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BRATTLEBORO — Mount Anthony Union High School and Brattleboro Union High School were among 21 schools across the state Wednesday that fell victim to hoax calls alleging each school was undergoing an active shooter situation.
BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro Union High School was one of 21 schools across the state Wednesday that fell victim to hoax calls alleging each scho…
BENNINGTON — The Ohio-based developer of proposed Starbucks and Chipotle outlets in Bennington has begun the local permitting process for the …
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POWNAL — While tenants of Pownal Estates Mobile Home Park continue to struggle with low water pressure — and sometimes with no water at all co…
BENNINGTON — Defense attorney and conflict counsel Richard Burgoon, who recently filed a motion asking to extend one of his most current cases…
MONTPELIER — Bennington and Windham county towns will land a share of $12.6 million in state grants for mobile home park upgrades.
MANCHESTER — Lace up your snowshoes and keep your powder dry: The Primitive Biathlon is back.
Think of Searsburg and — quick — what comes to mind? That buffering in your brain may soon change.
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DORSET — The Dorset Players are planning their 96th season and would like to hear from the audience in a directors’ meeting.
BENNINGTON — Herbert Ogden, a Vermont lawyer and school board member, will explore the public funding of religious schools in Vermont. Ogden will speak at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12, at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse, 108 School St., Bennington. The meeting is free and open to the pu…
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The contra dance is resuming, with live music by acclaimed New England fiddler George Wilson and Selma Kaplan on keyboard, on Saturday at the First Congregational Church in Williamstown, Mass. Dave Eisenstadter will call (teach) all the dances.
BENNINGTON — The Angry Egg II on Main Street has become a supporter of the town’s “Appalachian Trail Community” designation.Participating businesses seek to make access to supplies for the hikers easier.
BURLINGTON — Mentor Vermont, in partnership with youth mentoring programs, youth mentees, volunteer mentors, legislators, and business supporters, celebrated Vermont Mentoring Month at Mentor Vermont’s annual Youth Mentoring Celebration at the Vermont Statehouse on Feb. 1.
MONTPELIER — The League of Women Voters of Vermont Education Fund is now accepting applications for its Winona Smith Scholarship program.
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MANCHESTER — The Manchester Selectboard unanimously approved the Community Food Cupboard’s plans for an addition on the town office building that would double the non-profit’s operating space.
BENNINGTON — A New York man accused in the brutal murder of a Bennington resident at the Green Mountain substation off Route 9 last October was arraigned in a Bennington courthouse Monday.
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.
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ARLINGTON — Tuesday night’s Division IV boys basketball game between the visiting Long Trail Mountain Lions and the Arlington Eagles featured …
MANCHESTER — In a battle of Bennington County girls basketball teams, it was Burr and Burton leaving Tuesday’s showdown with bragging rights.
STILLWATER, N.Y. — Hoosick Falls boys basketball lost a physical game to Stillwater 60-50 on Tuesday.
BURLINGTON — Arlington indoor track fielded a team this winter for the first time in a decade. Three athletes made the trek north to compete in the Vermont Principals’ Association state championship meet on Saturday at the University of Vermont, and the Eagles left with three team points.
WHITINGHAM — The Arlington girls basketball team cruised to its 10th win of the season Monday night at Twin Valley, defeating the Wildcats 59-5.
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, centered on pushing the basketball up the court, quick decision making and attempting as many shots as possible. It resembles that of the new-age brand…
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 (…
Mount Anthony swimming finished its season with an eventful week in the pool.
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.
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BRATTLEBORO — A bright red barn sitting beneath green steeples on Marlboro Road is home to three businesses under one roof, which all have the same mission: support cannabis fans and smaller-sized growers — not large corporate growers.
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As if wildlife didn’t have it hard enough, now they’re caught in the crossfire between those who wish to protect them, such as Protect Our Wildlife, and those who only see value in how many bobcats, beavers, otters and other species they can trap and kill for recreation. What POW encountered…
Some say the eyes are the window to the soul. But I wonder if the nose has it.
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…
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