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GUILFORD — People explore the eight-acre corn maze and other activities at Gaines Farm.
BRATTLEBORO — In February, Yoshi Manale, who had been Brattleboro's town manager less than two months, went out to lunch with Drew Hazelton, c…
BRATTLEBORO — Senior meal sites in Windham and Windsor counties are being asked to make cuts during a challenging time.
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'I don't know what we're going to do without Ray': Town mourns loss of its biggest fan, Ray Massucco
BELLOWS FALLS — There was a collective gasp Tuesday night when the death of Ray Massucco was…
BRATTLEBORO — In February, Yoshi Manale, who had been Brattleboro's town manager less than t…
MONTPELIER — The Cannabis Control Board will have product tracking forms available for culti…
MONTPELIER — The Board of Trustees of the Vermont State Colleges System has unanimously appr…
BRATTLEBORO — Senior meal sites in Windham and Windsor counties are being asked to make cuts…
BRATTLEBORO — Curtiss Reed Jr. will be recognized for his many contributions toward making V…
CLAREMONT, N.H. — Three months after Brattleboro's town manager resigned his position, the t…
To celebrate the 5th anniversary of Brattleboro’s sister community relationships, we’re putting together, as our next Compassion Stories, a se…
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BRATTLEBORO — On Tuesday, Nichols Tree Care will be removing trees from Guilford Street in the area between Maple Street and the Small Fry Fie…
Peloton bikes were quite the rage during the heights of COVID. They had interesting TV ads. They offer online work-outs with cool music and en…
BRATTLEBORO — This year marks the 30th anniversary of the In-Sight Photography Project. Founded in 1992 by John Willis and Bill Ledger, the pr…
I love the saying that something is “As American as apple pie.” I love apple pie and would have some for breakfast every day if I could. But o…
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Barbara Guerrero, a school librarian at Leland & Gray Union Middle and High School in Townshend, is going to be retiring, but before she does, she is working on scanning in pieces of ephemera relating to the history of the school.
Melany Kahn talks about different mushrooms that could be found locally in the woods. Kahn wrote a children’s book about forging for mushrooms call “Mason Goes Mushrooming.”
A tour on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, around NorthStar’s Vermont Yankee nuclear facility in Vernon, as the site is being demolished.
Members of the First Congregational Church of Dummerston make apple pies at the church on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, for the 53rd annual Dummerston Apple Pie Festival on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022.
People get a Pfizer booster of the COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccine clinic held by Rescue Inc. at Leland & Gray Middle and High School, in Townshend, Vt., on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. Rescue Inc has put over 43,500 COVID-19 vaccines into people’s arms.
How many people across the globe died from COVID-19 vaccines? What did you hear from your friends about dying from the vaccine? How about partisan media channels? Or did you get some hard numbers from your social media feeds?
Heavy demand for free at-home rapid COVID-19 tests on Wednesday temporarily crashed the website for ordering the kits, with more than 150,000 hits to the Vermont Department of Health-hosted site in less than an hour after it opened. By day’s end, however, 350,000 tests had been ordered throu…
MONTPELIER — State officials didn’t mince words Tuesday when addressing the recent spike in COVID-19 cases: It’s a post-Thanksgiving surge, largely driven by unvaccinated people.
MONTPELIER — Gov. Phil Scott on Thursday came out in favor of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Winter Action Plan.
Health officials on Tuesday encouraged Vermonters to get COVID-19 booster shots right up through Wednesday to protect themselves and others as they travel and visit friends and family for the Thanksgiving holiday. Testing for the virus is also recommended, Health Commissioner Mark Levine sai…
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A commercial fishing boat anchored in the ocean near Myrtle Beach broke free and washed ashore on Friday, but no one was aboard, according to city police spokesman Master Cpl. Tom Vest. The U.S. Coast Guard was called out to the boat on Thursday when it had mechanical problems, Vest said. Everyone got off the boat and it was anchored in the ocean near 82nd Avenue North. At some point Friday, however, the boat broke free and police began getting calls about the boat as it traveled about 8 miles (13 kilometers) south. Authorities have warned the public away from the boat, saying it was extremely dangerous.
