Ed Metcalfe, of Vermont Distillers
MARLBORO- On a freezing January night, almost 50 people crowded into a meeting space in a building at the Hogback Mountain site of Vermont Distillers to hear a presentation on coyotes by Mike Clough, executive director of the Vermont Museum of Natural History.
The event, part of a series...
North River Bakery’s doors have closed.
Jon Hurdle
JACKSONVILLE—The village’s beloved bakery closed for the last time on Saturday after more than three years, as the owners decided they were working longer and harder than they wanted to at this point in their lives.
Don and Shelly Phillips left notes on the North River Bakery’s front door,...
By Jon Hurdle
WILMINGTON—Voters at this year’s Wilmington Town Meeting will be asked to approve spending on around a dozen line items for the fiscal 2027 budget that are about evenly divided between increases, decreases, and no change from last year.
The biggest increases include a...
DOVER—At its regular meeting on Monday, February 2, the River Valleys Unified School District Board learned it could end the year with an approximate $400,000 surplus. In other matters, the board heard about where Dover School students are with regard to meeting educational benchmarks and how an...
DOVER—During a moderated discussion before its regular meeting on Monday, February 2, the River Valleys Unified School District Board heard from members of the public about consolidation concepts the board has reviewed as it prepares to build its budget for next school year. Input from the public...
VERMONT—Advocates for immigrants urged supporters to prepare for an increase in activity by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers throughout Vermont after violent and deadly protests against their presence in Minnesota and Maine.
Some 1,100 people, more than five times as...
Will voters stay at the meeting longer?
WHITNGHAM- Town Meeting Day will be different in Whitingham this year, the first year without longtime moderator Leon Corse at the helm. Under the moderation of Seth Boyd, the order of articles tended from the floor at Town Meeting...
WHITINGHAM- On Whitingham’s frozen Sadawga Lake, the air temperature was about four degrees at 9 am on Saturday, January 31, but Barry Smith was having fun catching fish from holes drilled through 18 inches of ice.
Smith was one of an estimated 250 to 300 people who were expected to compete in...
Voters will face higher school taxes whether the town decides to close its elementary school or keep it open, school officials say
READSBORO—Already facing the grim prospect of closing their elementary school, Readsboro voters will have the unenviable choice of accepting...
HALIFAX- Voters will gather on Town Meeting Day to tend to a warning that includes 11 articles. Though the number of warned articles is smaller than those of nearby towns, it contains some consequential questions, including whether recycling drop-off and pickup will be contracted and whether the...