Voters at Saturday’s town meeting delivered a clear message of fiscal caution, rejecting multiple town budgets, defeating a proposed infrastructure project, and tabling another, while also passing a ...

Forrest C. G. Manning, 87, of Middlebury, Vt., passed away on Thursday, April 9, 2026. Forrest was born in Waltham, Mass. on March 9, 1939, the son of Clifton and Lucille (Emerson) Manning. He grew up ...

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Robert Ashel Blake Jr. “Bobby,” 64, of East Thetford, Vt., passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, April 5, 2026. He was born on January 5, 1962 at Gifford Medical Center in Randolph, to parents Robert A.

The Rochester Stockbridge PTO has announced that a donkeyball event will take place Friday, May 1 at the Rochester Elementary School gymnasium. The annual fundraiser will collect proceeds to support ...

This illustration from the British Library’s collection of Western Drawings shows Lord Macartney’s first meeting with the Qianlong Emperor in 1793. (Wikimedia Commons) Probably the worst decision in ...

Early summer 1971, a visitor to the White River Valley left a mark on the landscape, the lore of which outlasted its permanence. That was the year that Ward McCain, a sculptor and student at ...

Stone structures have been a part of Vermont’s landscape as far back as our written record. Documentation exists in a letter dated 1654, written by John Pynchon to John Winthrop, Jr., inquiring about ...

The newspaper is the most successful mechanism in history for conveying to the public what is going on. Newspapers are a relatively recent development in human history, going back only four centuries.

What started out as a onetime visit to West Hill in Granville to satisfy a need to see Rob Ford’s meadow in the Green Mountain National Forest has led to our more-than-a-decade-long late summer ritual ...

A week after the general election, Chris Helali of Vershire was named winner of a contested write-in race for Orange County high bailiff. The state Canvassing Committee met in Montpelier this week and ...

While all is quiet along the driveway off Route 107 in Bethel that takes visitors to the White River National Fish Hatchery, its visitor center dark and a little dusty, the facility that lies beyond ...