Monday, 7/6/09
NEWS:
Community Mourns Slain Woodstock Woman
Woodstock -- As if Vermont's skies wept along with the people who loved her, rain poured on the Upper Valley every day after Raynetta Woodward was killed Wednesday afternoon. See full story
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NEWS:
Honduras Bars Return Of Zelaya
Tegucigalpa, Honduras -- Ousted President Manuel Zelaya was kept from landing at the main Honduras airport yesterday because the runway was blocked by military vehicles and groups of soldiers, some of them clashing with a crowd of thousands outside. See full story
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CLOSE-UP:
Stinging Pain
A phone call in May from a friend in pain drew Reyah Carlson back to the Upper Valley. The next day she left her home in Connecticut and has not looked back. See full story
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EDITORIAL:
Out of Iraq
Six Years and $700 Billion Later
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As the United States prepared to invade Iraq in 2003, then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell famously warned that “if you break it, you own it.” In many ways, the United States did break Iraq, ousting Saddam Hussein's quarter-century regime without ensuring that a stable government would take its place. That ushered in a bloody, six-year occupation that cost the lives of more than 4,300 U.S. troops and nearly $700 billion. Americans will always bear responsibility for this misbegotten war of choice. But now, at last, the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraqi cities marks the beginning of the country's return to its rightful owners -- Iraqis. See full story
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For complete story, see today's Valley News
NEWS: Repairs to Save Shaker Dam
Enfield -- After years of growing neglect and questions over its ownership, the 170 year-old Smith Pond Dam in Enfield is set for repair work that could begin as early as mid-July.
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A LIFE: ‘They Knew That She Cared About Them'
Woodstock -- By the time Bob Bibby started his career at Woodstock Middle School in the mid-1960s, Ruth Lewis had been teaching for nearly 30 years.
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NEWS: Jackson May Be Far Richer in Death
Los Angeles -- Michael Jackson was one of the most famous people on Earth and also one of the most famously broke. Many people who crossed paths with the performer in the final years of his life -- business advisers, lawyers, a Tennessee art dealer and even a Bahraini sheik -- accused him of skipping out on bills. Jackson came within days of losing Neverland ranch to a foreclosure auction last year and he died owing more than $400 million to various financial institutions.
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