Panton sets vote to expand its selectboard

Panton will hold a special election on Thursday, May 15, to fill out the newly expanded selectboard that residents voted in favor of on Town Meeting Day. It will now be five members rather than the previous three.

Two candidates are running for a seat on the Panton selectboard on Town Meeting Day. They are longtime incumbent Howard Hall and challenger Reece Jaring.

Residents of Vergennes and Panton on Wednesday voted in favor of spending up to $3.52 million to install almost a mile of the most troubled water mains in the Vergennes/Panton Water District, including into Ferrisburgh.

The money would fix 90-year-old water mains along Main Street and Monkton Road that have sprung leaks recently.

There are contested Town Meeting Day races in two of the five communities that include Vergennes and the four other towns northwest corner of Addison County.

Kyle Rowe, Panton’s new town clerk and treasurer, is a busy guy.

There are a handful of certainties about the 50-megawatt solar array proposed to be installed on a 220-acre tract of Panton land.

Panton residents on Tuesday voted, 307-100, in an advisory ballot article that the town of Panton should not support a 50-megawatt solar array proposed for 220 acres west of Route 22A.

Thank you for your extensive coverage of the shortfalls and challenges of the town of Panton. The headline could have been “How to Dismantle Democracy” in a small town.

Along with choosing elected officials on Nov. 5, Panton residents will also make their opinions known on a 50-megawatt solar array proposed for a roughly 220-acre plot of land west of Route 22A surrounding the intersection of Slang and West roads.

The tension that has arisen in Panton town government boiled over on Sept. 23 when the top local elected official stormed out of a contentious selectboard meeting.

Many of the 20 or more Panton residents who have attended recent town selectboard meetings have complained about the town’s rising spending and its accounting practices.

Panton Town Clerk and Treasurer Maggie McCormick gave verbal notice to the town selectboard at its Oct. 16 meeting that she will step down from her position, effective on Nov. 22.

Zane Atley Kroupa Jr., 67, known as Butch to family, was born Sept. 21, 1956, in Oakland County, Mich., and died Sept. 20, 2024, at the University of Vermont Medical Center from a family genetic disease, PKD.

A judge has found a family of Panton dairy farmers in contempt of court after they failed to stop water from coming out of a drainage system on their farm, washing over their neighbors’ property and flowing into Lake Champlain.