[1] The Chester Telegraph was launched in January 2012 by Cynthia Prairie, a veteran journalist with a background in editing and reporting in North Carolina, Chicago, Buffalo and Maryland.
[1][2] The Telegraph grew out of an earlier grant-funded project to provide information about two major bridge closures in the town, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture.
[2][3] Working on that project, she says, made her realize that Chester, and many small towns in Vermont, were in "news deserts," and that she could help fill that gap.
The Telegraph focuses on local government and accountability coverage as well as business and the economic health of these small Vermont towns.
It also covers the Two Rivers Supervisory Union, which is made up of the Green Mountain Unified School District and the Ludlow-Mt.