New faces dot city-area ballots

A few new faces and one contested race will dot the March 7 ballots in the four towns surrounding Vergennes, while also some incumbents, including the chair of the Ferrisburgh selectboard, will be stepping away.

The Addison selectboard last week voted to buy back the town’s onetime elementary school from the Addison Northwest School District for $1.

In a General Election Day survey, Addison residents strongly backed the town’s repurchase of its former elementary school from the Addison Northwest School District for $1.

Addison residents on Tuesday approved a bond for up to $2.07 million to renovate the town’s historic former town hall on Route 22A into a new town office building and community center.

A General Election Day public survey of Addison residents could be crucial in determining the future of the town’s former central school building, which the Addison Northwest School District has offered back to the community. 

The next steps in the potential return of Addison’s former central school building to the town will almost certainly be a public forum followed by a town-wide vote on the question, according to Selectboard Chair Jeff Kauffman.

On Saturday, Oct. 15, I attended the open house held by the Addison Town Hall Committee at the old Addison Town Hall at Addison Four Corners.

Folks in Addison will be asked if they want to bring the 150-year-old town hall back to life.

Facing eviction from their current home in Addison, Caitlin and Bella Porter fear that their vision of reducing the feral cat population has been put under jeopardy.

Addison property and business owners discovered higher taxes as they opened the bills that were mailed out on July 8, but levees to pay for Addison Northwest School District operations did not lie behind the increases.

An EF-1 tornado touched down in Addison on Monday night, July 18, a rare occurrence for the Green Mountain State.

The town of Addison could once again own the Addison Central School (ACS) building this fall.

For the first time since a severe Halloween rainstorm washed out about 500 feet of Route 125 along Lake Champlain in Addison, the state highway reopened for through traffic late on Monday afternoon.

The road connecting the Lake Champlain Bridge to points south has been closed since November because of storm damage.

It will take a lot of work, but Addison wants to know from citizens how it can repair and update its historic town hall.