by Luke Vidic A pre-pandemic survey of Lake Region Union High School students revealed higher rates of bullying and offensive language by witnessed non-white students and students of marginalized sexualities. The results were made public at Monday’s Lake Re... More »
by Leanne Harple WEST GLOVER — About a dozen people braved the extreme temperatures Saturday afternoon to gather in the steamy, warm Parker Pie restaurant here for a tasty meet and greet with Congressional hopeful State Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale of Burlington... More »
by Luke Vidic DERBY—Despite what was said at last week’s Derby select board meeting, Stanstead is not turning off water to residents on the U.S. side of Beebe Plain. Rather, the town of Stanstead, Quebec, wants to rework its current agreement with Beebe Pl... More »
by Leanne Harple Sarah Waring of East Montpelier may have just stolen the title of being Glover Community School’s most distinguished alumna. Ms. Waring, who spent her youth in Glover, was appointed by President Joe Biden to be the U.S. Department of Agricul... More »
Maura Gahan (red jacket), falls to her knees after meeting disaster head on without despair, in one of “Six Disaster Confrontation & Mitigation Dances” choreographed by Peter Schumann, founder of the Bread and Puppet Theater. Fellow performers (left to right)... More »
by Sylvia C. Dodge HOLLAND — A new vibrancy has recently been growing in Holland. Out of the ashes of a very difficult decision residents made to close their elementary school at the end of the 2018-’19 academic year, its building has been given new life as... More »
by Joseph Gresser DERBY LINE—Law enforcement officers from most of the agencies in the area converged on a Caswell Avenue apartment building Monday morning after several people phoned in reports of shots being fired. A State Police press release said the ca... More »
by Sylvia C. Dodge Without plants there would be no food, no animals, no people — no life. But here is an interesting fact: although more than half of the species listed under the federal Endangered Species Act are plants, they receive less than 5 percent of ... More »
by Joseph Gresser Governor Phil Scott took a Tuesday off to address the state Legislature, but his December 28 press briefing provided enough fodder for thought to last a couple of weeks. The state, he said, expected a supply of home COVID test kits to be di... More »
by Sylvia C. Dodge CRAFTSBURY COMMON — Users of the water system that serves Craftsbury Common were notified on December 28 to stop drinking the water. The notice was prompted when a level of PFAS chemicals was found in one of the system’s two wells that ex... More »
by Sylvia C. Dodge EAST CRAFTSBURY — There has been a lot of activity at the John Woodruff Simpson Memorial Library in East Craftsbury since it reopened after being closed for about a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Historic photographs, documents, and 16... More »
