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Londonderry Select Board agenda for Jan. 12, 2017
The Londonderry Select Board will hold a meeting at 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12 at the Twitchell Building, 100 Old School St., South Londonderry. This meeting is rescheduled from the board’s regular meeting of Jan. 3 that was canceled due to snow. The agenda is below. 1. Call meeting to order 2. Additions or deletions […]
Texas fugitive arrested in Andover
© 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Vermont State Police and Chester Police on Friday assisted the U.S. Marshals Service in the arrest of James A. Jackson at a home on East Hill Road in Andover. According to media reports in Texas, on Aug. 10, 2016, Jackson was indicted by the Sabine County Grand Jury on […]
Andover Select Board meeting for Monday, Jan. 9, 2017
The Select Board for the Town of Andover will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, at town offices at 953 Weston-Andover Road. Below is its agenda. 1. Call Select Board meeting to order. 2. Act on Agenda. 3. Act on Minutes: Act on minutes from Dec. 12 meeting. 4. Review and Act […]
Petitions due Jan. 30 for open offices in Chester
© 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Town of Chester will elect officers by Australian ballot on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. These are the offices that will be up for election at that time. Chester Town School District Moderator – 1 one-year term Town Moderator – 1 one-year term Town Clerk – 1 three-year term Town […]
Chester Police Log, Aug. 24 through Dec. 19, 2016
© 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. 24, 6:29 a.m. A woman on Potash Brook Road was on her deck when she […]
Act 250 permit for Chester water tank restricts gravel extraction plan
By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC On Friday, the District #2 Environmental Commission issued a permit to allow Chester to build a water tank and transmission line on 139 acres of land east of Green Mountain Union High School. But the Act 250 permit seems likely to make further development on the site […]
Conn. man accused of assaulting Mass. trooper arrested after chase with VSP
©2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC A high speed pursuit and a run through the woods just south of Springfield on I-91 ended in the arrest of a Hartford, Conn., man accused of assaulting a Massachusetts state trooper late last night. At about 11:37 p.m. on Tuesday, Vermont State Police were alerted that Massachusetts State Police had […]
Magic Mountain named ‘Best in Snow’ by Liftopia
© 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Liftopia, a ski and snowboard ticketing portal, has named Magic Mountain in Londonderry No. 1 among its Top 10 Best in Snow winners for 2016-17, according to a press release issued last week. Liftopia takes reviews from thousands of skiers who use its services to see which resorts are best […]
Chester Select Board agenda for Jan. 4, 2017
The Chester Water/Sewer Commissioners will meet at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 4 to set the water/sewer budgets. Following that, the group will meet as the Chester Select Board. The meetings will be held at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Below is the Select Board agenda. 1. Approval of Minutes from the Dec. 21, 2016 […]
Grafton Select Board agenda for Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017
The Grafton Select Board is meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017 at Grafton Elementary School, 58 School St. Below is its agenda. 1. Public Comment 2. Adopt Agenda 3. Minutes: Dec. 19, 2016 4. Warrants: Accounts Payable and Payroll 5. Highway Report 6. Footbridge Repairs 7. Annual Personnel Review Dates 8. Monthly Budget […]
Snows on their way to you . . .
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Our region can expect 8 to 12 inches of snow beginning around 9 a.m. Thursday and continuing through Friday morning, with the most intense snowfall during the night on Thursday, including calls for heavy snow. The Chester Telegraph talked with the National Weather Service in Burlington Wednesday morning to ask […]
State: Chester must reappraise, future ed tax hikes likely
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Perhaps one of the driest items on the Chester Select Board agenda last Wednesday could have the greatest impact in the future, while the town officer who understands the system it is a part of will be leaving before the work will begin. Lister Wanda Purdy told […]
Chester, Bellows Falls libraries host Bill of Rights exhibit
The Whiting Library, 117 Main St. in Chester, and the Rockingham Free Public Library, 65 Westminster St. in Bellows Falls, will be hosting a new pop-up exhibition from the National Archives The Bill of Rights and You, commemorating the 225th anniversary of the ratification of the landmark document. The exhibit spotlights one of the most […]
Grinch strikes Pomfret, VSP seeks help replacing toys
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC Yesterday morning Vermont State Police responded to a break-in at the the Teago General Store in Pomfret. Between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, someone broke in through the front window and stole items from the store including 25 to 30 unwrapped toys from the Toys for Tots bin. The burglar […]
UPDATE 12/22: Woman’s body found in Dorset quarry, police continue Marzouq investigation
UPDATE: Dec. 22, 2016 3:55 p.m. The woman whose body was found in the Dorset quarry yesterday has been identified as Hadil Marzouq, 21, of Bennington. The cause of her death has been ruled a drowning but a determination of the manner of her death is pending. In a press release this afternoon, the Vermont […]
Chester planners send bylaw revisions for approval over some objections
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC After nearly two years of work, the Chester Planning Commission voted – at the end of Tuesday night’s public hearing – to send its revisions of the Unified Development Bylaws to the Chester Select Board for review. A number of residents and business owners spoke in favor […]
Weston Fire Department truck fails to meet pumping standards
By Bruce Frauman ©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Weston Select Board on Tuesday, Dec. 13 learned that two one of the Weston Volunteer Fire Department’s trucks do not meet current standards. The department’s 18-year-old pumper is pumping 1,200 gallons per minute instead of the required 1,500 gallons per minute, and the its 30-year-old tanker-pumper, which […]
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 […]
Police arrest second man in Poultney slaying
©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Johnathan Testa, 21, has been arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of 19-year-old Daniel Hein, who was found dead early Sunday morning from a gunshot wound in a vehicle in the driveway of a Poultney home where Testa had been living. Following discovery of the shooting, State Police […]
Bennington College woman reported missing
UPDATE Dec. 20, 5:25 p.m. On Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016 the Vermont State Police conducted a large land and water search for Hadil Marzouq in and around the Dorset Quarry. Marzouq was not located and the search of the quarry is scheduled to continue tomorrow. The search is being conducted by members of the Vermont […]
