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The trustees of the library called a special meeting Sept. 23 to discuss David Gould's resignation from the chairmanship.
Gould noted for the record that Hope Brissette had chosen to sit in the audience instead of with the rest of the board.
The former, embattled chair, Jan Mitchell-Love, voiced her objection to the meeting, saying it violated open meeting laws because Gould had not sent out the agenda himself.
Town Clerk and board secretary Doreen Aldrich told Mitchell-Love that she had contacted Brian Leven, the deputy secretary of state, and he said there was no violation when Gould asked Library Director Célina Houlné to send out the agenda.
The Rockingham Selectboard and Bellows Falls Trustees have opted to maintain the summer schedule of monthly meetings for the foreseeable future. The boards will meet on the first and second Tuesdays of the month, respectively. Special meetings will be called as needed. Here are the boards' August and September...
There is no pretty way to tell Jedediah Popp's story of humiliation, pain, and a shameless need, which led to his breaking the law, two brushes with death with overdoses, and incarceration before he was able to stay clean for very long. Today, Popp mentors recovering addicts at Turning...
The afternoon of Aug. 28, 2011, saw the rampaging, flood-swollen Williams River rip the Bartonsville Covered Bridge from its abutments and send it “sailing like an ark” (as a key eyewitness describes it) before it came to rest in a field downsteam. As a testament to covered-bridge craftsmanship, not even that rambunctious, wild ride down the river was enough to destroy it. The town-lattice bridge was found lying gracefully on its side in a field, in good-enough condition that rebuilding...
Windham-4 state Reps. David Deen, D-Westminster, and Mike Mrowicki, D-Putney, are running unopposed for re-election. Deen and Mrowicki represent the towns of Westminster, Putney, and Dummerston in the House. Both incumbents say they are proud of the work done in the past session to protect children from chemicals that could harm them, to push ahead on health care reform, to support a renewable green energy future, and to keep Vermont's economy moving forward. Deen, a fishing guide when he's not...
While the four-way race for the Democratic Primary for state senate is getting all the attention, there is one other contested primary on the Aug. 26 ballot in Windham County. The Democrats have a three-way race for Windham County assistant judge as incumbents Patty Duff of Brattleboro, who was elected to her second four-year term in 2010, and Lamont Barnett of Rockingham, who has served since being appointed in 2012, face a challenge from newcomer Paul “PK” Kane. Alice Landsman...
Rockingham Old Home Days follows a popular tradition in New England rooted in it's earliest European settlements, with “pilgrimages” calling former residents home to where their families settled and they were raised. That tradition continues with a few twists. According to Frances and Leverett Lovell's History of the Town of Rockingham, Vermont: Including the villages of Bellows Falls, Saxtons River, Rockingham, Cambridgeport and Bartonsville, 1907-1957, the first “return of the natives” of former Rockingham residents took place atop Meeting House...
The Selectboard set tax rates July 1 for fiscal year 2015. Members voted to set a town tax rate of 0.8983 and accept an education tax rates of $1.5600 per $100 of assessed value for residential property and $1.4560 for non-residential property, as provided by the Vermont Department of Taxes. Municipal Manager Willis “Chip” Stearns III told the board that financing for two highway vehicles amounted to $350,000, with $15,000 coming out of the budget. Members approved financing $350,000 for...
