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Compliments Fly in Randolph

All Budgets Pass By Huge Margins

Randolph’s Town Meeting of 2014 in Chandler Music Hall was about as close to a love fest as a Town Meeting can get. It all started with an informal upstairs get-together, in which Town Moderator Kelly Green passed out dozens of colorful bead necklaces, while excited children from the elementary school raised money for the Food Shelf by serving coffee […]

Town Postpones Bethel School Budget Vote

$500K Overpayment To Be Addressed

At the encouragement of the school board, Bethel voters postponed passing their school budget Tuesday night. The issue will be warned again, once the school has a firm understanding of the implications the town’s overpayment will have on the budget. The school board is consulting with its auditor and a business consultant. Unfortunately, at this time, the two experts do […]

Chelsea Will Move Forward on Garage

Three New Faces Join Town Boards

Voters in Chelsea easily passed both the school and town budgets on Town Meeting Day, and elected three new faces to board positions. A $3,285,104 school budget passed, with no questions asked. Jessie Schmidt was elected to the three-year school board seat. The parent of three children at Chelsea School, she said she is excited about what the school offers […]

New Manager in Town

Bethel Welcomes Keith Arlund

Keith O. Arlund of Brandon is getting settled into the job as Bethel’s new town manager, following the October 2013 retirement of long-time manager Delbert Cloud. Arlund, who has served as town manager in Brandon and Ludlow, noted, “The staff in Bethel has been great. It’s a good operation.” Arlund’s first day on the job was February 17. He worked […]

FIRST VOTE



Sharon Constable Roland Potter, 83, oversees the ballot box as Cora Swanberg casts her first-ever vote on Monday at the Sharon school meeting. “I have been coming to Town Meeting as long as I can remember,” Swanberg explained, “I don’t have TV so it’s better than sitting at home. The past few years I have been becoming more interested.” (Herald […]

‘Sunrise’ Rotary Is Born

Second Randolph Club Will Meet at Gifford

A brand new Rotary Club sprang to life Tuesday morning in an induction ceremony at the cafeteria of Gifford Medical Center. What? Doesn’t Randolph already have a Rotary Club? Indeed it does, but in a forwardlooking strategy to bring new and younger folks into the service organization, the existing club’s president and former president, Randy Garner and George “Sonny” Holt, […]

Playoff Excitement



Randolph’s Brandon Keyes puts up an off-balance layup Friday night in Randolph in the D-III quarterfinal game against Winooski. The Ghosts defeated visiting Winooski 69-63. For the first time in years, three area basketball teams earned a trip to the state semi-finals at the Barre Auditorium. Two teams—Rochester and Chelsea—are in Division IV; Randolph is in Division III. The #4-ranked […]

Higher Taxes Are Ahead In Strafford



It was pretty darn cold in the historic Strafford Town House, and more than one person remarked that they wished they could pull their chairs near the old wood stoves that were used up to a few years ago. Things heated up, though, as a standing-room-only crowd filled the 1799 structure. The voters eventually expanded the selectboard from three to […]

Randolph Drug Bust Also Yields Six Guns



Police seized more than a halfpound of marijuana and six guns last Friday morning, when they executed a search warrant at a Randolph Village residence. According to Randolph Police Chief Jim Krakowiecki, the resident of the School Street home, Michael Rogers, 29, was arrested on a felony charge of possession of more than two ounces of marijuana. Chief Krakowiecki said […]