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WSESD Board Meeting Minutes – June 25, 2024
REGULAR BOARD MEETING – 6 PM. Anne Beekman (AB ), Tim Maciel (TM), Ruby McAdoo (RM), Shaun Murphy (SM), Eva Nolan (EN), Kim Price (KP), Brian Remer (BR), Colleen Savage (CS) Matt Schibley (MS), Deborah Stanford (DS) WSESD staff and administration present Frank Rucker, Kerry Amidon, Brin Tucker. Others...
Londonderry receives seven planning commission resignations
LONDONDERRY, Vt. – The July 1 selectboard meeting opened with announcements, one of which was from town administrator Shane O’Keefe, stating they had received $487,087 in reimbursements from FEMA, adding, “I think we’re well ahead of most other towns.”. Board chair Tom Cavanagh moved on to...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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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