Cavendish Update 4/17/20: Covid News

Quarantined single parent Vince is doing great. Jane Hart

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4/15/20

1.    What’s Been Happening

2.    Sanity Break: Show Up for Hope by Anne Lamotte

3.    Events

We’re staying home today for the medical workers who have died from Covid-19.

Testing for Covid-19 is reminding me a bit of “the checks in the mail.” There has been considerable talk, but little to show for serology testing or the 15 minute rapid test kits Vermont was supposed to be getting from Abbott Labs. Well the rapid test kits arrived but only with enough testing materials to do 100 tests versus the 120 per kit initially promised. However, as Dr. Mark Levine, VT’s Health commissioner noted, it’s better to be a low incidence state and not get all that was promised because it’s been redirected to ‘hot spots.”

Serology testing is all over the map and we’ll have to just wait and see. To obsess over “if and when,” is a lesson in frustration I don’t need. Fortunately, VT has been doing an excellent job scrounging around to getting everything from personal protective equipment, to identifying labs who can run the tests. In addition, Vermonters are really good at taking care of business and we’re just bending that curve to the point that it’s possible we’ve reached peak and we’ll start seeing some shifts in the Stay at Home order by the beginning of May.

The one major area of frustration that has people pulling their hair out is the inability to get through to the Department of Labor. Scott noted at Wednesday’s press conference, they are trying to deal with an antiquated computer system that can’t easily process  the volume of claims, which VT has never experienced before and never anticipated. Scott was clear that Vermonters had every right to be angry. “It’s not enough for me to say ‘have some patience’ because this isn’t about patience. I accept responsibility for this. This is an area that we didn’t foresee and certainly, no excuses, but we need to do better.”

There are more and more discussions about what the “new normal” will look like. What does it mean for our economic future? Will school still be remote come September? Since my crystal ball isn’t up to snuff these days, all we can really say is that until there is a vaccine and/or a very effective treatment, we’re going to doing the social distancing 6 foot dance, complete with masks and we’ll be relying on Internet to keep us connected.

Scott is working with the other states in ending “stay at home” orders in a manner that is based on data, science and what is in the best interest of people. He said that the Coalition of Governors recently announced is a formalization of what has already been taking place.    

VT has a Covid-19 Recovery Resource Center that includes the RestartVT Team whose purpose is to develop plans for the smooth, safe and orderly reopening of the economy in concert with the State Emergency Operations Center and the Department of Health.

 Locally Cavendish Connects is working to make high speed Internet available town wide; upgrading our various online services to best meet the changing needs; and has started reaching out to key members of the community to discuss the establishment of an economic development committee. In short we’re all in this together and even though our focus is our corner of the world, none of us are alone.

Don’t forget tonight is the community solidarity event at 8 pm in Proctorsville. See the Event section for more information.

So as we move into what’s been happening, today’s Sanity Break is actually Anne Lamott’s strategy for dealing with adversity-Show Up with Hope. Everyone I know, including me, has lived through devastating times at least twice, through seemingly unsurvivable loss. And yet we have come through because of the love of our closest people, the weird healing properties of time, random benevolence, and, of course, our dogs

If you need help with shopping, a transfer station run, TP, hand sanitizer or something else, please call the Cavendish Town Office, M-F from 9-5 226-7291 or 7292.

2. WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING

Cavendish SB Meeting: Covid-19 likely to impact summer projects, budgets in Cavendish: The Cavendish Selectboard had their first online meeting via Zoom Monday, April 13, which focused on how COVID-19 will likely impact the completion of town summer projects and the budget. Of particular concern are upcoming tax bills scheduled to go on in July. One option being considering is whether to waive all penalties and interest from anyone unable to pay timely. Board Members Mike Ripley and George Timko both expressed their support for that option. Another possibility is delaying the mailing of the tax bills until September, which would delay the payment deadlines as well. McNamara said they were gathering as much information as they can with new information coming in daily from the state and other agencies on various options. They will continue to discuss the matter in upcoming meetings. Vt Journal

• Ludlow Electric currently has one person at a time in the office to answer phones. The Drive-up is CLOSED to the Public. Payments may be made at our ~ Night Drop Box or the door has a slot for mail at Pond Street. You may call with your CC/Debit Cart or E-Check to process your payments. You may also make payment thru the Payments site: https://ipn.paymentus.com/epd/stde/ldlw  To use this site: you must know your Account# & the Amount you want to pay. (This is only a payment portal & does not give you any information).

