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Dairy farmer Corey Chapman, of Tunbridge, plants alfalfa in a rented field in Royalton to replace last year’s corn crop. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

‘It’s Very Serious Right Now’: Spring Drought Worrisome Sign for Upper Valley Farmers

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 on if we can get some rain here pretty soon.” For Ainsworth, “this” is 440 acres of farmland straddling the Sharon and …

Alan Clark, of Sharon, prunes an apple tree on a property in Barnard earlier this week. Clark, who has been pruning trees for thirty years, said he has been pruning this particular tree since it was a sapling. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

Branching Out

Friday, April 26, 2013

Alan Clark, of Sharon, prunes an apple tree on a property in Barnard earlier this week. Clark, who has been pruning trees for thirty years, said he has been pruning this particular tree since it was a sapling. Valley News — Sarah Priestap …

Carlos Garcia talks with his attorney Sandy Nelson in Windsor District Court in White River Junction. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)

Sharon Man in Auto Fatality Case Pulls Guilty Plea

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

White River Junction — A Sharon resident charged with drunk driving in a 2011 collision that killed one person and seriously injured another backed out of a hearing yesterday in which he was expected to plead guilty. The move by Carlos Garcia, 20, whose decision to withdraw from the hearing marks the fifth …

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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
Oxbow Union High girls lacrosse captain Dilan Clements leads her team in a cheer at the close of practice in Bradford, Vt., yesterday. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Oxbow Scoring Aces Get Help From Their Friends
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John Sears pulls the tire off a Toyota while performing an inspection at his shop in Sharon earlier this month. Sears said Vermont’s new inspection procedure may be more efficient, but he is also worried about the proposed rule’s effect on his customers. “I’m hoping there’s going to be some wiggle room, at least initially,’’ he said. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

Vt. Inspections May Go Electric

Sunday, April 21, 2013

White River Junction — Vermont may soon require vehicle safety and emission-control inspections to be conducted through a state-approved computer system, a proposal that has some station owners and technicians worried about added costs — for their shops …

Crowd Funding Supports Five Area River Projects

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Pomfret — Five river restoration projects in New Hampshire and Vermont have received a total of $7,550 in donations through CleanWaterFuture.org, a website that links conservation projects with prospective donors. All of the work will take place in the Connecticut River watershed. The Vermont projects are on Broad …

Katarennah Hilliker, 6, of Hartland, plays on the tire swing at April Dyer’s day care in Sharon while Hilliker’s mother picks up her brother Drew, 4 (second from right). Also pictured is Cole MacDonald, 3, of Sharon. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

Sundial in Sharon 

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Katarennah Hilliker, 6, of Hartland, plays on the tire swing at April Dyer’s day care in Sharon while Hilliker’s mother picks up her brother Drew, 4 (second from right). Also pictured is Cole MacDonald, 3, of Sharon. Valley …

Young Writers: The Sound of Thunder; Poetry That Rhymes

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Each week, Young Writers Project receives several hundred submissions from students in Vermont and New Hampshire in response to writing prompts and selects the best for publication here and in 21 other newspapers and on vpr.net. This week, we publish responses to the prompts, Rhyming Poetry; and General …

Energy Challenge Sets Ambitious Goal to Weatherize Vermont Homes

Monday, April 1, 2013

Sharon — At Town Meeting, where the Sharon Energy Committee gave a presentation about the importance of weatherizing homes, committee chairwoman Dee Gish recalled speaking to a woman whose home was often drafty, but she couldn’t think of an efficient way to seal it. “I guess it’s not …

Sharon eighth-grader Rebekah Lamb, 13, giggles as her friends fool around behind her as she poses for a snapshot at The Sharon Academy on Saturday. Rebekah was dressed as Mary Lincoln for the middle school’s circus show. (Valley News - Libby March)

Sharon Students Step Right Up for a Show

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

A nother mud season has seen The Sharon Academy’s middle school classes run away to the circus for two   weeks, with the help of a bona fide circus arts pro. The seventh annual Middle School Circus, performed …

Letter: Reviewing Role of Wind Power

Monday, March 25, 2013

To the Editor: The Vermont Senate is scheduled to vote on a bill today that would require industrial wind developments to go through the Act 250 process. I think this makes sense for many reasons — fairness, transparency, equality — but primarily to determine, in a rational, scientific …

Sharon Still ‘Wallowing’ in Irene Repairs  

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Sharon — Facing no change in the amount of taxes that property owners as a group will pay in the coming year, voters at Town Meeting yesterday agreed to spend $1,165,567 on municipal-related operations. While the town will spend $122,000 more overall than in fiscal year 2012-13 — …

Sharon OKs School Increase

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Sharon — Voters last night passed a school budget that carries with it a 10.7 percent increase over the current school year’s spending but turned down a $52,000 article for safety and security measures that many found to be unfocused. The reason for defeating the security article, according …

Fritz Weiss, of Sharon, prunes an apple tree in his yard earlier this week. “I’m not really doing very well up here, but by god, I feel like I’m almost done,” said Weiss. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

Lopping Apple Branches

Friday, March 1, 2013

Fritz Weiss, of Sharon, prunes an apple tree in his yard earlier this week. “I’m not really doing very well up here, but by god, I feel like I’m almost done,” said Weiss. Valley News — James M. …