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Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BELLOWS FALLS — Village President Deborah Wright wants Bellows Falls voters to consider the issue of whether to allow a retail cannabis store in the village, and at the same time consider a local option sales tax to take advantage. Wright made the suggestion this week to the Bellows Falls Village Board of Trustees. Wright said she wanted voters to take up the issue later this year during the annual village meeting in May. “I want us...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BELLOWS FALLS — Rockingham residents will have plenty of choice for the three open seats on the Rockingham Select Board at Town Meeting in March. With Select Board members Gaetano Putignano and Ben Masure not seeking re-election, more than a half dozen people have filed for a seat, with most of the candidates filing for both the open three-year seat and one of the two, one-year seats. Such a strategy is legal, Vermont election officials ...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   WESTMINSTER — The Bellows Falls Union High School Board narrowly approved a proposed budget for the 2021-22 school year Monday night that shows a 2 percent decrease over the current budget. But three school directors almost defeated the budget with their insistence that the board know what the actual impact will be on taxpayers before the budget is approved. On a 4-3 vote, the board approved the proposed $7,502,808 million budget, which ...

Dolores Wilson Finney Speight WILLIAMSBURG — Dolores Wilson Finney Speight, 78, was escorted by angels to her heavenly home Friday, Jan. 1, 2021, surrounded by her husband, children and grandchildren. She is survived by her husband of 59 years, William “Bill” Speight; children, Michael (Diana), Stephen (Angie), Jeffrey (Gina), Deborah Wright (Chris) and Angela Warren (Wayne); 14 grandchildren, two step-grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren with one on the way, along with six step-great...

BELLOWS FALLS — The future has never been brighter in Bellows Falls, literally. But despite the bright holiday lights recently installed in the trees on The Square in downtown Bellows Falls, there’s been plenty of turmoil and change beneath the bright surface, and not all of it because of the coronavirus pandemic. The French have a proverb that could be an unofficial motto for Rockingham and Bellows Falls: Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose: The more things change, the more...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   WESTMINSTER — Members of the Bellows Falls Union High School board got their first look at the proposed 2021-22 school budget of $8.8 million and its 11 percent potential increase. Flora Pagan, the business manager for the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union, outlined the budget and its areas of major increases: special education is up 63 percent, she said. Director Jack Bryar of Grafton said that increase in special education “was ...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BELLOWS FALLS — Gary Fox’s ears must have been burning Tuesday night, when the Bellows Falls Village Board of Trustees heaped praise on the work he was doing for the village and the town of Rockingham. But that praise didn’t translate into immediate financial support to turn Fox’s three-quarters job as development director for Rockingham into a full-time position, with financial support from the village of Bellows Falls. F...

Coming to a close with millions of americans who have been condemned to the anxiety and cruelty and uncertainty of life without health insurance start getting it, and for many, it will be their first time. msnbc.com, for example, reporting back in october about kentuckian deborah wright, who struggled for 30 years to take care of herself without health insurance. she avoided the doctor because she couldnt afford the cost. "usually, if i had to go, id have to borrow the money," she told msnbc. "b...

But while the politics of this year have been dicey, the years coming to a close with millions of americans who have been condemned to the anxiety and cruelty and uncertainty of life without health insurance start getting it, and for many, it will be their first time. msnbc.com, for example, reporting back in october about kentuckian deborah wright, who struggled for 30 years to take care of herself without health insurance. she avoided the doctor because she couldnt afford the cost. "usually, i...