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Renovations at the Bellows Falls Middle School are nearly complete, but the project will take at least through January to finish, according to Windham Northeast Supervisory Union Superintendent Chris Kibbe.
The first day of school on Sept. 17 found the students “excited” and “happy,” according to the teachers interviewed.
Last-minute project delays postponed the first day of school at BFMS from Aug. 28 to this week.
“I've never seen so many kids happy to be back at school,” Afterschool Programs Director Oriann Baez said with a smile.
Food is getting scarcer, while the number of people who need food is growing, and the impact of Tropical Storm Irene added to the 86,000 Vermonters served last year by the Vermont Food Bank. This was the consensus opinion at a roundtable discussion hosted by Our Place Drop In...
If one were to go by the minutes of the public hearing held Sept. 4 to review the Charter revisions approved by the Rockingham Selectboard and Bellows Falls Village Trustees in March, nothing much occurred and no specific comments were made. The public hearing was meant to solicit feedback...
The localvore movement is finally starting to take hold. Popolo, which opened recently on the Square in Bellows Falls, is using local food - “local” defined as “within 60 miles.” The Gleanery, which will open in the fall in Putney, will feature food prepared from fruits, vegetables, and meats produced by local growers and farmers. Those restaurants are two examples of new businesses spawning along the Connecticut River Valley, including several restaurants, an old-fashioned village grocer and sundries market, and...
Over the last two years, the Rockingham Selectboard and the Bellows Falls Village Trustees have been grappling with unsafe housing issues in the village, trying to address them through fire and safety codes. In some cases, aging housing stock built during the boomtown days in the late 19th and early 20th centuries of this former mill town has not been properly maintained. The problem has been made worse by absentee landlords who have been unable to maintain these older buildings.
To start his statewide tour of towns most affected by Tropical Storm Irene on Saturday, Gov. Peter Shumlin chose the site of the former Lower Bartonsville Covered Bridge. “I came here first, because this is where it started,” he said. The Bartonsville Covered Bridge was built in 1870 and is the main link to the village of Lower Bartonsville. Record flooding on the Williams River caused by Irene on Aug. 28, 2011, swept the bridge off its abutments and carried...
The next stage of the ongoing renovations to the Rockingham Free Public Library (RFPL) have forced the library to close through Sept. 3. But patrons need not worry about going into book withdrawal or about accumulating fines during the closure. The RFPL staff has done as much as it can to make these next two weeks as painless as possible. “Because this was announced with such short notice, there may be patrons with items due during the closing, so we...
One of the oldest food co-operatives in the nation was started in Putney. In 1941, on the eve of America's entry into World War II, more and more resources were being devoted to the war effort, and growing one's own food became a necessity. Putney residents responded preemptively, and formed the Putney Co-op, making it one of the oldest co-ops in New England. Only the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society in New Hampshire, founded in 1936, is older. According to the...
