Category: Government
The Hill Country Observer covers local leaders, elections and elected officials, town and city councils bodies including libraries, schools, planning and other town boards, and all kinds of conversations and decisions that matter to our communities.
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Issue: September 2011
Digital age leaves small post offices endangered
But inside, a notice next to the post-office boxes warns that the U.S. Postal Service may soon shatter the idyllic scene. The Rupert post office, like more than 3,600 others across the nation and at least a half-dozen around the region, is under study for possible closure. Besides the post office, the center of this read more
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Issue: August 2011
Saratoga line puts tourist trains to test
Ambitious new operation creates a link to the Adirondacks By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. For the first time in 55 years, regularly scheduled passenger trains started running last month between Saratoga Springs and the Adirondack village of North Creek. The tourist trains, following a scenic route along the upper Hudson River, have read more
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Issue: June 2011
State takes medicinal pot a step further
Marijuana dispensaries planned for patients under new Vermont law By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Some time ago, a constituent came to state Sen. Dick Sears with an unlikely complaint: He couldn’t get enough high-quality marijuana. The constituent, Mark Tucci, has multiple sclerosis and smokes medically prescribed marijuana to relieve chronic pain and muscle read more
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Issue: June 2011
States work to save the last bats
White-nose illness demands ‘radical’ steps, some say By JUDY BERNSTEIN Contributing writer Five years after the first dead bats were found in a cave west of Albany, the disease known as white-nose syndrome has killed off most of the region’s hibernating bats. The situation has gotten so dire that wildlife officials in Vermont and New read more