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Town Hall: Box 680, South Royalton, Vt. 05068
Town Clerk: Theresa Harrington, 763-7207
Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9 a.m.-1 p.m., and 2-5 p.m.
Town Treasurer: Theresa Harrington, 763-7207
Selectboard's Office: Jackie Higgins (administrative assistant), 763-7967
Hours: Monday and Friday 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Selectboard: Bushrod Powers (chairman), 763-8087; David Lewis, 763-8182; John Dumville, 763-8567; Rosemary McLaughlin, 763-5262; Peter Chap, 763-8167; (meets second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the town clerk's office)
Emergency: 911
Road Foreman: Wayne Manning, town garage, 763-7667
Listers' Office: Jeff Barcelow, Walter Hastings, Bruce Washburn; available by appointment, 763-2202
Planning Commission: Ernest Amsden (chairman), 763-8769; Alan Turner; David Brandau; Kilda McKeever; Jerry Barcelow; Garrett Hobart; Phil Gates; Jacques Tremblay; Charlie Leighton (meets on the second Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at Royalton Academy building)
Flood Plain Zoning Administrator: Walter Hastings
Tax Collector: Nancy Hebard, 763-7019
Town Moderator: David Ainsworth, 763-8017
Constables: 763-8899; Marc Nemeth, Robert Hull
State police: Bethel barracks, 234-9933
Royalton Memorial Library: Elaina Griffith (director), Karen Anderson (assistant librarian), 763-7094
Hours: Tuesday-Friday noon-6 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Recreation Commission: Laurie Ballou (director), 763-8933; Abby Armstrong; Mary Benoit; Jenny Lane; Dennis Ives; Debbie English; Peg Trombly; David Lewis (meets the third Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Royalton Academy building)
School Board: Daphne Moritz (chairwoman),763-8526; Steve Timian, 763-8668; John Olmstead, 763-8528; Ellen Rogers (vice chairwoman), 763-7251; Frank Berk, 763-8832 (meets first and third Tuesdays of each month at 7 p.m. in the school library.
Royalton School: Shaun Pickett (principal), 763-7740
Superintendent of Schools: Lanning Nicoloff, 763-8840
Year incorporated or chartered: 1781
Land area: 41 square miles
Percent Private & Public Conserved Lands: 2.2%
Population
2000: 2,603
1990: 2,389
Number of families: 623
Average family size: 2.95
Income:
Per capita: $16,755
Median family income: $42,898
Median household income: $30,943
Employment:
Residents working in community: 22.8%
Unemployment rate: 1.5%
Top five industries in which residents work:
1. Retail trade
2. Educational services
3. Construction
4. Manufacturing, durable goods
5. Health services
Housing Units:
Owner occupied: 662
Renter occupied: 493
Vacant: 126
2001 Equalized tax rate: $1.84*
Full-time police department: No
Full-time fire department: No
Public schools:
One school (K-12), enrollment: 502
Joseph Smith Memorial, Dairy Hill Road. Smith was the founder of the Mormon religion. Open to the public every day. Dairy Hill Road is off Route 14 about a mile south of South Royalton. There is a marker at the intersection. Call (802) 763-7742 for information.
South Royalton Village: On the National Register of Historic Places, the village contains a late-19th-century brick business block, historic homes and the South Royalton house, once a railroad hotel, Vermont Law School, and a sizable green with a bandstand.
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