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Friday on his way to the reopening of the Brooks House in Brattleboro, Congressman Peter Welch stopped in North Hartland to visit with the employees of the North Hartland Tool Corporation. The custom tool design and manufacturing plant is located in the old North Hartland train depot. Operations Manager, Ron Aldrich has worked with the company for thirty years. He grew up just down the road and worked at the plant during high school, summers home from college and eventually as a full time employee, working his way up to Operations Manager. The North Hartland site has about 45 full time employees and there are plants located in Barnet VT and in Connecticut and Maine-each providing a specific type of manufacturing. North Hartland specialized in fixtures and gauges for jet engines. They offer a one stop shopping experience for their clients from design to product testing and shipment. Currently they are focusing on jet engines parts that will provide the industry a more fuel eff...

Rehearsals have begun in earnest for Pentangle Arts Council’s amateur production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat", lyrics by Tim Rice with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The play will run the weekends of Oct 24 and Nov 1 at Woodstock Town Hall Theatre. Call 802-457-3981 or visit http://pentanglearts.org/joseph-dreamcoat/ for more information. This is a Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors that comes to vibrant life in this delightful musical parable. Joseph, his father’s favorite son, is a boy blessed with prophetic dreams. When he is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers and taken to Egypt, Joseph endures a series of adventures in which his spirit and humanity are continually challenged. As time passes and he rises to fame and fortune, he encounters the brothers who betrayed him. Will he seek revenge or reconciliation? A variety of musical styles, from country-western and calypso to rock and roll, will make this musical something...

Some pretty  AMAZING  shows are coming to the  Lebanon Opera House  in beautiful downtown Lebanon NH. Los Lonely Boys Richard Thompson Mary Chapin Carpenter  with  Tiff Merritt Todd Rundgren Steep Canyon Rangers So get out your calendars and mark down these dates! OCTOBER Tuesday Oct. 7 7:30 p.m. An Evening with Los Lonely Boys Presented by  Lebanon Opera House   TICKETS More  Photos by Nanci  Los Lonely Boys images:  http://photosbynanci.smugmug.com/LebanonOperaHouseShows/2010/Los-Lonely-Boys/ Tuesday Oct. 14 7:30 p.m. Richard Thompson Solo Acoustic Presented by  Kirschner Concerts    TICKETS VIP Package $155  TICKETS  includes: One reserved ticket located in the first 2 rows. • Exclusive meet & greet with Richard Thompson. • Personal photograph with Richard Thompson. • One autographed lyric print. • One CD (To be provided on the night of the show) + Digital down...

The 21st Annual Vermont 50 Mountain Bike or Ultra Run was held on Sunday. Over 1400 mountain bikers, 50 mile ultra runners, 50 mile relay runners and 50 K runners spent a gorgeous fall Sunday riding and running back roads and trail in and around West Windsor and Hartland. The trails cross 70 privately owned properties and many trail maintained by Ascutney Trails. The summer-like weather added to the overall success of the race. Mike Barton, White River Junction, won the race for the second year in a row with a time of 3:58:46. Woodstock's own Kirk Kardashian crossed the finish line with a time of 4:18:03. The first woman to cross was Tina Severson from Colchester CT with a time of 5:06:38. 50 miler runners came in with times of 7:15:08 by Kevin Tilton from North Conway NH and 7:52:12 by Sarah Keyes from Saranac Lake NY. Brad Arch from Woodstock crossed the finish first for the 50 K runners with a time of 3:51:12 and Kate Pallardy from New York City posted a time of 4:29:4...

Weathersfield News October 1, 2014 Nancy Nutile-McMenemy photosbynanci@comcast.net Town News Select Board Sept 15 Meeting Highlights: Solar Panels at Transfer Station . The Select Board is considering installing Solar Panels at the Town Transfer Station. Solar the incentive premium drops by $0.02 per Kw hour, which is substantial over the life of the system after December 31. The project would cover 100% of the transfer station electric bill ($1500/year). Dave Bonta estimates the cost would be $9-10,000 after the incentives of $1/watt (municipal incentive) are applied. The panels would be placed on the shed that houses the bobcat on the north side of the facility. The roof pitch and angle have a good southern exposure. There is $54,000 in the reserve fund. Pay back would be 6-7 years. Dave Fuller said he wanted more time to study the proposal. He also said that the money in the reserve fund is only supposed to be used for capping the landfill – not for capital improvement...

Renée Taylor performed her one women, 90 minute play on Saturday night as a benefit for the Vermont Volunteer Services for Animals Humane Society. Ms. Taylor and her husband Joe Bologna are long time visitors to the area. They have spent many long weekends at the home of Nancy Anderson in Barnard working on scripts and generally enjoying themselves. Ms. Anderson said the Renée and Joe tell her that next to Italy the Woodstock area is their favorite place to visit. Ms. Taylor is best know for her role on TV as Fran Drescher's Mother on "The Nanny." The performance "My Life On A Diet" was a fund raiser for Vermont Volunteer Services for Animals (VVSA) Humane Society, a non-profit based in Bridgewater that is dedicated to reducing the suffering of animals and to create social change in humans attitudes toward animals. They even have their own weekly show on public access TV-"For The Animals." For more information about VVSA check out their website: ...