Fire Safety in Lyndon

 As we approach this warmer season, authorities are recommending to take precautions for having fires.

 

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10th Annual Vermont Animation Festival

Vermont State University's Lyndon campus held their 10th annual Vermont Animation Festival this past weekend. 

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LI Benefit Recital

LI Dancers geared up for their annual benefit dance recital, with proceeds going back to the arts in the community.

 

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Miller's Run Bridge I-Beam Construction

Construction of I-Beams to Protect Miller’s Run Bridge Concludes on March 21st

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Lyndon Area Chamber of Commerce Dissolving

The Lyndon Area Chamber of Commerce is dissolving in April of 2025.

 

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LIBRARY CHARGING STATION

The Cobleigh Library in Lyndon proposed an idea of putting a charging station for electric vehicles next to their location.

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Lydonville Flooding

Lyndon - Lyndonville residents on March 17th woke up to road closures near Route 122 and Center Street due to excessive flooding in the area.

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Lyndon Institute Endangered Due To New Vermont Legislation

VERMONT STATE LEGISLATURE HAVE PROPOSED A NEW BILL THAT AS OF RIGHT NOW WILL FORCE LYNDON INSTITUTE TO CLOSE DOWN.

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Salting in Lyndonville

The town of Lyndonville reminds drivers to remain cautious while traveling in the area due to state-wide salt shortages.

Lyndonville is facing a minor salt shortage this season due to a limited supply of salt coming into the state. Although there is a shortage, town officials have assured its drivers that road salting will continue, just at a smaller level.

The limited salt shortage stems from Canada shutting down its distribution to several Vermont municipalities in the wake of recent international relationship changes between the U.S. and Canada. Lyndonville was not one of these affected towns; however, the towns that were have now switched to the same distributor as Lyndonville, causing an influx of demand with not enough supply to go around to everyone.

Lyndonville, unlike other towns, has budgeted properly for events like this and only reminds its citizens that they should remain more cautious than usual while driving.

 

 

Lyndonville's Need For Housing

Across the country, the demand for housing has skyrocketed as property values rise, and more and more workers find themselves in need of affordable housing. Lyndonville, like many other small towns across Vermont, suffers from a lack of affordable housing.

According to Jon Prue, the town’s zoning administrator, there is very little incentive for private sectors to construct low-income housing due to the financial risk that comes with building the property as well as maintaining it with tenants at a fixed income.

Housing that isn’t designed for low-income tenants does not receive federal grants for construction and suffers from a lack of funding costs. A housing project on Route 122 was designed to be an affordable workforce housing unit for several families but was stuck in the state’s Act 200, which slows down the process of getting funding and constructing new projects.

Zoning Administrator, Jon Prue, said, “Once a property owner rents their property, they no longer have rights to that property. And so, I think if the state puts some more ownership rights back on the people that own rental housing, then it might be an incentive for people to rent properties for the long term.”

Lyndonville, like many other towns, will continue to be affected by the lack of housing in the area, forcing workers to find both opportunity and housing elsewhere, often outside the state.

Police Advisory Committee Is Back

Lyndon- The Police Advisory Committee in Lyndon is back for the first time in years.

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No Planning Administrator In Lyndon

Lyndon- Is being almost a year since Lyndon has had a planning administrator. 

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Lyndon Town Meeting

LYNDON- Lyndon's Town Meeting Day is just a couple of weeks away.  The day before town meeting, the town will have an informational meeting at 5:30 to discuss the articles on the town warning.

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Vehicle Thefts Along Skyline Drive

LYNDONVILLE- A string of car thefts occured along Skyline Drive in Lyndonville.  Several cars were burgularized along this residential street and among the various items that were stolen were firearms.

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Vermont State Dance Festival

LYNDON - Lyndon Institute hosted the annual Vermont State Dance Festival in their auditorium.  The Vermont State Dance Festival began in 2003 as a tour of all the Vermont high schools that featured dance programs the year prior.

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Education being Consolidated off of the Lyndon Campus

LYNDON - Vermont State University has been going through changes with layoffs, buyouts, discontinuing of programs, and consolidation in the past month one big proposed change is the Education Department being consolidated off the Lyndon campus.

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Lyndon is Without Planning Director

LYNDON - Lyndon hasn't had a planning director for the last six monts

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Lyndon Selectboard Post Merger

Lyndon - With the recent unanimous decision by the House Government Operations Committee to support a town-village merger, the selectboard will look different.

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Selling trees for Generations

Lyndonville- On top of a hill in Lyndonville sits a tree farm that has been run by generations.


    The Young Family Tree Farm is been run by 5 generations. It all started back in 1920 when the first of the family came down from Hadley,Quebec on a train with trees. Each generation has passed down the tradition, and all do something on the farm to help. The kids make hot chocolate and grandfather tends to the trees... bethany makes the wreaths... but they all help sell them.

"Its the kind of life we enjoy living,we try and keep things maybe a little more simple and its good to work with your family most of the time its a great a oppertunity for kids to sell chrismass trees its been fun for my kids to get involved they do hot chocolate they like to make wreaths (and its yummy too) its yummy too." Co-owner Bethany Young said.

Bethney hope people bring their whole families to come out and cut down trees.

 

 

Lyndon(ville) merger

LYNDON - November 8th, 2022 could be a historic day in Lyndon as Town and Village residents vote to merge the two governments.

Or it could fail, like it did in 2007 during a special town meeting.  If approved the merger would make taxes equal for the town and village residents.

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Fenton Chester Arena Looking for more money

Lyndon- Rink INC a non profit based out of Lyndonville Vermont is requesting more funding for Fenton Chester Arena. The rink was set to meet with the Lyndon select board on Monday October 14th but unfortunately representatives showed up after the meeting was dismissed and were turned away. The next meeting is set for Monday November 7th. 

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H.O.P.E. Color Run Continues Tradition

LYNDON - Saturday marked the return of H.O.P.E.'s annual Color Run fundraiser after a three-year hiatus. Organizers estimate that 80 community members, adults and children, came out to run one of the courses--some new faces and some returners.

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LI Girls Volleyball takes down Randolph

LYNDON - Lyndon Institute girls volleyball took on Randolph this past Friday.  The ladies first set was back and forth in the beginning but sophomore Rita Martin went on a serving hot streak and shot the Vikings out front.

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What I Was Wearing

LYNDON-"He was older than me. We had gone on a double date with our mutual friends. On the way home he asked if we could take a different way home then them. I said 'you know I'm not comfortable with that.'" Northern Vermont University student Bryannah Heywood explained.

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Old Way Of Funding Goes Online

LYNDON-All year round the non-profit organization H.O.P.E. raises money for different programs they offer to the community. This year the organization took on a new approach to an old way of funding.

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