DUMMERSTON — DUMMERSTON - The Selectboard approved the Windham County Sheriff Department's contract for Fiscal Year 2017 at the June 8 regular Board meeting.
The contract amount, for $11,760, covers 20 patrol hours per month, up from last year's contract of 18 1/2 hours per month.
Nine members of the Planning Commission have been removed in one fell swoop by the Selectboard, causing a tsunami of questions that many are looking to be answered when the board next meets. “I've lived in town for 52 years, and it was a very hard decision for me and the Selectboard,” Selectboard Chair Richard Wizansky told The Commons this week. “But we believe it is the best action we could have taken for our town.” It started on Oct.
I am disappointed that Governor Phil Scott is choosing to play politics with our children's future in his first budget. The bottom line: level funding school budgets means cuts in real terms and higher property taxes by shifting more expenditures into the education budget. That's not the way to go. Along with that, the governor is asking school boards across the state to tear up the budgets they've been working on for months and start anew. In most cases, those...
Violinist Michi Wiancko and composer Judd Greenstein are opening their farm to the public for a celebration of music. Antenna Cloud Farm is a 100-acre former dairy farm on a hilltop in Gill, Mass., just a few miles south of the Vermont border, where the married couple lives with their young daughter. That's where Wiancko and Greenstein will premiere a music festival and artists' retreat, beginning in July. Five internationally-acclaimed resident musicians and groups have been chosen for the initial...
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