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TOWN STATISTICS

Population estimate (2006): 986
Median age (2000): 42.40

Educational attainment, adults 25 years and older (2000):
High school graduate or higher: 93.6%
Bachelor’s degree or higher: 45.9%

Median family income: $56,250

Residents attending Preprimary school: 27
Elementary school: 133
High school: 68

Total tax rate per $100 of assessed value (2007): $2.6508

PLACES OF INTEREST

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 town, including dairy and beef cattle raisers, as well as nurseries, greenhouses and apple orchards.
Hikers can traverse the town on the Appalachian Trail.

Valley News photograph
Pomfret Town Hall began as a Unitarian church in 1845, and was given to the town in 1872. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

Pomfret, Vt.

Town Hall: Pomfret Road, Pomfret, Vt. 05053
Town Meeting Moderator: Robert J. O’Donnell, 457-1505
School Meeting Moderator: Kevin Geiger
Town Clerk: Andrew Mann
Assistant Town Clerks: Hazel B. Harrington and Joanne Webb
Treasurer: Hazel B. Harrington, 457-3861
Selectmen: Neil Lamson; Doug Tuthill; Robert S. Harrington, chairman, 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: Kevin Lessard, 457-9054; James E. Tracey, chairman, 457-3031; Greg Green, 457-9053 (meets the second Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at the Pomfret School)
Woodstock Union High School Directors: Charles L. Powell, 457-1002; Kevin Griffin, 457-4705
Cemetery Commissioner: David Dana; William Cole, 457-4760; Patricia Carson
Constable: Jay Potter
Delinquent Tax Collector: Jay Potter
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; Norman Buchanan; Stephen G. Brown, chairman, 457-1196 Lynn Leavoitte
Zoning Administrator: Preston Bristow
Zoning Board of Adjustment: Elaine L. Chase, David E. Luce, Lois B. Havill, chairwoman; Fred S. Doten Sr., Phyllis M. Harrington, Alan R. Blackmer, Michael S. Reese (meets as necessary)
Planning Commission: William B. Emmons, chairman, 457-1520; Margery E. Fields; Philip Dechert Jr.; Ellen DesMeules; John Moore; Orson L. St. John; Michael Doten; Robert O’Donnell; Nelson Lamson
Abbott Memorial Library Trustees: Betsy Siebeck; Susan Heston; Jennifer Satterfield; Kris Graham; Sara Brettell; Lindsay Harrington, Elizabeth L. Rhodes, Lucinda Hewitt
Grand Juror: Michael Reese
Agent to Prosecute and Defend Suits: William Emmons
Trustees of Public Funds: Bettina Lewin, Fred S. Doten Sr., Keith Blake
Justices of the Peace: Elaine L. Chase, Fred S. Doten Sr., Marjorie Wakefield, Charles Gundersen, Jan Salzman
Service Officer: Douglas Tuthill
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
Deputy Health Officer: Mary LaBrecque
Tree Warden: Neil Lamson

Published July 20, 2008