With more than two months still left in the fiscal year, the town of Rockingham has surpassed its diesel fuel and gasoline budget. Rising gas prices and the cost of damages caused by Tropical Storm Irene have hampered future road projects.

The town of Rockingham continues to make plans to replace the Bartonsville Bridge which was destroyed during Tropical Storm Irene. Officials estimate it will cost $1.6 million to rebuild the 140-year-old covered bridge.

Rockingham's Select Board last week discussed the current status of the Worrall and Bartonsville historic covered bridges.

Rockingham's Select Board has unanimously accepted a bid from a private bridge building company for the repair of the Worrall Covered Bridge.

The town of Rockingham is debating whether to hire the county sheriff to manage animal control issues.

Voters in Rockingham held the "floor" portion of their town meeting Monday night. They scrutinized their level-funded budget in a mood of caution due to the sluggish economy. Then, in a surprise move, they voted to spend more.

The town of Rockingham and the village of Bellows Falls have tabled a plan to merge. The two boards held a special meeting on Tuesday to vote on the merger and plan for a Town Meeting Day vote on the proposal.

Officials in Rockingham and its village of Bellows Falls have agreed to bring a long-debated merger to a vote on town meeting day. In order to move the merger forward, they've left a few sticking points to be settled, if the two entities become one.

The idea to merge Bellows Falls and the town of Rockingham has been considered periodically since the 1950s.

The results of the races for governor and lieutenant governor from Barnet, Brattleboro, Rockingham and Stowe will be hand-counted today in Montpelier.

Rockingham may become at least the third community in Vermont to restrict where sex offenders live.

Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.: More Vermonters have turned to food stamps to help them make ends meet, and at the same time, the price for that food has risen faster than it has in 30 years. A state panel says a mural painted on the side of a barn to promote the village of Bellows Falls is illegal because it violates the state billboard ban. So lawmakers from the region tucked an exception to the ban into a transportation bill that's still pending in Montpelier. ..

A state panel says a mural painted on the side of a barn to promote the village of Bellows Falls is illegal because it violates the state billboard ban. So lawmakers from the region tucked an exception to the ban into a transportation bill that's still pending in Montpelier. The proposed exemption for Bellows Falls isn't sitting well in the agencies that enforce Vermont's sign laws. VPR's Susan Keese has more.