• Survey: Vermont 4th hardest hit by pandemic effect on tourism

• Better Business Bureau says stop sharing senior pictures on Facebook: According to the BBB, scammers or hackers who surf through social media sites will see these #ClassOf2020 posts, and will now have the name of your high school and graduation year, which are common online security questions.

• Virtual appointments and medical visits during the Covid Pandemic: Quickly becoming the norm as we continue to practice social distance, telemedicine is how many are now receiving medical care. This post addresses many of the questions about telemedicine as well as getting routine medical care.

• Small Business Shut out as SBA Rescue Loan Program is out of cash.

• Leahy named to Trump’s council to reopen U.S. economy

• Is Vermont’s child care bailout fair?: In a bid to ensure child care facilities can afford to reopen when the pandemic ends, Vermont has promised a massive bailout to the industry.  But as part of the state’s stabilization program, families are being asked to pay 50% of the tuition they were paying before facilities closed if they want to keep their spot in a program.

• S. Vt. gets one out of 19 members on economic recovery panel Local lawmakers: Our communities should have bigger voice

• COVID-19 treatment, diagnosis to be covered at no cost to patients: Gov. Phil Scott has ordered private insurance companies to eliminate all costs for the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19, including copayments and deductibles.  VTDigger reports that the rule can be retroactively applied to claims from March 13 onward, when Scott declared a state of emergency. The new rules only apply to those with private insurance. Medicaid has already pledged to cover COVID-19 medical treatment retroactive to March 1, 2020.

• Take the VT Labor Dept. Survey: Estimated Business Impacts from Covid-19 The Agency of Commerce and Community Development is seeking to understand and document the impacts of COVID-19 on Vermont businesses. Accurate responses to the questions below will assist the Agency as we continue to assess and respond to unfolding events.

• COVID-19 leaves colleges struggling to plan for the future

• Vt. ed officials urge schools to focus on remote learning, not remedial plans

• Stop Scammers from Cashing in On Your Stimulus Check

2. SANITY BREAK: It’s a short read, but check out Anne Lamott’s approach to surviving adversity. Show Up With Hope.

3.. UPCOMING EVENTS: Go to dgBody Works  for classes that are being posted via Facebook live. Take a new one, do an old one. Stay fit and healthy.

April 17 (Friday): Proctorsville Volunteer Fire Department is hosting a community solidarity event at 8 pm. Come together to show your support for Cavendish Citizens working the frontlines at area hospitals, nursing homes and rescue squads. We are asking for the community to join us with your vehicle (do not get out) by parking along Main Street, at CTES or around Svec Park in Proctorsville on Friday April 17th at 8pm. At that time we will have our apparatus outside with emergency lights activated, and will do a one minute blast on the building siren. We ask that at that time you join in with your car horn and lots of cheering from your vehicle. If you live on Main Street or close by please participate from your yard. If you walk to Main Street, please remain with your household members 6ft or more away from others and don’t forget your mask. Let’s come together and let our local healthcare professionals know that we are proud of them and appreciate everything they do for us.

Staying home for Patty; Bob Kirkbride; Singletons; Dave Norton;  Deb Hryckiewicz;  Ludlow Ambulance Service; the Cavendish Water/Waste Water Treatment Team; Rocky and the Cavendish Transfer Station Crew; Cavendish Town Crew; Mt. Ascutney Hospital; Cavendish/Proctorsville firefighters & first responders; Mack Molding employees; Shaw’s Ludlow employees; and the healthcare workers who have died of Covid-19;

Have a Heart -stay home or 6 feet apart wearing a cloth mask or scarf.   

                        Stay healthy to protect yourself and Cavendish.

IF YOU READ THIS PLEASE HELP SUPPORT CAVENDISH CONNECTS

Show Up With Hope’: Anne Lamott’s Plan for Facing Adversity

You would almost have to be nuts to be filled with hope in a world so rife with hunger, hatred, climate change, pollution, and pestilence, let alone the self-destructive or severely annoying behavior of certain people, both famous and just down the hall, none of whom we will name by name.

Yet I have boundless hope, most of the time. Hope is a sometimes cranky optimism, trust, and confidence that those I love will be OK—that they will come through, whatever life holds in store. Hope is the belief that no matter how dire things look or how long rescue or healing takes, modern science in tandem with people’s goodness and caring will boggle our minds, in the best way.

