As it fairly often does, Hartford stumbled into a hornet’s nest of controversy last month, this time over a display of American flags along a main route leading into town. And as it also often does, by talking things through the town seems to have.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION The $5 million overhaul of White River Junction’s downtown water and sewage system continues this summer, ripping up roads and sidewalks to dissect the infrastructure below and rebuild the utilities to modern standards..
HARTFORD Days before the country’s pause to celebrate the Fourth of July, residents held an emotional debate over the symbolism of the American flag at the town Selectboard meeting, following a board member’s online post that set off a social media.
Early on during Hartford Selectboard meetings, the seven members are each given a few minutes to talk about whatever is on their minds.At the most recent meeting on June 14, Kim Souza, the board’s longest-serving member, used her time to set off.
To borrow a sentence from the irresistible cookbook and children’s book author Ann Hodgman, I’m embarrassed to write something about a catalog for an art show I haven’t gone to see, but not so embarrassed that I’m not going to write it anyway.Hodgman.