NEWFANE-There was a time when the 1825 jail house in Newfane would house up to...
BRATTLEBORO-Selectboard members are proceeding with caution about if and how the town might step up...
MARLBORO-As a longtime volunteer and chair of the town's new cemetery commission, Marcia Hamilton annually...
BELLOWS FALLS-In one of three contested races, Paul Obuchowski won his bid for Village Trustees...
Two energy companies that own hydroelectric facilities on the Connecticut River have filed their final revised license applications with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Great River Hydro (formerly TransCanada), owners of the Wilder, Bellows Falls, and Vernon dams, filed its application with FERC on Dec. 7. FirstLight Power, a subsidiary of ArcLight Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Boston, owns the Northfield Mountain pumped storage project and the Turners Falls dam, both in Massachusetts. FirstLight filed its...
Windham & Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) is bringing Mavis Staples and her band to the Bellows Falls Opera House on Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. At 75, this Grammy Award-winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer has been going strong for six decades. She's been described as the solid rock of American music. From the Delta-inflected gospel sound to her series of soul anthems, Staples and her band have been performing around the world, dipping into the wider world...
At the very first public forum about the proposed detention center, I asked Sheriff Keith Clark if he would continue with his plans to build it in our town if it was against the wishes of the community. I asked him this question at both the beginning and end of the meeting, and both times he answered that he would not continue without community support. The community has spoken loudly and clearly with a 4–1 vote against the center.
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