Champlain Water News Today

The bond would be used for improvements to public drinking water systems for some in our region.

Essex Town officials have renamed the town highway garage and other public works buildings after retired longtime public works director Dennis Lutz.

A lengthy May 3 Town of Essex Selectboard meeting included a state-mandated vicious dog hearing. The hearing came at the request of resident Shannon Oborne who had been attacked by a German Shepherd at her Autumn Pond Way apartment building April 25; she then submitted a complaint to the selectboard the following day. Vermont statute says a municipality must, with seven days of receiving the complaint, investigate the charges and hold a hearing on it. The statute further reads, “If the dom...