Chester News

Just an ordinary day in Chester Center, a century ago, in 1913, photographed by Hugh Spencer, and on exhibit at the Chester Museum at The Mill.

Residents called for compromise Wednesday at an informational meeting on a proposal to double fares for the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry, urging state Department of Transportation officials to consider a smaller increase in the fare for crossing the Connecticut River on the historic ferry.

Voters at a town meeting Tuesday approved a $12,328,940 for 2013-2014 that includes an unusual one-half mill decrease in the property tax rate.

What does the word 'quest' bring to mind? Adventure? Don Quixote? The Lord of the Rings? Is it just a quaint concept or a very relevant process? Chester author D. Joseph Jacques would suggest that our lives can be a quest if we want them to be; a quest for meaning and virtue through which we can reclaim and nourish the very best of who we are.

Voters at the May 21 annual budget meeting will consider a proposed $12.32 million spending plan for 2013-2014 that includes an unusual one-half mill decrease in the town's property tax rate.

Goodspeed Musicals , the first two-time Tony Award winning theatre in the country, is happy to present The Fabulous Lipitones, a new musical about a not-so-traditional barbershop quartet.

"You can tell a story a hundred times, and it will still be different each time," says Peninnah Schram, internationally-know storyteller and recipient of the National Storytelling Network's Lifetime Achievement Award for "sustained and exemplary contributions to storytelling in America." Schram will be at Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek ... (more)

Classical pianist Dalia Lazar comes to Chester for the third Music & More concert on May 19 at Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek.

REGION 4 - Voters of Chester, Deep River and Essex approved a $17,776,120 Region 4 education budget for 2013-2014 Tuesday on a 274-145 vote in an eight hour referendum.

A lawsuit originally filed by a former employee-turned-whistleblower of pharmaceutical giant Novartis is gaining new momentum following the announcement that the federal government has now joined on as a plaintiff.

It's time again for the Chester Town-Wide Tag Sale. Beginning at 8 a.m. on Saturday, May 25, Memorial Day Weekend, individual residences and businesses having tag sales will be up and running throughout town.

A proposed $3,852,474 town government budget and a $4,182,373 appropriation for Chester Elementary School go to a public hearing Wednesday in the newly finished community room at town hall.

Astonishing jazz vocalist Ed Reed and his quintet come to Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek in Chester for its second Music & More concert Sunday, April 28.

The New Horizons Band of Community Music School performs a concert on Wednesday, May 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Chester Village West, 317 West Main Street, Chester.