FAIRLEE—The Fairlee Selectboard again discussed a proposal for siting a cell tower on Main Street in the village at a regular board meeting on June 2. The proposal is still preliminary and a permit application has not yet been filed with the Vermont Public Utilities Commission.
WOODSVILLE—Town officials said they hope to have a full-time town administrator in place in the next three months.
“The end goal is to have it filled by Sept. 1,” said Haverhill Interim Town Administrator and Haverhill Selectboard Chair Rod O’Shana during Monday’s regular selectboard meeting.
BRADFORD—Vicky Chaffee started at the Orange East Senior Center in 1998 as a meal site manager. She’s been a fixture ever since. This month, she celebrates her 25th year as the director.
The journey to the epiphany — more on that later — started when Kevin Brooker of Post Mills met Cline while registering for Race Across America. RAAM is an ultra-cycling road race from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic crossing 13 states and climbing 177,000 vertical feet, or 33.5 miles, which is like summiting Mount Everest six times.
BRADFORD—Voters will decide who will fill the selectboard vacancy left by Daniel A. Perry III who resigned earlier this month.
A special town vote has been scheduled for Aug. 5 with polls open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. where voters will cast Australian ballots.
FAIRLEE—Two people were taken to the hospital after a car struck a utility pole on Route 5 in the heart of Fairlee on the morning of May 22.
NORTH HAVERHILL—The Grafton County Commission held a public budget hearing last week on the commissioners’ recommended budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, which begins July 1.
On the morning of May 1, Oxbow High School students, teachers, and local newspaper publisher and historian Michelle Sherburne boarded a school bus for a day-long walking history tour. “I wanted students to first and foremost understand that history has happened around them,” Valerie Gieselman, a U.S. history teacher at OHS,
BRADFORD—A state judge found probable cause on May 16 to charge a Bradford man with the gruesome killing of his friend and the unlawful disposal of the body in January. James D. Nickles Jr., 42, faces a state charge of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Corey Crooker, 43, of Bradford, according to records in Orange County Superior Court in Chelsea.
BRADFORD—On May 14, the Oxbow Unified Union School Board met for its first regularly scheduled meeting following the 2025 annual meeting on April 30. The proposed budget of $21,454,611 was initially approved, but voters later added $100,000 to the original budget to support the food service programs that provide nutritious food to the district’s students.