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Town Offices: Main Street, Newbury, 05051; 866-5521
Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., and Tuesdays 2:30-6 p.m.
Town Clerk: Susan Underwood, 866-5521
Treasurer: Mary Collins
Selectboard: Signa Carbee (chair), 866-5518; Alma Roystan, 866-5568; Don Waterman, 757-2572 (meets the second and last Mondays of every month at 7:30 p.m.)
Listers: Amanda Beaulieu, Wayne Richardson, Charlie Burns
Town Constable: Glen Godfrey
Delinquent-Tax Collector: Scott Labun, 866-5506
Town Agent: Russell Haviland, 429-2222
Budget Committee: Russell Haviland, 429-2222; Wayne Richardson; Martha Knox
Baldwin Memorial Library: Peggy Hewes (librarian), 757-2693
Hours: Monday 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Wednesday 1:30-6 p.m., Friday 1:30-8 p.m., Sunday 1-3 p.m.
Tenney Memorial Library: Margery Shane (librarian), 866-5366
Hours: Tuesday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday 2-8 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Town Auditors: Hilda Huntoon, Ann Tyler
Planning Commission: Albert Stevens (chair), 757-2138; Richard Roderick; Bill Bailey; Daniel Martin; Elizabeth Anderson; Larry Scott; Robert Beaulieu; Charlie Burns; Linwood Huntington (meets at 7:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month)
Zoning Board of Adjustment: William Riley (chair), 866-5924; Nancy Martin; Amanda Beaulieu; Virginia DiFrancesco; Emily Hausman (meets at 7:30 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month)
Zoning Administrator: to be appointed, 866-5521
Solid Waste Commission: Gavin Reid (chair), Fred Swift, Ken Rower, Connie Philleo
Road Foreman: Bob Beaulieu, 429-2401 (town garage)
Fire Warden: Jeff Morin
Cemetery Committee: Ken Welch
Fire Chief -- Wells River: Jeff Morin, 757-2706
Fire Chief -- Newbury Village: John Renfrew, 866-5583
Fire Chief -- West Newbury: Phillip Page, 866-9071
Police: 222-4680, Vermont State Police Bradford barracks
Elementary School Directors: Janet Wheeler; Paul Jewett, 584-3088; Priscilla Connolly (meet the second and fourth Thursdays at 5 p.m.)
Oxbow Union High School Directors: Rod Gillis, 866-9167; Walter Way, 429-2484; Paul Knox, 866-3374
Newbury Elementary School: John Sanborn (principal), 866-5621
School District Treasurer: Mary Collins
Auditors: Jane Labun, Stephen Gale, Marvin Harrison
Superintendent of Schools: Richard Pike, 222-5216
Year incorporated or chartered: 1763
Land area: 64 square miles
Percent private and public conserved lands: 3.6
Population:
2000: 1,965
1990: 1,985
Number of families: 553
Average family size: 2.88
Income:
Per capita: $17,659
Median family income: $42,262
Median household income: $32,721
Employment:
Residents working in community: 30.0%
Unemployment rate: 2.6%
Top five industries in which residents work:
1. Retail trade
2. Manufacturing, durable goods
3. Health services
4. Educational services
5. Construction
Housing Units:
Owner occupied: 610
Renter occupied: 206
Vacant: 337
2001 Equalized tax rate: $2.21*
Full-time police department: No
Full-time fire department: No
Public schools:
Elementary: 1; enrollment: 161
Middle-junior high: none
High school: none
Private/parochial schools: 1
Bayley-Hazen Military Road: starts just north of the village of Wells River off Route 5. A plaque has been erected to show the starting point of this 65-mile-long trail. The road was built by the founder of Newbury, Jacob Bayley; the founder of nearby Haverhill, N.H., John Hazen; and 60 men using oxen. Construction of the road started in 1776 after Gen. George Washington urged Bayley to find a shorter route to Canada. In 1779, construction on the road was discontinued and the road stops in Hazen's Notch in Westfield, Vt.
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