Hope is (for me) not usually the religious-looking fingers of light slanting through the clouds, or the lurid sunrise. It’s more a sturdy garment, like an old chamois shirt: a reminder that I’ve been here before, in circumstances just as frightening, and I came through, and will again. All I have to do is stay grounded in the truth.

Oh, that’s very nice, you may well respond. And what does that even mean, the truth?

I don’t presume to say what capital-T Truth is. But I do know my truth, and it’s this: Everyone I know, including me, has lived through devastating times at least twice, through seemingly unsurvivable loss. And yet we have come through because of the love of our closest people, the weird healing properties of time, random benevolence, and, of course, our dogs

At regular intervals, life gets a little too real for my taste. The wider world seems full of bombers, polluters, threats of all kinds. My own small world suffers ruptures—a couple of deaths, a couple of breakups, a young adult who had me scared out of my wits for a couple of years—that leave me struggling to stay on my feet.

In these situations I usually have one of two responses: either that I am doomed or that I need to figure out whom to blame (and then correct their behavior). But neither of these is true. The truth is that—through the workings of love, science, community, time, and what I dare to call grace—some elemental shift will occur and we will find we are semi-OK again. And even semi-OK can be a miracle.

“Sometimes I have to believe that heaven is just a new pair of glasses.” That was said by a priest who helped establish Alcoholics Anonymous roughly 80 years ago—and when I remember to put on such glasses, I spy reasons for hope on every street. You can’t walk a block without seeing recycling bins. Nations are pledging serious action on climate change. My young friend Olivia, who has cystic fibrosis, got into a clinical trial two years ago for a newfangled drug—and it’s working, meaning she will live a great deal longer than we ever dared to hope.

I like these days in spite of our collective fears and grief. I love antibiotics. I’m crazy about electricity. I get to fly on jet airplanes! And in the face of increased climate-related catastrophes—after I pass through the conviction that we are doomed, that these are End Times—I remember what Mister Rogers’s mother said: In times of disaster we look to the helpers.

Look to the volunteers and aid organizations clearing away the rubble, giving children vaccines; to planes and trains and ships bringing food to the starving. Look at Desmond Tutu and Malala Yousafzai, Bill Gates and the student activists of Parkland, Florida; anyone committed to public health, teachers, and all those aging-hippie folk singer types who galvanized the early work of decontaminating the Hudson River.

You could say that river cleanup was child’s play compared with the melting of the ice caps—and I would thank you for sharing and get back to doing what is possible. Those who say it can’t be done should get out of the way of those who are doing it.

We take the action—soup kitchens, creek restoration, mentoring—and then the insight follows: that by showing up with hope to help others, I’m guaranteed that hope is present. Then my own hope increases. By creating hope for others, I end up awash in the stuff.

We create goodness in the world, and that gives us hope. We plant bulbs in the cold, stony dirt of winter and our aging arthritic fingers get nicked, but we just do it, and a couple of months later life blooms—as daffodils, paperwhites, tulips.

Hope is sometimes a decision that we won’t bog down in analysis paralysis. We show up in waders or with checkbooks. We send money to India, and the Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and to Uncle Ed’s GoFundMe account for his surgery.

You want hope? In India you see families waking up on hard, dusty streets and the poorest moms combing their kids’ hair for school. School is hope. Closer to home you see a teenager recover from a massive brain bleed and head off to a college for kids with special needs—not only alive but carrying a backpack full of books and supplies, and lunch. (Lunch gives me hope.)

You saw someone, maybe yourself or your child, get and stay sober. You read that the number of mountain gorillas in central Africa has risen consistently over the past few years. One had barely dared to hope, and yet? If this keeps up, we’ll be up to our necks in mountain gorillas.

We might hope that this or that will happen, and be disappointed—but when we instead have hope in the resilience and power of the human spirit, in innovation, laughter, and nature, we won’t be.

I wish I had a magic wand and could make people in power believe in climate science, but I don’t. I do, however, have good shoes in which to march for science and sanity. (Sanity: Is that so much to hope for? Never!) I see people rising up to their highest, most generous potential in every direction in which I remember to look, when I remember to look up and around and not at my aching feet.

My friend Olivia hates having cystic fibrosis, and every moment of life is a little harder than it is for people without the disease. But most of the time she’s the happiest person I’m going to see on any given day. She is either in gratitude or in the recording studio, where she is recording her second album of songs she wrote and plays on guitar. The engineer hits the mute button when she needs to cough, which is fairly frequently. She got a terrifying diagnosis 23 years ago, but with her community’s support, she and her parents kept hoping that she would somehow be OK or at least OK-ish—and then voilà, the successful clinical trial of a miracle drug.

