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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 homes and businesses in Vershire, but Route …

Rivendell District Passes Budget, Asbestos Abatement Project

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Orford — The Rivendell Interstate School District’s $9.5 million proposed budget didn’t face too much opposition last night, as voters passed the spending plan, 149-40. By voice, they also approved borrowing $495,000, for an asbestos abatement project, as well as $50,000 to be put in a capital needs reserve fund. The asbestos money, which only received a smattering of “no” votes, will be …

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. Orford ­— The Rivendell Interstate School District’s proposed 2013-14 budget of $9.5 million represents an …

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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
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Truck Purchase, Roads Dominate Vershire Debate

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Vershire — The costs of maintaining town roads took priority over the national debate about gun control yesterday when about 100 residents gathered for Town Meeting. When voters returned from a lunch at around 12:30 p.m., an article asking that the town of Vershire instruct federal and state …

Brian Boland of Post Mills and Jeff Johnson of Warwick, R.I., take off attached to a hot air balloon with a harness at Westshire Elementary School on Tuesday. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)

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 coach Brian Musty during an Oxbow girls lacrosse game in Chelsea in Spring 2011. (Valley News - Tris Wykes)

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 …

Vershire Will Address  Gun Control, Recycling

Monday, February 25, 2013

Vershire Town Meeting will be held March 5 at 10 a.m. in the Town Center. Voting for elected positions and budgets will occur during ballot voting from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Town Center. ∎ Vershire — A proposed expansion of recycling center hours, a request for …

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, …

A go-ahead basket in overtime by Rivendell left Woodsville’s Abby Simano, center, down in the dumps. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

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 …

Bernard John Moore

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Hanover, N.H. — Bernard J. (Ben) Moore, age 65, of Hanover, N.H., died unexpectedly on Feb. 3, 2013. Ben was born in 1947 in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Washington and Maryland with his parents, Irene Harriet (Barranger) Moore and Bernard Francis Moore (both of whom predeceased …

Betsy Taylor Foster poses as a model in Boston, circa 1939. Foster competed in the Miss America pageant in 1941, raised five children and worked in the Pentagon and Federal Aviation Administration. (Photograph courtesy Gene Foster)

A Life: Betsy Taylor Foster, 1923-2012; 'She Had a High Sense of History'

Monday, January 21, 2013

Vershire — Betsy Taylor Foster didn’t look like the type of person who would smuggle suspicious material onto airplanes. But during her time as an Federal Aviation Administration employee in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Chicago, …

Edward C. Grant

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Vershire, Vt. — Edward C. Grant, 94, died Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, at the Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn, Maine. He was born Feb. 12, 1918, in Glover, Vt. the son of Clarence and Elsie (Dickenson) Grant. He attended school in Thetford and served in the U.S. Army …

Letter: Thanks to Morey’s Sixth-Grade Band

Saturday, December 29, 2012

To the Editor: The Orford Senior Center wishes to thank the sixth-graders and their music teacher, Ms. Blake, of the Rivendell District’s Samuel Morey School for entertaining us with their 6th Sense band. They were terrific and brightened our spirits with their Christmas and rock songs. Mary L. …