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“Let’s Close the National Parks,” the headline in Harper’s Magazine screams. A guardrail breaks, the article says, and a little girl almost tumbles into a gorge; bridges teeter; the limited park ranger force rushes to fight fires, pick up trash, and clean latrines, instead of patrolling park…
RUTLAND — Alleged murderer Michael Louise was in Rutland County Superior Court on Friday to determine if bail will be set in his case. The 80-…
A new wave of frigid weather that forecasters warned could be the coldest in decades began rolling into the Northeast Friday morning, leading …
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MANCHESTER — The Community Food Cupboard is proposing building an addition to the town office building, one that would double the space where …
Cold is somewhat to be expected on the ski slopes. But this weekend’s arctic blast caused local ski areas to stay cautious in the face of dang…
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BENNINGTON — Lake Paran will be holding its 5th Catch and Release Ice Fishing Derby with cash prizes of up to $200. Run by Bennington native a…
NORTH BENNINGTON — The village of North Bennington and the elementary school district are preparing for their annual meetings and elections.
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BENNINGTON — Southwestern Vermont Health Care has implemented a new zero tolerance policy for its hospital campus, medical office building and offsite practices to address the workplace violence trend occurring at health care institutions across the U.S.
MANCHESTER — Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is hosting arts educator Stacy Gates to lead a dot mandala on pottery workshop.
BENNINGTON — The regularly scheduled bimonthly meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Vermont Veterans’ Home will beheld on Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. via Zoom.
Grammar columnist Curtis Honeycutt says: "In an effort to have better grammar, we can often make it worse."
MONTPELIER — The state Fish and Wildlife Department says Vermont’s Nongame Wildlife Fund is essential to the conservation and restoration of some of Vermont’s most at-risk wildlife, like the lake sturgeon and Northern long-eared bat. A checkoff option on the Vermont state income tax form aim…
BENNINGTON — Keith Michel has been named vice president for institutional advancement at Bennington College.
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POWNAL — Vermont State Police responded to a crash involving multiple vehicles with minor injuries Saturday at 1:32 p.m. at 7275 US Route 7 in Pownal.
BENNINGTON — There’s a case making its way through the halls of the Bennington Superior Courthouse that touches on all the things that our criminal justice system is designed to accomplish.
BRATTLEBORO — A local man who prosecutors say shot and killed a Hartford, Conn., man in Brattleboro on Aug. 19, 2022, was arraigned on Friday on 10 charges, including second degree murder, reckless endangerment and dealing drugs.
ALBURGH — Spectators are not allowed to attend home basketball games for the rest of the season at a middle school in northern Vermont after a brawl broke out and one of the participants died, school officials said Thursday.
DANBY — Five weeks after a tree crushed her son’s car, pinning him inside and injuring him, Andrea Myklebust of Danby reports that “the doctors are happy with the healing in his residual limb, and they’re talking about discharging him next week, perhaps as soon as Monday.”
ALBURGH, Vt. — A brawl broke out among spectators at a middle school basketball game in northern Vermont, and a 60-year-old man who participated in the fight died, police said.
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BENNINGTON — Mount Anthony’s goal every single time it steps on the court is to run you out of the gym. The Patriots play at a blazing pace, c…
ALBANY, N.Y. — It took extra time and a clutch play from Tobias Holmes, but the Bennington Martens of the American semi professional Basketball Association etched out a 121-117 win over the Central Jersey Sharks on Sunday at Albany Leadership Academy.
BURLINGTON — A pack of four Bulldogs indoor track athletes made quite a bit of noise at the state championship meet at the University of Vermont on Saturday. Despite having just four total athletes competing (two boys, two girls), the Burr and Burton girls finished in a tie for fifth place (…
BURLINGTON — Ella Palisano has led the charge for Mount Anthony indoor track all winter, despite this being her first high school track season. That continued this weekend as the freshman left the state championship meet at the University of Vermont with a pair of top-3 finishes.
Mount Anthony swimming finished its season with an eventful week in the pool.
BENNINGTON — The Patriots welcomed Rhode Island powerhouse Bishop Hendricken into Kates Gym for a wrestling dual Friday night for Mount Anthony’s senior night.
Mount Anthony football is officially making the jump back to Division I next fall as a part of a larger realignment throughout the state.
BENNINGTON — Mount Anthony indoor track is sending a small yet mighty group to this weekend's state championship meet at the University of Vermont.
BENNINGTON — The Mount Anthony girls basketball team is hoping for a late season playoff push.
PERU — The Bulldogs alpine team returned to its home mountain at Bromley Thursday to compete in the Louis Dean Memorial race. The Burr and Burton girls won the giant slalom race, its fourth victory of the season, while the BBA boys took second place.
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The war in Ukraine has influenced many things, from the price of energy to food to raw materials, and it fundamentally altered the way the world’s major economies will move forward in 2023 and beyond. E.U. inflation is the highest in 40 years with the U.K. crossing the 10 percent mark, and a…
President Biden’s appointee to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Richard Trumka, Jr., has made it clear, according to The Wall Street Journal, that gas stoves need to be removed from all kitchens. According to Trumka, the stoves are unsafe. Of course, the hidden agenda is to end fossil…
February is a month intentionally set aside to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of Black people throughout American history. History in relation to Black people in America also requires us to examine and reckon with the past, and relate it to our current reality.
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