BRADFORD—Bradford Town Clerk Sonya McLam will leave her elected office at the end of the month to take a new post at River Bend Career and Technical Center. Her interim replacement will be a familiar face—at least to Newbury residents.
Newbury Town Clerk Nikki Tomlinson will resign from her post and move to Bradford where she has been appointed the interim Town Clerk. Her appointment is effective until the next election at town meeting in March.
NEWBURY—“Can you hear us now?” Newbury residents did not hold back in venting their frustrations at a “listening” hearing on the proposed state-sanctioned juvenile detention center.
After a site visit, Dr. Harry Chen, the newly appointed interim commissioner of the Vermont Department of Children and Families, met with Newbury residents at a 4 p.m. meeting on Dec. 6. Though the meeting was facilitated by Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, the person on the hot seat was Chen.
NORTH HAVERHILL—Representatives from school districts in Bath, Benton, Haverhill, Piermont, and Warren approved the 2023-2024 central office budget for its supervisory union after a public hearing on Dec. 7.
NORTH HAVERHILL—Elizabeth Morrill, retired seventh and eighth grade Haverhill Cooperative Middle School teacher, recently published her first book of poetry, “Horse Meadow.”
The 90-page book explores Morrill’s life through inspirations, such as her family and friends, the Benton Range, blueberry picking, and hiking trips.
Morrill is a familiar figure to generations of area residents. In 2015, she retired from her teaching position at HCMS, where she taught for 35 years.
WELLS RIVER—Wells River Chevrolet is changing hands.
The dealership’s majority owner, Jeff Moore, has announced that he is selling the dealership to the Autosaver Group. The sale will be finalized within a week or two.
Long known as H.O. Taylor Chevrolet, the dealership in the heart of Wells River Village, has been in existence for 85 years.
BRADFORD—An altercation at a Burlington parking garage captured on video has plunged Bradford and Oxbow High School into the middle of the social media spotlight.
BURLINGTON—A Vermont man, who is charged with abducting a woman, crossing state lines, and sexually assaulting her in front of her son in Windsor County three years ago, is now due to go on trial in March in federal court in Burlington.
Everett A. Simpson, 45, most recently from St. Johnsbury, also wants the federal court to provide him a suit to wear during his trial in U.S. District Court.
EAST RYEGATE—The owner of the Ryegate biomass plant has been ordered by a bankruptcy court judge to sell off almost all of its assets to Hartree Partners, a New York-based investor that is one of its largest creditors.
Stored Solar filed for bankruptcy in Maine in September. On Nov. 23, a judge approved a plan for the company to sell off all its biomass plants in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire to Hartree. Stored Solar’s bankruptcy filing did not include the plant in Ryegate, which appears to be the lone remaining asset in the Maine-based company’s holdings.
The biomass plant in Ryegate, however, is temporarily shut down, according to a Dec. 5 report in Seven Days.
NORTH HAVERHILL—Lynn Perry, 70, of Newbury was badly injured over the weekend after his gyrocopter crashed at the Dean Memorial Airport. He was found by two people who noticed the wreck while walking by early Sunday afternoon.
As of Tuesday morning, Perry was being treated in the burn unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston after being transported by ambulance from Dartmouth- Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon on Monday afternoon. Low visibility prevented him from being airlifted between the two hospitals.
BRADFORD—Students studying cosmetology at River Bend Career & Technical Center used to complete 750 hours learning such skills as hair color, makeup application and nail techniques by the time they graduated from the program. But they still had another 250 hours of mandated training before they could meet the state requirements for working in cosmetology, and they had to pay for that additional schooling themselves.