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For three months, the Chamber board discussed remaining politically neutral versus supporting the local LGBTQ community, possible liability, and concerns of retaliation and backlash.

PUTNEY—Do voters here want a larger Selectboard? To find out, a petition to include an article on the March 1 Annual Town Meeting warrant to increase the Selectboard from three to five members is being circulated and signed. Vermont statute states a town may vote at an annual ...

May 11, 2021 Kaye Ray, 76, of Fort Dodge, IA went to her heavenly home on Thursday, May 6th, 2021, at home surrounded by her loving family after a long battle with cancer. Visitation will be from 4:00 to 7:00 pm, Friday May 14th, at Laufersweiler Funeral Home. Celebration of life will be held at 11 am on Saturday, May 15th, at First United Methodist Church in Fort Dodge with Pastor Andrea Kraushaar officiating. Entombment will follow in the Chapel of Peace Mausoleum at North Lawn Cemetery. Surv...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   PUTNEY — Two relative newcomers to Putney are vying to land the open seat on the Putney Select Board. Aileen Chute and Charles Raubicheck had both applied for the seat last fall, when the board was filling a vacancy created by the resignation of then-Chairwoman Laura Chapman in September. Instead, the two remaining board members chose Bara MacNeill, who chose not to run for the three-year term. Chute, 46, moved to Putney in 2017 from New...