An ex-adviser to former President Donald Trump has taken a plea deal to resolve allegations he made unwanted sexual advances to a GOP donor at a Las Vegas event. Corey Lewandowski entered into a plea agreement earlier this month involving a charge of misdemeanor battery, according to online Clark County records. While he does not admit to any wrongdoing, Lewandowski will undergo eight hours of impulse control counseling and 50 hours of community service. His attorneys say he will fulfill all those conditions and the case will be dismissed. Trump donor Trashelle Odom publicly alleged Lewandowski repeatedly touched her without her permission, made lewd comments and stalked her.
The New York attorney general’s lawsuit accusing Donald Trump and his company of fraud has been assigned to a state court judge who repeatedly ruled against the former president in related subpoena disputes — including holding him in contempt, fining him $110,000 and forcing him to sit for a deposition. Trump’s lawyers are objecting to Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron’s continued involvement and accused Attorney General Letitia James’ office of attempting to “judge shop.” James’ office filed the lawsuit last week and is angling to get the case to trial by the end of next year — before the first primaries in the 2024 presidential election.
A revived Hurricane Ian made landfall on coastal South Carolina on Friday. It’s threatening the historic city of Charleston with severe flooding after the deadly storm caused catastrophic damage in Florida and trapped thousands in their homes. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Ian’s center came ashore near Georgetown on Friday afternoon, with much weaker winds than when it crossed Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday as one of the strongest storms to ever hit the U.S. Sheets of rain whipped trees and power lines and left many areas on Charleston’s downtown peninsula under water. At least nine people were confirmed dead in the U.S., but that number is expected to increase.
Ian has dropped from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone as it moves into South Carolina.
A commercial fishing boat anchored in the ocean near Myrtle Beach broke free and washed ashore on Friday, but no one was aboard, according to city police spokesman Master Cpl. Tom Vest. The U.S. Coast Guard was called out to the boat on Thursday when it had mechanical problems, Vest said. Everyone got off the boat and it was anchored in the ocean near 82nd Avenue North. At some point Friday, however, the boat broke free and police began getting calls about the boat as it traveled about 8 miles (13 kilometers) south. Authorities have warned the public away from the boat, saying it was extremely dangerous.
A reality television star and Iditarod musher was injured this week while helping clean up extreme storm damage along the Bering Sea coast in western Alaska. Jessie Holmes was hurt by falling debris in a building in the community of Golovin on Wednesday. The Anchorage Daily News reports he was treated for a broken wrist, broken ribs and some internal injuries at an Anchorage hospital and released. Since 2015, Holmes has been a cast member of “Life Below Zero,” a show about life in rural Alaska produced by National Geographic TV. The Bering Sea coast was batted two weeks ago by the remnants of Typhoon Merbok.
An ex-adviser to former President Donald Trump has taken a plea deal to resolve allegations he made unwanted sexual advances to a GOP donor at a Las Vegas event. Corey Lewandowski entered into a plea agreement earlier this month involving a charge of misdemeanor battery, according to online Clark County records. While he does not admit to any wrongdoing, Lewandowski will undergo eight hours of impulse control counseling and 50 hours of community service. His attorneys say he will fulfill all those conditions and the case will be dismissed. Trump donor Trashelle Odom publicly alleged Lewandowski repeatedly touched her without her permission, made lewd comments and stalked her.
The New York attorney general’s lawsuit accusing Donald Trump and his company of fraud has been assigned to a state court judge who repeatedly ruled against the former president in related subpoena disputes — including holding him in contempt, fining him $110,000 and forcing him to sit for a deposition. Trump’s lawyers are objecting to Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron’s continued involvement and accused Attorney General Letitia James’ office of attempting to “judge shop.” James’ office filed the lawsuit last week and is angling to get the case to trial by the end of next year — before the first primaries in the 2024 presidential election.
