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Conflict resolution does not work when addressing bullies, John Halligan asserts.
“Why?” he asked his audience in the auditorium of the Bellows Falls Union High School.
“Because the bully will say whatever [the mediator] wants to hear,” one student replied.
“Yes,” Halligan agreed. “The bully enjoys the power he is given in that situation and, essentially, is not being held accountable. And the victim knows it will probably get worse once they walk out of the office.”...
The Town Manager committee received notice last Friday that Dale L. Martin, of Linden, Mich., to whom the committee had offered the town manager position, had declined the offer. Selectboard and committee member Ann DiBernardo said that Martin e-mailed the committee with the news, and his reason for turning...
“I've always wanted to own this place,” said Sue Bouley of Charlestown, N.H. Bouley's dream has come true as she and Wayne Stone of Athens are now the new owners of the historic Miss Bellows Falls diner at 90 Rockingham St. Bouley had worked at the diner in the...
The details of a $10.5 million renovation plan for the Bellows Falls Middle School were presented to residents at a public meeting last Thursday at the school. Following a vote at the 2010 Town Meeting to allocate $20,000 for a study, the Rockingham School Board Renovation Committee and Black River Design, a Montpelier-based consulting firm, spent a year coming up with a plan for the future of the 1926 school building. Committee chair Michel Harty led the meeting and, along...
Forums arranged and moderated by local resident Pat Fowler have given candidates for the Trustees of Rockingham Free Public Library, the Rockingham and Bellows Falls Union High School board, and the Selectboard a chance to go before the public with their election platforms. One forum was held Saturday. A second forum will be held Feb. 23 at 5:30 p.m. at Falls Area Community Television studios at One Hospital Court for candidates who did not attend the first one. In the...
The Windham Development Group, LLC has two new investors and is seeing the light at the end of the tunnel in re-opening the Hotel Windham restaurant this spring, group member Tony Elliot said. Elliot said that Patricia A. Fowler and Alan Fowler, co-owners of the Village Square Bookstore, are the newest investors in the project, along with Erik Leo, Jay Eshelman, and himself. “[The Fowlers] offered to get involved when the former restaurant tenants backed out,” Elliot said. “As anchor...
The Board of Trustees has heard back from a consulting engineer called in by Bellows Falls' public works wastewater management chief operator Robert Wheeler, following complaints in The Square of escaping sewer gas infiltrating businesses late last month. Tim Powers of Powers Insurance at 35 The Square told the board on Jan. 25 that several businesses were affected and some employees had to go home as a result. The board was asked to call in an engineer to conduct an...
Outgoing Windham Northeast Supervisory Union Superintendent Johanna Harpster said the district has reached an agreement following the objection of the Grafton/Athens and BFUHS school boards over wording and lack of discretionary option regarding a new requirement to provide truancy reports to the state Department of Children and Families (DCF). The boards had objected to the “one size fits all” approach to truancy developed by Vermont Commissioner of Education Armando Vilaseca. According to state law, school attendance is compulsory in Vermont...
