Randolph Almanac


Town Offices: Summer Street, Randolph, Vt. 05060; fax 728-5818

Hours: Monday-Friday 8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.

Web Site: www.randolphvt.com

Town Manager/Service Officer: Melvin E. Adams, 728-5433

Email: manager@municipaloffice.randolph.vt.us

Town Clerk/Treasurer: Joyce Mazzucco, 728-5682

Email: clerk@municipaloffice.randolph.vt.us

Selectboard: Heather Tallman (co-chair), 728-6423; Adelbert Thompson (co-chair), 728-9839; Peter Butterfield (clerk), 728-4077; Kevin Osha, 728-4217 (meets first and third Tuesdays of each month at 7 p.m.)

Zoning Administrator/Tree Warden: Mardee Sanchez, 728-9724

Email: zoning@municipaloffice.randolph.vt.us

Planning Commission: Judy Iffland (chairwoman), 728-6024; Emanuel Farrow (vice chair), 728-3862; Chris Soares; Frank Reed; Jerald Ward; Ken Preston; Chris Sargent; Jenny Carter; Scott Berkey (meets first and third Tuesdays of each month at Gifford Medical Center)

Development Review Board: Frank Reed (chairman), 728-3163; Joel Tillberg (secretary), 728-9089; J. Kenneth Currier; Paul Rea; Ken Roger; Trini Brassard; Christopher Recchia; Carmella Cyr (alternate); Emanuel Farrow (alternate)

Conservation Commission: Annette Higby (chairwoman), 728-4955; John Sayward, 728-3271; Klint Wigren, 728-4251; William Davoli; John Blaisdell; Charles Cooley; Brooke Burgee; William Snow; Rebecca Miller (non-voting)

Assessor: Patrick French, 728-5682

Email: lister@municipaloffice.randolph.vt.us

Listers: Freeman Grout (chairman), 728-5336; Grace Wiggett; William Dowd

Town Engineer/Sewage Officer/Sign Officer: Mardee Sanchez, 728-9724

Randolph Village Police Chief: James Krakowiecki, 728-3737; fax 728-2512

Recreation Director: 728-4048

Email: recreation@municipaloffice.randolph.vt.us

Delinquent Tax Collector: Melvin Adams, 728-5433

Dog Officer: James Ackerman

Health Officer: Gretchen Kidder, 728-0031

Fire Services Advisory Board: Kermit LaBounty (chairman), Doug Campbell, David Race, Al Floyd, Robert Squire, Jay Collette, Dick Kelley, Kevin Osha (liaison)

Fire Warden: Bud Bowen, 728-3715

Randolph Village Fire Department: Jay Collette (chief), 728-9220

Randolph Center Fire Department: Albert Floyd, 728-5885

East Randolph Fire Department: Douglas Campbell, 728-5301; Jeffery Hackett, 728-9205

Superintendent of Cemeteries: David Barnard, 728-3222

Civil Defense Chairperson: Melvin Adams, 728-5433

Road Foreman: Celia Clark, 728-5110

Email: highway@municipaloffice.randolph.vt.us

Trustees of Chandler Center for the Arts: Richard Ellsworth, Pauline Garner, Shahid Khan, Tim Bransetter, Ted Jensen, Ellen Shepeard, Ken Stevens, Bob Wright, Randy Garner (treasurer), Martha Ostlund (emeritus), Melvin Adams (ex-officio)

Budget Committee: Mary Hardy, Dawn Butterfield, Wayne Warner (chairman), Del Thompson (liaison)

Moderator: Joanne Currier

Kimball Public Library: Amy Grasmick (director), 728-5073

Library Trustees: Terry Burgee, Karen Odato, Ellen Reid, Becky Seymour

Town History Committee: Anita Rye, Stephen Webster, Ruth Allen, Peter Butterfield; Larry Leonard

Randolph Elementary School (K-6) Principal: Steve Metcalf, 728-9555

Randolph Union High School (grades 7-12 for Randolph, Braintree and Brookfield) Principal: John Holmes, 728-3397

Randolph Area Vocational Center: 728-9595

Superintendent of Schools, Orange Southwest Supervisory Union: Brent Kay, 728-5052 or 728-9908

School directors for Randolph Elementary School: Laura Soares (chairwoman), 728-9155; Gerry Tallman, 728-9103; Cathy Mollica, 728-6201; Lisa McMahon, 728-4180; Matthew Poirier (meets first and third Mondays of each month at the elementary school)

RUHS Directors: Peter Nowlan (chairman), 728-9528; Alex Halasz (vice-chairman), 728-3236; Linda Minsinger (clerk); Dale Brown, 276-3057; Andrew Becker (meet second Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the high school)

Year incorporated or chartered: 1781

Land area: 48 square miles

Percent private and public conserved lands: 2.9%

Population:

2000: 4,853

1990: 4,764

Number of families: 1,145

Average family size: 3.0

Income:

Per capita: $20,591

Median family income: $50,756

Median household income: $41,283

Employment:

Percent of residents working in community: 65.9%

Unemployment rate: 2.9%

Top five industries in which residents work:

1. Retail trade

2. Educational services

3. Manufacturing, durable goods

4. Health services

5. Agriculture, forestry, fisheries

Housing Units:

Owner occupied: 1245

Renter occupied: 524

Vacant: 136

       

2001 Equalized tax rate: $2.76*

Full-time police department: Yes

Full-time fire department: No

Public schools:

Elementary: 3; enrollment: 400

Middle-high school (7-12): 1; enrollment: 669

Private/parochial schools: 3

Albert B. Chandler Music Hall and Cultural Center: Main Street, (802) 728-9878. A nonprofit cultural foundation that hosts plays, festivals and other cultural events throughout the year.

Porter's Music Box Co.: Route 66, (802) 728-9694, (800) 811-7087. Museum and manufacturing plant for the world's only maker of disc-style music boxes. Display of antique music boxes and porcelain automatons open to public; tours Monday through Saturday on the hour and half hour, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Last tour starts at 3:30 p.m.; $2.50 fee.

Randolph Historical Museum: The museum features a complete turn-of-the-century drug store, run by the Leonard family for three generations, complete with a soda fountain. Displays also include a typical living room, bedroom and kitchen from Randolph in the early 1900s, antique camera equipment, and even a plaster cast of the tracks of one of the last panthers to live in the region. The museum is on Salisbury Street and is open the first Sunday of each month from 2-4 p.m. and the Fourth of July.

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