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The over-the-top media package that preceded the Treasure Hunters Roadshow's (THR) five-day blitz at the Quality Inn was designed to get attention.
A slim black box sent to The Commons, with embossed images of golden coins on the front, included a Confederate bank note and a buffalo-head nickel. Opening the lid of the media kit exposed a DVD of a “syndicated television show” and pages of information for the press and triggered a recording of a man with a British accent inviting one and all to an event much like the setting of the long-running PBS series Antiques Roadshow.
But at almost every turn, the pages of information contained in the portfolio - and documents filed in a federal lawsuit by the public television station that holds the U.S. rights for the British Antiques Roadshow franchise - contradicted the actual events on the THR's first day in town Jan. 4.
The Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, governed by the nonprofit Appraisal Foundation, establishes quality-control standards and practices for appraisers. Its ethics rule asserts that “an appraiser must perform assignments with impartiality, objectivity, and independence, and without accommodation of personal interests,” a stipulation that would preclude an appraiser from brokering the sale of an item for which he or she is establishing a value.
Sharp differences between the Leland & Gray Union High School administration and the public were highlighted last Tuesday night as the LGUHS School Board voted to accept the proposed fiscal year 2012 budget by a vote of 10-4. The budget of more than $6.3 million is nearly level-funded and...
The ballot measure to abolish Newfane's zoning bylaw was soundly defeated Monday as residents of Newfane, Williamsville, and South Newfane voted 326 to 103 to retain the land use laws adopted in 1975. A stream of more than a third of the town's 1,360 registered voters, out of a...
You might call the Calvary Chapel in West Townshend the church too tough to die. How else would you explain why the building is still standing after a runaway moving van careened down Windham Hill Road last Monday, flew across Route 30 and slammed into the ground between the chapel and the West Townshend Community Post Office and art gallery building? Ron Millette, the nondenominational Christian church's pastor and also a logger, called the forces that rocked the original 193-year-old...
They don't have a name for their organization yet, but the people involved with the West Townshend Country Store and Community Post Office - an actual U.S. Post Office with designated “community” status - finally have the beginnings of a board of directors. Clare Adams of West Townshend - an artist, teacher, farmer and driving force behind this multi-purpose and good-humored center for art, music, food, education and social networking - was unanimously elected president of the board of the...
Who knew that therapy dogs can help early-grade kids improve their reading skills? Apparently, almost everyone, from one shining shore to the other - or at least from the West River to the Great Salt Lake in Utah, where the Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.) program was launched. A convincing and charming demonstration of the canine/kid reading phenomenon took place last week at the Townshend Public Library, which sponsored the event, Paws for Reading, with the Townshend Elementary School. The...
From somewhere between the bottom line and the bottom of the heart, Grace Cottage Hospital has been dispensing health care in the West River Valley and beyond since 1949, when Carlos Otis, its first doctor, delivered its first baby, Aug. 8, the day after the then-12-bed hospital opened. More than six decades later, Grace Cottage is still devoted to providing family care as well as serving as a critical-access hospital - and planning for its future with a new medical...
“I felt they had an earnest need for music, a way to have their spirits lifted.” That's what musician, farm manager, butcher, husband and father Brian Bousquet said is the inspiration behind his newly formed charity “Music For Our Vets.” The group will hold a fundraising concert - “Free Music for Veterans!” - with the help of Wardsboro Congregational Yoked Parish, its pastor, Peter Carlson, and parishioners at Wardsboro Town Hall on Sunday, Nov. 14, from 7 p.m. to 9...
