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To the editor: Black River Rugby season about to begin
Summer is winding down and fall is fast approaching, and with it comes the 2016 fall season for the Black River Rugby Club. Black River is a Division 4 Men’s Team in the New England Rugby Football Union. Again this year, Black River Rugby would like to thank Mark Verespy and The Killarney Irish Pub […]
Grafton Select Board meeting for Sept. 6, 2016
The Grafton Select Board will meet at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 6 at Grafton Elementary School, 58 School St. Below is its agenda. 1. Public Comment 2. Adopt Agenda 3. Minutes: Aug. 15, 2016 4. Warrants: Accounts Payable and Payroll 5. Highway Report 6. Signature for designated voting delegate from Grafton at the annual […]
Guide to the 2016 Chester Fall Festival
©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC F or one weekend every autumn, Chester, Vt.’s Green fills with more than 60 artists, craftspeople and food vendors to celebrate the arts in Vermont and the rich colors of fall foliage that burst upon the Green Mountain State. This year, the event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on […]
Special Chester Select Board meeting Monday, Aug. 29
The Chester Select Board will hold a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 29, 2016 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Below is its agenda. 1. Citizen Comments 2. Executive Session for the purpose of Reviewing a Settlement with Fish & Wildlife relative to the permitting of the new water storage tank and […]
Fallen tree on power lines shuts down Route 11
By Shawn Cunningham © Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Fire Department was called out at about 7 a.m. this morning for a tree that had fallen from the hillside on Route 11 just west of Adams Road. According to Fire Department Capt. Ben Whalen, the tree was laying on the power lines, which were arcing. […]
New York teen dies of injuries in Jamaica fall
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC At around noon today, a 17-year old from Irvington, NY fell from the upper pool of Hamilton Falls in Jamaica. According to Vermont State Police, Tyler Rosenberg was crossing the uppermost pool of the falls when he slipped and slid down about 100 feet to the middle pool injuring his […]
Chester water rates increase; Coach Road water pipes to be ‘looped’
By Christian Avard © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Chester residents and second homeowners will be seeing an increase in water rates with their next bill. Acting as the town’s Water Commissioners, the Chester Select Board approved a $2 water rate increase at its Aug. 17 meeting. Water users will be charged $46 per equivalent unit […]
New Derry zoning admin resigns; driveway access given on legal trail
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Citing “health concerns and previous employment commitments” new Zoning Administrator Heather Makovec sent a letter of resignation to the Londonderry Select Board a few days before its Aug. 15 meeting. The board passed Paul Gordon’s motion to accept Makeovec’s resignation effective after the DRB meeting Aug. 17 […]
Open meeting training session in Chester
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC The Chester Select Board will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 24 at 6:30 p.m. at which Garrett Baxter of the Vermont League of Cities and Towns will give a presentation on Vermont’s Open Meetings Law. The law is a meant to guarantee that the public’s business is done […]
Andover Select Board meeting for Monday, Aug. 22, 2016
The Select Board for the town of Andover will hold its meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 22, at Town Offices, 953 Weston-Andover Road. Below is its agenda. 1. Call to Order. 2. Act on Agenda. 3. Act on Minutes: 08/08/2016 Selectboard Meeting. 4. Review and Act on Financial Orders. 5. Highways / Garage: A. […]
State Police looking for missing 17 year old
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC The Vermont State Police at the Rutland barracks are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing 17 year old. Donald Maxwell Miller, who goes by the name Max Miller, left his family’s home on Saturday Aug. 20 after a disagreement with his mother. Max was last seen leaving […]
Derry boards work to make town office basement usable
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Londonderry Select Board moved forward in its town office planning project during a special joint meeting with members of the Planning Commission on Wednesday, Aug. 10. The goal of the project is to end up with “a building that will work,” said Planning Commission member Larry […]
Weston Board says ‘no’ to Little School diagonal parking
By Bruce Frauman ©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Feeling they had done their due diligence, members of the Weston Select Board on Aug. 9 voted to draft a letter to the committee that proposed changes to the parking in front of the Little School saying that it did not “seem like a viable option.” At Town […]
Grafton begins crafting wind survey, sets up wind info panels
By Cynthia Prairie ©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Monday night’s Grafton Select Board meeting could have gone the way of many meetings in the past few years, turning into a pitched battle of finger-pointing and legal arguments, but board chair Ron Pilette wasn’t having it. Pilette moved the meeting forward, setting aside an ongoing ethics complaint […]
Londonderry Select Board moves forward on salt and sand shed
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Londonderry Select Board moved forward on plans to build a new salt and sand shed at a special meeting this past week. Earlier this year, the state Department of Transportation told the town of to remove by July of 2017 the salt it now stores at […]
Grafton Select Board agenda for Aug. 15, 2016
The Grafton Select Board will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 15 at Grafton Elementary School, 58 School St. Below is its agenda. 1. Public Comment 2. Adopt Agenda 3. Minutes: August 1, 2016 4. Warrants: Accounts Payable and Payroll 5. Highway Report: a. David Wheeler requests Town mow brush on Class 4 road […]
Chester Select Board agenda for Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016
The Chester Select Board will meet as the Chester Water Commissioners at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 17 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Below is its agenda. (The Chester Select Board will meet immediately following this meeting.) 1. Citizen Comments 2. Set Water Rate 3. Adjourn Special Select Board meeting 1. Approve Minutes from […]
Another water rate hike on tap in Chester; Select Board ethics policy debate continues
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Select Board, at its Wednesday, Aug. 3 meeting, decided not to act on a recommendation from Town Manager David Pisha to approve a water rate increase. Instead, the five-member panel will warn the rate increase for the next meeting — Aug. 17 — and make […]
Bock wins Democratic Primary in Windsor 3-1; victory in November seems assured
By Shawn Cunningham and Cynthia Prairie ©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Tom Bock sprinted to a victory over Melody Reed in the Democratic Primary for Vermont state representative from the Windsor 3-1 District, which includes Chester, Andover, Baltimore and North Springfield. Despite ballot counting glitches in Andover and Baltimore, by 9:30 p.m. it appeared that Bock […]
With one district out, Bock takes lead in State House race
9:08 p.m. © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Tom Bock jumped out to an early lead over Melody Reed in the race for Vermont state representative from the Windsor 3-1 District, which includes Chester, Andover, Baltimore and North Springfield. Polling 251 votes to Reed’s 209 in the town of Chester, the former Chester Select Board member […]
