News Briefs

News Briefs: Lakes Region

By Lani Duke Hubbardton fire shows perils of remodeling HUBBARDTON—Trapped between walls and dropped ceilings, a fire took down a Hubbardton home erected about 225 years ago. Missing from the townscape is the one-and-one-half story, post-and-beam Cape Cod-style house at […]

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Local News

Local races shaping up

By Stephen Seitz Except for Killington, there doesn’t seem to be much excitement in area races for local office on the east side of the Green Mountains this year. Killington town clerk Lucrecia Wonsor said that former selectman Jim Haff […]

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News Briefs

News Briefs: Lakes Region

By Lani Duke Updated town plan addresses land use issues PAWLET—Pawlet’s Select Board will consider readopting a reworked town plan in February 2016, with minor modifications to the plan currently in place, adopted Nov. 16, 2010. Among other inclusions, the […]

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News Briefs

News Briefs: Lakes Region

Voters pass on pond purchase TINMOUTH—Given a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to acquire the two-acre Nelson Parker estate property on Tinmouth Pond, voters declined. More than a third of Tinmouth’s 393 registered voters turned out for the special election, defeating the proposal […]

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News Briefs

News Briefs: Lakes Region

Castleton Under Chief Mantello, police dept. reaches out Local businesses and private citizens recently donated three new Taser stun guns to the Castleton Police department. Police Chief Peter Mantello said that local donations were in response to hand-delivered letters asking […]

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News Briefs

News Briefs: Lakes Region

By Lani Duke Mascot returns from sabbatical CASTLETON—After an unauthorized “vacation” of a couple of months, Castleton’s Spartan mascot is back home. The year-old, green-caped costume returned to academic life when a custodian making maintenance rounds in the on-campus Glenbrook […]

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