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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 things stay the same. Change, if not turmoil, has been a constant for Rockingham and Bellows Falls ...

Don't 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 the largest percentage increase we’ve had. It didn’t look right,” he said. The curre...

Don't 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. Fox, who was present at Tuesday night’s meeting, heard plenty of praise from the trustees who w...

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 couldn't afford the cost. "usually, if i had to go, i'd have to borrow the money," she told msnbc. "but most of the time, i didn't go." thanks to the affordable care act, she was able to enroll this ...

But while the politics of this year have been dicey, the year's 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 couldn't afford the cost. "usually, if i had to go, i'd have to borrow the money," she told msnbc. "but most of the time, i didn't go."...