This week’s issue highlights the four high school teams that won state championships: Oxbow Girls Softball, Blue Mountain Girls Softball, Blue Mountain Boys Baseball, and Thetford Academy Boys Baseball. Also four high schools held graduations over the weekend, check out the coverage in this week’s JO. And three graduation sponsorship pages (Oxbow, Rivendell and Thetford) […]
NEWBURY—The Newbury Selectboard has hired an administrative assistant for the first time. With her term expiring in 2024, longtime selectboard chair Alma Roystan, who has also served as administrator for the board, will not be seeking reelection.
NEWBURY—The May 31 selectboard meeting dealt with status reports on a hearing concerning the juvenile detention center; fire station design; and a notice from the Vermont State Police on the Park and Ride. Board chair Alma Roystan and Charles Schulze, the newly appointed administrative assistant, attended a hearing at the Vermont Supreme Court on May […]
WOODSVILLE—The Haverhill Selectboard hopes to fill two vacancies on the board later this month after the remaining members approved a timeline during a meeting on May 22.
BRADFORD—Two Haverhill residents have been charged in two separate thefts from Tractor Supply in Bradford this spring.
VERSHIRE—Approximately 20 people gathered at the site of the new Vershire town garage to witness its groundbreaking on the morning of June 1.
Check out Page A3 for Kate Sherburne’s “What’s the Scoop?” column this week featuring Hatchland Farm’s “Wicked Good” Dairy Delites. Throughout the summer, look for “What’s the Scoop?”
BRADFORD—A proposed skate park, a liquor license delay, and a trails system were the big issues for discussion at the selectboard meeting on May 25. In a 4-1 vote, the board tentatively approved a request by the Parks and Rec Commission to begin fundraising for the skate park addition to Elizabeth’s Park.
A steering committee implementing the grant identified an art mural for the I-91 underpass, which is the sole pedestrian and traffic access between the village and the Lake Morey area. “The mural aims to reconnect Fairlee’s east and west — its village center with its recreational resources — its Main Street and its Lake Morey,” […]
PIERMONT—The Piermont Selectboard wants to sell a small parcel on Route 25C that town meeting voters once considered for a recreational park. In 2021, voters rejected article 16 on the town meeting warrant that asked Piermonters to develop the .6-acre property into a picnic park with game courts.