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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BELLOWS FALLS — After months of on-again, off-again discussion, the town of Rockingham and the village of Bellows Falls have told the Vermont Agency of Transportation “no thanks” to its driverless car experiment. The automatic car project would have allowed a private company to come in and use local roads to test the vehicles. In Vermont, only the town of Springfield has signed up for the experiment, and now with the Rockingham-Bellows Falls rejection, only the town of Alburgh has expressed interest, state officials said. Du...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BELLOWS FALLS — The Rockingham Select Board and Bellows Falls Village Trustees took their first steps Tuesday evening to address the financial mess left behind by former Finance Director Shannon Burbela. At the suggestion of Municipal Manager Scott Pickup, the two boards, meeting jointly Tuesday evening, established a new finance committee to work with Pickup on the financial issues, as well as find a new finance director. Pickup said the town and village needed to “re-establish baseline credibility.” The town and village ha...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BELLOWS FALLS — The town of Rockingham and the village of Bellows Falls have “parted company” with its finance director, Shannon Burbela, after a critical audit report and other examination found numerous problems and deficiencies in the village and town’s books dating back to 2019. Burbela’s last day was June 14, according to Municipal Manager Scott Pickup. She was paid about $76,000 a year from the town, village and the village’s water and sewer departments, according to Bellows Falls Village President Debor...

WESTMINSTER — On a 6-1 vote, the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union approved a 1.5 percent wage increase for its unionized teaching staff for the school year that is ending in

BELLOWS FALLS — Citing short staffing in the Bellows Falls Police Department, village officials have postponed making a decision on a request from Great River Hydro LLC that the police