Warren Village time capsule: to open or not to open?
In July 1976 a time capsule was buried in Warren Village, behind the current bandstand.
That time capsule (reportedly a two-person gondola) was buried near the newly-constructed bandstand and was to be dug up in 2025. That’s according to the Warren Town Report from 1976. Warren architect, planner Jim Sanford was involved in the creation and burying of the time capsule. He remembers it was to be dug up in 50 years – not 49 – as the Town Report would indicate. Sanford said it was buried as part of the 1976 Bicentennial Celebration and reported that the annual Prickly Mountain float was a bald eagle and the time capsule was its egg in the form of a gondola donated by Sugarbush. Select board chair Devin Klein Corrigan said it will be opened next year and the town’s historical society will manage the logistics
Caitlin McLeod-Bluver is Vermont Teacher of the Year
Moretown’s Caitlin McLeod-Bluver was named Vermont Teacher of the Year last May. She teaches at Winooski High School. McLeod-Bluver teaches English, history, social humanities, social studies and reading. MacLeod-Bluver attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut and received her degree through the College of Social Studies. Last year McLeod-Bluver received an Outstanding Educator award from the Winooski school district. This award recognizes the accomplishments of educators in the state and grants awardees eligibility to compete for the Vermont Teacher of the Year award.
What’s next for the Waitsfield United Church of Christ?
In May, Reverand Mark Wilson, of the Waitsfield United Church of Christ held a frank and honest discussion with community members this week about the future of the historic church and Village Meeting House.
He explained that the congregation finds itself in a position where the number of people who support the church is dwindling. The congregation and its leadership team see a need for a different ownership model that puts management of the facility, the structure, the church, and the Village Meeting House into the hands of an entity that can preserve, manage,and maintain it.
The church prepared an RFP for interested parties and those will be due next year in March.
Flash flooding closes roads, washes out driveways and culverts
Reports vary as to just how much rain fell late Saturday afternoon, May 17, during a localized downburst that sat over Warren and Waitsfield for long enough to wash out local and state roads as well as quite a few driveways.
In Warren, emergency management director and town constable Jeff Campbell said he had reports of up to 3 inches in 46 minutes and in Waitsfield, road foreman Charlie Goodman said 2.5 inches were clocked in 25 minutes. Roads washed out, Route 100 was closed when the culvert by Madbush Falls blew out (again).
Four days later all local roads are passable with one lane and primarily for local traffic in the case of Dump Road in Warren.
In Waitsfield, Butternut Hill Road was completely washed out (for the second time in two years) near the top and midway down, leaving residents cut off.
Rolston Road, already one lane in several places in Waitsfield, was carved away to less than one lane in several spots.
In Fayston, Route 17 was closed by VTrans from German Flats to the top from Saturday afternoon through Sunday morning. Also, in Fayston, Tucker Hill Road took a beating, with multiple driveways and culverts washed out and several sections of the road reduced to a single lane or less.
May 21
26-year-old shot put record broken at Harwood
Harwood freshman Isabella Pockoski continued her season on the high school track and field team at the Essex Ninth- and Tenth-Grade Championship Meet on Thursday, May 15. This time, she broke a long-standing Harwood record. Pockoski threw a personal record 37 feet 11.25 inches, breaking the Harwood girls’ shotput record of 37 feet 9 inches set by Louise Michael in 1999.
May 21
Chris Costello graduates with his fourth graders
Chris Costello, Moretown, retired from teaching at Brookside Primary School. Of his 38 years in the classroom, 34 years have been in Waterbury. At Brookside, Costello taught third grade and then fourth grade the next year with the same class. Costello grew up in Campbell Hall, New York. He attended Lyndon State College and began his career in New York state, teaching grades 4 and 5. He taught in Barre City, teaching fourth grade for a year before landing in Waterbury Elementary School in 1991. The school was renamed Thatcher Brook and later Brookside Primary.
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