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WILMINGTON — Trunk ‘O’ Treat festivities took place on Saturday, with more than 45 trunks lining both sides of the grounds of the Wilmington Antique & Flea Market. The event was organized by Wilmington resident Karina Morehead and was well attended by ghouls, superheroes, princesses, wit…
BRATTLEBORO — As the temperatures drop, park maintenance workers with the Brattleboro Recreation Department prepare the ice at the Nelson With…
BENNINGTON — Tara Barber, her husband and young son, Ethan, didn’t choose to be homeless.
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GUILFORD — In the fall of 2022, if all goes as planned, the Grange building on Guilford Cent…
PUTNEY — An employee at the Putney Food Co-op said a man marching down the street near the s…
BRATTLEBORO — Police are investigating a dispute that resulted in injuries to a female tenan…
MARLBORO — The cause of the fire at the abandoned Golden Eagle Motel is still under investig…
WILMINGTON — More than 45 trunks lined both sides of the grounds of the Wilmington Antique &…
WESTMINSTER — The Kurn Hattin children are having fun with their cool, new map rug, talking about where they’ve been and where they want to go…
BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro Area Hospice (BAH) announced the establishment of the Friends of Cicely Saunders. At the encouragement of several pe…
Evening Star Grange and Senior Solutions present their 4th Wednesday Luncheon this Wednesday, with both inhouse seating and take-out meals ava…
WESTMINSTER — The Kurn Hattin Homes provides children with many opportunities they wouldn’t have had otherwise and lunch on Oct. 7 was one of …
A venerable sage from Putney once said, “Few things in life are better than a well-crafted pair of socks.” Many people who used the Bickford F…
The Windham Southeast School District is seeking volunteers to serve on an Independent Budget Review Committee. One volunteer from each of the…
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Brattleboro honors its senior football players on Friday night as they host Rice during the last regular-season game on Oct. 22, 2021.
Several fire departments responded to a two-alarm fire at the abandoned Golden Eagle Motel, on Route 9, in Marlboro, Vt., on Friday, Oct. 22, 2021.
A crew from the Vermont Army National Guard flew a UH-60 Blackhawk to Brattleboro Union High School’s football field on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. Students from Brattleboro Area Middle School and Brattleboro Union High School were allowed to walk around and examine the helicopter.
When the COVID-19 pandemic closed the world down in early 2020, many people reevaluated their career paths. Danielle Lacroix, the owner of Green Mountain Gardening, left her job at Stop and Go to create her own gardening business.
Brattleboro Union High School hosts Bellows Falls during a field hockey match on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021.
MONTPELIER — To relieve some of the pressure on Vermont hospitals caused by a combination of factors, including COVID-19, the state is opening 80 beds at long-term care and rehabilitation facilities, said Agency of Human Services Secretary Mike Smith.
There has been extensive media attention over the past week devoted to mixing of COVID-19 vaccines and booster injections. As expected, those individuals in test trials that received a mix of vaccine types or additional shots have shown no adverse events. The vaccines are safe and interchang…
Governor Phil Scott on Monday lifted all COVID-19 restrictions in Vermont, as the state became the first in the nation to vaccinate 80 percent of its eligible citizens against the novel coronavirus with at least a first dose.
DOVER — Establishments in Dover will no longer need to require masks as they had before as part of the ski resort town’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Note from Dr. Moss Linder, Grace Cottage Family Health: This month, I’ve offered this space to a patient who would like share her experience with Long COVID. Research into Long COVID, also called Long-Haul COVID, is just beginning and there are no definitive answers about how to diagnose or …
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BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Drivers are advised to avoid construction of a new roundabout at a busy Burlington intersection starting Monday.
ROYALTON, Vt. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that Vermont Law School can conceal two large murals that some members of the school community find racially offensive.
ROCKINGHAM, Vt. (AP) — The town of Rockingham is planning to spend up to $20,000 to save the steeple and a stained glass window from an old church in the village of Bellows Falls that is slated for demolition.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont has expanded its booster shot program to include the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines against COVID-19 after U.S. health officials endorsed expanding the country's booster campaign.
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A 41-year-old man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge of first-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife while the two were visiting Vermont for their first wedding anniversary.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge may decide at a hearing Monday whether use-of-force experts can testify at Kyle Rittenhouse's trial for shooting three people during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin last year.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A massive storm barreled toward Southern California on Monday after flooding highways, toppling trees, cutting power and causing rock slides and mud flows in areas burned bare by wildfires across the northern half of the state.
Stocks wobbled in morning trading on Wall Street Monday as investors look ahead to another busy week of earnings reports.
U.S. diplomats in Sudan have issued warnings to American citizens in the country citing the military’s closure of areas in and around the capital and reports of violence against protesters.
Moderna said Monday that a low dose of its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and appears to work in 6- to 11-year-olds, as the manufacturer moves toward expanding shots to children.
In collaboration with the Complications Company, the Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment with a serious analysis of the suffrage movement’s virtues and flaws.
BENNINGTON — Vermont painter Tony Conner is always finding new approaches to his art.
BRATTLEBORO — GennaRose Nethercott will be leading two writing workshops at the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery this Sunday and on Oct. 31 from 2 to 4 p.m.
BRATTLEBORO — Vocalist Jay Clayton will appear live at the Vermont Jazz Center at 8 p.m. Saturday as part of a tour celebrating her 80th birthday.
NEWFANE — Local novelist and short story writer Vincent Panella's reading at the Moore Free Library in Newfane Thursday has been canceled.
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BRATTLEBORO — That his name is Scott Sparks gives you much of what you need to know about him.
BRATTLEBORO — The number on the back of Luke Rizio’s jersey is exactly what his rating has been down the stretch.
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 …
TOWNSHEND — The Brattleboro varsity boys soccer team won its third straight game, defeating Leland & Gray 5-1 on Thursday.Riley Barton poked a shot past BUHS goalie Paul McGillion to give …
BRATTLEBORO — The Three Mask-eteers?Wearing facial coverings, Josh Curtis, Thad Sawyer and Trinley Warren all caught a touchdown pass as the Brattleboro varsity 7-on-7 touch football team …
One of the books in the famous Harry Bosch series by Michael Connolly is “The Narrows.” Some may be familiar with the Amazon Prime series Bosch. Same guy. Connolly is also renowned for writing The Lincoln Lawyer. Well, this has nothing to do with that. It is about roads.
To the editor: Ben Coplan of Marlboro Avenue died this week at 82.
“There is hope everywhere,” concludes Suzanne Simard, in a recent interview with On Being with NPR host, Krista Tippet.
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