Children pour out of school labs equipped with the science and passion to help restore estuaries and watersheds. Church groups pitch in to build water wells to nourish developing-world villages. As John Lennon said, “Everything will be OK in the end. If it’s not OK, it’s not the end.” This has always been true before; we can decide to hope that it will be again.

Sometimes hope is a radical act, sometimes a quietly merciful response, sometimes a second wind, or just an increased awareness of goodness and beauty. Maybe you didn’t get what you prayed for, but what you got instead was waking to the momentousness of life, the power of loving hearts. You hope to wake up in time to see the dawn, the first light, a Technicolor sunrise, but the early morning instead is cloudy with mist. Still, as you linger, the ridge stands majestically black against a milky sky. And if you pay attention, you’ll see the setting of the moon that illumined us all as we slept. And you see a new day dawn.

Cavendish Update 4/15/20: Gov's Conf/News/Bread

Normally the vet trimmed Edna’s claws; in quarantine, it was Mano a Mano. Jane Hart

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4/15/20

1.    What’s Been Happening

2.    Sanity Break: No-knead bread

3.    Events

We’re staying home today for the Shaw’s staff in Ludlow, who are working to keep shelves stocked and attitudes friendly. Please observe senior hours Tuesday and Thursday from 7-9 am.

In the scope of things, the amount of news coming out that is impacting our daily lives has slowed down quite a bit, so starting next week, we’ll drop back to Monday & Friday updates.

From Monday’s Governor’s press briefings, it appears Vermont is plateauing and depending on how fast the numbers come down, the Gov. Scott continues to hint that the “spigot” could open sooner than May 15, the most recent date given for lifting the “Stay at Home” order.

"The number of new cases every day is getting smaller and it's leveling off," Mark Levine, Vermont’s Health Commissioner  said at Monday’s, April 13, press conference. "We seem to be approaching a plateau. We will see if that is a sustained phenomenon, or a just a trend for several days. We are, in the general population of Vermont, not recording major outbreaks or spikes in our data." Most new cases of the virus have been occurring in closed settings, like nursing homes, elder living facilities and prisons.

Vermonters are doing an incredible job. Yesterday, there were only four new cases, which is the lowest we’ve seen in a month.

Does the President get to decide when to reopen the country? No he doesn’t, and as if to prove a point, coalitions of state governors are working to bring their respective states out of quarantine together based on science and the public good. Right now VT is not part of one of the coalitions, but today’s press conference may change that.

On Monday, Scott stated, "We will open up the economic spigot a quarter turn at a time. Many just want to get this over with right now. And others are worried we will move too quickly. I will continue to act based on... data and science." However, as Scott starts to reopen businesses, social distancing measuring and wearing masks sound like they will be the “new normal.”

Thank you to all who have responded to the Internet survey for the Knapp Pond area. We have supplied that information to the state and are working on a two phased approach-addressing immediate need and long term solutions. Hopefully we will have more information for you by Friday and it appears we may be able to work something out with ECFiber for the long term solution.

Masks and social distancing will be with us for a while. If you need masks, please e-mail cavendishconnects@gmail.com We will be having masks for children, with distribution being coordinated with the school.

For those of you who have asked me for my bread recipe, I’ve included  my version below of no-knead bread. Enjoy!

If you need help with shopping, a transfer station run, TP or something else, please call the Cavendish Town Office, M-F from 9-5 226-7291 or 7292.

2. WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING

• Gov. Phil Scott has appointed a new task force charged with opening businesses and getting people back to work. The governor says the state will determine its own timeline for reopening, despite what President Donald Trump says.

• Special enrollment period for uninsured Vermonters extended to May 15

• Lieutenant governor calls for new guidance to reopen farmers markets

• Thousands of Vermonters still waiting on unemployment checks

• The VT Folklife Center Listening in Place Project focuses on three responses to the COVID-19 emergency: the creation of a crowd-sourced Sound Archive to document our daily experiences during the pandemic, a series of online Virtual Story Circles, where Vermonters can gather remotely to listen and share during these challenging times, and Show Us Your Masks! a project to document homemade face masks created by Vermonters. Learn more

• While the Green Mountain National Forest is open, visitors are being asked to protect themselves, others, and avoid environmental impacts by not using soft trails and following the guidelines below:

• Avoid visiting the forest if you are sick.

• Follow the CDC guidance for cloth masks and social distancing of six feet apart.

