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TOWN STATISTICS

Population estimate (2006): 2,199
Median age (2000): 42

Educational attainment, adults 25 years and older (2000):
High school graduate or higher: 73.5%
Bachelor’s degree or higher: 21.4%

Median family income: $46,448

Residents attending Preprimary school: 57
Elementary school: 249
High school: 89

Total tax rate per $100 of assessed value (2007): $1.7200

PLACES OF INTEREST

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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Newbury Center Town House. (Valley News - Jason Johns)

Newbury, Vt.

Town Offices: 4982 Main St. South, Newbury, Vt. 05051; 866-5521
Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Tuesday 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Town Clerk: Susan Underwood, 866-5521
Treasurer: Mary Collins
Selectboard: Alma Roystan, chairwoman, 866-5568; Don Waterman, 757-2572; Phil Page, 866-9071 (meets the second, third and last Mondays of every month at 7 p.m.)
Listers: Amanda Beaulieu, Wayne Richardson, Larry Nelson
First Constable: Glen Godfrey
Second Constable: Bernie Grant
Delinquent Tax Collector: Scott Labun, 866-5506
Town Agent: Mary Collins, 866-5521
Budget Committee: Wayne Richardson, Martha Knox, Dan Martin
Baldwin Memorial Library: Peggy Hewes, librarian, 757-2693
Library Hours: Monday 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday 1:30 to 6 p.m., Friday 1:30 to 8 p.m., Sunday 1 to 3 p.m.
Tenney Memorial Library: Margery Shane, librarian, 866-5366
Library Hours: Tuesday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday 2 to 8 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Town Auditors: Hilda Huntoon, Ann Tyler, Jean Welch
Planning Commission: Ken Hicks; Charles Schulze; Daniel Martin; Elizabeth Anderson; Larry Scott, chairman; Robert Beaulieu; Charlie Burns; Linwood Huntington (meets at 7 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month)
Development Review Board: Jim Burke; Nancy Martin; Amanda Beaulieu; Ruth Kennedy; Emily Hausman; Bob Beaulieu; Bobbie Jewett; Charles Schulze; Larry Scott (meets at 7 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month)
Zoning Administrator: Cher Smith-Monteith, 866-5521
Solid Waste Commission: Gavin Reid, chairman; Fred Swift; Ken Rower; Connie Philleo; Claude Phipps
Road Foreman: Bob Beaulieu, 429-2401
Fire Warden: Jeff Morin
Cemetery Committee: Ken Welch, Aroline Putnam, Greg Allen
Fire Chief of Wells River: Jeff Morin, 757-2706
Fire Chief of Newbury Village: John Renfrew, 866-5583
Fire Chief of West Newbury: Gary Moore, 222-4787
Police: 222-4680, Vermont State Police in Bradford
Elementary School Directors: Janet Wheeler; Paul Jewett, 584-3088; Vicky Carson (meet the first Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. and third Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.)
Oxbow Union High School Directors: Susan Gaelic, Kathy Damon
Newbury Elementary School: Don Weisburger, principal, 866-5621
School District Treasurer: Mary Collins
Auditors: Jane Labun, Stephen Gale, Marvin Harrison
Superintendent of Schools: Wendy Baker, 222-5216

Published July 20, 2008