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A graphic provided by Responsible Wakes for Vermont Lakes shows the group’s main points in its 54-page petition, which it submitted to the DEC in March, 2022.

Rule would ban wake boats on Lake Raponda

WILMINGTON - Following a petition filed in March, 2022, by a group called “Responsible Wakes for Vermont Lakes,” the Department of Environmental Conservation has drafted a rule that would prohibit wake boats in many of Vermont’s lakes, including Lake Raponda.
The draft rule requires a set...

Disc golf plan approved by board

DOVER- Selectboard members approved an RFP for a disc golf course on their Horace Hill recreational property and postponed a decision on whether they should abandon a proposed section of Valley Trail.
A second round of RFPs for the Horace Hill disc golf course elicited a more satisfactory...

Halifax Town Meeting will return to the Halifax Elementary School multipurpose room on the first Tuesday in March

Board gets push-back on return to in-person Town Meeting

HALIFAX- During their regular meeting on Tuesday evening, the Halifax Selectboard set dates for their Town Meeting informational hearing and a community meeting as part of a BDCC initiative.
The selectboard will hold an informational hearing ahead of the annual Town Meeting on Tuesday,...

Dover Town Meeting will be held in March at Dover Town Hall for the first time in two years

Dover Town Meeting returns to March

DOVER- After postponing their Town Meeting until May in 2021 and 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year Dover’s Town Meeting will return to traditional Town Meeting day on Tuesday, March 7.
The meeting, which was hosted by Mount Snow at their Carinthia Base Lodge over the last two...

Halifax will return to traditional Town Meeting

HALIFAX- This year Halifax will return to an in-person meeting on the traditional Town Meeting day of Tuesday, March 7.
Town Meeting and voting for town and school officers by Australian ballot starts at 10 am in the Halifax Elementary School multipurpose room. The polls will remain...

How to spend $1.2 billion? State officials are asking around

WILMINGTON- Agency of Commerce and Community Development Secretary Lindsay Kurrle, along with nearly a dozen other state officials, visited Wilmington’s Old School Community Center Monday to discuss American Rescue Plan Act funding with local and regional representatives.
“We’re making...

Gov. Phil Scott

Governor calls for civility

MONTPELIER- Gov. Phil Scott used his weekly press conference Tuesday to call for civility following recent outbreaks of hate and violence in Vermont.
The incidents include several instances of racial slurs directed at student athletes. The Vermont Principals’ Association, which governs...

New innkeepers “took a leap of faith”

Snow sculpture contest returns, other community activities are in the works DOVER - The team at the newly-opened Sugar Maple Inn is welcoming the public to the inn on Presidents Day weekend for a snow sculpture contest and winter festival. The festival is what the inn’s owner...

Very few contested races on Town Meeting ballots

DEERFIELD VALLEY- Valley voters will see few contested races on Town Meeting ballots this year, but some boards will be welcoming new members or searching to fill unclaimed seats.
Petitions for school and municipal offices were due Monday, January 30.
Wilmington...

Officials gathered at the Corse Farm Dairy on Friday to speak about the importance of organic farms. From left: USDA Undersecretary Jenny Lester Moffitt; Sen. Peter Welch; Vermont Secretary of Agriculture Anson Tebbetts; Abbie Corse; Linda Corse; and Leon Corse. To the left of the crowd: the cows of the Corse Farm Dairy. Lauren Harkawik

Sen. Welch, USDA undersecretary visit Corse Farm

Announce new relief for organic farms
WHITINGHAM - At midday on Friday, Sen. Peter Welch, United States Department of Agriculture Undersecretary Jenny Lester Moffitt, and Vermont Secretary of Agriculture Anson Tebbetts ducked out of the cold and into an enclosure with the...