• Dogs need to be on a leash and close to you.

• Be cautious and choose low-risk activities to avoid injury.

• Stay out of closed areas and check www.fs.usda.gov/main/gmfl/home to see if your destination is open before you visit.

• What ever you bring in take out.

• Use the restroom before or after your visit to the forest. Unmanaged waste creates a health hazard for our employees and for other visitors.

• If an area is crowded, look for a less occupied location or return at a later time. Consider avoiding the forest during high-use periods.

2. SANITY BREAK: No Knead Bread: This is my version, which differs in that I don’t do a second rise. Yields one 1 1/2 pound loaf

3 cups all-purpose or bread flour, more for dusting

1⁄4 teaspoon instant yeast

11⁄4 teaspoons salt

Cornmeal .

1. In a large bowl combine flour, yeast and salt. Add 1 5/8 cups cold water, (a little over a cup and a half) and stir until blended; dough will be shaggy and sticky. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let dough rest at least 12 hours, preferably about 18, at warm room temperature, about 70 degrees. Can leave as long as 24 hours as the longer it rises the better the flavor.

2. Dough is ready when its surface is dotted with bubbles.  

3. At least a half-hour before dough is ready, heat oven to 450 degrees. Put a 6- to 8-quart heavy covered pot in oven as it heats.

4. Remove pot from oven and sprinkle bottom of pot with cornmeal. Then add the dough from the bowl to the pot, scraping down the sides. Shake pan once or twice if dough is unevenly distributed; it will straighten out as it bakes.

5. Cover with lid and bake 30 minutes, then remove lid and bake another 15 to 30 minutes, until loaf is beautifully browned.

Cool on a rack.  

3.. UPCOMING EVENTS: Go to dgBody Works  for classes that are being posted via Facebook live. Take a new one, do an old one. Stay fit and healthy.

April 16 (Thursday): GMUSD board meeting, 6 pm via Zoom. See the agenda for zoom instructions.

April 17 (Friday): Proctorsville Volunteer Fire Department is hosting a community solidarity event at 8 pm. Come together to show your support for Cavendish Citizens working the frontlines at area hospitals, nursing homes and rescue squads. We are asking for the community to join us with your vehicle (do not get out) by parking along Main Street, at CTES or around Svec Park in Proctorsville on Friday April 17th at 8pm. At that time we will have our apparatus outside with emergency lights activated, and will do a one minute blast on the building siren. We ask that at that time you join in with your car horn and lots of cheering from your vehicle. If you live on Main Street or close by please participate from your yard. If you walk to Main Street, please remain with your household members 6ft or more away from others and don’t forget your mask. Let’s come together and let our local healthcare professionals know that we are proud of them and appreciate everything they do for us.

Staying home for Patty, Bob Kirkbride, Singletons, Dave Norton, Deb Hryckiewicz, Ludlow Ambulance Service and the Cavendish Water/Waste Water Treatment Team, Rocky and the Cavendish Transfer Station Crew, Cavendish Town Crew, Mt. Ascutney Hospital, Cavendish/Proctorsville firefighters & first responders, Mack Molding employees, and Shaw’s Ludlow employees.

Have a Heart -stay home or 6 feet apart wearing a cloth mask or scarf.  

                        Stay healthy to protect yourself and Cavendish.

IF YOU READ THIS PLEASE HELP SUPPORT CAVENDISH CONNECTS

Cavendish Update 4/13/20: Internet/Stay Home Extended

Cathy missed her sons and her hairdresser. Jane Hart

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4/13/20

1.    Internet Survey (Knapp Pond/Lower Tarbell Hill area)

2.    What’s Been Happening

3.    Sanity Break

4.    Events

We’re staying home today for Mack Molding employees, who are working to supply much needed medical equipment to combat Covid-19.

So now that the Governor has extended the state of emergency to May 15, which includes the “Stay at Home” order, we gotta talk about Covid-15. No, this isn’t a new type of virus, it’s the 15 pounds that you’ll gain if you spend hours at the computer, watching TV and eating a lot of food you don’t need. Take lots of breaks and move.

 Also, the supply chain is just fine so no need to buy up all the paper products “just in case.” Given that a number of people already have a “case,” please be respectful that others also need to wipe. For those who do find they are running short, let us know and we can drop off what you need.

