Bellows Falls News

For commuters using the one-year-old Route 103 Connection Commuter Bus, the news was very good this week: the bus is alive and well and began its second year of service between Rutland, Ludlow, and Bellows Falls Nov.

The Selectboard has agreed to spend $10,000 to set up an overnight shelter for the homeless in Bellows Falls this winter.

Neil Madow Owner of # 10 Kimbell Hill Building AGE: 58 ADDRESS: 40 Industrial Drive, Bellows Falls, Vermont Tenants of # 10 Kimbell Hill SUMMARY OF INCIDENT On 11-01-2009 at approximately 2229 hours the Putney Fire Department responded to # 4 Kimbell Hill for a report of structure fire.

Little remained of the Putney General Store on Monday after a fire broke out the night before.

HALLOWEEN PARADE FRIDAY: Central Elementary School will host its annual Halloween Parade on Friday at 1:30 p.m. Students and adults, most in costumes, will start their parade on George Street, walk down Atkinson Street, to Oak Street, Church Place and back to the Central School.

The bakers at Immanuel Episcopal Church in Bellows Falls will be baking pies for Thanksgiving to raise money for the church's community outreach and Stone Church Arts.

A Bellows Falls man with a lengthy criminal record will serve a 45-day sentence at Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield after pleading guilty in Windham District Court Monday to petit larceny and retail theft.

A former interim Bellows Falls Police chief has entered into a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney's office over criminal charges accusing him of using a village credit card to gamble at Connecticut casinos in 2007.

A plan to build a new crematorium in downtown Bellows Falls is already making some people hot.

The former Bellows Falls village police chief has reached a deal with federal prosecutors over charges he embezzled village money to use at Connecticut casinos.

Local support for a proposed crematorium was hard to find Wednesday during the first public hearing on the proposed new business.

The former police chief in Bellows Falls will admit to using a village credit card to gamble.

POLISH NIGHT: The 9th annual Polish Night will be held at the Moose Family Center No.

The new pastor of the Pownal Community Church brings a background in town government, law enforcement and faith-based counseling to the small congregation.

If you're an apple pie fancier, this Columbus Day weekend could push you over the edge into ecstasy.

After more than nine years of fundraising, work is finally under way at the Rockingham Recreation Area and the pool should be completely refurbished in time for next summer.

It is my claim that our new office space, at 51 The Square in Bellows Falls, is the coolest newspaper office in at least New England, if not the whole country.

When the Article 6 Committee got together last week there was one item on the agenda: "Next steps." Now, after being turned down by the other towns in the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union to form a new union district and build a new middle school, the Rockingham School Board will have to work alone to renovate the Bellows Falls Middle School.

A Langdon, N.H., woman accused of embezzling $700,000 from her employer by writing and cashing fake checks pleaded not guilty at her arraignment Monday in U.S. District Court.

A library in Bellows Falls is taking a stand against banned books. The Rockingham Library set up a window display on Main Street in Bellows Falls to call attention to the issue of censorship.