This Week in History (11/4 - 11/11)


Jill Adams and her furry friends posed for the “Ladies of the Deerfield Valley” calender 15 years ago.

10 years ago:
The valley was still in recovery after Tropical Storm Irene flooded the region two months earlier. Gretchen Havreluk and Bruce Mullen, who had been hired as business assistance coordinators through a Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation program funded by Dover, said they had met with 80, or 77%, of the businesses that were in the valley before Irene. They reported that 55 businesses had reopened since the flood, another 16 intended to reopen, and 10 were closed.

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