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POWNAL — Addressing errors on hundreds of mailed annual town reports has led to cancellation of the Pownal March 2 election, which will have to be rewarned.
MONTPELIER — The next group of Vermonters can soon begin signing up to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The Vermont State Colleges System Board of Trustees on Monday agreed to a wholesale transformation of the system, passing a resolution to merg…
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BENNINGTON — Voters in Bennington will elect three people to the Select Board on March 2, filling two three-year seats and one one-year seat.
BENNINGTON — Proposed amendments to the town’s land use and development regulations are expected to move next to the Select Board for possible…
A section of a bill greatly expanding financial aid eligibility for child care and increasing early educator wages calls for a feasibility stu…
MONTPELIER — The House and Senate’s rules committees on Tuesday took different paths to reach the same conclusion: Due to the COVID-19 pandemi…
Last year, Trout Unlimited (TU) and Bennington County Conservation District (BCCD) received a Vermont Watershed Grant from Vermont Department …
Vermont Veterans Home Board of Trustees Executive Session meeting, 1 p.m. Monday, Feb 22, via Zoom, agenda: personnel.
BENNINGTON — Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s (SVHC) Medical Matters Weekly with Dr. Trey Dobson, a weekly interactive, multiplatform medical-themed talk show that launched February 10, will feature two Emergency nurses—Alexandra Chaffin, RN, and Jill Maynard, RN—as guests on its Feb. 24 s…
CHESTER — You could call it a case of striking while the mitten is hot.
As you hit the trails this winter, take a close look at Vermont’s forests. Some trees are threatened by invasive forest insects, and in some places, you might be the only one to spot them!
BENNINGTON — Bennington County Habitat for Humanity has announced that it will hold a model home-building contest open to all students in Bennington County. The deadline for entries is March 1.
The Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation at Hoosick Falls has announced that six students have graduated from its Licensed Nursing Assistant program. The students just completed and passed their three-week LNA course, and are officially LNAs.
In the 2013 Bennington Historical Society program “Memories of a Mill Girl,” Anne Bugbee tells the story of Mary Palmer, a young girl who arrived in America in 1859 and began working in a cotton mill in North Bennington as a spooler, recording her experiences in the 1906 book “Reflections of…
DELANSON, N.Y. -- The Cambridge girls basketball season got its season off to a flying start on Tuesday night, rushing past Duanesburg, 84-49 …
MANCHESTER -- The Burr and Burton girls basketball team took advantage of their size advantage in the front court on Tuesday night, scoring the majority of their points in the paint in a 66-42 win over Otter Valley.
BENNINGTON - Rutland applied the pressure early and often at Kates Gym Tuesday night, defeating Mount Anthony 57-28 in girls hoop action.
MANCHESTER - The Burr and Burton boys basketball team seems to have a knack of playing in closely contested games.
BENNINGTON -- With four of their top players out with injuries, the Mount Anthony boys came into Monday night's matchup with Rutland a bit undermanned.
MANCHESTER — Five different players scored for the Burr and Burton boys hockey team on Saturday as the Bulldogs improved to 3-0 on the year with a 5-2 victory over Lyndon.
DORSET — Surprisingly, having no fans in attendance during sporting events throughout the state has felt more normal than I anticipated at times.
CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. — After weeks of back and forth — will they or won’t they be able to play? — the Cambridge girls basketball team has received the green light to begin its season, one that will start Tuesday against Duanesburg.
DORSET — The Long Trail girls basketball team is young this year. Looking at Friday’s matchup against West Rutland — considered to be one of the better Division IV teams in the state — the Mountain Lions were heavy underdogs.
MAU boys secure first win of the season
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There is a great deal of nonsense being written and spoken about this week’s power failures in Texas, which left a number of people dead and millions without power or potable water, sometimes for days.
I’ve heard this criticism of higher education inside Vermont and out: University leaders are using the pandemic as an excuse to implement large budget cuts they were planning to make anyway.
Just as nobody’s mind has ever been changed through a Facebook political debate, no good will come out of a public grammar correction.
As a healthcare provider, I know the quickest way out of the COVID pandemic is to get everyone a vaccine as soon as possible. The Vermont Department of Health, together with the federal government, is expanding access to vaccines at every opportunity and working, locally and statewide, to en…
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