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Dummerston board supports Route 30 turning lanes

Wednesday, January 2, 2013 — Issue 184

Board to support turn lanes

DUMMERSTON — DUMMERSTON- The Selectboard has voted unanimously to submit to the Windham Regional Commission a letter in support of two turning lanes on Route 30.

Lew Sorenson, the town's representative to the commission, made the request at the Dec. 26 Selectboard meeting.

Last month, Sorenson warned board members of the dangers of not having a turn lane on the northbound side of Route 30 at the Green Iron Bridge, as well as on the southbound lane at the Covered Bridge at East-West Road [“Dummerston Selectboard warned of Route 30 dangers,” Dec. 5].

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Landscape architecture students look at Route 30 with fresh eyes

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 — Issue 763

NEWFANE-The students of the senior capstone landscape architecture studio of the UMass-Amherst Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (LARP) Department will present designs focused on the Route 30/West River Valley corridor. The public is invited to drop by to meet the students and to view and discuss their designs at the Union Hall in Newfane Village from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 1. The Windham Regional Commission (WRC) invited LARP faculty Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Carolina Aragón and...

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Voices

Lucy Terry Prince could not have witnessed massacre

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Heidi Mario
Wednesday, July 21, 2021 — Issue 622

Thank you to Shanta Lee Gander for her interesting column regarding Lucy Terry Prince. There does seem to be a some confusion, however, regarding the history behind Prince's poem “Bars Fight.” Ms. Gander states that Prince was a “bearer of witness” of the “famed Deerfield Massacre.” The Deerfield Massacre occurred in 1704 when French and Native American forces assaulted the settlement of Deerfield, Mass., killing 47 villagers and taking 112 as captives. Lucy Prince was born around 1730. The Bars...

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Arts

Cellista brings her theatrical stage poem and aerial cello performance to NECCA

Wednesday, January 24, 2024 — Issue 749

Elégie, the theatrical stage poem and the accompanying album by Cellista, comes out on Saturday, March 23. On Thursday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m., Cellista presents a workshop/recital of Elégie at New England Center for Circus Arts' (NECCA) "Big Studio " at the Cotton Mill, Room A-354. Tickets are $10 general admission, $5 for working artists and youths under 12, and are available at necenterforcircusarts.org. In signature Cellista style, organizers say, Elégie "defies standard categorization." The one-hour stage poem follows...

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