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ROCKINGHAM Historian William Hosley will present âWhere Art and History Meet â Rockingham Meeting House Burying Groundâ from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 9. This is the fourth in a series of talks sponsored by the Rockingham Historic Preservation Commission in partnership with the Rockingham Free Public Library. The free lecture will be via Zoom.
Part of the Rockingham Meeting House National Historic Landmark, the graveyard has burials going back to the time of the American Revolution and includes the original town tomb. Many of the older headstones were crafted by the Moses Wright family of stone carvers who settled on farms to the north of Rockingham Village in the 1790s. Migrating north along the Connecticut River Valley, the Wright family brought with them older Puritan style headstone motifs but with variation that led Hosley and other scholars to identify a distinctive Rockingham School, the last phase of i
BELLOWS FALLS The Rockingham Free Public Library will be hosting the Annual Book Sale for the public beginning Tuesday, June 1, and continuing through the month. Since the library
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Windham - The Windham and Windsor County chapters of University of Vermont Extension Master Gardeners will host a free Zoom presentation on April 24 on pruning fruiting plants.
Lee Reich, Ph.D., a horticultural consultant and writer, will describe correct and timely pruning methods for apples, peaches, grapes, blueberries and other fruiting plants to keep them healthy, productive and bearing the tastiest fruits. He also will demonstrate how to a restore a neglected plant through proper pruning.
The session, which will run from 9 to 10:30 a.m., is being offered in collaboration with the Rockingham Free Public Library. It is open to all interested gardeners or homeowners in Vermont and neighboring states. To register, go to https://go.uvm.edu/fruit-plant-pruning.
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Gaetano Putignano, chairman of the Rockingham Select Board, and others participate in the Rockingham Town Meeting at the Bellows Falls Opera House, in Bellows Falls, Vt., on Monday, March 1, 2021.
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Deb Wright listens to people speaking during the Rockingham Town Meeting at the Bellows Falls Opera House Monday night.
Kristopher Radder, Brattleboro Reformer
Doug MacPhee, of Rockingham, addresses the Select Board during the Rockingham Town Meeting at the Bellows Falls Opera House Monday night.
Kristopher Radder, Brattleboro Reformer
Rockingham hosted the Rockingham Town Meeting at the Bellows Falls Opera House, in Bellows Falls, Vt., on Monday, March 1, 2021.
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BELLOWS FALLS â The Rockingham Select Board has decided to hold both a Zoom and in-person Town Meeting in March.
The board also approved the warning for the 2021 Town Meeting Tuesday night, adopting a proposed town budget of $6 million, which town officials said was level-funded over last yearâs budget. Of the $6,021,089 town budget, $5,122,944 has to be raised locally.
As a result, town taxes are projected to see a small decline from the current tax year, according to the townâs finance director, Shannon Burbela. She said there had been a slight increase in the townâs grand list of taxable properties. The proposed tax rate is $1.0903, down 0.0087 of a cent.