Exit 4 Zoning May Be Ready For Selex Next Month: Sanchez



Exit 4 Zoning May Be Ready For Selex Next Month: Sanchez By Pamala Yerrington Zoning Administrator Mardee Sanchez informed the Randolph Selectboard at its Monday meeting that the Exit 4 zoning proposal has had legal review, and the Planning Commission continues to work on this. It may be ready for presentation to the selectboard next month, she said. At the […]

Price Not Right: School Won’t Buy Ayers Center



Price Not Right: School Won’t Buy Ayers Center By Sandy Vondrasek Cooch Price Not Right: School Won’t Buy Ayers Center By Sandy Vondrasek Cooch After months of negotiations, the Randolph School District has dropped, at least for now, its quest to buy the Ayers Brook Center property, adjacent to Randolph Elementary School. The RES board decided at its October 4 […]

ClearSource Merges With Wissahickon Water Company



ClearSource Merges With Wissahickon Water Company Clear Source, Inc., which bottles Randolph Center water from a bottling plant on Route 66, has merged with the Wissahickon Water Co. of Pennsylvania. Wissahickon is a family-owned water company that has been in business since 1926, according to its website. Like Clear Source in Randolph it bottles individual bottles of individual size or […]

Worker Injured In Fall from Bridge



Worker Injured In Fall from Bridge By Sandy Vondrasek Cooch Worker Injured In Fall from Bridge By Sandy Vondrasek Cooch A 51-year-old bridge worker sustained serious injury in Randolph Monday morning after falling 18 feet from a wooden safety rail at the Main Street bridge construction site. Winterset Construction employee Russell Tinkham, 51, of Groton, suffered seven broken ribs, a […]

Ambulance Wants More Funding From Randolph


Tom Anderson of Brookfield, president of the White River Valley Ambulance board presented the Randolph Selectboard Monday evening with an appeal for help from the town. WRVA needs an extra $35,000 to get it through the year, he said. WRVA Vice Chair Peter Sullivan, Secretary Joanne Mills, and Treasurer Jon Hodgdon were also in attendance, but Randolph’s regular representative to […]

Blakeman Gets Permit For Sunset Hill Apartmentsw



Blakeman Gets Permit For Sunset Hill Apartmentsw By Sandy Vondrasek Cooch Blakeman Gets Permit For Sunset Hill Apartmentsw By Sandy Vondrasek Cooch After two and a half years, two permit applications, and two Environmental Court appeals, Kevin Blakeman of Sharon has finally received site plan approval for his proposed nine-unit apartment building on Randolph’s Sunset Hill Road. The Randolph Development […]

Rite-Aid Is ‘Under the Gun’ On Staffing For Pharmacy



Rite-Aid Is ‘Under the Gun’ On Staffing For Pharmacy The Vermont Pharmacy Board will "definitely" discuss complaints about Rite-Aid pharmacy departments at its next meeting Wednesday, Oct. 24. And the executive director of the Vermont Pharmacists Association suggested that Rite-Aid is "under the gun to add to the number of pharmacists in the state." Christopher Winters is the director of […]

No Re-Vote On Gym Bond In S. Royalton



No Re-Vote On Gym Bond In S. Royalton By M. D. Drysdale There will be no re-vote of the $3.88-million school bond issue in South Royalton, after all. The School Board Tuesday evening voted to reject the petition of 152 voters which had been received earlier this month. The board was responding to legal advice from Atty. J. Paul Giuliani, […]

Frost Arrives In the Valley



Frost Arrives In the Valley This week saw the first frost of the season throughout the White River Valley of Vermont. The second came for many on Tuesday night. Mid-October is very late for the first frost in these parts, but the famed colors of Vermont foliage didn’t seem to care, as they have been putting on quite a show […]

Gifford Medical Center Plans Free Diabetes Education Expo



Gifford Medical Center in Randolph has a Diabetes Clinic providing specialized care to diabetes patients and regularly holds self-management classes. On Friday, Nov. 2, Gifford will host its third annual Diabetes Education Expo from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in the hospital’s conference center. This free educational health fair will include talks by experts in the field of diabetes care and vendors […]