Tuesday, May 14, 2013
South Royalton — Pushing back against higher taxes, a gymnasium packed with roughly 350 residents voted last night to cut the school budget for the 2014 school year, overturning the initial budget vote from the March Town Meeting. The amended $6.0 million budget, which was proposed by resident …
Saturday, May 11, 2013
South Royalton — Voters Monday night could decide whether to cut the 2013-14 school budget after a group of frustrated residents petitioned for a reconsideration vote, hoping to ratchet back spending increases that were approved in March. The $6.2 million spending plan, which represents a 2.3 percent increase …
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
South Royalton — David Ainsworth leaned against his tractor and pointed downhill at the long, flat pasture wedged between the White River and Route 14. “This?” Ainsworth asked, sweeping his hand across a dusty path. “This all depends …
Sunday, May 5, 2013
South Royalton — This is not your parents’ school lunch menu. On a recent Tuesday at the South Royalton School, students filing through the lunch line could choose a hot meal of diced chicken in a marinara sauce …
Monday, May 6, 2013
South Royalton — A parked car rolled into the chapel at the Joseph Smith historical site early Thursday evening after its emergency brake apparently failed, according to Vermont State Police. Police said the 1997 Nissan Pathfinder was not …
Friday, May 3, 2013
South Royalton School students watch as senior Melissa Murawski is carried to on a stretcher to an ambulance by two South Royalton Fire Department firefighters during a mock crash in front of South Royalton School ion May 2, …
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Bethel firefighters Jacoby Young, left, and Jon Hodgdon spray water and look over what is left of a shed fire in Royalton yesterday. Owner Gair White was working in the woods when a friend called him to tell …
Sunday, April 28, 2013
South Royalton — The owners of Worthy Burger, a successful restaurant that opened last August in the old railroad freight depot here, are planning for a second restaurant and catering business this summer in Woodstock. Worthy Kitchen and Worthy Catering will open in late July or August, one …
Friday, April 19, 2013
Moviemaking isn’t what Myra and Jim Hudson do. Jim is a seventh-generation horseshoer; Myra stays home with their two boys, and recently had a solo show of her oil paintings. But they are consummate do-it-yourselfers, living in a …
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
South Royalton — Prior to the South Royalton School baseball team’s 3-1 win over Danville at Alumni Field yesterday, Royals coach Mike Ballou was still speaking with umpires at home plate when his team conducted their pre-game rally …
By Don's Early Light
