Windham Superior Court Judge John Wesley has sided with the town of Rockingham in a lawsuit against TransCanada, affirming the Grand List valuations set in 2012, 2013, and 2014 for the utility's hydroelectric facility. “The Court finds that the Town has produced sufficient reliable evidence of its fair market value assessment of the Bellows Falls hydroelectric facility at $130,000,000, yielding the value of the portion in Rockingham at $108,495,400,” Wesley wrote in the Aug. 21 court ruling. The company has...
Voters approved a resolution at this year's Annual Representative Town Meeting to allocate $15,000 to create a Town Arts Fund. This resolution came about in response to persistent concerns over the past decade expressed by members of the arts community that such a critical contributor to Brattleboro's identity as its artists and arts organizations ought to receive town support and be part of the budget. The working group that brought the proposal before Town Meeting has expanded and now includes...
BRATTLEBORO-I'm generally not a big fan of crowds - partly from being an introvert, partly from the stories these days about seemingly random shootings and people driving into throngs - but when I saw the Letter from Viv Woodland about the recent rally at the post office, I knew I had to shelve my concern and show up. And I'm very glad I did. It felt good and right to add my body and voice to the rising noise about...
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