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A ‘hugely emotional issue’

The prospect of consolidating the complex system of town and village governments into one administrative operation and one tax base under one entity - the town of Rockingham - has created a wave of extremely hostile and emotional responses. In the wake of a cancelled Dec. 3 agenda item for a “Plan of Merger” discussion at the joint meeting of the Rockingham Selectboard and the Bellows Falls Village Trustees, a spate of emails from irate village residents last week -

Our banana republic

Sometimes I see Cuban history everywhere I look. Sometimes, lately, I just see Cuba. This wet-paper blur on the sidewalk, between a Starbucks and the post office, looks a lot like Cuba in more ways than one. It sits there, with concrete oceans for borders, withstanding assaults from the heavy shoes of predatory capitalists, yet it survives. I take a snapshot of wet-paper Cuba, and later, in a cab, I recall the picture and imagine that it could not have...

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