Wall Street closed out a miserable September with a loss of 9.3%, the worst monthly decline since March 2020. The S&P 500 fell 1.5% Friday and is at its lowest level in almost two years. The benchmark index has lost ground for six of the last seven weeks and posted its third straight losing quarter. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1.7% and the Nasdaq fell 1.5%. Nike fell sharply after the company had to slash prices to clear inventories, while Carnival dropped following weaker-than-expected quarterly results. Bond markets were showing more calm as yields relaxed.
BRATTLEBORO — The statewide Vermont Crafts Council’s Fall Open Studio Weekend on Saturday and Sunday will include two artist studios and two galleries in the Brattleboro area.
“Listen World: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman” recounts the largely untold biography of one of our countries most widely read columnists. Not until the conclusion, do the authors, Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert, ask the question, “Why has she been forgot…
If you live in Vermont, you don’t expect to see your state appear in a book. Then along comes Archer Mayor and his Joe Gunther mystery series, and you find yourself nodding in appreciation to passages such as these: “... winter or summer, they each have their appeal. I like the warmth and ha…
BRATTLEBORO — “Mason Goes Mushrooming,” a new children’s book showcasing mushrooms for beginner foragers, brings readers through four woodland adventures with the main character and his dog Buddy in Vermont.
CHESTERFIELD, N.H. — "Constellations" is in its final week at Actors Theatre Playhouse, with shows tonight, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. All tickets are $17.
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BENNINGTON — Temperatures in the area are still regularly approaching 90 degrees but at least one man already has his mind on this winter, and more specifically snowshoeing.
BURLINGTON — William Clarence Matthews, who broke several color barriers in baseball in the early 20th century including playing professionally in Burlington, will be honored at historic Centennial Field prior to the Vermont Lake Monsters game on Thursday. Jeff Schulman, UVM director of athl…
MANCHESTER — The Devin Speno to Tristan Evans connection was deadly during the second annual Vermont All Star Football Camp 7v7 tournament on Saturday afternoon at Judy McCormick Taylor Field.
MANCHESTER — On what was just about a perfect night to be outside at Judy McCormick Taylor Field, the Burr and Burton Bulldogs were nearly perfect, as well. The BBA girls raced out to an early lead and never looked back, overwhelming Brattleboro for a 20-4 victory at home.
KILLINGTON — Golfers, cyclists and adventure seekers unite. A summer of fun is approaching at Killington Resort.
BRATTLEBORO — Allan Seymour always wanted to light up the Harris Hill Ski Jump.
BENNINGTON — The first half of Tuesday’s Mount Anthony versus Brattleboro girls basketball game had the feel of a traditional rivalry game.
MANCHESTER — Things were looking dim for Burr and Burton girls ice hockey on Monday night, trailing Brattleboro 3-0 in the second period.
BEIJING — Five athletes with Southern Vermont ties have reached the mountaintop of winter sports — the Olympic Games.
With COVID-19 cases reaching all-time highs in the state, the impact is being felt within high school athletics.
To celebrate the 5th anniversary of Brattleboro’s sister community relationships, we’re putting together, as our next Compassion Stories, a series of interviews with the seven Brattleboro area “ambassadors” to these sisters. This is the first.
Some people welcome the cold weather because they enjoy winter sports. Finding some joy in winter is a good thing, but there is no joy in thinking about how much it will cost to heat our homes. The average price of a gallon of fuel in Vermont as of September is $5.53 for kerosene, $4.63 for …
To the editor: This is a strong metal pole in my backyard on which my bird feeder was hanging. Imagine my surprise when I looked out my window on a recent morning and saw the pole bent right over! There's no doubt what caused it.
Montpelier is now the second city in the state to decriminalize prostitution within its city limits, and I am deeply concerned about what this move will mean for Vermont. Regardless of where you stand on the issue of sex work, the reality is that wherever prostitution is decriminalized, ther…
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