ANWSD spending up, but taxes seen falling

VERGENNES — The Addison Northwest School District Board this week adopted a $22,327,585 spending plan for the next school year. If backed on Town Meeting Day, it would increase spending by 3.35% over the currently approved level. Despite the proposed higher spending, the latest estimates say property tax rates would drop in all five ANWSD communities in a range of between about 1.7 and 7 cents if voters support that budget on March 1. The board on Jan. 19 also voted to ask residents to back a plan to use $1 … (read more)

Vorstevelds settle issue with fine, remedial work

The Agency of Natural Resources Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) on Tuesday announced that Vorsteveld Farm LLC agreed to pay a five-figure fine and perform corrective and remedial actions for unpermitted activities associated with its Large … (read more)

Panton neighbors take farm to court, alleging pollution

Panton lakefront residents allege in a civil lawsuit that changes made by one of the biggest dairy farms in Addison County over the past eight years have polluted their property and Lake Champlain.

Migrant farmworker to be deported

The United States Attorney’s Office in Burlington says that a migrant farm laborer at a Panton farm will be sent home to Mexico after he pleaded guilty to domestic assault charges.

City water district eyes ARPA funding

Officials from the Vergennes-Panton Water District are researching the extent and cost of needed upgrades to the water lines that serve more than 5,500 customers in five communities.

Laurel (Reed) Jackson, 83, of Panton

PANTON — Laurel (Reed) Jackson, 83, of Panton, passed away on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. She was born on Aug. 5, 1938, in Middlebury, Vt., to Louellen and Guy Reed.Laurel was a 1956 graduate of Bristol High School. Laurel retired from Peter Morris Architects … (read more)

William H. Luginbuhl, M.D., 92, formerly of Panton

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. — William H. Luginbuhl, M.D., age 92, of Kennett Square, Pa., and formerly of Panton, Vt., died peacefully in his sleep on June 21, 2021. He was born on March 11, 1929, in Des Moines, Iowa, to Christian B. Luginbuhl, a physician, and G … (read more)

William H. Luginbuhl, M.D., 92, formerly of Panton

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. — William H. Luginbuhl, M.D., age 92, of Kennett Square, Pa., and formerly of Panton, Vt., died peacefully in his sleep on June 21, 2021.He was born on March 11, 1929, in Des Moines, Iowa, to Christian B. Luginbuhl, a physician, and Gi … (read more)

Property transfers: Panton

PANTON — The following real estate sales were recorded in Panton in 2020 and in the first four months of 2021: 2020: • Jan. 6: Jody Pierce, Ashley Goodrich and Benjamin Field to Reece and Katelyn Jaring, home at 844 Panton Road, $120,000. • Jan. 17: Eben … (read more)

Small towns eye COVID money

PANTON — Panton Selectboard chair Howard Hall is looking forward to a “Christmas bonus” that his rural, creekside town on the western edge of Addison County expects to receive in June. But that gift — as much as $200,000 from the federal government’s Amer … (read more)

Cutting-edge microgrid coming to Panton

PANTON — Green Mountain Power (GMP) will break ground this spring on what it called a cutting-edge utility microgrid in Panton, pioneering a new way to keep the power on for residents, farms and municipal buildings in the town center during power outages. … (read more)

ANWSD board to vote on budget & consider what to do with $1.6M surplus

VERGENNES — The Addison Northwest School District board on Monday, Jan. 11, looked at a $21.6 million final 2021-2022 budget draft that comes in at about $238,400 less than the spending level ANWSD residents approved for the district this past March. ANWS … (read more)

Panton farm’s Agricola Meats is expanding

PANTON — After a couple of years of raising two dozen pigs, and trying to make a go of selling pork locally as a hobby farmer, Alessandra Rellini knew two things: she needed to get bigger to make her business work and she needed some help from a person wh … (read more)

New Panton clerk brings diverse experience

PANTON — New Panton Town Clerk/Treasurer Maggie McCormick has, among other things, been a certified sailing instructor and environmental educator, and she owns a thoroughbred rescue horse. McCormick, who this summer became an Addison resident after living … (read more)

ANWSD towns releasing new homestead tax rates

VERGENNES — When in mid-August Addison Northwest School District Director of Operations and Finance Elizabeth Jennings discovered a state error in establishing the district’s homestead tax rate, the residential tax rates already calculated by ANWSD commun … (read more)

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