Selectboard member snags land intended for public right-of-way

Pownal still cut off from recreation area close to the Taconic Crest hiking trail because Selectboard member bought the land. File photo by Jim Therrien/VTDigger
POWNAL — Selectboard members are expressing dismay at a fellow board member’s move to snag a parcel of land the board had been planning to buy, to preserve access to a town recreation area.
Without telling his fellow board members, Ronald Bisson bought the 40-acre meadowland parcel, at the end of Snake Hill Road. The land, w