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  • Southern Vermont nonprofit acquires 341 acres

    Southern Vermont nonprofit acquires 341 acres

    The southern Vermont community-based nonprofit Bull Creek Common Lands has placed 341 acres of remote land in Athens and Townshend under the permanent protection of a conservation easement with the Vermont Land Trust. The conserved land is the headwaters of Bull Creek, which contains many wetlands and different forest types that are home to beavers, […]

  • Connecticut River Joint Commissions receives $40K grant from state of Vermont

    Connecticut River Joint Commissions receives $40K grant from state of Vermont

    Connecticut River Joint Commissions was recently awarded a $40,000 grant through the state of Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental Conservation. This grant funds CRJC’s work program from November 2025 until October 2026 and enables the continuation of its grassroots, locally focused work to preserve and protect the visual and ecological integrity and […]

  • Chester board hears objections to local option tax, appoints development panel members

    Chester board hears objections to local option tax, appoints development panel members

    By Shawn Cunningham © 2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Select Board last Wednesday looked at 2026 budgets for Public Works as well as the Water and Sewer departments and appointed four volunteers for a new economic development commission. But the continuing discussion of a 1 percent local option tax on rooms (hotel, inn and […]

  • Reading of 'Best Christmas Pageant Ever' at First Universalist on Sunday

    Reading of ‘Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ at First Universalist on Sunday

    The First Universalist Parish of Chester presents a reading of Barbara Robinson’s  The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 28, in the church’s Community Room, 211 North St. in Chester’s historic Stone Village. Reading will be done by Nick Boke, Buffy Boke, Melody Reed, Darryl Kale and Bev Hart with projection […]

  • Learn ice fishing techniques from an expert

    Learn ice fishing techniques from an expert

    Have you ever wanted to learn how to ice fish or do you just need to brush up on your knowledge? Learn from  Jim Fischer, Vermont Let’s Go Fishing certified chief instructor and a Chester resident, from 8 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 3 at Knapp Pond #2,  1426 Knapp Pond Road in Cavendish. […]

  • To the editor: Family Center thanks all who helped make Empty Bowl Dinner a success

    To the editor: Family Center thanks all who helped make Empty Bowl Dinner a success

    On behalf of the Chester-Andover Family Center, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped make this year’s Empty Bowls event in early November possible. To all our attendees, sponsors, donors, and volunteers: your generosity, time, food, auction items, gift baskets and presence are what bring this event to life year after […]

  • To the editor: Thanks to the 'village,' another successful Senior Dinner is served

    To the editor: Thanks to the ‘village,’ another successful Senior Dinner is served

    They say it takes a village to raise a child, but truth be known, it also takes a small town to prepare and serve a wonderful holiday meal to a group of Chester and Andover senior citizens. Many hands make light work, for sure. Thank you to the fantastic folks that made that dinner possible. […]

  • Cavendish board holds hearing on subdivision regs

    Cavendish board holds hearing on subdivision regs

    By Lorien Strange © 2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC Cavendish’s Select Board kicked off its Monday Dec. 8 meeting with a public hearing for the proposed subdivision regulations. It’s a touchy subject for the town. The prospect of a quarry on a small, subdivided lot on Tierney Road stood at the center of a years-long controversy […]

  • Andover Select Board agenda for Dec. 22

    Andover Select Board agenda for Dec. 22

    The Andover Select Board will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday December 22 at the Andover Town Office, 953 Weston Andover Road. Below is the board’s agenda 1. Call Meeting to Order. 2. Act on Agenda. 3. Act on Minutes of December 8th meeting. 4. Public Comment (Time allowance: Five minutes per […]

  • Agendas for Dec. 17 Chester Select Board and Water/Sewer Commission meetings

    Agendas for Dec. 17 Chester Select Board and Water/Sewer Commission meetings

    The Chester Select Board will hold its regular meeting following their meeting as the Town’s Water and Sewer Commission meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025 at Town Hall, 556 Elm Street and via Zoom. Below are their agendas. Water and Sewer Commissioners Meeting 1. Citizen’s Comments 2. 2026 Budget Discussion – Water Department […]

  • Fill your senses with the sights, sounds and smells of Germany's Christmas markets

    Fill your senses with the sights, sounds and smells of Germany’s Christmas markets

    By Henry Homeyer ©2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC  An impulsive decision in late November by my wife Cindy and I to explore German Christmas markets found us in Berlin visiting with an old friend. We also spent a few days traveling by rental car to Dresden, Leipzig and Naumberg, a walled medieval town that also has […]

  • Green Mountain Gardeners brings holiday cheer to neighbors

    Green Mountain Gardeners brings holiday cheer to neighbors

    Green Mountain Gardeners of Landgrove, Londonderry, Peru and Weston held their annual gathering on Dec. 8 to make holiday table decorations for their homebound neighbors. The South Londonderry Depot was full of the smell of pine and the sounds of chatter as 20 members, dressed in holiday sweaters and their garden club aprons, built festive […]

  • SAPA TV hosts 8th annual public domain Christmas

    SAPA TV hosts 8th annual public domain Christmas

    Once again, SAPA TV, the Springfield area’s public access TV station, will run 24 hours of Christmas movies and short subjects from 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve to 7 p.m. on Christmas Day. Viewers in Chester, Reading, Springfield and Weathersfield, as well as in Charlestown, N.H., are invited to spend the day with 1964’s Santa […]

  • Chester's Yosemite Firehouse gets its wreath

    Chester’s Yosemite Firehouse gets its wreath

    Historic Fire District No. 2 on Depot Street, known as the Yosemite Firehouse, is the last town-owned public building to be decorated for the Christmas holiday season. For years Chester Townscape has decorated the town’s public buildings and central locations with a variety of greens, berries and cheery red bows to welcome the holiday season. […]

  • Free Ida Mae Specker holiday concert Dec. 19

    Free Ida Mae Specker holiday concert Dec. 19

    A holiday concert featuring Ida Mae Specker on fiddle, Mike Wheeler and Emily Burkland on guitar and Mowgli Giannitti on grand piano and upright bass will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 19 at Sugar Bob’s Finest Kind, 92 VT Route 11 in Chester. Doors open at 5 p.m.; BYOB. Admission is free, […]

  • Springfield Community Band's Holiday Concert set for Dec. 19

    Springfield Community Band’s Holiday Concert set for Dec. 19

    The Springfield Community Band’s third annual Holiday Concert that will take place at 6 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 19 in the auditorium of Riverside Middle School, 13 Fairground Road in Springfield. Admission is free. This will be a fast-paced and fun evening, featuring new and exciting selections. Several are based on traditional holiday music but […]

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