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BELLOWS FALLS â The historic Rockingham Town Hall clock tower, which presides over the downtown Square in Bellows Falls, needs some illuminating help of its own.
Town Manager Scott Pickup said Friday that the lighting of some of the four faces of the clock tower was fading and work would start in early January to make the town clock more visible.
âItâs not as bright as it should be,â he said. âThe face of the clock has issues.â
Pickup said the 1926 clock tower has a unique lighting system, but that at least one side of the clock tower is not very well illuminated currently.
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BELLOWS FALLS â Some members of the Rockingham Select Board had sharp criticism for the Rockingham Free Public Library Tuesday for not saving more money during the coronavirus pandemic shutdown.
Library Director Celina Houlne outlined the libraryâs budget request for the coming fiscal year; the library is independent of the Select Board, and it gets its funding by a direct Town Meeting appropriation.
Houlne said the proposed budget was level funded at $428,286, with a town appropriation of $379,200. She said the library currently has a $8,600 shortfall, which she hopes to erase with fundraising and the libraryâs annual book sale, once it resumes.
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BELLOWS FALLS â An appeal by the owners of a house at 1 Center Street of a health order from the town of Rockingham because of a rodent infestation never got off the ground this week because of the threat of exposure to the coronavirus by one of the owners.
The Rockingham Board of Health, which is made up of the Rockingham Select Board, had convened Wednesday evening to hear the appeal by Lindsay and Courtney Van Schoick of Claremont, N.H., a father and daughter who own the house at 1 Center Street.