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Town Offices: Route 4, Bridgewater Village, Vt. 05034
Town Clerk: Nancy Robinson, 672-3334
Hours: Monday-Thursday 8a.m.-4p.m., Friday 8a.m.- noon
Town and School Treasurer: Victoria Young, 672-3334
Hours: Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-4p.m., Friday 8a.m.- noon
Board of Selectmen: Nelson B. Lee Jr., (chairman), 457-1159; Tom Zuba, 457-2002; Steve Tarleton, 672-3308 (meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the town offices)
Listers: Tom Standish, Victoria Young, Bill Young
Cemetery commissioners: Paul Hutt, Coleman Hoyt, James Bulmer
Auditors: independent auditors
Current-tax collector: Victoria Young, 672-3334
Delinquent-tax collector: Joni Kennedy, 672-3402
Grand Juror: Coleman Hoyt
Town Agent: Coleman Hoyt
Road Foreman: James Oldenburg Jr., 672-5379, (town garage)
Trustee of Public Funds: Henry Smith
Justices of the Peace: Gloria Martin, Nancy Robinson, Charles Astbury, Clifford Geno, James Oldenburg
Health Officer: Howard Jonas
Fence Viewers: Clifford Geno, Andy Bird, Owen Astbury
Planning Commission: Brian Bontrager (chairman), 672-5263; Betty Shurtleff; Jeannette Sawyer; Roy Wardwell (meets as needed)
Bridgewater School Directors: Stuart Astbury, (chairman), 672-3789; Laurie Bramhall; Brian Bontrager, 672-5263 (meets the third Monday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the Village School)
Woodstock Union High School Directors: Sheryl Phelps, James Oldenburg Jr. (meets the second Wednesday of every month at 7:30 p.m.)
Bridgewater Village School: Carol Pickett (principal), 672-3464
School Superintendent: Mary Ellen Gallagher, 457-1213
Year incorporated or chartered: 1761
Land area: 50 square miles
Percent private and public conserved lands: 6.7
Population:
2000: 980
1990: 895
Number of families: 251
Average family size: 3.08
Income:
Per capita: $19,811
Median family income: $47,500
Median household income: $39,107
Employment:
Residents working in community: 22.8%
Unemployment rate: 3.1%
Top five industries in which residents work:
1. Retail trade
2. Construction
3. Personal Services
4. Health services
5. Agriculture
Housing Units:
Owner occupied: 290
Renter occupied: 105
Vacant: 187
2001 Equalized tax rate: $2.00
Full-time police department: No
Full-time fire department: No
Public schools:
Elementary: one; enrollment: 89
Middle-junior high: none
High school: none
The Marketplace at Bridgewater Mill: The Mill Mall offers shopping, and the town has several restaurants and Bridgewater Park along Route 4. The Ottauquechee River is never far away.
The Bridgewater Veterans Memorial, dedicated in 1995, is outside the townhouse. It honors about 300 Bridgewater veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
Long Trail Brewery, an independent operation since its inception in 1989, boasts several beers, including the “queen of the crop” Long Trail Ale and India Pale Ale. Located six miles west of Woodstock, the brewery offers visitors a look at an actual brewing line.
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