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Chester Select Board agenda for Oct. 5
The Chester Select Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St., and via Zoom. To join the meeting remotely go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81988842129 Below is its agenda. 1. Approve Minutes from the September 21, 2022 Selectboard Meeting 2. Citizen Comments/Answers from Previous Meeting 3. Old Business 4. Adopt […]
TRSU Board agenda for Oct. 6
The Two Rivers Supervisory Union will meet from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6 at Ludlow Elementary Professional Development Room, 45 Main St., and via Zoom. To access via Zoom, use this link: https://trsu.zoom.us/j/85756476936. Below is its agenda. I. Call to Order A. Roll Call II. Approval of Agenda: (Additions & Deletions) III. […]
Different approaches: How are area towns addressing the issue of short-term rentals?
By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC As public concern grows around the proliferation of short-term rentals in area towns, select boards and planning panels have begun to take action. But while towns like Killington and Woodstock have established rental registries and regulations, local governments have either taken an incremental approach or only just […]
Editorial: Regulate unhosted short-term rentals
By Cynthia Prairie ©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Telegraph spent months looking into the housing crisis in the central tier of southern Vermont, trying to understand where it stands now and, if necessary, what can be done about it. Today’s article, Hollowed Community?, which you can read here, pinpoints several factors into the causes […]
Hollowed Community? Residents ring alarm over growth of unhosted short-term rentals
By Cara Philbin and Cynthia Prairie © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Housing in the rural central tier of southern Vermont always has been dependent upon single-family homes. While Chester – with a population of 3,005 – has two purpose-built, townhouse-style apartment complexes, they are rare in most villages. Instead, residents in this east-west corridor have […]
Ludlow Rotary holds annual Chili Cook-off Oct. 8
The Ludlow Rotary Club is sponsoring its 31st Annual Chili Cook-off from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8 on Depot Street by the traffic light in Ludlow. More than 20 entrants will be competing for the various awards. Cook-off guests will have the opportunity to taste a variety of chilis and enjoy […]
Okemo Valley TV’s Patrick Cody receives Rotary community service award
Patrick Cody, executive director of Okemo Valley TV, had the cameras turned on him recently when, as the guest speaker at the Ludlow Rotary Club, he was honored with the club’s annual Ludlow Community Service Award. Rotarian Art Randolph cited the many years of coverage of area town meetings by Okemo Valley TV along with […]
Services for Edward Bemis, 75, formerly of Weston, set for Saturday, Oct. 8
Edward Walter Bemis, 75, passed away peacefully at his home in Sebree, Ky., on Nov. 24, 2021. Edward was born in Londonderry on Oct. 14, 1946, the son of Archie Bemis and Doris Ethel (Wood) Bemis, who predeceased him. He grew up in Weston and attended schools in Chester and graduated from Springfield High […]
Henry Homeyer: Grow good apples without chemicals
By Henry Homeyer © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC I love the saying that something is “As American as apple pie.” I love apple pie and would have some for breakfast every day if I could. But oddly enough, apples are not native to the United States. They came from Kazakhstan, in central Asia east of […]
John M. Gabert, 65, of Springfield
John M. Gabert, 65, passed away on Friday, Sept. 23 from unforeseen complications after a brave battle with aggressive lung cancer. Though he had cancer at the time of his death, John was receiving immunotherapy for an unrelated infection at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center when he unexpectedly succumbed to heart failure. He had recently celebrated […]
Chester Police Dept. study finds communication lacking, training procedures outdated
By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Police Department needs to improve its communication with the public as well as bring its policies and related training procedures into the 21st century, according to a number of recommendations in an assessment of the town’s Police Department written by Jim Baker, a former director […]
Derry Planning Commission sets three info meetings on proposed bylaws
The Londonderry Planning Commission is hosting a series of public information meetings in October about the proposed Londonderry Zoning Bylaws. The meetings will be facilitated by the town’s consultant hired to update the regulations. The proposed bylaws represent a complete rewrite of the existing Zoning Bylaws, which have not been updated since 2009, and includes […]
Vermont Open Studio Weekend Oct. 1 & 2
Vermont Open Studio Weekend offers visitors and collectors the opportunity to plan a tour that brings them through the small towns of Vermont to more than 100 studios where they can purchase beautiful objects and talk with the artist. Studios are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 1 and Sunday, Oct. […]
SAPA-TV 2022 Annual Meeting, potluck Oct. 13
Join Springfield Area Public Access Television for its annual meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 13 at 335 River St., Suite 1, in Springfield. The SAPA TV board and staff will update community members on operations during the 2021-2022 fiscal year. There will be a potluck dinner following the meeting. If you would like […]
Flood Brook’s Caleb Wiley wins Teacher Recognition Award
Caleb Wiley, a 4th grade teacher at Flood Brook School in Londonderry, has earned one of six teacher and staff awards announced recently by the Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union. Wiley’s work in the classroom and as a coach on the field captured the attention and admiration of his peers and earned the BRSU Teacher Recognition award. […]
To the editor: Partridge seeks post of assistant judge for Windham
I am writing to ask for your vote on Tuesday, Nov. 8 for the position of Windham County assistant judge. Many of you know me for my service as a state representative in the Vermont House of Representatives for the last 24 years. My goal has always been to listen to and serve the people […]
To the editor: Dem Senate team seeks Winsdor voters’ support
Thank you, Vermont Windsor District voters, for your support in choosing us to be your three Democratic Senate candidates on the ballot this Nov. 8. We — Alison Clarkson, Dick McCormack and Becca White — are running as a team, and we heartily endorse one another. We respect one another as individuals and as public […]
Busy summer for Derry Tri-Mtn. Lions Club
Gail Wyman and Patti Greene, members of the Tri-Mtn. Lions Club of Londonderry served up freshly made popcorn at Neighborhood Connections’ Mountain Circus fundraiser on Sept. 11 at Flood Brook School. Peggy Merrow loaned her popcorn machine for the occasion, and Terry Merrow donated the popcorn. On the previous day, Tri-Mtn. Lions also manned Water Table #2 […]
Dinner, auction to raise funds for 2023 GMHS exchange program in France
A Francophone dinner and silent auction will be held at the Green Mountain High School cafeteria, 716 VT-103 in Chester, on Friday, Oct. 7. Proceeds will help to subsidize Green Mountain Union High School students’ participation in a exchange program in the Loire Valley of central France in April of 2023. The central part of the Loire […]
Weston resident continues personal mission to raise funds for cancer research
Carol MacLaury of Weston is once again joining walkers in the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk on Sunday, Oct. 2. Funds raised from the Jimmy Fund Walk support all forms of adult and pediatric patient care and cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. MacLaury walks in honor of her 15-year-old grandson Graham, who was diagnosed […]
