Tracy Davis Pierce

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by Matthew WilsonNEWPORT CENTER — Cellular service along the northern border can be shoddy. Signals often struggle to reach up from the south or they bounce in from Canada, making a call from the top of Vermont a coin toss. That may change, at least for people with Verizon, if a new cell tower goes up. The select board talked about the tower at its May 1 meeting and about a balloon test to show where the tower will be visible from.

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by Joseph GresserNEWPORT — As part of a plea agreement, that saw Alaina Bouchard, 35, of West Glover receive a three-to-five-year suspended sentence, the state dismissed a charge of second-degree attempted murder along with misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment and criminal threatening. Judge Rory Thibault imposed the sentence in accord with the plea bargain.

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by Maria AmadorGREENSBORO — On April 29, Greensboro residents voted 227 to 147 against allowing RuralEdge, the Kingdom’s housing agency, to buy the former high school building for a proposed residential development. The decision came more than five years after the Greensboro planning commission first approached the nonprofit about a lack of housing in town — an issue which remains glaring today.

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by Joseph GresserNEWPORT — At a special meeting held on April 30 to hear from two task forces, the council voted to approve a hefty increase in Newport’s water and sewer rates. Water rates will jump by 36 percent starting with September’s bill and sewer rates will go up 27 percent. As they enacted the rate hikes, council members ended the difference between metered and unmetered households in the cost of sewer services.

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by Matthew WilsonWESTMORE — A tower for private communications continues to cast its shadow across Lake Willoughby. It’s an issue that seems to return even after the select board and residents believe the planned construction was put to rest. The tower will be the focus of an upcoming evidentiary hearing before the state Public Utility Commission (PUC) on May 14. ITW, the company seeking to put up the tower, still hopes to get a certificate of public good for the project.