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WESTMINSTER â Former Gov. Peter Shumlin has withdrawn his controversial request to subdivide some of the former Ranney Farm in Westminster West after the townâs attorney said his project didnât meet the correct zoning definition.
Town Manager Russell Hodgkins, who is also Westminsterâs zoning administrator, said Tuesday that Shumlin withdrew his request on Monday, in advance of a hearing that night.
He said that Shumlin plans on re-submitting his request as a major subdivision, and that request will be taken up in July by the Development Review Board.
Shumlin attracted a crowd last month at an otherwise routine Westminster Development Review Board, as neighbors attacked his proposal to create two additional lots off the private Old Codding Road.
BELLOWS FALLS â Two proposed solar projects got different receptions last week from the Rockingham Select Board.
Green Lantern Solar, which has proposed a facility at a town-owned gravel pit in Bartonsville, off Route 103, was back before the board, urging action before a state deadline for a higher electric net metering rate expires.
A second project, proposed for a town-owned field next to the historic Rockingham Meeting House by MHG Solar of Manchester Center, ran into opposition on several fronts â the facility would be located on prime agricultural land and it would be located in the historic district that surrounds the 1787 Meeting House.
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Putney, Vt., resident William Dana sets up a trap to catch a beaver that has been trapped behind the Putney General Store.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Putney, Vt., resident William Dana sets up a trap to catch a beaver that was trapped behind the Putney General Store.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Putney, Vt., resident William Dana sets up a trap to catch a beaver that was trapped behind the Putney General Store.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
A beaver swims around a small section of the Sackets Brook, in Putney, Vt., near the Putney General Store.
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WESTMINSTER â Four years of acrimony, distrust and anger over Act 46 in this town ended Wednesday with a unanimous vote by the Vermont Board of Education, approving Westminsterâs plan to reestablish its own school district.
During a virtual meeting, the board heard from Westminster Town Moderator David Major about the townâs plans to re-establish its school district and resume what it had for generations â a community-focused school system for grades kindergarten through eighth grade.
There was nary a mention of Act 46, the state law that generated all the anger and anxiety, in which the state Board of Education in 2018 forced Westminster into an educational marriage with the towns of Grafton and Athens, against everybodyâs desires.