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BEIJING — Five athletes with Southern Vermont ties have reached the mountaintop of winter sports — the Olympic Games.
By all measures, Tyler Gilbert was a precocious boy.
In a scene that has tragically played out across the United States yearly, a Christmas tree starts a fire inside a building, but this scenario…
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The principals of two Windham County high schools notified parents about reports of physical…
ROXBURY, N.H. — On Friday morning, at approximately 8:09 a.m., troopers from the New Hampshi…
BRATTLEBORO — A proposal to build a single family home and rehabilitate the existing farmhou…
BRATTLEBORO — An Athens man who has been in state custody since June 2021 was deemed incompe…
BRATTLEBORO — Without commenting on the specifics of the arrests of three men at Great River…
WILLIAMSVILLE — Beginning this Tuesday, Gentle Yoga will be offered by certified yoga instructor Deborah Luskin at the Williamsville Hall ever…
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DUMMERSTON — Because of COVID-19, the next Dummerston Senior Meal will be a take-out only affair. The pick-up lunch, sponsored by Senior Solutions and Evening Star Grange, is scheduled from 11:30 to 1 p.m. Wednesday.
BRATTLEBORO — Stress takes a toll. Release some of that stress on Saturdays with a group of like-minded meditators.
BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Town Clerk’s office reminds those interested in running for Brattleboro town offices, Windham Southeast School D…
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Mount Snow instructors help area children learn how to either ski or snowboard at the ski hill at Living Memorial Park, in Brattleboro, Vt., on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022.
Some school children from Dover School, in Dover, Vt., participate in a snowshoeing program where they hiked through the woods to examine different things in nature on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022.
Members of the Brattleboro Fire Department participated in various medical training scenarios at Vermont Technical College, in Brattleboro, Vt., on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, to sharpen their skills.
Members of the Bellows Falls, Vt., and North Walpole, N.H., Fire Departments hold an active fire training and mayday rescue at an abandoned building on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. The fire was set with Christmas trees that the Bellows Falls Fire Department collected earlier in the year.
PUTNEY — A show in which Walter Parks, longtime guitarist sideman to Woodstock legend Richie Havens, joins accordionist Rob Curto has been postponed to curb the spread of COVID.
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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Vermont legislators are again taking up a proposed constitutional amendment to make it clear that slavery and indentured servitude are prohibited, as some other states have done.
ELMORE, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont community is asking the U.S. Postal Service to renew a contract with a local store to retain an outpost where people can collect their packages and mail.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Gov. Phil Scott has signed a bill into law allowing municipal governments to pass budgets with pre-printed ballots for their annual town meetings this year and to hold informational meetings about budgets remotely as COVID-19 continues to spread in the state.
Northeast organic dairy companies are trying to recruit consumers to help strengthen the industry after news that 135 farms in Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and New York will lose their milk contracts.
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The state's attorney in Vermont's largest county says her office will not prosecute some cases where evidence was seized during traffic stops as a way to tackle racial disparities in those stops.
Britain says Russia seeking to replace Ukraine government
NEW YORK (AP) — “Stop Right There!” Three words of warning — and three words that Ellen Foley credits with launching her career in music.
NEW YORK (AP) — Ian Alexander Jr., the only child of award-winning actor and director Regina King, has died. He turned 26 on Wednesday.
Booster shots needed against omicron, CDC studies show
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell pushed back Friday against the uproar over a comment he made about African American voters, calling the criticism directed his way “outrageous.”
KEENE, N.H. — When Terri Trespicio was in her 20s, unsure what she wanted to do with her life and paralyzed by the fear she would make the wrong choice, her mother, Jeanne, gave her some advice.
BRATTLEBORO — A curated group exhibit of 11 gallery artists opens at Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts this month.
BRATTLEBORO — Regional chapters of the National Independent Venue Association are sprouting up, and who better than Robin Johnson to lead the one for New England?
SWANZEY, N.H. — Northlands, an outdoor concert venue formerly known as Drive-In Live, plans to reopen for a weekend-long music and arts festival June 24 to 25.
BRATTLEBORO — Castle of our Skins — a Black arts institution that centers Black music, culture and history through people, programming and partnerships — continues its ninth season theme of stitching together stories, history and art with Sound & Appliqué, an in-person concert with two w…
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SHERBURNE — Brattleboro’s Kate Korbet finished first in the slalom at the 1991 Southern District Alpine ski meet at Pico Peak.
With COVID-19 cases reaching all-time highs in the state, the impact is being felt within high school athletics.
BRATTLEBORO — There is really only one emoji that you can use to describe Jenna Dolloph’s play on the pitch so far this fall.
FAIR HAVEN — The Bellows Falls varsity football team trumped Fair Haven 56-0 on Friday night.
BRATTLEBORO — Peter-Owen Hayward of Brattleboro recently joined the rest of his Syracuse University 2020 graduating class in celebrating the granting of their degrees ceremony, which had been postponed for a year and a half due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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CASTLETON — This year’s Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl football game between the top graduated seniors from Vermont and New Hampshire is being held on Saturday, Aug. 7, with a 12:30 p.m. kickoff at Castleton University’s Dave Wolk Stadium.
BRATTLEBORO -- Effective November 14 at 10 p.m. the Brattleboro Recreation and Parks Department will be suspending all recreational sports programs, including organized and/or informal recreational youth and adult league sports, practices, games, and the opening of the Nelson Withington Skat…
BRATTLEBORO — Fast. Dangerous. Accurate. Clutch. Consistent.Those might be the best ways to describe each of the Brattleboro Reformer's five athlete of the week nominees, which include one …
BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro varsity football team's 13-game winning streak came to a sudden end on Friday night.The defending state champion Colonels, who ran the table last season and were …
THETFORD — Bellows Falls junior Abby Broadley won the girls 5k cross-country race at Thetford in a time of 20:00 on Thursday.Stephanie Ager (3rd), Lily Ware (5th) Molly Hodsden (7th) and …
One way to make America great again is to create green jobs for all kinds of Americans, including new immigrants. Except for Native Americans, we are a nation of immigrants and their children, after all. America can be great again if we unite with native people for free and fair elections. C…
HB 584 was just introduced in the legislature. As Vermont high school students who worked closely on creating and developing this bill, we hope it will move swiftly through the legislature and be passed into law.
Before the new year, the Vermont Climate Council hastily approved its Initial Climate Action Plan. There is undoubtedly a sense of relief that Act 153 — the Global Warming Solutions Act — is being taken seriously. The urgency is highlighted by a University of Vermont report naming last summe…
On January 3, Governor Phil Scott posted some pictures on his social media that caught my eye. The purpose was to draw attention to an effort to grow Vermont’s health care workforce, a worthy goal indeed in these stressful and frightening times. But it was the images that struck me, as a ref…
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