To the editor: Silence is not the choice Chester’s Select Board and school board should have made

To the editor: Silence is not the choice Chester’s Select Board and school board should have made

In a town meeting, you don’t expect silence to be the loudest thing in the room. Yet at our most recent Chester Select Board meeting, you could have heard the proverbial pin drop. At this meeting, our Select Board’s duty was to review candidates and provide their endorsement of a candidate, to then be considered for appointment by the board of the Green Mountain Unified School District. Two candidates were presented:  a decades-long Chester resi…