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Family, friends and musicians alike once again, travelled from miles around to celebrate the fifth and final Douglas Bashaw Memorial Scholarship Benefit, held at the Polish Picnic Grounds in Bellows Falls last weekend. The event marked an incredible five-year run to honor the life and legacy of the late great Doug Bashaw, a Charlestown, N.H. native who tragically lost his life in a motorcycle accident in August of 2008. A 1983 graduate of Fall Mountain Regional High School (FMRHS) in Langdon, N. H., Doug was widely known throughout the area (and beyond) as one of the hardest-working musicians and sound engineers you will find anywhere. To keep his lasting memory alive, Doug’s widow, Kelly Hood Bashaw and family, created the Douglas Bashaw Memorial Scholarship Fund in which each year, a $500 s