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BELLOWS FALLS — How many bridges does the village need to cross the Bellows Falls Canal to get to The Island?

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BELLOWS FALLS -- The problem of what to do to replace the Depot Street Bridge keeps getting thornier and more expensive.  But a business leader whose business is headquartered on The Island, which is served by the failed bridge, urged the Rockingham Select Board last week to think long-term. Costs for the various options range from a high of $9.2 million to $5.2 million, with the local share ranging from $474,000 to $1.5 million. Casey Cota, president of Cota & Cota Oil, urged the board to endorse what is likely to be the most expensive o...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BELLOWS FALLS — Rockingham and Bellows Falls turned their collective eyes Tuesday night to Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., with hopes of securing an $11 million federal budget earmark to pay for the repairs for the closed Vilas Bridge. The Rockingham Select Board and the Bellows Falls Village Board of Trustees, meeting in joint session, each approved separate resolutions to Welch, formally requesting the earmark, or “community project” as they are being called. The deadline for such requests is in early April. The town and village ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BELLOWS FALLS — Rockingham and Bellows Falls turned their collective eyes Tuesday night to Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., with hopes of securing an $11 million federal budget earmark to pay for the repairs for the closed Vilas Bridge. The Rockingham Select Board and the Bellows Falls Village Board of Trustees, meeting in joint session, each approved separate resolutions to Welch, formally requesting the earmark, or “community project” as they are being called. The deadline for such requests is in early April. The town and village ...

To the editor: An open letter to New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, copied to Vermont Governor Phil Scott: I am writing this letter to once again plead for the reconstruction of the historic Vilas Bridge, as was promised by your predecessors. For reference, a Memorandum of Agreement was signed in 1994 by the NHFWA, NHDOT, NH State Historic Preservation Office, and accepted by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, as a means to preserve a historic and critical piece of infrastructure, in common use by both Vermont and New Hampshire, in exchange for the much needed removal of the Kel...