TOWNSHEND — The truth can be ugly, and I was saddened to hear of this horrific deed, murder most foul.
In the short 13 months since I have lived in Townshend, there has been a drug overdose death of a mother who leaves behind two small children.
There also was a senseless murder/suicide of a young couple.
Olga Peters: Keep up the good reporting, and welcome to Townshend.
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Even as Vermont Yankee administrators continue to struggle with a groundwater problem, swimming pools are no longer part of the solution. At a March 9 press conference updating the Vernon nuclear plant's decommissioning process, officials said they've stopped using commercially available swimming pools to store contaminated groundwater that has seeped into the turbine building. The pools were “a prudent and cost-effective near-term way of storing the water,” said Joe Lynch, Vermont Yankee's government affairs manager. But he added that such...
I am so looking forward to voting on Town Meeting day, March 4, in Bellows Falls. I will be filling in those little ballot bubbles and casting my vote for the new slate of trustees running for the Rockingham Free Public Library: Doreen Aldrich, Carol Blackwood, David Gould, and Ray Massucco are the names to remember. Finally, a way for the community to be heard. “Trustees You Can Trust” is their campaign slogan, and it sure rings true. I hope...
Brooks Memorial Library has mounted a new display just outside the Children's Room. Presenting the work of Bellows Falls author and artist C.W. Norris-Brown, the two 6-foot-by-3-foot cases explore, through images and text, the process of writing and illustrating his children's book, Did Tiger Take the Rain?, published by Green Writers Press of Brattleboro. Norris-Brown's academic background is in anthropology. Postdoctoral work took him from India to Borneo, Appalachia, and Canada, focusing on people of the forests and their place...
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