Bellows Falls News

Focusing on improvements that could be made to an east-west rail corridor may be the best way for Amherst to keep its railroad station open if efforts to bring the Amtrak Vermonter closer to the Connecticut River are successful.

MONTPELIER -- State grants will go to several Vermont communities to rehabilitate dilapidated housing.

The school board in Rockingham, Vt., wants to tie afterschool extracurricular activities to academic performance.

Brattleboro Police are still looking for a registered sex offender who has failed to check in with the department since last week.

The northeastern bulrush knows about survival. The rare, slender plant, which is a federally endangered species, is found in pockets around wetlands in the Northeast.

Two fugitives from justice were apprehended by Bellows Falls Police, Monday, after the police department received information from the Barron County Sheriff's Department in Wisconsin that two alleged sex offenders were living in the town.

MONTPELIER -- This week the Department of Mental Health queried every hospital in the state and Dartmouth Hitchcock in Lebanon, N.H., about their interest in providing psychiatric acute care services that would replace care now provided at the Vermont State Hospital -- which state officials want to close.

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns plans to preview his six-part TV series about America's national parks Wednesday in Vermont.

A New Hampshire woman is facing charges she embezzled money from a Bellows Falls bank.

A special local preview of Ken Burns' new documentary series, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," with remarks by Burns and co-producer Dayton Duncan, will be presented on Wednesday, July 1, at 7 p.m., at the Bellows Falls Opera House.

On Saturday June 27, the Louisiana Saturday Night dance party returns to Boccelli's on the Canal, in beautiful downtown Bellows Falls, with the Lil' Orphans Special Blend, Langdon NH's own Cajun-Creole dance band.

Given proper treatement, guitars are one of them. Local musician Steve Chipman, who has opened for Red Molly and Mark Errelli at Boccelli's in Bellows Falls, began as a guitar player, and, over time, developed a love for repairing the instrument as well.

ACCUSED: Nicholas Moll AGE: 18 CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Bellows Falls, VT. ACCUSED: Male Juvenile AGE: 16 CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Athens, VT.

Yellow Barn Music Festival will open its 40th anniversary season this summer with a bang, as its Big Barn concert hall in Putney rocks with the sounds of the Brooklyn-based percussion ensemble, So Percussion, a well known quartet of young men who enjoy hitting things - drums, glockenspiels, toy pianos, coffee cups, metal pipes and more.

Three people were arraigned in Windham District Court Monday in connection with five recent robberies in Brattleboro and Athens.

Four southern Vermont residents, including three juveniles, are facing charges they stole firearms from a Dummerston residence.

A Townshend landmark, surrounded by Sycamore trees, Harmonyville Store reopened Thursday, June 4, with two fresh faces behind the counter.

VEHICLE #1 OPERATOR: Cody J Carr AGE:20 SEAT BELT? Y CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE:95 Atkinson St Bellows Falls Vt DESCRIPTION OF VEHICLE: 04 GMC 2500 pickup DAMAGE TO VEHICLE: Extensive VEHICLE #2 OPERATOR: Michael J Paterson AGE: 47 SEAT BELT? Y CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE:PO box 25 Lebanon NH DESCRIPTION OF VEHICLE: 05 Peterbilt tractor trailer DAMAGE ...

Every year, the Bellows Falls High School Alumni Association honors a person who has done great service for area schools and community by naming that person Grand Marshal.

Police in Bellows Falls found a 3-year-old girl wandering around a local playground on Wednesday for more than an hour by herself.