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Bristol tries new tack on planning

Posted on May 31, 2010 |
By Kathryn Flagg



BRISTOL — After a tense start, Bristol residents on Wednesday night faced their neighbors, pulled out their maps, and began talking seriously about where and how gravel extraction should happen in a town still largely divided over the contentious issue.

The conversation was the second in a series of three forums designed to turn inside out the process of town planning in Bristol, marking an effort by the town’s planning commission to trade, for the time being, public hearings for round-table conversations.

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Bristol votes down police spending plan

Posted on May 31, 2010 |
By Kathryn Flagg



BRISTOL — Bristol residents in the village police district voted down the proposed $378,806 police department spending plan for fiscal year 2011 in a narrow 15-14 paper ballot vote on Monday, May 24. At a meeting of the police district, those opposed to the budget cited the rapidly rising cost of supporting the department as their chief concern.

The proposed 2010-2011 budget would have meant a 12.5 percent hike in the amount to be raised by taxes if residents had approved the budget.

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Bristol conserves bat habitat

Posted on May 31, 2010 |
By Kathryn Flagg



NEW HAVEN — The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and more than 70 community members banded together to conserve nearly 200 acres in the northwest corner of Bristol, finalizing a conservation easement for Jason and Nina Bacon’s property on May 21.

The new easement, which is held by Fish and Wildlife, will preserve in perpetuity 194 acres adjacent the Waterworks park on Plank Street. The land will be open for non-vehicular recreation, and the easement now protects valuable maternity colonies for Vermont’s only federally endangered mammal, the Indiana bat.

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Selectboard weighs in on Bristol pit

Posted on May 27, 2010 |
By Kathryn Flagg



BRISTOL — In a heated meeting of the Bristol selectboard on Monday night, residents on both sides of a contentious gravel pit debate pressed selectmen to make their opinion known as the proposed Lathrop gravel pit heads toward an Act 250 hearing in late June.

In the end, selectboard members voiced their personal opinions about the proposed pit that has divided residents of the town for more than a half-decade, but left the meeting uncertain about how best to weigh in as an official party in the upcoming hearing.

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Bristol board OKs sewer, water budgets

Posted on May 27, 2010 |
By Kathryn Flagg



BRISTOL — In addition to discussing the proposed Lathrop gravel pit, Bristol selectmen at their meeting on Monday took several other actions. These included:

• Approved budgets for the town’s water and sewer districts. Rate increases for the coming year are not anticipated for either utility, and the two budgets are supported by user fees and not taxpayer dollars.

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Battle over Bristol's gravel pit slated to move to Rutland

Posted on May 24, 2010 |
By Kathryn Flagg



BRISTOL — Bristol residents are counting down the weeks to the latest chapter of a years-long fight over a proposed 26-acre gravel pit off Rounds Road. A hearing slated for June 28 will determine whether the contentious pit conforms with Act 250, the state’s Land Use and Development Act.

But now some opponents of the pit are crying foul after local Act 250 commissioners in the Addison County district handed the case off to commissioners from the neighboring Rutland County board.

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e-Vermont grant to expand Internet in Bristol

Posted on May 20, 2010 |
By Kathryn Flagg



BRISTOL — Bristol is one of 12 towns in line to receive a slice of $3.8 million to strengthen Internet access in Vermont, and community leaders are hopeful the landfall “e-Vermont” grant could boost civic engagement and e-commerce while providing computers and Internet access to senior citizens and economically disadvantaged families.

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Office move, deficit fueling Bristol police budget hike

Posted on May 20, 2010 |
By Kathryn Flagg



BRISTOL — Bristol residents in the village police district could see a 12.5 percent hike in the amount to be raised by taxes if the police department’s spending plan is approved on Monday.

The proposed $378,806 police district budget for 2010-2011 is slated for a vote on May 24 at a 7 p.m. meeting at the Bristol Hub Teen Center, where residents will also discuss the town’s water and sewer budgets for the coming fiscal year.

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Four Hills Farm plans cowpower

Posted on May 20, 2010 |
By Kathryn Flagg



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BRISTOL — One of Addison County’s largest farms has secured a $250,000 grant to put toward the construction of an on-farm methane digester to convert manure into electricity.

Bristol’s Four Hills Farm was received the grant from the Clean Energy Development Fund, which last week announced more than $3 million in grants and low-interest loans for 15 Vermont renewable energy projects.  

Brian Hill, who co-owns the farm with Kevin, Ronald and Joanne Hill, said the farmers have been considering installing a methane digester for about eight years.

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Bristol man shares mushroom knowledge

Posted on May 13, 2010 |
By Andrea Suozzo



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BRISTOL — Although it is only the middle of May, for Eric Swanson harvest time has almost arrived.

The Bristol resident harvests mushrooms, many of which begin to sprout in the spring.

Swanson is a wildcrafter, someone who searches the woods for wild edibles. Sometimes he spends days at a time in the woods, filling his backpack with fresh, wild specimens.

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