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Town Hall: P.O. Box 461, Corinth, Vt. 05039; 439-5850
Hours: Monday, Thursday and Friday 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Tuesday noon-6 p.m., first and last Saturday of each month 8:30 a.m.-noon
Moderator: Harvey Carter, 685-2058
Town Clerk and Treasurer: Susan L. Fortunati, 439-5850
Selectmen: John Learmonth, 439-5399; Frank Roderick, 439-6258; Gregory Thurston (chairman), 439-5956; (meets on the second Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. in the town hall)
First Constable: Michael Dudley, 685-7888
Second Constable: Joseph Hill, 439-6848
Listers: Ed Eilertsen; Kenneth Paronto, 439-5416
Cemetery Commissioners: Norman Collette, 685-3812; Wayne Moulton, 439-5430; Raymond Moulton, 439-5430
Town Agent: Richard Cawley, 222-9234
Fire Warden: Wade Pierson, 439-5535
Tax Collector/Delinquent Tax Collector: Susan L. Fortunati, 439-5850 or 439-6179
Health Officer: Robert Sandberg, 439-5563
Planning Board: John Hanzas (chairman), 439-6702; Timothy Hoopes, 685-3370; Judith Drury, 439-6931; John Pierson, 439-5516; Virginia Barlow, 439-5252 (meets the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the town hall)
Energy Coordinator: Francis J. Roderick, 439-6258
Justices of the Peace: Guy Miller Sr.; Howard Carter, 439-6250; Linda Weiss; Kenneth Batten, 439-6950; Lois Covey, 439-5568; Richard Kelley, 439-6589; Margaret Pierson, 439-5516
Postmaster: Scott Jacob
Historical Society President: Norman Collette, 685-3812
Blake Memorial Library: East Corinth, Janine Moore (librarian), Gregory Hookway (assistant librarian), 439-5338
Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 2-8 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-noon
Library Trustees: Wells Smith, Harold Drury, Kate Hookway, Steve Smith, Andrea Buermeyer, John Pierson, Polly Stryker
Superintendent of Schools: Russell Collins, 222-5216
Wait's River Valley School: Carole Freeman (principal), 439-5534
School Directors: Peter Herman (chairman), 439-5804; Loraine Devins; Wells Smith; Sarah Copeland-Honzas (appointed) (meet the second and fourth Thursdays of every month at 7 p.m.)
Year incorporated or chartered: 1764
Land area: 49 square miles
Percent private and public conserved lands: 1.1
Population:
2000: 1,461
1990: 1,244
Number of families: 411
Average family size: 3.02
Income:
Per capita: $14,431
Median family income: $33,646
Median household income: $32,198
Employment:
Residents working in community: 23.3%
Unemployment rate: 2.6%
Top five industries in which residents work:
1. Retail trade
2. Manufacturing, durable goods
3. Construction
4. Educational services
5. Agriculture, forestry, fisheries
Housing Units:
Owner occupied: 460
Renter occupied: 75
Vacant: 193
2001 Equalized tax rate: $2.15*
Full-time police department: No
Full-time fire department: No
Public schools:
Elementary (K-8): 1; enrollment: 344
High school: none
Private/parochial schools: none
Waits River, flowing through the northeastern part of the town, falls a distance of 100 feet in a few areas. The Mill Brook, which runs into the south branch of the Waits River in West Corinth, is one of the town's most historic and scenic natural areas. It was viewed by the earliest local settlers as an ideal source of water power. For nearly a century the brook provided power to operate the gristmill, sawmill and a cider mill and served the day-to-day needs of West Corinth.
The Corinth Academy Building in Cookeville, built in 1846, was a private coeducational institution, educating students from as far away as Detroit. The building eventually became part of the town school system, was used as the Town Hall, and is currently being restored by the Corinth Historical Society. The academy building was eventually replaced as a town hall by the current Corinth Town Hall.
The Meadow Meeting House, on the Goose Green-Chelsea Road, a historic building, was once used as the Second Free Will Baptist Church. There is no formal minister, but weddings and other events are held.
The Northeast Slopes ski area on Route 25, about three miles from the center of East Corinth, still operates as the second oldest rope tow ski area in the country. The ski area was built in the 1930s and has been running continuously since.
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