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Family members talk with a Cabot Funeral Home employee at the scene of an accident that killed Norma Sawyer, of Bridgewater, in Woodstock yesterday. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

Another Route 4 Tragedy: Bridgewater Woman, 84, Is Fourth to Die on Road Since March

Friday, May 17, 2013

Woodstock — A Bridgewater woman died yesterday morning after the sedan she was driving collided with a box truck on Route 4. It was the third fatal accident on that road in Woodstock and Hartford this year. Norma Sawyer, 84, was pronounced dead at the scene . Her death came one day after the fire chiefs of Woodstock and Hartford …

Police: Other Route 4 Wreck Thursday Due to Texting 

Friday, May 17, 2013

Quechee — A 22-year-old South Royalton woman faces two driving citations after crossing the center line and crashing into the guardrails along Route 4 yesterday morning while texting and driving, police said. Authorities said her 9-month-old son was also in the vehicle, a Toyota RAV4, but neither he nor his mother were injured in the single-car accident. Cassandra Storms was driving east on …

Green Mountain Lawmakers Pass Plate Reader Restrictions

Friday, May 17, 2013

Montpelier — Vermont lawmakers this week approved a bill to regulate for the first time police use of automatic license plate readers and require law enforcement to dispose of the potentially sensitive information after 18 months. The measure, which Gov. Peter Shumlin told the Valley News he is likely to sign, represented a compromise measure between civil liberties advocates, who worry that plate …

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Family members talk with a Cabot Funeral Home employee at the scene of an accident that killed Norma Sawyer, of Bridgewater, in Woodstock yesterday. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Another Route 4 Tragedy: Bridgewater Woman, 84, Is Fourth to Die on Road Since March
Volunteer Wendy WIndsor, of Hartford, talks over dress choices with Hartford High School senior Jordan Schaal, 18, while volunteer Betsy Durkee ,of Lebanon, back left, mends a dress and Hartford senior Rhyan Mavilla, back right, searches the racks at the Cinderella Project shop in the Raq-On Dance Studio on the Lebanon Mall Wednesday. The Upper Valley Cinderella Project is an all-volunteer effort providing a choice of about 250 donated prom dresses to girls attending the spring dances throughout the Upper Valley. The shop is open Wednesdays from 5 - 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 - 2 p.m. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Preparing for Prom
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Volunteer Wendy WIndsor, of Hartford, talks over dress choices with Hartford High School senior Jordan Schaal, 18, while volunteer Betsy Durkee ,of Lebanon, back left, mends a dress and Hartford senior Rhyan Mavilla, back right, searches the racks at the Cinderella Project shop in the Raq-On Dance Studio on the Lebanon Mall Wednesday. The Upper Valley Cinderella Project is an all-volunteer effort providing a choice of about 250 donated prom dresses to girls attending the spring dances throughout the Upper Valley. The shop is open Wednesdays from 5 - 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 - 2 p.m. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

Preparing for Prom

Friday, May 17, 2013

Volunteer Wendy WIndsor of Hartford talks over dress choices with Hartford High School senior Jordan Schaal, 18, while volunteer Betsy Durkee of Lebanon, back left, mends a dress and Hartford senior Rhyan Mavilla, back right, searches the racks …

Vt. Lawmakers Pass Police Records Bill

Friday, May 17, 2013

Montpelier — Vermont lawmakers have approved a bill requiring police to release records of their investigations, handing a significant victory to open-government advocates who have long criticized law enforcement for operating with little transparency. The bill, proposed by Gov. Peter Shumlin and backed by the American Civil Liberties …

Route 4 has seen two fatal accidents in the past three months. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

Rumble Strips Urged on Route 4

Friday, May 17, 2013

Woodstock — A pair of fire chiefs have proposed installing centerline rumble strips on sections of Route 4 after three people were killed in head-on collisions on the busy thoroughfare in recent months. Woodstock Fire Chief L.D. Sutherland …

Baking With Flour, Butter, Sugar and Plenty of Heart

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

All bakers know that there are a few key ingredients they can’t do without — unsalted butter and room temperature eggs, to name two. But according to pastry chef Gesine Bullock-Prado, who lives, bakes and writes in Hartford, …

Vermont Lawmakers Decriminalize Small Amounts of Pot, Hashish

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

White River Junction — The Vermont Legislature gave final approval yesterday to a bill that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana and hashish, clearing the way for the bill to be signed into law by …

George Ostler, of Hartford, is shown while hiking in Italy in the 1990s. (Family photograph)

A Life: George Johann Ostler, 1925 — 2013; ‘He Loved It Up Here. It Was His Heaven’

Monday, May 13, 2013

Hartford — The tall German with a boyish smile was rarely more in his element than when he was gliding down the slopes at the Dartmouth Skiway, as a group of students watched, eager to emulate his style …

Police Fault Other Driver; Hartford Victim Now Blamed in March 7 Crash That Killed 2

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Hartford — Police have now identified a different driver at fault in a Route 4 crash in March that killed two people. In a news release yesterday, police said “extensive examination of the physical evidence by the crash reconstruction team and additional interviews,” led them to conclude that …

Former Hartford Selectman Faces DUI Charge

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Hartford — The former Hartford Selectboard member who pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge in January is in trouble with the law again. Reginald Tatro, 63, was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence around 1 a.m. Thursday on Sykes Mountain Ave. in White River Junction, the …

Patience Hutt, of Hartland, Vt., in an undated photograph. Hutt was killed in a three-vehicle accident on Route 4 in Hartford, Vt., on May 9, 2013. (Family photograph)

Crash Victim ‘Had a Beautiful Smile and Was a Beautiful Soul’

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Hartland — Patience Hutt was the second of four children. She loved her animals and her kids, had a naturally cheery disposition and brought light to everyone’s lives. On Thursday, the 40-year-old Hartland woman died after her Subaru …

Rescue personnel work at the scene of a three-vehicle accident on Route 4 in Hartford yesterday afternoon. The driver of a Subaru station wagon was killed when her car collided head-on with an unloaded tractor-trailer. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

Route 4 Crash Claims Life: Hartland Woman Killed in Collision with Trailer

Friday, May 10, 2013

Hartford — A Hartland woman was killed after her Subaru collided with a horse trailer on a curve on Route 4 yesterday evening, police said, in a grisly wreck that snarled traffic for the evening commute. The woman, …