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Local Students Win Writing Awards

Monday, May 20, 2013

Three local students were honored recently for their entries in the 2013 PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest, held by Vermont Public Television.The annual contest is open to students from kindergarten to third grade. Keira E. Kegelman, a kindergartener from Hartland, won her age group with her story “Best Friends Eat Their Veggies.” First-grade student Madeleine Thaxton, of East Thetford, earned …

Carley Malloy, of Thetford, was one of the six winners of the Young Writers Project Farm Project contest. (Courtesy photograph.)

Young Writers Project: Thetford Student Wins Writing Prize

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

This week, Young Writers Project announces the six winners of the Farm Project writing challenge. Congratulations to David Amouretti, Grade 5, Thomas Fleming School, Essex Junction; Callista Bushee, Grade 8, Home School, East Wallingford; Kelsey Eddy, Grade 9, Mill River High School; Saskia Kiely, Grade 7, Vergennes Union High School; Carley Malloy, Grade …

A crew grinds up pavement on Route 113 in West Fairlee on the way the Vershire in preparation for resurfacing. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

Fiber-Optic Internet, Fixed Road Finally Reach Long-Ignored Town

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Vershire — By the end of the summer, life is likely to speed up in this tiny Orange County town tucked into the narrow valley where the Ompompanoosuc River begins its 25-mile run to the Connecticut. If work continues on schedule, not only will very high-speed broadband Internet be available to half the …

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Dave Dempsey takes advantage of a nice day to clean out his culvert in Thetford earlier this week. He has been working on the culvert cleaning project off and on for a few days. (Valley News - Libby March)

Culvert Clean-up

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Dave Dempsey takes advantage of a nice day to clean out his culvert in Thetford earlier this week. He has been working on the culvert cleaning project off and on for a few days. Valley News — Libby …

Thetford Debates Giving ATV Riders Access

Monday, May 20, 2013

Thetford — After listening to nearly two hours of public comment last night on a proposed ordinance allowing ATV use on class 3 and 4 roads, the Selectboard agreed to meet again Monday and incorporate some of the revisions recommended by the public. But the board did not …

Judge: Thetford Stun Gun Case Can Proceed

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Chelsea — A judge has ruled that a Vermont State Police trooper who fired a stun gun at an unarmed Thetford man and killing him, is not entitled to legal immunity in a lawsuit filed by the man’s girlfriend. In a blow to state police’s defense, Orange Superior …

Aaron Dugan of Grafton, Michelle Wakefield of Candia, N.H, Susan Perry of Newport and Lindsay Dugan of Grafton join in a candlelight vigil at A Walk For Boston in Newport last night for victims of the Monday’s marathon bombings event. (Valley News - James M. Patterson)

Highway Patrols Reached to Upper Valley

Saturday, April 20, 2013

West Lebanon — The manhunt watched around the world yesterday stretched as far as the Upper Valley: Vermont State Police troopers fanned out around border areas, and to Hartford, in the event suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar A. …

Thetford Woman Testifies  At Vt. House Stun Gun Panel

Friday, April 19, 2013

Montpelier — The loved ones of a man who died in a confrontation with Vermont state police last year pleaded yesterday for stronger controls for the use of stun guns by police, saying he would be alive today if he’d had access to his mental health counselor. The …

An unidentified Boston Marathon runner, center, is reunited with loved ones near Copley Square following an explosion in Boston yesterday. (Associated Press - Winslow Townson)

Upper Valley Reacts to Marathon Explosions: ‘Too Close' to Home  

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

A world that has grown increasingly dangerous and frightening came close to home yesterday, as hundreds of Upper Valley residents worried about friends and loved ones running or attending the Boston Marathon, including some who wound up near …

Thayer School student Valerie Hanson shows Thetford first-graders Noah Branchflower, left, and Jack Cramer how to make a sound by running a finger along the rim of a wine glass. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)

School Notes: Thayer Students Get Elementary With Science

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Of all the musical instruments the first- and second-grade students at Thetford Elementary School played after school last Wednesday, their preferred instrument seemed to be their own voices. After a long school day, running around and being noisy …

Northeast Woodland Training Inc. offered a chain saw safety course last weekend at Oxbow High School in Bradford, Vt. Known as the Game of Logging, the two-day course covered chain saw maintenance and tree-felling skills. Sally Wilson, of Ryegate, Vt., ducks under a fence on the way to the hands-on portion of the course. (Valley News - Libby March)

Learning About Logging

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Northeast Woodland Training Inc. offered a chain saw safety course last weekend at Oxbow High School in Bradford, Vt. Known as the Game of Logging, the two-day course covered chain saw maintenance and tree-felling skills. Valley News photographs …

Orange East Supervisory Union Superintendent Don Johnson, left, and Oxbow Principal Larry Walsh at a public hearing last November. (Valley News - Ryan Dorgan)

Orange East Superintendent To Step Down

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Bradford, Vt. — The superintendent of the Orange East Supervisory Union has tendered his resignation to the School Board, effective July 1. Don Johnson said in a phone interview yesterday that he was retiring from an education career …

Personal Chefs: In the Upper Valley, Some Cooks Bring the Dishes Home

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

You wouldn’t know it from looking at photographs of Brian Kasten in a chef’s standard white coat, but the cook and owner of Supper Solution in Thetford never intended to go into the food business. As a geology …