Saxtons River News

The Rockingham Free Public Library Board of Trustees voted Saturday to close the building until the end of July after it learned its previous vote was unsatisfactory.

The Rockingham Selectboard had a 2012 bridge inspection summary explained at Tuesday's meeting by Everett Hammond of Hammond Engineering.

Though no animal has tested positive for rabies in Rockingham so far this year, the town's highway department has recently dealt with four instances of ill and disoriented animals.

On April 24, the Bellows Falls Police Department arrested Brenda M. Barbour, of Saxtons River, for driving under the influence.

Kim Bovill spent a lot of time volunteering when her teaching job at the River Valley Technical Center was eliminated due to budget cuts last year.

But on Thursday -- after entering pleas in connection with assaults last year in Bellows Falls and Saxtons River, the latter involving state troopers -- the 24-year-old declared that he is trying to turn his life around.