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Four of a kind turned out to be a winning hand in Rockingham.
A slate of four candidates for the Rockingham Free Public Library - Town Clerk Doreen Aldrich, physician Carol Blackwood, retired pastor David Gould, and attorney Ray Massucco - who ran under the banner of “Trustees You Can Trust” were all elected on Tuesday.
Gould ran unopposed for a two-year seat on the RFPL board and receieved 793 votes.
The other three bested Trustee Vice Chair Deborah Wright as they claimed the three remaining seats, all three-year terms.
Three of the five candidates for Selectboard squared off Monday over a range of issues, from their background and experience, to the Bartonsville Bridge, to the perennial question of a merger between the Village of Bellows Falls and the Town of Rockingham. Incumbents Tom MacPhee and Susan Hammond, and...
After nearly a month of seeking and interviewing candidates to replace Célina Houlné, the terminated director of the Rockingham Free Public Library, the search committee has returned to the library's board of trustees without a recommendation. At a Feb. 25 special trustees' meeting, the board voted 7 to 1...
The town of Rockingham has filed a lawsuit against architectural firm Sheerr McCrystal Palson Architecture, Inc. (SMP), seeking $535,000 in damages over lack of a performance and payment bond with construction manager Baybutt Construction during last year's Rockingham Free Public Library (RFPL) renovation project. Baybutt declared bankruptcy last spring. Without the performance and payment bond in place, subcontractors were left unpaid, and the project stood unfinished and “open to the elements.” The town of Rockingham assumed the RFPL Trustees' responsibility...
The Bellows Falls Trustees gave the go-ahead to resubmit a bond to voters that would fix and upgrade a large portion of the existing water delivery system within the Village limits at a cost of $8.2 million. All improvements were identified and prioritized in a March 2012 report that was reviewed and approved by the state. This cost of the bond will not be paid by taxes, but rather would raise household water costs for a $100,000 home from $47.31...
The attorney representing the former director of the Rockingham Free Public Library said that he has filed an injunction to halt any further action by the library's search committee to hire a new director to replace Célina Houlné. Houlné's lawyer, Richard Bowen, told The Commons on Tuesday that he expected the injunction would be “filed today and served either later today or first thing tomorrow.” Houlné, who was terminated last August, has already filed suit against the library trustees and...
A process that uses ultraviolet (UV) light instead of chlorine chemicals to treat wastewater before it enters the Saxtons River is being considered as the least expensive option for the village's treatment plant upgrade. About 250 Saxtons River households, plus Vermont Academy, use the wastewater treatment system, which has been online since the early 1970s. Experts say the facility needs to be either upgraded or replaced. An evaluation of the plant in 2007 found the plant to be nearing the...
Lauren Rose Herlocker speaks of how this year she is going to a small village in Rwanda to help a woman and her family build a house on the 20th anniversary of the genocide in that African nation. Herlocker and her husband, Daniel, whom she married in 2010, left the U.S. on Jan. 10 to travel overland from Ethiopia to Rwanda, arriving in Rugerero Village on or around April 18. The Herlockers both work as nurses at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital.
