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The question of the age of the former town schoolhouse came up early on in the discussion of what to do with the building and whether it had been built on its current site or moved from another location.
Sandi Capponcelli, who is spearheading the move to restore the building, has not reached a definitive answer, though she thinks the strongest evidence indicates it was built on site sometime around 1858.
Capponcelli has been trying to solve a mystery.
She scoured early documents and town maps, the oldest being McLellan's map of Windham County from 1856 and a map from the F.W. Beers Atlas of Windham County, Vermont, published in 1869.
The smell of fresh paint and the appearance of a new ceiling are the first sensory indications of improvements to the at-least-155-year-old Town Office building. The work was completed earlier this month spurred by the Town Office Volunteers, an ad hoc group formed last fall desiring to spruce up...
A second appeal to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has resulted in the agency agreeing that a box culvert, replaced after Tropical Storm Irene swept through in 2011, is eligible for additional funds under a separate disaster relief program that offers more flexibility. The staff of state and...
On the surface, bringing area artists together for a potluck and conversation doesn't sound like a big deal. To Rockingham Arts and Museum Project (RAMP) founding director Robert McBride, such gatherings are critical to the growth of the Southern Vermont arts scene. “It brings artists directly together to meet and share a meal,” he said. “The more that artists in our communities directly communicate with each other, the more empowered they become.” RAMP has been regularly putting on what they...
The message was clear: “We're in favor of renewable energy to fight climate change. But wind energy in Vermont is not worth the long-term cost (to the environment and communities), and doesn't address Vermont's highest carbon emitters: home heating and transportation.” That was Sen. Robert Hartwell, D-Bennington, speaking for himself, the two co-authors of S.30, and two anti-industrial-wind activists at an information meeting last Friday that drew approximately 60 residents of Grafton and Windham to discuss the details of S.30,
Following more than an hour of discussion on an article regarding proposed commercial wind development here, voters at Grafton's annual Town Meeting on Tuesday overwhelmingly agreed to table it “as if it never existed,” according to Moderator Bill Kearns. Many voters later said the the article struck them as unclear or ambiguous. In contrast, Article 4 passed unanimously. It allows Grafton residents to “vote on any issue regarding commercial wind energy production facility(ies) project or the regulation of such by...
On the heels of a recession and approaching its 50th anniversary this year, the Windham Foundation has instituted some changes that have raised some eyebrows, causing some to question the foundation's commitment to the town in which the nonprofit remains the largest landowner and employer. Even CEO Bob Allen acknowledges that when Grafton Village Cheese Company - owned by the foundation - moved some 35 jobs to its new cheese plant in Brattleboro in 2008, it left a sour taste...
At its Feb. 11 meeting, the Selectboard agreed to endorse the Scenic Route 100 Byway Corridor Management Plan in preparation for the Scenery Preservation Council expansion public meeting scheduled to be held in March in Londonderry. The Scenic Route 100 Byway Committee is applying to expand the Vermont Byway to run from Granville, in Addison County, to Stamford, on the Massachusetts border. Londonderry, Jamaica, Wardsboro, Stratton, Dover, Wilmington, Whitingham, and Stamford are being considered in the expansion. The Vermont Byway...
