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Jon Gover jokes with Danny Dover while fishing for trout at Texas Falls in Hancock, Vt., earlier this month. The pair have been getting together for more than a year. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen)

Making Quality Time: Program Links Youngsters, Mentors

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Bethel — Jon Gover spots his mentor, Danny Dover, and breaks into a run. “Danny!” he shouts, running across his backyard. “My dog had puppies!” Jon, 11, is wearing jeans, a black T-shirt, and a pair of goofy glasses with plastic eyeballs dangling on metal springs. Dover, 63, compliments him on the glasses and they head to Jon’s “man cave,” …

Vermont Castings Parent Company To Be Sold

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Bethel — The private-equity group that owns Vermont Castings announced last week that a letter of intent had been signed to sell the parent company to another investment group. Vermont Castings has manufacturing and distribution facilities in Randolph and Bethel with approximately 200 employees working at both plants. It is part of the Vermont Castings Group based in Paris, Ky. No details of …

Whitcomb High School senior Tim Patch, left of center in black, says the Pledge of Allegiance flanked by fellow students and staff members in Bethel yesterday morning. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

Leadership Through Example: Whitcomb High Senior Inspires Others With Daily Pledge of Allegiance

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Bethel — For nearly four years, Tim Patch said the Pledge of Allegiance by himself, from time to time standing in front of the flag outside his high school, saying his piece and heading back into the building. Then in February, the Whitcomb High School senior was joined by a teacher. The pledge …

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Oxbow’s Nate Smith slides into home for a run during the Olympians’ home game with Randolph yesterday. Oxbow prevailed in eight innings, 4-3. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

O’s Nip Ghosts

Randolph at Oxbow baseball in Bradford, Vt., on May 21, 2013. Oxbow won, 4-3. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

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In West Fairlee yesterday morning, Shay Paffenroth reaches for the fish she just caught, which she called a “pumpkin seed.” Paffenroth, of West Topsham, Vt., and her husband, David, were fishing in Lake Fairlee for the first time. “A lot of people don’t like catching small fish,” she said, laughing. “I don’t give a damn, as long as I catch something.” (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)

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Going With the Grain

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Eric Dutil carries a pole to push grain out of pockets in his truck while unloading at Green Mountain Feeds in Bethel on Tuesday. Valley News — James M. Patterson …

Virginia Perkins, 80, walks her 7-year-old beagle Kobe down the road near her property in Bethel yesterday. She has lived on the property since she was born. She and Kobe take a walk every day. “His favorite thing is to chase red squirrels,” Perkins said. (Valley News - Libby March)

Late Lies the Winter

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Virginia Perkins, 80, walks her 7-year-old beagle Kobe down the road near her property in Bethel yesterday. She has lived on the property since she was born . She and Kobe take a walk every day. “His favorite …

Bethel Ousts Chairman

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Bethel — The turnover in this town’s leadership continued yesterday as a packed Town Meeting turned out an incumbent selectman for the second year in a row. Yesterday’s turnout of 305 voters was the highest in recent memory, and most were there to vote for Carl Russell, a …

School Budget Up 8.5% in Bethel

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Bethel Town Meeting is scheduled for March 5, at 10 a.m. in Bethel Town Hall. The School District Meeting is scheduled for March 5 at 7 p.m., also in the Town Hall. ∎ Bethel — At an eventful Town Meeting last year, residents voted out an incumbent selectman …

Mikel Brady during a Sept. 8, 2009, hearing in White River Junction, Vt. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)

White River Valley Man Charged in Shooting of N.C. Police

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

A Randolph area fugitive who has been on the run since October was arrested in North Carolina yesterday after allegedly shooting a North Carolina State Trooper multiple times during a traffic stop on Monday night. Mikel E. Brady, …

In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 photo, hatchery manager Ken Gillette stands in the incubator room at the White River National Fish Hatchery in Bethel, Vt. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says repairs to the Bethel fish hatchery damaged by flooding from Tropical Storm Irene are almost complete and it should resume raising fish in March or April. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Bethel Fish Hatchery Nearly Fixed

Monday, January 21, 2013

Bethel — The tanks that are normally swarming with fish at the national hatchery in Bethel are empty, but the repairs needed after Tropical Storm Irene flooding inundated the facility are almost done and officials say biologists should …

High School Roundup: Raiders Sweep to CVC Ski Crowns

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Newbury, N.H. — With Emily Perryman and Kenny Weitzman producing big days, the Lebanon High ski team topped three foes yesterday at Mount Sunapee to take the Connecticut Valley Conference championship races. Perryman swept the slalom and giant …

Action on Bethel Gravel Pit Plan Put Off Until at Least June

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Bethel — Property abutters of a proposed gravel pit shed tears at last night’s Development Review Board meeting, contending they would be forced to move if the pit was approved. Board members postponed any further action until their June 11 meeting, saying the application submitted by Raymond and …

Bethel Gravel Pit Plan Kicks Up Dust

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Bethel — A Vermont couple who own and operate a gravel pit in Stockbridge want to dig another pit for their business along the east side of Route 107 in Bethel. The proposed 125-acre gravel and rock extraction and processing pit isn’t going over well with abutters though, …

VTC Nursing Candidates Invited to Join Honor Society

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Randolph — More than 100 candidates in the associate degree in nursing program at Vermont Technical College have been invited to join the top honor society for associate degree nurses in the country. The college’s newly formed chapter of the Alpha Delta Nu Nursing Honor Society, founded by …

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