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Citing a need to gather more data, Stiles Brook wind-farm developer Iberdrola Renewables has filed a motion to keep its meteorological (MET) towers operating for three years beyond Dec. 20, when its current Certificate of Public Good (CPG) expires.
The July 7 filing, which seeks to amend and extend the CPG for the towers, installed in 2012, came as a surprise to residents who attended an informational meeting called by Meadowsend Timberland Limited, LLC, (MTL) and Iberdrola Renewables - the property owner and prospective developer, respectively - on July 6 at Grafton Ponds.
When the Grafton Village Store closed late this spring, it left residents high and dry, with no choice but to drive 20 minutes to one of the surrounding towns for basic needs. But at a small gathering of concerned residents at the Grafton Tavern last week, Windham Foundation's CEO...
Town garage project update GRAFTON - At this year's annual town meeting, voters approved auctioning the original town garage, and the property it sits on, for no less than 85 percent of its appraised value of $93,500. Williams said the documentation for the sale of the old town garage...
Rockingham deals with Act 148 ROCKINGHAM - Act 148, the state food waste recycling law, moved one step closer to full implementation on July 1, with the second of five phase-ins leading to residential food recycling in 2020. The rules introduce a statewide pricing structure that requires residential trash be charged based on volume or weight. They also ban recyclables from landfills and require transfer stations and drop-off facilities to accept leaf and yard debris. Residential haulers must now offer...
Two key positions in town government are being vacated come July. Town Clerk Doreen Aldrich announced she was retiring as of Wednesday, and Zoning Administrator Ellen Howard is also stepping down, as of July 11. Together, the two public officials will take 60-odd years of knowledge of the town's innermost workings with them. Adrich's long career began in 1988, when she was hired as an assistant to then-Town Clerk Rita Bruce. In 1995, Aldrich was appointed town clerk. As town...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is entering its third year of the six year process for re-licensing five hydroelectric facilities along the Connecticut River, in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. TransCanada owns the Wilder, Bellows Falls, and Vernon projects to the north; while FirstLight Hydro Generating Company owns the Turners Falls and Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage in Massachusetts. It is a complicated process along a river that shares interstate boundaries and involves New Hampshire's Connecticut River Valley Resource Commission...
With the return of warm weather, Dari Joy's parking lot is busy with customers from the Greater Falls area far into the evenings. But after dark, the restaurant's second-generation owner, Richard “Richie” DeMuzio, has seen a notable drop-off of customers after dark - a loss that, he says, has come in the aftermath of the destruction of his illuminated sign by a town snowplow in February. “People think we're closed, and drive on by,” DeMuzio said. The town's insurer, Vermont...
Nestled in what used to be a crossroads of northern Windham County is an irony of sorts that has been playing out for more than 35 years. Unbeknownst to all but a few insiders, Susan Hadden has been quietly and, for the most part, without acclaim, living and finding expression – oscillating between two seemingly disparate areas of deep passion and interest. Hadden is the owner and co-founder of the Vermont Museum of Mining and Minerals, at 55 Pleasant St.
