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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have been on site at the Ely Mine in Vershire, looking for pieces of history among the scores of potential sites since May, and will be on location until at least October. The mine, ...

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 ...

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— ...