4.9% of families and 7.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.6% of those under age 18 and 2.6% of those age 65 or over. Parks and recreation The Appalachian Trail runs through Salisbury. Mount Riga State Park is located in Salisbury. Sports The Salisbury Winter Sports Association hosts ski jumping competitions at its Satre Hill venue in Salisbury. It has hosted United States Eastern Ski Jumping Championships each February since 1952. The well-known automobile racing course of Lime Rock Park is in the southeast corner of Salisbury. Government Salisbury has an open town meeting form of government, with three selectmen. Education Salisbury is a member of Regional School District 01, which also serves the towns of Canaan, Cornwall, Kent, North Canaan, and Sharon. Public school students attend Salisbury Central School (grades K–8), and Housatonic Valley Regional High School, which is in Falls Village. There are also three boarding schools in the town, Salisbury School and Hotchkiss School, both high schools, and Indian Mountain School, Pre-K through grade 9. Media The community is served by a weekly newspaper, The Lakeville Journal. The Salisbury Sampler is a 10-issue-per-year newsletter of community events, notices and news edited by the office of the Selectmen and mailed to all households. The Salisbury Association publishes a bi-annual newsletter covering the land trust, historical and civic committees news and activities. It is mailed to all households. Infrastructure Transportation U.S. Route 44 is the main east–west highway in the town, while Connecticut Route 41 is the main north–south highway. US 44 leads northeast to North Canaan and southwest to Millerton, New York. Route 41 leads south to Sharon and north to Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Connecticut Route 112 runs diagonally, northwest to southeast, and connects with U.S. Route 7, which runs north–south parallel to the Housatonic River. Notable people Ethan Allen (1738–1789), owned a blast furnace in Lakeville in the 1760s Charles B. Andrews (1834–1902), Governor of Connecticut (1878–1881) William Henry Barnum (1818–1889), congressman and US senator, longest-serving chairman of the U.S. Democratic Committee, president of Barnum & Richardson Company, lived in Lime Rock Daniel Chipman (1765–1850), congressman from Vermont Nathaniel Chipman (1752–1843), US senator from Vermont and Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Martin Chittenden (1763–1840), seventh governor of Vermont (1813–1815); born in Salisbury Thomas Chittenden (1730–1797), first governor of Vermont Jill Clayburgh (1944–2010), Academy Award-nominated actress; lived and died in Lakeville Maurice