Community Information : Woodstock Almanac
Town Offices: Woodstock Town Hall, 31 The Green, Woodstock, Vt. 05091
Town Clerk: Jerome R. Morgan, 457-3611
Hours: Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-noon, 1-4:30 p.m.
Treasurer/Tax Collector: F. Allen McGee, 457-3456
Selectboard: John D. Doten, Jr. (chairman), 457-2781; Roy Bates, 457-2288; John Wetmore, 457-2828 (meets first and third Tuesdays of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Town Hall)
Manager: Philip B. Swanson, 457-3456
Hours : Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-noon, 1-4:30 p.m.
Listers: Charolotte Cleveland; Tambrey Vutech, 457-3607; Nancy Staples
Hours : Monday-Thursday 8:30-11:30 a.m.
Health Officer: Lanie Edson, 457-3456
Delinquent Tax Collector: Philip B. Swanson
Moderator: Bruce Gould
Highways: 457-2233
First Constable: Paul West, 457-2337
Fire Chief/Fire Warden : L.D. Sutherland Jr., 457-2337
Planning Commission: Wade Treadway, Paul Feldstein, Alan Willard, Sally Miller, Bruce Gould, Joseph Dinatale, Marilyn Spaulding, Paul Fenton (meets second and fourth Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. at the Town Hall)
Zoning Board of Adjustment: Franklin Billings (chairman), Ted Keith, Charlotte Cleveland, Emo Chynoweth, Suzanne Leiter (meets fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall)
Village Zoning Board: Jane Soule (chairwoman), Eric Watson, John Waldo
Village Design Review Board: Chris Miller, George Lynch, Don Olson, Michael Schmell, Gail Stickney
South Woodstock Design Review Board: Charles Humpstone, Bill Luth, Lyman Shove
Planning and Zoning Office: Michael Brands, 457-3456
Conservation Commission: Lea Kachadorian (co-chair), Andrew Cook (co-chair), Philip Frizzell, Byron Quinn, Otis Robinson, Steve Carter, James Johnson, Nick Heyniger, Allyson Beck (meets third Wednesday at Town Hall)
Woodstock Village Board of Trustees: Rob Wallace (chairman), Michael Ricci (vice chairman), Gay Travers, David Murison, Joyce Shaw (meet on the fourth Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the town hall.)
Norman Williams Public Library: 10 The Green, 457-2295; Katherine Ludwig (librarian)
Summer hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Tuesday also 7-9 p.m.; Wednesday, 1-9 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Winter hours: Monday, Thursday, Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Tuesday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m.; Wednesday, 1-9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
School Directors/Elementary School: Marian Koetsier (chairwoman), 457-3258; Charles Peterson; Deborah Stanglin (meets first Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Woodstock Elementary School)
Woodstock Union High School Directors : Thomas Debevoise, 457-1639; Tom Bourne Jr., 457-1074; Jay Leiter (From other towns in the district: Leonard Brown, 763-8555; Debra Amato, 457-4461; Rachel Benoit, 484-9191; William Berry Jr., 672-3429; Kevin Griffin, 457-4705; Denise Coriell, 422-4415; H. Standish Hanks, 484-5902; Charles Gaede, 422-9455; Christopher Kennedy, 763-7322; Sheryl Phelps, 672-3538; Julia Brennan (secretary), 484-9468) (meets second Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Rhoda Teagle Library in 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
Year incorporated or chartered: 1761
Land area: 45 square miles
Percent private and public conserved lands: 9.2%
Population:
2000: 3,232
1990: 3,212
Number of families: 877
Average family size: 2.79
Income :
Per capita: $28,326
Median family income: $57,330
Median household income: $47,143
Employment:
Percent of residents working in community: 60.2%
Unemployment rate: 1.4%
Top 5 industries in which residents work: Retail trade, Personal services, Educational services, Other professional, related services , Finance, insurance, real estate
Housing Units:
Owner occupied: 960
Renter occupied: 428
Vacant: 387
2001 Equalized tax rate: $1.54*
Full-time police dept.: Yes
Full-time fire dept.: No
Public schools:
Elementary: 1; enrollment: 206
Middle-junior high: 1; enrollment: 240
High school: 1; enrollment: 509
Billings Farm & Museum: Features exhibits of 19th-century Vermont farming, including a restored and furnished 1890 farmhouse and working dairy farm. Open May-October; (802) 457-2355.
Vermont Institute Of Natural Science And Raptor Center: A nonprofit, statewide educational and environmental research resource center. There's a natural history library and a 77-acre nature preserve with self-guided nature trails, bird banding, lectures and trips. The Vermont Raptor Center is a living museum and rehabilitation facility for more than 40 birds of prey. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. year round, except closed on Sundays during the winter. (802) 457-2779.
Pentangle Council On The Arts: Presents music, theater, dance, family events and movies in the Wood-stock Town Hall Theater, a 400-seat historic theater renovated in 1988.
The Little Theater , an intimate, 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. (802) 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. Exhibits and a lecture series. Open May-October, Monday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. (802) 457-1822.
