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Welcome
Welcome to the Official Website of the Town of Vershire!
Orange County Annual Meeting & Final Budget Hearing
Thursday, January 26th, 7 p.m.
Orange County Courthouse, Chelsea
Copies of the budget are available at the Courthouse.
RIVENDELL SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE
RISD will be holding forums for public input on the 2012-2013 Education Budget on January 10th and 11th. Please make an effort to attend and make your voice heard. Education tax makes up nearly 2/3's of Vershire's property taxes. Check out the RISD NOTICES link on the menu (on your left) to learn more.
Well, we survived Irene and all our roads are pretty much back to the way they were pre-Irene (in some cases, even better). Thanks to Alan Lyford (Road Foreman) and Rob Lefevre, (dedicated Road Crewman) and to all the local contractors who jumped on the wagon and got it done. The local contractors who helped were:
Excavation Unlimited (Malcolm Ward & crew)
Farrar & Son Trucking (Tim Farrar)
Jon's Trucking (Jon Beebe)
J.L. Smith Trucking (John, Kyle & Mark Smith)
Thrasher Construction (Gary Thrasher & crew)
Ward's Excavation & Concrete (Tim Ward & Harold Ward)
Hurricane Irene!
Individual Assistance Declaration has been made for Orange County!
Vershire residents with individual flood damages to their property are now cleared to make claims with FEMA and the State. Follow this link-
Public Assistance-for more information.
For the latest Disaster Assistance Information from the State of Vermont click
Disaster Assistance Information. There are other links below as well.
Eagle Hollow Road
8/29/2011 ->
All Vershire Roads are Open:
All roads are currently open but a few remain rough to navigate. Until we are visited by the FEMA and other state damage assessment officials, the roads that received the heaviest damage will remain
rough. Please bear with our road crew as they work through the repair process and also, please slow down. The roughest are Eagle Hollow and Eastman Crossroad; avoid traveling those roads if you can.
Beanville Road in West Fairlee will remain closed for the foreseeable future but Miller Pond Road in Strafford is now open once again.
If you need information on other (main)roads in Vermont, you can call 511, the automated hotline for road information or go to
Vermont Road Closures - to find what state roads are closed.
You can also call ahead to other town clerk offices (if they have power) for information about the town you are headed to.
For more on road closures and other information you can also go to
www.vpr.net.- and look for the State resource links at the top of the page.
NEW!
To go the interactive Google Map of Vermont Road Closures click
GOOGLE VERMONT ROADS
- To find where you can help through volunteerism go to
Volunteer.
- You can also try
www.vem.vermont.gov. - for the Vermont Emergency Management site.
If you have flood debris to dispose of the Hartford Transfer Station is accepting flood damaged items. Click here for the text of an email from John Hurd at the G.U.V.S.W.M.D.
(Excerpt below from email by Susan-Hatch Davis on August 29)
"The first step to acquiring recovery aid is to take a statewide inventory of the damage. Vermont businesses, municipalities and individuals should call 211 to report property damages. If repairs are made by a property owner, it is important to document the repairs and keep receipts for potential assistance."
If you are someone you know could use a hand cleaning up, Mountain School students are gearing up and are volunteering to do whatever they can to help out! Give the Mountain School or Kathy Hook a call to set something up. MTN School - 685-4520, K. Hook 685-4353
Other relevant links:
Welch Press Release
Emergency Support Funding
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ELY MINE CLEANUP PLAN
The formal hearing and information session regarding the proposed cleanup plan for the Ely Mine Superfund Site was held at 7:00 pm on Thursday, August 25, 2011, at the Vershire Town Center Building.
Representatives from the US EPA and the VT Department of Environmental Conservation were available to answer questions and take comments at the meeting. Thirty-one people (including EPA and State officials) showed up to hear the plan and make comments. The public comment period closed on August 27, 2011.
There is a CD of the Administrative Record on file at the Vershire Town Office.
For more information contact Pam Harting-Barrat, EPA 1-888-372-7341 or 617-918-1318.
See Below for Links to Selectboard Minutes and Forms
Selectboard minutes and
Forms.
You can help!
If you have any ideas or information or photos (old or new!) which could be used, let us know. Send an email to
admin@vershirevt.org or call (802) 685-2227.
Thanks!
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