The Town of Clarendon, Vermont

Tax rate for fiscal year 2025 which covers July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025 FY25 Tax Rates    FY 25 comparison

November 5th is right around the corner! Here are a few bits of information regarding absentee ballots…. The Secretary of State’s Office of Vermont will be mailing absentee ballots to all registered voters. If you were registered to vote by 9/9, you will receive an absentee ballot to the mailing address in your voter registration. If you registered to vote or changed your mailing address after 9/9, please reach out to the Clerk’s Office  so we can issue you an absentee ballot once they arrive. You may be required to sign an Affidavit of No Ballot Cast. (see below) Absentee Ballots were mailed by the Secretary of State's office on October 1st. If you do not see your absentee ballot by mid-October, please contact the Clerk’s Office. You may return your ballot by mail, or drop it off at the clerk’s office, or show up on November 5th to deliver it in person or put it in the tabulator. You may vote in person two ways: 1 (preferred): you can bring your ballot to the polls and use it to...

Clarendon Dog Registrations due April 1, 2024.  All dogs six months of age must be licensed annually and a current rabies certificate must be provided at the time of licensing. The fees are: Spayed Females and Neutered Males: $13.00; Females and Males Intact: $17.00. The late fees added after April 1st are: Spayed Females and Neutered Males: $3.00; Females and Males Intact: $5.00. The Town Clerk hours are Monday through Thursday 10am - 4pm.  If you cannot come to the office, you may send the rabies certificate, a check payable to 'Town of Clarendon' and a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Clarendon Town Clerk, PO Box 30, Clarendon VT 05759. To remove the name of a previously licensed dog, please call 775-4274 ext. 1.

TOWN OF CLARENDON    Appointed vacancies The Clarendon Select Board is looking for interested candidates to appoint to the following committees/positions: Planning Commission 1 vacancy                                                         Term expires 3/26Rec Committee  3 vacancies                                                                 Term expires  3/25Zoning Board of Adjustment  2 vacancies                                           Terms expire 3/26 & 3/25Rutland Regional Planning Commission 1 Alternate vacancy          Term expires 6/25 If you’re interested in serving on any of these committees, please send a letter of interest with contact info to the Select Board’s administrative assistant at clarendonadmasst@comcast.net.Any questions please contact the Select Board at clarendonadmasst@comcast.net or 802-775-4274 ext. 3. *As of November 28, 2023

The Clarendon 2023 Annual Town report covering Fiscal Year July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. Town Report 2023

For more info, contact Artie Hetzel 802-236-0061 or Patty Bartlett 802-342-0434.  

Here is a list of Clarendon’s House and Senate Representatives

FIREWORKS PERMIT REQUESTS: To comply with 20 V.S.A. §3132: Application for permits shall be made to the chief of the fire department, or in municipalities with no fire department, the select board, in writing, at least 15 days in advance of the date of the display. After the permit has been granted, sales, possessions, use, and distribution of fireworks for the display shall be lawful for that purpose only. No permit granted under this section shall be transferable. Fireworks Permit application FIREWORKS PERMITTING PROCESS The Clarendon Fire Dept. no longer issues firework permits, the Select Board does. Please plan your firework displays accordingly, and note that the Select Board meets every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month. Thus, firework permit requests must be submitted to the Select Board’s Administrative Assistant 15 days prior to the date of the display, and in conjunction with when the Board meets, for them to approve the permits. Please fill out the required information on...

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE CEMETERIES OF CLARENDON, VT For the mutual protection of the lot owners and the cemeteries as a whole, the following rules and regulations have been adopted by the Clarendon Selectboard and pertain to all lot owners and visitors within the cemeteries.  All lots shall be subject to said rules and regulations and, subject further to such other rules and regulations, amendments or alterations as adopted by the Clarendon Selectboard from time to time.  For the purpose of these rules and regulations, the term Clarendon Cemeteries pertains to those cemeteries under the control of the Town of Clarendon Selectboard being Clarendon Flats, West Clarendon, Spafford and Old Marsh. SECTION I.  DEFINITIONS  *    Cemetery.  A "cemetery" is town lands set aside and intended to be             used for the burial or permanent disposition of the remains of the human dead in a grave, mausoleum, a columbarium, a vault or other receptacle. 18 V.S.A. 5302 *    Lot.  The term...

Here is a picture of the beautiful clock. Thank you to Richard Weeks for delivering his grandparents clock! Here is a picture of the plaque that reads ‘In loving memory of Amherst and Rachel Weeks by their children and grand children. September 2019’.