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Staff, council share Windsor Town Hall design preferences
Members of the Windsor town staff and Windsor Town Council gathered Monday, June 17, to review revised floor plans for a new municipal building that were recently provided by Moseley Architects. Staff and council members shared their design preferences among the three different floor plan options provided, and they also shared new design ideas developed […] The post Staff, council share Windsor Town Hall design preferences appeared first on The Tidewater News.
White River Junction celebrates the opening of 42 affordable apartments
New apartments help address workforce housing challenges in Upper Valley. On Wednesday, June 26, the White River Junction community celebrated the official grand opening of 42 new affordable apartments downtown with a ribbon cutting and an apartment tour. The apartments, named Riverwalk Apartments, were developed by DEW Braverman with an agreement to sell the building to Twin Pines Housing and Evernorth who will ensure the apartments will remain affordable forever.
Decision pending for student protesters arrested in October
On July 2, the Lebanon District Court held a hearing for Roan Wade ’25 and Kevin Engel ’27, two student protesters arrested on misdemeanor criminal trespass charges in October. Wade and Engel filed a motion for the College to drop their charges on May 10, according to Engel.
State employees’ union files safety complaint over hot conditions at Southern State Correctional Facility
A workplace safety complaint filed last month says multiple employees at Southern State Correctional Facility have raised concerns about heat in the facility, and at least one staffer was hospitalized for heat stroke. The Vermont State Employees' Association, which represents prison staffers, filed a complaint with the Vermont Occupational Safety...
After a year, Shaw’s reopens in Ludlow
The flood of July 2023 devastated many local communities; among them Ludlow suffered greatly. Now, nearly a year later, Shaw’s supermarket celebrated it grand reopening Friday, June 28, at 9 a.m. at it’s downtown store located at 213 Main Street. Having lost all its inventory and sustained significant damage the parking lot, which has been eerily empty for 11 months was full to capacity, with many residents, town officials, Shaw’s employees, and members of the Okemo Valley Chamber of Commerce in attendance for the ribbon cutting ceremony — and for the reopened shopping.
WTSA NEWS FOR FRIDAY JULY 5th 2024
Vermont Sen. Peter Welch and Rep. Becca Balint returned to hard-hit areas in Ludlow, urging continued resilience and promises to push for more federal help after the flooding cost Vermonters more than a billion dollars. Many stores near the ski resort recently reopened for the first time since the July flooding, but a recent report found that FEMA spent nearly $80 million in administrative fees while only distributing about $43 million to flood survivors.
Welch, Balint meet with flood-impacted Vermonters, small businesses in Ludlow and Londonderry
VermontBiz Nearly one year after the July 2023 floods, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Representative Becca Balint (VT-At-Large) sat down with community members and flood-impacted small businesses in Londonderry and Ludlow. Sen. Welch and Rep. Balint discussed the communities’ ongoing flood recovery efforts and work to improve flood resilience. The Vermont Delegation returned to businesses and areas in the West River Valley that they toured immediately following the flooding in Southern Vermont.
Factory Falls files license application for 125 kW Gilman Dam Hydroelectric
Factory Falls Inc. has filed a license application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the 125 kW Gilman Dam Hydroelectric Project (P-9650) in Vermont. The project is located on the Black River in the city of Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont. The existing FERC license was issued in July 1986 and expires on June 30, 2026.
Understanding How Our Boards Work
The Village Design Review Board is a recommendation only board responsible for reviewing all design review proposals for the Village of Woodstock Design Review District. The Village Design Review Board is a recommendation board that assists the Village Development Review Board. The Village Design Review Board meets at 4:00 P.M. in the conference room at Town Hall on the first and third Wednesday of the month. The Village Design Review Board consists of five volunteers that have knowledge and interest in design, architecture, landscape architecture, graphic design, historic preservation or historic development of the community. Appointments are made by the Village Board of Trustees for three year terms.
Route 4 road project to continue into October
A substantial culvert restoration project that began one month ago along Route 4 in the eastern end of Woodstock will continue through the summer months and into the fall. A temporary bypass road is now in place and motorists should expect periodic delays, with flaggers stopping traffic to allow trucks to enter and exit the job site, according to a statement from the Vermont Agency of Transportation (AOT).
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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