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Employees’ union files workforce safety complaint over excessive heat at Springfield prison
Prison staff were hospitalized after experiencing heat stroke symptoms, the union’s leader said. Read the story on VTDigger here: Employees’ union files workforce safety complaint over excessive heat at Springfield prison.
Best of Vermont Summer Festival 2024
LUDLOW, Vt. – The Okemo Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce new additions and returning favorites for their fourth annual Best of Vermont Summer Festival, which celebrates everything about summer in Vermont. New this year, the Best of Vermont Summer Festival will be bringing you an...
A patchwork of local groups support Vermonters still displaced from flooding
Furniture and personal belongings lie outside a home in Weston on July 15, 2023, after severe flooding hit the town earlier that week. File photo by Zachary P. Stephens/VTDigger. This is Part 4 of Downstream, a 10-part series looking at what’s changed — and what hasn’t — one year after...
Rockingham Old Home Days seeks vendors
BELLOWS FALLS, Vt. – Rockingham Old Home Days will be held at the Waypoint Center, 17 Depot Street, Bellows Falls, Vt., on Aug. 3, from 1-9:30 p.m. Vendor spaces are available now. Email info@gfrcc.org or debra.gfrcc@gmail.com, or call 802-463-4280 for a vendor registration form and more details. Reservations and payments must be received by July 24.
Ludlow Fire Chief Peter Kolenda retires after 25 years of service
LUDLOW, Vt. – Retiring Ludlow Fire Chief Peter Kolenda waved as he exited the Ludlow Fire Station on Sunday, June 30, at 12 p.m. Kolenda was being honored with a boisterous “escort home,” sirens blaring and lights flashing in celebration of the chief’s last day on the job. Kolenda recently announced his retirement from the department, after serving the town for 25 years.
Valley Cares to change name to Valley Village
TOWNSHEND, Vt. – A local senior housing nonprofit, Valley Cares, is announcing momentous plans to change its organizational name to Valley Village. This organization in Townshend, Vt., opened its housing in 2007 to provide affordable assisted living and independent living for seniors. Their community is unique in combining a model of subsidized affordable housing with a continuum of supportive healthcare services to help people age in place with others.
Chester Summer Music Series schedule
CHESTER, Vt. – We are thrilled to announce the upcoming 2024 Chester Summer Music Series. Once again, families, friends, and visitors will gather on the academy lawn to enjoy the music of Vermont’s finest musicians and the warmth of Chester’s hospitality. This year, our rain venue will be the restored Upstairs @ Town Hall, at 556 Elm Street. All concerts start at 6:30 p.m. and go until 8 p.m. Concerts are free and open to the public. Feel free to bring lawn chairs, blankets and picnic to your heart’s content.
Ludlow talks class 4 roads, FEMA frustrations
LUDLOW, Vt. – On Monday, July 1, the Ludlow Selectboard met for their regular monthly meeting, covering a range of ongoing issues. Municipal manager Brendan McNamara began the meeting by noting that the previous day had been Ludlow Fire Chief Peter Kolenda’s last day on the job, and thanking him for his 25 years of service. New Ludlow Fire Chief Ben Whalen, Ludlow’s first full-time fire chief, was present at the meeting.
“North Woods” book discussion at Rockingham Library
BELLOWS FALLS, Vt. – Pick up a copy of “North Woods” by Daniel Mason at Rockingham Library’s front desk today. Then join the discussion on Thursday, Aug. 1, at 6 p.m. “North Woods” is a sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries – “a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic,” says The Washington Post. Its author is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of “The Piano Turner” and “The Winter Soldier.” The Boston Globe, NPR, Kirkus Reviews, and Chicago Public Library chose “North Woods” as the 2023 Best Book of the Year. It was also starred as Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review. For more information about this book discussion, email programming@rockinghamlibrary.org, call the Library at 802-463-4270, or go to www.rockinghamlibrary.org.
Ludlow community reflects on historic floods one year later
LUDLOW, Vt. — The ski town of Ludlow is still contending with the Black River overwhelming much of the lower-lying parts of town in July of 2023. As the year anniversary closes in, many residents are still deciding if they should accept buyouts from FEMA or raise their houses higher off the ground as a mitigation measure.
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