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Goshen Zoning Board OKs gravel pit on Route 73 property

Posted on December 10, 2012 |
By Lee J. Kahrs



GOSHEN — Town officials in Goshen have approved a three-year gravel removal project on property located on Route 73.

The Goshen Zoning Board of Adjustment granted a conditional use permit for mineral extraction to property owners John Sherry, William Tessier and Clifford Bauman to mine roughly 100,000 cubic yards of gravel from their property located on the south side of Route 73, approximately 1,200 feet east of the intersection of Route 73 and Hathaway Road.

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Former Goshen constable sues town

GOSHEN — The town of Goshen is headed to court on May 30 to defend itself against a lawsuit brought by a former town constable.

Tom Kerr is suing the town in Addison County District Court on four counts, stating that the town unlawfully terminated his constable position, trash and recycling removal and landscaping contracts, and invoking Vermont’s “whistleblower law,” which prevents employers from retaliating against a worker who files a complaint or reports a problem with the employer.

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Leicester selectboard tackles illegal dumping, taxes

Posted on May 21, 2012 |
By Andrea Suozzo



LEICESTER — The Leicester selectboard at its April 2 meeting heard reports of illegal trash dumping on Lower Bullock Road.

Town Health Officer Jim Russo reported that he had inspected the site and found prescription bottles, syringes, receipts from a liquor store and a Rite Aid drug store and three coy dog carcasses. He also found a name in one of the garbage bags on the site.

Russo passed the information on to Gary Urich, an enforcement officer from the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources.

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Route 73 from Goshen to Rochester gets help

Posted on September 2, 2011 |
By Angelo S. Lynn



ROCHESTER — Residents of Rochester, one of 13 communities isolated for five days by flooding from Tropical Storm Irene, were well under way with clean-up efforts late Thursday afternoon as Route 125 over Middlebury Gap to Route 100 was opened for emergency vehicles and vital traffic late Wednesday.

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Floods delay opening of Brandon-area schools

Posted on August 30, 2011 |
By Lee J. Kahrs



Update (9/1/11):

BRANDON — Schoolchildren in Brandon, Leicester, Whiting and Goshen, as well as in the rest of the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, got three extra days of summer vacation courtesy of Tropical Storm Irene.

After a flurry of meetings, officials from RNeSU and the town of Brandon on Tuesday decided to postpone the beginning of the school year until Tuesday, Sept. 6, in the wake of Sunday’s epic flooding.

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New director looks to take Moosalamoo to new heights

Posted on May 26, 2011 |
By Angelo S. Lynn



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GOSHEN/BRANDON — After a couple of weeks on the job as the new executive director of the Moosalamoo Association, Brandon resident Jenny Nixon Carter is getting her hands around the organization’s expanding mission, while also getting a handle on the national recreation area’s busy summer activities.

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Surprise! Goshen, Hancock now wired to wider world

Posted on April 25, 2011 |
By Andrea Suozzo



GOSHEN/HANCOCK — Goshen residents last Thursday evening received some unexpected news: after years of waiting, their town was wired for broadband Internet service.

At a community broadband meeting at the Goshen Town Hall, FairPoint Communications representatives Beth Fastiggi and Sabina Haskell announced that, starting on Friday, town residents would be able to subscribe to high-speed Internet services.

And Fastiggi, vice president of FairPoint Communications in Vermont, said broadband coverage to parts of Hancock also went live that day.

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FairPoint to talk in Goshen about broadband coverage

Posted on April 18, 2011 |
By Andrea Suozzo



GOSHEN — On Thursday evening, Goshen residents will meet with representatives of FairPoint Communications to address bringing broadband Internet access to the tiny mountain town.

The public is encouraged to attend the meeting at 7 p.m. at the Goshen Town Hall.

While former Gov. Jim Douglas made high-speed Internet access a priority of his administration, with the goal of covering the entire state by the year 2010, the only current option for Goshen residents is to connect to the Internet via dial-up service.

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Goshen fixture marks 40 years in business

Posted on February 3, 2011 |
By Andrea Suozzo



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GOSHEN — Even on a quiet weekday with the forecast for snow, the entry hallway at Blueberry Hill Inn smelled like soup, and owner and innkeeper Tony Clark was rolling mascarpone cheese and pears into pastry dough for the next day’s breakfast.

Clark appeared unhurried, his actions effortless — a tribute to his four decades running the inn and Nordic ski center on Goshen-Ripton Road.

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Volunteers answer the call at new Goshen fire department

Posted on September 6, 2010 |
By Andrea Suozzo



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GOSHEN — Two months ago, Will Mathis had no idea what it took to start a fire department.

Now Mathis, 22, is chief of the new, 10-member Goshen Volunteer Fire Department (GVFD), and although he has already filled out piles of paperwork, there is a lot still to be done.

“We're going to be raising funds, doing coin drops, spaghetti dinners and community service events to get our name out there,” said Mathis, whose mother, Kathy Mathis, is a member of the Goshen selectboard.

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