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From serendipitous beginnings, the Exner Block has been a collaboration with the local community, other interested individuals and several Vermont organizations such as Vermont Housing and the Rockingham Area Community Land Trust (RACLT).
Robert McBride is the acknowledged visionary behind the Exner Block, at 7 Canal St., which is celebrating 10 successful years there at 3 p.m. on Oct. 7, beginning at the Rockingham Arts and Museum Project (RAMP) offices, followed by a gathering at 4 p.m. in the newly renovated Windham Hotel to listen to guest speaker Emily Wadhams.
“We wanted to recreate the ribbon cutting ceremony, show people around to see what we've done, to have some sort of celebration of our success,” McBride said with a grin.
McBride and Development Director Francis “Dutch” Walsh put together Exner's 10-year “celebration of success” and Bellows Falls Downtown Development Alliance's presentation by Wadhams, the vice president for public policy at the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
For all the importance of the subject of child sex abuse, only about 20 people showed up a Sept. 23 forum organized by Greg Brown, a member of the Windham Community Advisory Board to the State Police, and Lt. Kraig LaPorte of the Vermont State Police in Brattleboro. Working...
Saxtons River Trustees finally got to the table in August for wastewater treatment talks that began last year. They met with representatives from the Bellows Falls Trustees, as well as interim Town Manager Francis “Dutch” Walsh, to discuss their counter proposal for a possible wastewater connection pipe from the...
The Bellows Falls Trustees and Rockingham Selectboard have progressed in the search for a town manager to oversee all departments and employees, as well as do budgetary reports, negotiate contracts and report to both boards. A five-member committee of two members from each board, and Interim Town Manager and Development Director Francis “Dutch” Walsh, have met to lay out a battle plan, and hope to have a town manager in place by Jan. 1, 2011. Ann DiBernardo and Matt Trieber...
The Selectboard has learned from a consultant's report that parts of the Vilas Bridge remain reparable, and that the state of New Hampshire, which owns almost all of the historic span, plans its repairs in 2015. Interim Municipal Manager Francis “Dutch” Walsh reported to the board at its Sept. 7 meeting that the analysis from the consultant hired by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation to look into the condition of the Vilas Bridge is done. Walsh will be scheduling...
The number of worker-owned businesses are on the rise in Vermont, and according to the National Center for Employee Ownership, nearly 11,000 businesses nationwide are owned by their workers. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced two bills last December that support an alternative solution to job loss, wage cuts, and business closures both in Vermont and the nation through employee-owned business education, funding and banking. At an Aug. 26 hearing in Montpelier of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education,
Jesse Peters is a changed man after trekking on his bike with attached trailer - named “Bob” - from New Hampshire to California. He left May 17 and ended his journey Aug. 7, just a little short of the West Coast after having to stop due to a shoulder injury. Having returned home, Peters, a lifelong Vermonter from Westminster West, said he is humbly “proud of what [he] did.” Body tanned and honed, his eyes still seem to reflect long...
The Green Mountain Railroad Depot on the Island in Bellows Falls sits quietly until a freight train rumbles north on the tracks with loud clacks and clangs just outside the depot's western door. People start to wander in. At the other side of the building, freight cars await, decorated with less than the usually elaborate graffiti, for a tow to the railyard across the river in Walpole, N.H., for repairs. Two young visitors to the depot on a recent summer...
