Act 250 Weighs Ag. Land vs. ‘Smart Growth’
Crucial For Gifford’s PlanThe difficult question of whether Gifford Medical Center should be permitted to build a 165-bed/unit senior living community on 25 acres of “primary agricultural soils” in Randolph Center was put under a microscope Tuesday morning at an Act 250 hearing at the Randolph Town Hall. Tuesday’s 2.5-hour hearing featured a nuanced and sometimes highly technical discussion of the tensions between the […]
VLS Celebrates Weekend of Events
Legal Clinic Opens Its Doors, 37th Class To Graduate SaturdayVermont Law School will mark its 37th annual commencement weekend May 18-19 with a talk by the head of the world’s leading conservation group and the opening of a new legal clinics building to benefit needy families and the environment. VLS will officially open the Center for Legal Services at 11:30 a.m., Friday, May 18 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony that […]
Another Dollar Store Is Denied
Environmental Comm. Rejects Dollar GeneralOn May 11, the District #3 Environmental Commission rejected the Dollar General store’s application to construct a retail store on a tract of land located on Route 107 just west/northwest of the I-89 Exit 3 interchange. The DEC concluded that the project would not have an adverse effect on scenic or natural beauty or create “unreasonable” congestion or unsafe traffic […]
RUHS Class’s Buen Viaje
In a School First, 17 Students Spend Week Touring SpainDriving into the hustle and bustle of Madrid after spending over eight hours airborne was a shocking experience, coming from the small town of Randolph. With more than six million people inhabiting the city and its suburbs, Madrid felt like New York and Boston on steroids. Being an old city, first settled around the 9th century, the roads and buildings […]
Rochester Journalist’s Plea to Seniors
The following was first printed in The Herald on June 13, 1985. In his first five years of newspaper writing, Tom Hill, who then lived in Rochester, found he had reported four times on the death of a high school senior who mixed driving and drinking during the graduation week celebrations. He asked for a chance to address Rochester High […]
Speed Kills In I-89 Crash Last Week
State police said this week that speed was likely a factor in a fatal single-car crash on I-89 in Royalton Saturday afternoon, May 12. Elizabeth Wells, 21, of Proctorsville, was killed in the 12:48 p.m. crash, and passenger Steven Pierre, 29, of Manchester, N.H., suffered cuts, bruises, and possible broken bones. Police said neither had been using seatbelts. On arrival […]
Local Births
Wednesday, May 2: A son, Ulric “Will” Joseph Wilford Tremblay IV, was born to Nicole Ouimet and Ulric “TJ” Joseph Wilford Tremblay III of Barre Town; a son, Matthew Ricky Newton-Howe, was born to Nova Newton and Jamie Howe of Braintree. Friday, May 4: A daughter, Eloise Donna, was born to Rebecca (Carlson) and Michael Coyle of Waitsfield.
‘Click It / Ticket’ Campaign Coming
State police and local departments statewide will conduct a series of enforcement checkpoints throughout the state the last two weeks of May. Impaired and unbuckled operators and passengers will be the primary targets of this enforcement effort, state police said this week. Due to this year’s sharp increase in the number of persons killed on Vermont roadways who were not […]