According to the state’s Covid-19 Team, we are on good footing as we head into what they anticipate will be the peak period, late April-early May. That noted, if people do not continue to be vigilant about staying at home, standing 6 feet apart and wearing cloth coverings, we could easily see that flip and be in terrible straights very quickly. As it is, the estimates are that between 1,000-5,000 Vermonters will become infected and less then 100 will die by the end of May. Yesterday saw the fewest new cases (16), since March 8, which is a good sign. The quicker we get to no new cases, the sooner the state will “turn on the spigot,” letting various groups return to work.

As we’ve seen with the prison outbreak, many become infected and don’t know it. While a lot of people will do okay with it, particularly children, it can be easily transmitted, resulting in devastating effects on those with pre-existing conditions (some of whom may not know they have one), those over 60 and even babies and toddlers. 

If you need help with shopping, a transfer station run, TP or something else, please call the Cavendish Town Office, M-F from 9-5 226-7291 or 7292.

1. INTERNET SURVEY (KNAPP POND/LOWER TARBELL AREA): We are working with the state to improve Internet speeds for those living in the Knapp Pond, lower Tarbell Hill area. They do have stop gap measures that can be used such as a COW (cell on wheels). In order to understand where to place equipment, we need to hear from people who live in that area. Please send an e-mail to cavendishconnects@gmail.com and include your street address, what you are using for Internet and issues you may be experiencing. We want to get that information to the state ASAP.

2. WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING

• The Panic Mechanic: UVM researchers have developed an app to help get a handle on panic attacks using biofeedback. It’s available for $19.99 for iTunes now and will be available for other phones the end of May.

• School budgets vulnerable as state revenues plummet

• Unemployment Insurance: File Your Claim Based on Your Last Name; The Dept. of Labor has started an alphabetized system for receiving calls and taking claims. Anyone can call on Sunday and Friday. Monday is A-E, Tuesday F-L; Wednesday M-R and Thursday S-Z. The phone number is 800-983-2300. Click here for more:

• Vermont DMV Launches Online License Renewals

• Effective immediately: Motor vehicle inspections due in April 2020 have been extended for 60 days.

• Copley Hospital offers test for Covid-19 immunity: Copley Hospital has rolled out a new test that can identify people who have developed Covid-19 antibodies. 

• No, You Don't Need To Disinfect Your Groceries. But Here's How To Shop Safely

• Vt. officials warn to keep an eye out for ticks

3. SANITY BREAK: Keep in mind that humans were designed to handle adversity. This is nothing new. Take 18 minutes and watch Lucy Hone's TED Talk. In a nut shell, through her own story of incredible loss, even armed with an extensive background in resiliency-she trained under the father of positive psychology, Martin Seligman-Hone found that while intentions were good, people were basically trying to turn her into a victim.  Instead, Hone took a different approach, one largely discussed by the ancient Stoic philosophers, embraced today by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and being proven by the ever expanding field of neuroscience.

4.. UPCOMING EVENTS: Go to dgBody Works  for classes that are being posted via Facebook live. Take a new one, do an old one. Stay fit and healthy.

April 13 (Monday): Cavendish Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm via Zoom (conference call available). For agenda and directions click here.

April 16 (Thursday): GMUSD board meeting, 6 pm via Zoom. See the agenda for zoom instructions.

April 17 (Friday): Proctorsville Volunteer Fire Department is hosting a community solidarity event at 8 pm. Come together to show your support for Cavendish Citizens working the frontlines at area hospitals, nursing homes and rescue squads. We are asking for the community to join us with your vehicle (do not get out) by parking along Main Street, at CTES or around Svec Park in Proctorsville on Friday April 17th at 8pm. At that time we will have our apparatus outside with emergency lights activated, and will do a one minute blast on the building siren. We ask that at that time you join in with your car horn and lots of cheering from your vehicle. If you live on Main Street or close by please participate from your yard. If you walk to Main Street, please remain with your household members 6ft or more away from others and don’t forget your mask. Let’s come together and let our local healthcare professionals know that we are proud of them and appreciate everything they do for us.

Staying home for Patty, Bob Kirkbride, Singletons, Dave Norton, Deb Hryckiewicz, Ludlow Ambulance Service and the Cavendish Water/Waste Water Treatment Team, Rocky and the Cavendish Transfer Station Crew, Cavendish Town Crew, Mt. Ascutney Hospital, Cavendish/Proctorsville firefighters & first responders and Mack Molding employees.

Have a Heart -stay home or 6 feet apart wearing a cloth mask or scarf.  

                        Stay healthy to protect yourself and Cavendish.

IF YOU READ THIS PLEASE HELP SUPPORT CAVENDISH CONNECTS