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BELLOWS FALLS â 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 âcommunity projectâ as they are being called. The deadline for such requests is in early April.
The town and village are hoping that the renewed federal funding program, and the emphasis by the new Biden administration on repairing the nationâs infrastructure, means that there will finally be some action on the bridge, which was closed by the state of New Hampshire 12 years ago because of the bridgeâs deteriorating condition.
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BELLOWS FALLS â 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 âcommunity projectâ as they are being called. The deadline for such requests is in early April.
The town and village are hoping that the renewed federal funding program, and the emphasis by the new Biden administration on repairing the nationâs infrastructure, means that there will finally be some action on the bridge, which was closed by the state of New Hampshire 12 years ago because of the bridgeâs deteriorating condition.
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BELLOWS FALLS â Village President Deborah Wright wants Bellows Falls voters to consider the issue of whether to allow a retail cannabis store in the village, and at the same time consider a local option sales tax to take advantage.
Wright made the suggestion this week to the Bellows Falls Village Board of Trustees. Wright said she wanted voters to take up the issue later this year during the annual village meeting in May.
âI want us to have the option and to talk about it,â said Wright, noting she hadnât made up her mind on the issue. âWe should talk about it.â