Bunch of dumb heroin addicts who voted against an improvement to the hydroelectric damn. Worthless shithole, give it to NH.

It's really gotten kind of nice I think. A few good consumer businesses for locals/passers by, a tidy downtown area, a solid thrift shop, I think the train station is better than most (not that that's saying much but still), I think Bellows Falls might qualify as cute these days.

I can't quite remember the slogan but I saw a T shirt that said something like "Bellows Falls: Not as Bad as You Heard"

Kinda hard to call them first with a 30+ minute response time

The movie theater is great.

It’s all sensationalized hyper-partisan garbage. But unfortunately Redditors tend to love ingesting this sort of crap. So many people have absolutely no sense of historical or global perspective.

gotta love copaganda

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Joy Wah is one of the best American Chinese restaurants in the state. The bar is not high, truly, but the food's good.

I'd rather drive into Chester or Ludlow personally. Killarney in Ludlow has the best chicken wings I've ever had.

The Vermont Worker’s Relocation Incentive Program is still accepting applications and you can apply whether you intend to work remotely or you are offered a job located in Vermont. There are more applications in now though than there is money available so chances of actually getting your move covered is low.

Some violent protestor pulled a gun on police fired several rounds and subsequently found out that there are consequences.

My friends and I used to visit with the "Ponders" in high school. They were nice enough, but I suppose most cults are at first!

It looks a little nicer than I remember.

So you complain about police being undertrained and want standards to be raised, yet you actively oppose a training area that will increase the quality of training in urban areas.

You can’t abolish police, so what do you want to happen?

Jim's is still there. Not sure how it stays open! BF is in a much better situation than it was when I went to high school there. It was a real mess then. It's gotten so much better!

It absolutely is.

Fair point. I just worry that the rhetoric around this doesn't fit the reality, and there is often a pattern of outside activists imposing their views on the local community. But framing it in terms of priorities is valid

I remember when Steamtown used to be there. Too bad they went away to Scranton. Used to love going there as a kid.

That's what's so ironic about the whole thing...like, have you ever peed at home, or at someone else's house? Then congrats, you've used a gender neutral restroom. And it didn't require a novella of explanation.

I remember when UVM changed all their signage for unisex, handicap-accessible restrooms to indicate "gender neutral". Correcting a problem that never existed in the first place...

that's not true

The Bellows Falls Canal was the first canal built in the U.S. (1802), pre-dating the Erie Canal. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=74471

Canal Street (currently closed at one end as the new apartment building is being finished) is one of the oldest streets in BF and because it was built over a preexisting path used to portage barges and canoes, technically may be much older than the village.

The Adams Grist Mill is one of the best preserved water wheel grist mills I've ever seen. The horizontal water wheel is still in place under the building but went out of use in the early 1920s when the new hydroelectric plant came online. It's open for tours in the summer & fall: https://www.bellowsfallshistoricalsociety.org/gristmill

My brother in christ the 5 police officers who beat to death Tyre Nichols were black. The problem is the police regardless of who is in it.

More importantly from the article is the displacement of families already settled. Unsure where people are talking about "old growth forest" as there is literally none in the US.

> more importantly, Chambers said the 380-acre facility would dislocate members of the city’s Black and Hispanic communities.

The time and money would be better spent on affordable housing and community projects than a 100,000,000$+ larping grounds for police.

Nothing specific

Beautiful town, shame about the people

That is not true. That protestor was killed after firing on the police