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Don't 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 to have the option and to talk about it,” said Wright, noting she hadn’t made up her min...

Don't 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 have said in the past, but successful candidates may only hold one seat. Among the candidates are t...

Don't 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 Principal Christopher Hodsden said is a two percent decrease over the current budget of $7.655,000....

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-grandchildren; and sisters, Mary Krummell (Charlie), Sharon Hundley (Jim) and Kathryn Newsom (the l...