A Greenfield man was sentenced to probation earlier this month after pleading guilty to possessing an unregistered firearm in February. The charge stemmed from the man detonating a homemade car bomb in his neighbor’s unoccupied vehicle in December.
After weeks without an explanation of the town’s recent staffing changes, a group of Bennington residents managed to break the ice with town officials during a Select Board meeting Tuesday night. However, Select Board members were unable to answer.
Antrim’s retiring Police Chief Scott Lester thanked the community for their help and cooperation during his tenure in a retirement ceremony at Town Hall Monday night, at which town officials, residents, and fellow officers gathered to express their.
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Published: 5/25/2021 11:12:31 AM
Incoming SMS principal Tim Conway has the unusual distinction of having worked at each of ConVal’s 11 schools over his 13 years in the school district. The experience gave Conway a good understanding of what his students experienced in elementary school, and what they need when they finish eighth grade in order to succeed in high school, he said, after serving as a traveling PE teacher in the elementary schools, teaching wellness at the high school, and most recently serving as assistant principal at SMS.
As principal, he wants to push students and faculty towards their full potential, and have students and their parents feel proud of their time at SMS. That’s not so different from what he used to do as a coach for ConVal and Bedford, bringing baseball teams to state and national tournaments in addition to coaching basketball and football. “I feel like coaching really prepared me for where I am now,” he said, get
Francestown town line post with rocks stacked on top. Staff Photo by Abbe Hamilton
Published: 5/25/2021 11:13:58 AM
The Francestown Fire Department extinguished a fire that destroyed a lawnmower and a shed on Dennison Pond Road on Saturday.
First responders were summoned to the scene at 1:31 p.m., after a landowner’s lawnmower caught fire while they were working on it, Fire Chief Larry Kullgren said. The fire spread to an eight-by-ten-foot shed, in which fuel was being stored, he said. Although dispatchers summoned mutual aid agencies due to the nature of the incident, Francestown firefighters were first on the scene and were able to get it under control in about fifteen minutes, Kullgren said. The situation was ruled an accident, he said.