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TOWN STATISTICS

Population estimate (2006): 3,182
Median age (2000): 45.30

Educational attainment, adults 25 years and older (2000):
High school graduate or higher: 92.5%
Bachelor’s degree or higher: 44.6%

Median family income: $57,330

Residents attending Preprimary school: 60
Elementary school: 330
High school: 211

Total tax rate per $100 of assessed value (2007): $1.5928

PLACES OF INTEREST

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park: Opened in 1992, the park tells the story of land conservation and stewardship. Park is adjacent to Billings Farm & Museum, which features exhibits of 19th-century Vermont farming, restored and furnished 1890 farmhouse and working dairy farm. Open May to October; 457-2355.
Pentangle Council on the Arts: Presents music, theater, dance, family events and movies in the Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, a 400-seat historic theater renovated in 1988. 457-3981
The Little Theater, a 150-seat performance space in an old mill building on the Ottauquechee, hosts Pentangle's Coffee House Concerts and the New Woolhouse Players, a community theater company. 457-3981
Woodstock Historical Society: In the 1807 Dana House, the society features furnishings from 1740 to 1900, a library, photographs, dolls, toys and costumes, also exhibits and lectures. May to October, Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. 457-1822.

A visitor is reflected in a Town Hall Theatre sign as she walks through the lobby of Woodstock Town Hall. Pentangle Council on the Arts is located in Town Hall, where plays are performed and movies shown. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)
Valley News photograph

Woodstock, Vt.

Town Offices: Woodstock Town Hall, 31 The Green, Woodstock, Vt. 05091
Web Site: www.townofwoodstock.org
Town Clerk: Jerome R. Morgan, 457-3611
Hours: Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Treasurer and Tax Collector: Ann Marie Boyd, 457-3456
Selectboard: John D. Doten Jr., 457-2781; Jack Anderson; Bruce Gould, 457-1469; Preston Bristow, 457-3797; Gretti Howe, chairwoman, 457-1327 (meets first and third Tuesdays of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Town Hall)
Manager: Philip B. Swanson, 457-3456
Listers: Paul Wildasin; Carol M. Wood
Hours: Monday to Thursday 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Health Officer: Lanie Edson, 457-3456
Delinquent Tax Collector: Philip B. Swanson
Moderator: Max Maxham
Highways: 457-2233
First Constable: Penny Davis
Fire Chief and Fire Warden: L.D. Sutherland Jr., 457-2337
Village Development Review Board: Sally Miller, Gail Stickney, Patricia Crocker, Alan Lewis, Eric Nesbitt, Jim Mills, Jane Soule (meets first Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.)
Town Development Review Board: Charlotte Cleveland, Franklin Billings, Paul Feldstein, Emo Chynoweth, Laurance Lombard, Alan Howardell, Michael Schmell (meets fourth Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.)
Design Review Board: Chris Miller, Don Olson, George Lynch, Nancy Sevcenko, Beverly Ritchie
Planning Commission: Paul Kendall Jr., Paul Fenton, Charles Buchheit, Peter Behr, Sally Miller, John Wetmore, Joe DiNatale, J. Allen Dougherty, Marilyn Spaulding, Joyce Shaw, Paul Feldstein (meets second and fourth Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.)
Planning and Zoning Administrator: Michael Brands, 457-3456, michael@townofwoodstock.org
Conservation Commission: Lea Kachedorian, Alan Willard, James Johnson, Nick Heyniger, Kent McFarland, Allyson Beck, Andrew Cook, Steve Carter, Byron Quinn, Phil Frizzell (meets third Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.)
Norman Williams Public Library: 10 The Green, 457-2295; Katherine Ludwig, librarian
Summer: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Tuesday also 7 to 9 p.m.; Wednesday 1 to 9 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Winter: Monday, Thursday and Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Tuesday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.; Wednesday 1 to 9 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Elementary School Directors: Peter Shoemaker, Kristine Corey, Paige Hiller (meets first Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. in school library)
Woodstock Union High School Directors: Charles Petersen; Tom Weschler; Jay Leiter (meets second Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Woodstock Union High School)
Woodstock Elementary School: Patricia Davenport, principal, 457-2522
Woodstock Union High School: Johanna Harpster, principal, 457-1317
Superintendent of Windsor Central Supervisory Union: Meg Gallagher, 457-1213

Published July 20, 2008