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BENNINGTON — Joining with museums across the country, Bennington Museum and Bennington College’s Visual and Performing Arts Center are taking part in RESIST COVID | TAKE 6!, a national public awareness campaign by renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems meant to make the general public aware of sta…
MONTPELIER — Gov. Phil Scott, through a pair of executive orders signed Thursday, sought to streamline the Act 250 permitting process and unif…
POWNAL — The Select Board has authorized a slate of referendum questions for the March 2 ballot, which, if approved, could significantly alter…
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BENNINGTON — To facilitate the restart of Vermont jury trials, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee suggested designating frontline cour…
BENNINGTON — Ocean State Job Lot, which is scheduled to open a store in the spring at the former JC Penney location in Bennington, will begin …
MONTPELIER — The FBI has issued a warning that pro-Trump demonstrations by armed protesters have been planned in state capitals across the cou…
MONTPELIER — The state rolled out its COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan on Friday, asking for patience as it prioritizes older Vermonters and…
One Vermonter died of COVID-19 over the past day, the Vermont Department of Health reported Friday. The death toll is now at 163. Forty-four V…
MANCHESTER — Hildene educators are offering two programs designed to be held on school grounds or for homeschoolers at Hildene. Both are held …
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning welcomes Hamilton College Professor Lydia Hamessley to talk about Dolly Parton on her 75th birthd…
BENNINGTON — The Bennington Performing Arts Center will hold a free livestream Story Night on the theme of “Courage” on Tuesday, beginning at 7 p.m.
MANCHESTER — The Manchester Center Knights of Columbus donated and delivered Christmas baske…
MANCHESTER — 2021 marks the tenth anniversary of the arrival of the Pullman Palace Car, Sunb…
Continuing a four-year tradition, Rep. Linda Joy Sullivan, who represents the Bennington-Rut…
AARP Vermont is offering a series of free virtual presentations on consumer fraud. These one…
For local athletes, getting back on the court has been a longer wait than first anticipated.
MONTPELIER — At Governor Phil Scott’s twice-weekly press conference on Friday, he announced that starting on Monday, schools and sports teams can expand practices to include limited contact, but also that outdoor sports, like Nordic skiing, can begin their seasons.
HOOSICK, N.Y. — The Hoosick Falls bowling team became the first New York state school in our area to compete since March, facing off against Berlin in a virtual match this week.
BENNINGTON — It’s in the early stages, but a local man is trying to bring an American Basketball Association team to Bennington.
VAL DI FIEMME, Italy — Jessie Diggins won a first title for the United States in cross-country skiing’s Tour de Ski on Sunday.
Two of the strongest local girls basketball teams of the 2010’s were the 2016-17 Mount Anthony team and the 2019-20 Cambridge squad. Both teams enjoyed a strong playoff run led by ultra-talented rosters. So, who would take the title as the best team of the decade in a theoretical one-game ma…
HOOSICK, N.Y. — The start has been delayed and things are going to look different, but the Hoosick Falls Central School bowling team will start its season on Tuesday.
MANCHESTER — Winter sports were the first affected by the coronavirus pandemic back in March, canceling winter championships throughout Vermont. What has followed over the past 10 months has been unprecedented.
BENNINGTON — A former member of the Southern Vermont Storm has been elected to the New England Football League Hall of Fame, becoming the third such inductee in the team’s history.
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Although my dog Abby considered an independent run for president against Donald Trump a year ago — she would have carried Vermont easily — I believe she is nonetheless a Republican. She has been raised in rural New England towns, with traditional small town values: individual initiative, sel…
President-elect Joe Biden's first and most urgent task will be to repair the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Given how badly the current president has bungled the job, it won't be hard to do better. Even so, the scale of the task is daunting.
MONTPELIER — Now that leaders are sworn in, speeches have been made and committees have been assigned, Vermont’s state government can really roll up its sleeves and get to work.
Within days of Vermont receiving its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine three weeks ago, concerns emerged regarding vaccine distribution, prioritization, and administration. The concerns were justifiable, given the incredibly high stakes we all face. With any initiative of this magnitude…
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