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Local chapters of Mensa, the discriminating society for smart people with high IQs, are testing across the country during October.
Windham County will play host to a Mensa test on Saturday, Oct. 23, at 1 p.m., at the Townshend Library.
Why Townshend? Because it is the home of Stephen McConnel, who is Mensa's local proctor and testing coordinator, and has been a member for more than 30 years.
Formed in 1946 in England, Mensa has more than 110,000 members, about 58,000 of them American.
As bad as the May 11 hard frost was for apple growers in Windham County, they faced a bigger problem when surviving varieties ripened two weeks early. Two such growers, Harlow Farm in Westminster and Scott Farm in Dummerston, use a combination of local part- and full-time workers, plus...
There's a move afoot to repeal Newfane's zoning bylaws. If the 87 legal voters - at least 5 percent of the town's population - who have signed a petition calling for that action can persuade the rest of the voters in this picturesque town of about 1,650 residents to...
Burglars broke into three Townshend businesses and a West Townshend Church in the early morning hours of Tuesday and Friday, Sept. 14 and 17. Vermont State Police say one business was hit twice on separate days. An unknown number of intruders, who state police say still remain at large, broke into Messenger Valley Pharmacy, 170 Grafton Rd.; Townshend Pizza, 2041 Route 30 and Mary Meyer's Big Black Bear Shop, Route 30, early Tuesday, Sept 14. State police say the intruders...
Sometimes you can't win for losing. Mike Greco, who owns and runs Milbrook Tile and Remodeling in Jamaica, was remodeling bathrooms at the River Bend Lodge in Newfane on Route 30 awhile ago when he learned the restaurant next door was out of business. So he contacted the owner, Newfane resident Nicholas Mercede, who owns both establishments, and made arrangements and, thus, Bootsy's Grille was born in early July. “Bootsy” is his father's nickname. “I thought it was catchy,” Greco said.
You know you've reached some kind of equilibrium when the president of the area Jewish community is also secretary of one of the two Rotary clubs in town. But that's Brattleboro. And that's part of what the new rabbi of the Shir HeHarim (Song of the Mountains) Congregation in West Brattleboro, Moshe Thomas Heyn, 49, finds so appealing about his new, part-time job, since July. And it's certainly what Marty Cohn, the president of the Brattleboro Area Jewish Community, says...
Margaret Miller Silvia, who maybe didn't always know what she really wanted to spend her life doing, appears to have figured it out at the age of 52. But not before graduating from high school in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and then from Hobart and William Smith colleges in upstate New York; working odd jobs around Boston; running five women's shelters in three states; and joining her carpenter husband Mark Silvia, 55, who had taken up residence as an assistant to a...
Vermont State Parks, a division of the state Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, paid the archaeology team from the University of Vermont Consulting Archaeology Program $57,779 to conduct a full scale dig on a small plot of land in the parking lot of Jamaica State Park, according to Frank Spaulding, parks project coordinator for Vermont State Parks. The dig began after a mandated historic site environmental investigation revealed ancient artifacts buried in the very same site the park was...
