BRUNSWICK, N.Y. - New York State Police are conducting an investigation into a report of a missing woman. Jessica Clyde, 28, of Petersburgh, was last seen walking along State Route 2 near the Weaver Dam in the town Petersburgh at around 10 a.m. Tuesday wearing red and white pajama pants, a black jacket and a blue shirt.   Full Story

Tuesday February 7, 2012 KEITH WHITCOMB JR. Staff Writer ARLINGTON -- The Select Board voted to amend the warning for Town Meeting day, asking if voters would allow two properties to be exempt from property taxes. Board Chairman Keith Squires said the two properties are the Battenkill Grange and the Red Mountain Lodge.   Full Story

Tuesday February 7, 2012 KEITH WHITCOMB JR. Staff Writer NORTH BENNINGTON -- North Bennington Graded School is now home to a life-saving piece of technology. School Nurse Pam Gulley said the school was able to purchase a $1,750 automated external defibrillator for the price of $875, the other portion being picked up by Southwestern Vermont Health Care, the parent company of the local   Full Story

HOOSICK, N.Y. - Police have made two arrests in connection with a case of copper theft in December in the town of Hoosick. New York State Police Trooper Mark J. Cepiel reported "tons" of ongoing burglary investigations by police, but he said Tuesday that the two men recently charged had not been connected to any other burglaries in the area to date.   Full Story

Tuesday February 7, 2012 MONTPELIER (AP) -- More than 300 students from the Vermont state colleges descended on the Statehouse on Tuesday to demand a boost in state funding for their campuses. Emily Quattrocci of Lincoln, a landscape architecture major planning to graduate this spring from Vermont Technical College, said she had struggled to stay in school at times because her parents were   Full Story

Monday February 6, 2012 DAWSON RASPUZZI Staff Writer BENNINGTON -- A local representative is introducing legislation that would waive the requirement of teacher certification for high school educators holding a master's degree in the content area they teach. The idea is supported by a number of studies that show little progression is made in regard to teaching ability from   Full Story

Monday February 6, 2012 ZEKE WRIGHT Staff Writer CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. -- Village trustees took the next step toward a court-ordered decision regarding the Ackley building at 51 West Main Street; setting the stage for a potentially lengthy and costly process ending in demolition of the dilapidated building.   Full Story

Monday February 6, 2012 CHRIS GAROFOLO Brattleboro Reformer BRATTLEBORO -- The record-breaking snow totals of last winter seem like a distance memory after a particularly warm January in southern Vermont. The first month of 2012 proved to hold only a few minor snowstorms to cover the ground in the Green Mountain State.   Full Story

Monday February 6, 2012 BOB AUDETTE Brattleboro Reformer BRATTLEBORO -- Some projects that are part of the Vermont Sustainably Priced Energy Development Program received a boost from the Public Service Board last month when it increased the price-per-kilowatt hour from 24 to 27 cents. The price of small-wind power was raised from 21 to 25 cents.   Full Story

Monday February 6, 2012 PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- President Barack Obama will visit Vermont. The White House has confirmed that Obama will stop in Burlington on Friday, March 30, to attend campaign events. Obama visited Vermont in 2006 as a senator from Illinois to campaign for Bernie Sanders who was running for the U.   Full Story

Monday February 6, 2012 KEITH WHITCOMB JR. Staff Writer BENNINGTON -- Two days after being held without bail on charges, a man has pleaded guilty to threatening a Troy, N.Y. cab driver with a knife. Gregory Croff, 30, of Silver Street, pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated assault by threatening with a deadly weapon.   Full Story

Sunday February 5, 2012 ZEKE WRIGHT Staff Writer NORTH BENNINGTON -- The North Bennington Prudential Committee met Saturday to rewarn a slightly revised ballot for district residents to consider on Town Meeting Day. The single change made by the board at a special meeting involved one of three articles on the March 6 ballot which will determine whether the public elementary school is   Full Story

Sunday February 5, 2012 CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. -- A mid-winter cross-country obstacle course in Cambridge challenged participants, raised funds for enrichment opportunities for area youth, and, perhaps most importantly, encouraged participants to get outdoors and be active. "This demonstrated there are people who really enjoy this" type of event, said Paul Baker-Porazinski, one organizer of this   Full Story

Sunday February 5, 2012 FORT EDWARD, N.Y. -- A Rutland man currently serving prison time in Vermont was arraigned in New York this week on additional charges stemming from a widespread 2008 burglary spree. Police say Anthony Bridger, 25, broke into more than 150 residences across southern Vermont, and into neighboring New York, over a span of several months in late 2008.   Full Story

SUNDERLAND - A missing elderly Sunderland man was found by state Trooper Wayne Godfrey and his dog Tarawa Friday night in a wooded area near the man's Maggie's Run residence. Police said the man, 78, left the residence on foot and had been described as distraught over a recent death in the family. Trooper James Wright said the report came in at about 5:30 p.   Full Story