Jim Kenyon: The towing gets tough in White River Junction
Modified: 3/13/2021 10:57:39 PM
Angelique Benner walked around the corner from her apartment in downtown White River Junction to the town parking lot behind the old American Legion hall, where she immediately noticed something was wrong.
She called Hartford police. “I think my truck’s been stolen,” she told an officer. “It’s missing.”
A few hours later, police called back. Her pickup wasn’t stolen. It had been towed by the town.
Benner, a 39-year-old tax preparer, wasn’t alone in her predicament. On March 1, eight vehicles were towed from the town’s South Main Street lot to make room for snow and ice removal.
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Modified: 1/25/2021 10:10:04 PM
Tracy Yarlott-Davis is coming to town. The Hartford Selectboard has announced her appointment as town manager, beginning in February. A native of California, graduate of Oakland’s Mills College and an auditor for Berkeley, Calif., it sounds like she’s spent most of her time in a state bathed in sunshine. She will soon realize how lucky she is to be inheriting a public works department that might as well have snow as its middle name.
Details released for new Hartford town manager’s contract
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Modified: 1/12/2021 9:58:44 PM
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION The incoming Hartford Town Manager will be paid $115,000 a year, according to her contract, which the town released Monday.
Tracy Yarlott-Davis, who begins her term on Feb. 15, will also receive four weeks of paid vacation a year and $7,500 in moving fees as she, her wife and their son leave her hometown of Oakland, Calif. to relocate to Hartford, the contract said. In addition to salary and benefits, the town will give Yarlott-Davis a car or reimburse her for mileage.
The three-year contract also states that Yarlott-Davis will be subject to an evaluation 90 days after she takes office, and each year after that. Selectboard members will review her evaluations yearly.
New Hartford town manager embraces tackling tough issues
Modified: 12/30/2020 9:38:05 PM
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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION Hartford’s incoming town manager says she applied for the position after seeing the way town officials and community members have approached controversial issues including immigration over the last year.
“I really liked that Hartford was not afraid to tackle the tough problems,” Tracy Yarlott-Davis said in a phone interview Wednesday, using the much-debated Welcoming Hartford ordinance, which was approved at Town Meeting in March, as an example. The ordinance prohibits Hartford police and other town officials from sharing a person’s citizenship information with federal authorities.
Hartford announces next town manager
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Modified: 12/29/2020 9:02:47 PM
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION The Selectboard has tapped an auditor from Oakland, Calif., as Hartford’s next town manager following a months-long search.
Tracy Yarlott-Davis was appointed to the permanent position during a virtual Selectboard meeting Tuesday night. Yarlott-Davis, who will become Hartford’s first female town manager, has spent the last four years as lead auditor for the city of Berkeley, which has a population of 120,000 residents. She holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology and a master’s degree in public policy from Mills College.
“I am so excited to head east,” said Yarlott-Davis, who appeared virtually during the meeting. “One of the things I loved about Hartford … was that there’s a lot of ‘try’ out there and there’s a lot of good community.”