycling 6. Benches and Picnic […]
UPDATE: I-91 Rockingham Bridge construction schedule including NIGHT WORK
The Vermont Agency of Transportation has begun replacing the bridges on I-91 over the Williams River in Rockingham. The projected completion date is May 18, 2020. Here is the anticipated construction schedule for the week of Sept. 17, 2017. I-91 NORTHBOUND & SOUTHBOUND ARE REDUCED TO ONE LANE WITHIN THE CONSTRUCTION ZONE. I-91 NORTHBOUND MOTORISTS […]
Restaurant owner: I painted over mural ‘as favor to community’
By Cynthia Prairie ©2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Ed Brown, owner of the Mill Tavern, told The Telegraph last night, that on Monday, using a gallon of dark colored concrete stain, he did indeed paint over the floral mural that has decorated a retaining wall at Routes 11 and 100 in Londonderry for the past three […]
Firefighters quickly extinguish blaze at Tsuga Studios
By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Just before 5:30 on Wednesday evening, the Chester Fire Department was called out to a fire at Tsuga Studios on Goldthwaite Road, home of art glass maker Nick Kekic. According to Fire Chief Matt Wilson, much earlier in the day, a small fire had started near the […]
Chester Police log for Aug. 23 through Sept. 9, 2017
© 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Editor’s Note: The Chester Telegraph Police Log is a sampling of incidents directly from Chester Police reports. In general, we do not identify individual victims of crimes nor those who have been arrested. Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2:45 p.m. Police went to a home on Grafton Road for the report of […]
Teen charged in sex assaults appears in court on ‘furnishing’ charge
By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC WHITE RIVER JUNCTION Having plead not guilty to a charge of furnishing malt beverages to a minor in Windsor Superior Court on Aug. 29, Ryan Stocker was back in a White River Junction courtroom on Tuesday afternoon to tell the court whether he had secured attorney representation […]
Chester board, residents ask about public use of land after foundation purchase
By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing, LLC Around 50 people attending the Wednesday Sept. 5 Chester Select Board meeting heard about two efforts to conserve natural resources in Chester, one at the end of the process and one just beginning. At the beginning of the meeting, Town Manager David Pisha told the board that […]
New RED school district gets under way
By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC The launch of the Green Mountain Unified School District, a Regional Education District (RED) created by an Act 46 merger vote in May, took place Tuesday night. Not counting school and town employees, only a handful of voters from the constituent towns of Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish and […]
Salvage yards neighbors ask Chester Select Board for help
By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Neighbors of three properties off Route 10 in north Chester are asking the town’s select board for help with accumulating junk. Approximately two dozen people concerned with the situation attended the Sept. 6 board meeting. Two properties – one on either side of Chandler Road at the […]
Weston Select Board agenda for Sept. 12, 2017
The Weston Select Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 12 at Town Offices, 12 Lawrence Hill Road. Below is its agenda. 1. Any Requested Changes to the Agenda: 2. Public Comment: 3. Road Foreman: Ford 550 Warranty; Markham Lane 4. Comcast Building: 5. Review and Approve Minutes: 6. Unifirst: 7. Door Lock: […]
Brattleboro man charged with Brookline home invasion
© 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC A Brattleboro man was arrested by Vermont State Police early Sunday morning in what police termed a “home invasion” in Brookline. According to a VSP press release, at about 7:40 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 10, police responded to a caller saying that a man matched the description of the person […]
Chester Town Dems hold caucus Thursday, Sept. 14
The Chester Town Democratic Party Caucus will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, at the Chester Town Hall, 556 Elm St. The purpose of the caucus is to elect a Chester Town Democratic Committee, which will in turn elect officers of the Chester Town Democratic Committee. Members of the Windsor County Democratic Committee […]
Man who ‘invaded’ Brookline home sought by police
Vermont State Police are looking for a barefooted man they say entered a Brookline house this afternoon stealing items from the home. According to a press release, at about 2:40 p.m. Saturday, police responded to the report of a home invasion on Riverview Road in Brookline. The complainant told police that the man entered her […]
