Randolph company gets $5 million for extreme cold system project in Hanover
Modified: 5/19/2021 10:58:38 PM
HANOVER A Randolph company is getting more than $5 million for a Hanover-based U.S. Army Corps of Engineers research project examining the effects of extreme cold on different kinds of roadways and airstrips.
The U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover is providing the funding to Applied Research Associates of Randolph. It’s part of a $9 million contract to develop and install a transportation loading system at the frost effects research facility at the CRREL site on Route 10 in Hanover.
The system, which won’t be fully operational until 2023, will be designed to simulate the passage of tens of thousands of vehicles in a 24-hour period to demonstrate how different pavements stand up to heavy usage at freezing temperatures.
Chandler Center, Bridgewater Community Center get grants
Modified: 3/12/2021 9:36:40 PM
RANDOLPH The Chandler Center for the Arts and the Bridgewater Community Center were among nine projects in rural communities to win funding from the Preservation Trust of Vermont, the group announced Friday.
The Chandler Center in Randolph is receiving $50,000 for a revitalization grant, and the Bridgewater Community Center, located at the former Bridgewater Village School, won $100,000 to help convert the building to a child care and community center.
Grants overall totaled $625,000 and also were awarded to projects in Addison, Athens, East Calais, Elmore, Hyde Park, Montgomery and Vernon.
The money will be used for structural repairs, renovations, roof replacements and other related work on the projects.
Randolph-area coalition plans for child care center off I-89
Hannah Nadeau, lead preschool teacher, hands out forest pencils to Mackenzie Gadwah, 5, right, and her classmates at the Orange County Parent Child Center, in Tunbridge, Vt., so they can draw and write in the snow Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Nadeau said there were only three days the class did not spend time outdoors on the playground or in their outdoor classroom due to bad weather over the winter. The center will administer a new childcare center licensed for at least 80 children that is planned to open in Randolph, Vt., in 2022. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Town Meeting preview: Randolph to decide on ‘opt-in’ for retail cannabis
Published: 2/25/2021 10:05:45 PM
Modified: 2/25/2021 10:08:47 PM
Hot topic: Randolph voters will decide whether to allow cannabis dispensaries in town when the sale of recreational amounts of marijuana becomes legal in Vermont next year. A new state law requires towns to “opt in” if they want to have such shops.
Budget: Total General Fund spending is slated to increase by less than $6,000, to $3.26 million. Highway Fund spending is increasing by about $114,000, to $1.98 million. If all town spending is approved, the municipal tax rate is expected to increase by 3.7 cents per $100 of assessed value, to just under 83 cents.
Vermont Pride Theater kicks off last production
The Raggedy And poet Jennifer Lord (upper left) makes a surprise announcement overheard by her wife Andra Kisler, upper right, son Peter Ruiz, lower left, and Inaugural Committee member Pedro González, lower right. Photograph courtesy of Vermont Pride Theater
Modified: 1/27/2021 9:57:16 PM
RANDOLPH When Vermont Pride Theater at Chandler, an outreach program of the Randolph-based Chandler Center for the Arts, began a decade ago, its founders’ mission was simple: to amplify the voices of LGBTQ folks both on stage and in the community.
“For these 10 years we’ve been focusing on ways to have LGBTQ people appear as regular people in the theater,” said Pride Theater producer Sharon Rives. “They have issues with their families, they have issues with the communities and it gives a chance for the rest of the community to see that they are ‘just like us,’ quote unquote.”