The Strafford Selectboard has formally begun a review of 11 town highways that could eventually be reclassified or discontinued, setting in motion a process that will include title research, site ...

I get so concerned and upset when I hear about a man in the Plainfield area who had about 100 cats in his house. If it is his house, let him alone. It’s his business to feed them. They must be happy ...

In Chelsea this past weekend the days were marked in farewells to beloved Chelsea residents. Saturday afternoon, community members and parishioners of the New Creation Fellowship church gathered to ...

In mid-August, people in 38 communities, including about half of the White River Valley towns, woke up to a bomb shell in their email in-boxes. Vital Communities, an Upper Valley nonprofit based in ...

Robert “Dr. Bob” Mollica, 75, of Randolph, Vt., passed away peacefully at home with his family on August 28, 2026. Dr. Bob was born just outside of Boston in 1950, son of Russell and Betty Mollica. He ...

Thinking about the U.S. national debt is an easy thing not to do because there’s already a long list of things to worry about that are much more immediate. Energy costs, education and health-care ...

The Rochester Selectboard voted unanimously August 24 to place an order for a new highway truck, acting before an anticipated price increase that officials said could add $15,000 to $25,000 to the ...

Joann Dundas, 76, passed away Friday, August 28, 2026 at her home in East Bethel, Vt. She was born and raised in Clifton, N.J., and later resided in both East Bethel, Vt., and Las Vegas, Nev. She is ...

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 ...

The oldest section of Pine Hill Cemetery sits near the crest of a hill overlooking Sharon, where weathered gravestones were relocated generations ago after flooding affected an older portion of the ...

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 the role of high bailiff, Vermont- wide, has earned an objectively dull reputation over decades of disuse, the man who’s taken on the job for Orange County is active in international circles— ...