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Town Hall: Pomfret Road, Pomfret, Vt. 05053
Town Meeting Moderator: Robert J. O'Donnell, 457-1505
School Meeting Moderator: Daphne P. Gratiot
Town Clerk: Hazel B. Harrington, 457-3861; Constance F. De Witt (assistant)
Treasurer: Hazel B. Harrington, 457-3861
Selectmen: James M. Havill (chairman), 457-4024; Miller G. Hewitt, 457-1976; Robert S. Harrington, 457-1044. (meets the first and third Wednesdays of each month at 7 p.m. at the clerk's office)
Superintendent of Schools: Mary Ellen Gallagher, 457-1213
School Directors: Harold Raynolds Jr. (chairman), 457-1241; James E. Tracey, 457-3031; Hannah Nichols, 457-1093 (meets the first Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Pomfret School)
Woodstock Union High School Directors: Charles L. Powell, 457-1002; Kevin Griffin, 457-4705
Constable: David E. Luce, 457-2574
Fire Warden: Leon J. Stetson, 457-1014
Deputy: Fred S. Doten Sr., 457-1345
Pound Keepers: David E. Luce, Raymond Potter
Road Commissioner: James E. Potter, 457-2767
Listers: Daphne P. Gratiot (chairwoman), 457-1088; Frances R. Capossela; Stephen G. Brown
Zoning Administrator: Stephen J. Johnson, 457-1093
Zoning Board of Adjustment: Thomas S. Massoth (chairman), 763-7188; Philip Frizzell; Elaine L. Chase; David E. Luce; Lois B. Havill; Fred S. Doten Sr. (meets as necessary)
Planning Commission: William B. Emmons (chairman), 457-1520; Margery E. Fields; Philip Dechert Jr.; Ellen DesMeules; John Moore; Charles Jackson III; Orson L. St. John; Norwood Long (meets third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the Center School.)
Library Trustees: Jane Scialdone, Anthony Thacher, Thomas C. Hartman, Daphne P. Gratiot, Frances Uptegrove, Elizabeth Feinberg (mee t the third Monday of each month at the Abbot Memorial Library, 457-2236.)
Auditors: Barbara Frizzell, Andrew Mann, Elizabeth L. Rhodes
Grand Juror/Agent to Prosecute and Defend Suits: Michael Reese
Trustees of Public Funds: Bettina Lewin, Fred S. Doten Sr., Keith Blake
Justices of the Peace: Elaine L. Chase, Fred S. Doten Sr., Peter Gratiot, Jane Adelson, Michael S. Reese
Service Officer: James Havill
Fence Viewers: Raymond Potter, Robert S. Moore, John R. Peters
Surveyors of Wood and Lumber and Weighers of Coal: Fred S. Doten Sr., Robert S. Harrington
Health Officer: Dr. Hugh P. Hermann, Mary LaBrecque (deputy)
Tree Warden: William Gross
Year incorporated or chartered: 1761
Land area: 39 square miles
Percent private and public conserved lands: 13.7
Population:
2000: 979
1990: 874
Number of families: 288
Average family size: 2.89
Income:
Per capita: $27,922
Median family income: $56,250
Median household income: $51.800
Employment:
Residents working in community: 19.5%
Unemployment rate: 0.9%
Top five industries in which residents work:
1. Retail trade
2. Other professional services
3. Construction
4. Agriculture, forestry, fisheries
5. Educational services
Housing Units:
Owner occupied: 309
Renter occupied: 95
Vacant: 140
2001 Equalized tax rate: $2.25*
Full-time police department: No
Full-time fire department: No
Public schools:
Elementary: one; enrollment, 95
Middle-junior high: None
High school: None
Two current gathering places predate the Civil War: the North Pomfret Congregational Church, built in 1844, and the Town Hall, built in 1845 as a Universalist church.
In 2002, the listers tallied five working farms in the 36-square-mile town, including dairy and beef cattle raisers, as well as nurseries, greenhouses and apple orchards.
Hikers can traverse the town on the Appalachian Trail.
The Suicide Six ski area, owned and managed by the Woodstock Inn and Resort, stands in the southern portion of the town, near the Woodstock town line.
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