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Jon Hurdle Vermont Museum of Natural History volunteers pause at the Whitingham Old Home Week parade. The museum has received an unexpected bequest of $16,000.

Surprise gift helps keep museum open

A windfall from a community member’s bequest will help operations at nature museum
MARLBORO—The Vermont Museum of Natural History is celebrating an unexpected windfall gift of $16,000 from the estate of Mary Ann McLeod, wife of Vermont Bowl Company founder John McLeod,...

Filmmaker to tell tragic story of farmer who faced eviction from highway construction

EAST DOVER—When East Dover filmmaker Sean Kirby first read about Vermont farmer Romaine Tenney, he could not stop thinking about him.
After spending much of his career working as a cinematographer on independent films and documentaries, Kirby is now writing and directing his first feature...

Dover Selectboard backs a campaign to keep Brattleboro birthing center open

Board won’t recommend where people should go for their medical care
DOVER—The Dover Selectboard voted on Tuesday to support a campaign by the town of Brattleboro to fight the recently proposed closure of a birthing center at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, but stopped...

Wilmington storefront opens for business for first time since Tropical Storm Irene

WILMINGTON—A Wilmington building that sat vacant for more than a decade is open for business once again, thanks to a partnership between two local companies that recently unveiled a shared retail space in the village.
Mount Snow Ski Werks and Janine’s Boutique opened the storefront earlier...

Dover fuel oil bid surges 36%

DOVER—An early bid to supply the town of Dover with heating oil for the current fiscal year would cost the town 36% more than last year’s oil contract, a sharp increase last exceeded only during the COVID-19 pandemic, an official warned on Tuesday.
Although the town had not received other...

Drivers don’t like Wilmington construction delays

Town says sidewalk project is on schedule for completion by the end of August
WILMINGTON—The traffic tie-ups are tiresome and time-consuming but drivers seem to accept the delays are a necessary price to pay for better sidewalks and sewers in the middle of Wilmington....

Lynn Barrett, board president of Vermont Independent Media, and Trish Twining, the nonprofit’s executive director, speak with the Wilmington Selectboard.

Wilmington Selectboard approves $30,000 from local option tax to support The Deerfield Valley News

Parent nonprofit wants to modernize the weekly paper WILMINGTON—The Wilmington Selectboard unanimously approved $30,000 from the town’s 1% local option tax fund to support workforce and technology expansions at The Deerfield Valley News at their regular meeting Tuesday evening...

Randy Schoonmaker

MOOver chief retires after 30 years in the driver’s seat

WILMINGTON- He has retired, but Randy Schoonmaker isn’t dropping his 30-year love affair with public transit: he’s going to be a volunteer driver.
The outgoing chief executive of The MOOver, with their Holstein-adorned buses that have been plying the roads of southern Vermont since 1996,...

Molly Gray

Gray seeks another term as lieutenant governor

The candidate hopes to be the nominee who will unseat the incumbent, Republican John Rodgers, whom she accuses of being cozy with the Trump administration
BURLINGTON—Molly Gray is three years older, wiser, she hopes, and now she’s trying to return to the lieutenant...

TV principals: finding the right employees is a challenge

WILMINGTON—The principals of the two Twin Valley schools described their challenges looking for new or replacement employees during the summer season, and reported mixed success in finding the right candidates.
Twin Valley Middle High School Principal Jonathan Cavallo and Twin Valley...