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Grantham’s Evan Russell sweeps downed pine needles out of his putting path on Lake Morey Country Club’s 10th green during the first round of the Vermont Open yesterday. The tournament’s afternoon golfers, including the Kimball Union Academy-graduate Russell, had to play through a pair of weather delays. (Valley News - Greg Fennell)

Hanover Graduate Hovers Near Lead on Vermont Open's First Day

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Fairlee — Benny Hayes is smitten. Somewhere during the college search process, the recent Hanover High School graduate — a member of the Marauders’ back-to-back NHIAA Division II state champions the past two Octobers — discovered the University of Puget Sound. Hayes applied to the Tacoma, Wash., college with a couple of friends; unrecruited by a college golf program, the …

Simple Ceremony at Rivendell

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Orford — After a graduation speech, it was time for a graduation song. Two soon-to-be Rivendell Academy graduates, Margaret McCormack and Molly Pierson, got up from their seats in the high school’s gym and moved toward the front of the stage, facing hundreds of friends and family packed into the floor seats and …

Letter: Paying for Bloated Bureaucracy

Thursday, June 13, 2013

To the Editor: I believe the most effective, responsible and responsive government is government closest to the people. Would it have made a difference if the IRS employees partying in Los Angles and elsewhere would have needed to explain their excessive spending to their neighbors? I would like to think so. I would like to think that they would have been more responsive …

Health Insurance Drives Increase in Rivendell’s $9.5M Budget

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Voters in the Rivendell Interstate School District towns of Fairlee, Orford, Vershire and West Fairlee will decide on the 2013-14 budget at a meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Rivendell Academy in Orford. Voting for the district’s elected positions will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the academy. …

Laura Page

Friday, March 8, 2013

Fairlee, Vt. — Laura Page, 86, (Known to friends and family as Mae) died Tuesday, March 6, 2013 at Brookside Nursing Home in White River Jct., Vt. after a brief illness. Mae was born December 6, 1926 in Groton, Vt. the daughter of Herman and Ellen (Page) Williams. …

Longtime First Constable Calls It Quits in Fairlee 

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Fairlee — Leon C. Marsh Jr. borrowed lyrics from a country tune during Town Meeting yesterday as he wrapped up 481/2 years as the town’s first constable. “I’m going to smile and wave and sit back on a …

School Notes: Hot Air, and Big Ideas in West Fairlee

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Even the students least excited to be at Westshire Elementary School last Tuesday morning couldn’t help but be mesmerized by the scene that awaited them, as Post Mills balloonist Brian Boland and his friend Jeff Johnson inflated a …

Oxbow High Teacher Is Terminated

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Bradford — Oxbow High School gym teacher Brian Musty, who faces charges of sexually assaulting a former student, has been fired, Orange East Supervisory Union Superintendent Don Johnson said, after school officials completed an internal investigation into his …

Fairlee May See Large Increase To Pave Roads

Friday, February 22, 2013

Fairlee Town Meeting will be held Tuesday, March 5, at 10 a.m. at the Samuel Morey Elementary School Gymnasium to act upon 13 warning articles, including approval of the town’s general and highway operating budget. Nominations to town offices will be taken from the floor. ∎  Fairlee — …

Rivendell Residents to Hold Forum on School Spending

Friday, February 15, 2013

Orford — Residents concerned about their high tax bills to the Rivendell Interstate School District have planned a forum tomorrow to discuss why school spending continues to rise despite declining enrollment. The K-12 Rivendell district has seen enrollment fall by about 100 students in its three Vermont towns, …

Gary W. Stone

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Corinth, Vt. — Gary W. Stone, 63, of Corinth died unexpectedly Monday, February 11, 2013 in Bradford, Vt. He was born in Hanover, N.H. on July 20, 1949, the son of William and Geraldine (Batchelder) Stone. He attended schools in Bradford and was a graduate of Bradford Academy. …

Rivendell Basketball Tips Woodsville

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Woodsville — Points were hard to come by during last night’s game between the Rivendell Academy and Woodsville High girls basketball teams. The visiting Raptors prevailed in overtime, 34-31, during a contest in which neither side gave much …

Sprinkler Soaks Fairlee Town Hall with 6,000 Gallons of Water

Thursday, January 10, 2013

(Originally posted online Thursday, Jan. 10. Updated to reflect the Jan. 11 edition of the Valley News.) Fairlee — A waterfall doesn’t belong in the middle of Town Hall. Neither does a river or a salmon ladder. Those, …