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By JOHN P. GREGG

SOUTH ROYALTON — Vermont Law School plans to paint over a mural in its student center that highlights Vermont’s role in the Underground Railroad and the abolitionist movement after members of the law school community objected to its depictions of...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

RUTLAND — It was almost two years ago when Vanessa Wall examined the financial records of her family’s small business and discovered something that she says made her “whole world fall apart.”Ryan Wall, her business partner and husband of 13 years, had...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

From 1938 to the early 1950s, the Valley Street Dam was the place in be in Springfield, Vt., in the summer.Constructed specifically to create a swimming hole, the dam was where families went to be together and where teenagers would hang out, where a...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

CHELSEA — A 62-year-old Randolph man has pleaded not guilty to accusations he sexually assaulted two children and secretly recorded several children and adults in his home, according to court documents.Michael Hartigan was arraigned last week in...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

ROYALTON — The Royalton man charged with a fatal shooting early Tuesday morning is claming self defense.Attorneys for Francis Phelps III say the 28-year-old was protecting himself and his family when he killed his mother’s ex-boyfriend outside of a...

By SARAH EARLE

On a visit to Brandeis University Press a few months ago, Doug Tifft, former production coordinator for University Press of New England, made a heart-warming discovery: The entire UPNE archive was on display in the new director’s office and all up and...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

CROYDON — The town police chief stripped down to his briefs and boots and left the Croydon town offices — and his job — after he was ousted by the Selectboard on Tuesday night.The three-member board voted unanimously to abolish the police department,...

By ALEX HANSON

Stories don’t always follow an easy trajectory from beginning to middle to end. Life doubles back on itself and what might look like a conclusion turns out to be just another plot point.Here’s an example: In October 2016, Jeff Sharlet was in a small...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A teenage girl stood at the podium in Windsor Superior Court on Wednesday morning and in a shaky voice recalled the moment she learned a former South Royalton School principal had been secretly recording her at his house.“It’s a...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WOODSVILLE — Cottage Hospital CEO Maria Ryan has made headlines due to her friendship with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whom she accompanied to a state dinner at the White House in September.And her appearances with Giuliani, who has become...

By SARAH EARLE

In the new Netflix movie, Dolemite Is My Name, inspiration strikes the young black comedian Rudy Ray Moore, played by Eddie Murphy, while he’s watching a movie in the theater. It’s not that the film sparks his imagination. Quite the opposite. It bores...

By TIM CAMERATO

WEST LEBANON — A Grantham contractor hopes to revive a long-vacant restaurant space at Lebanon Municipal Airport, as well as the city’s former status as a craft beer destination.David Albright is in talks with the city to lease about 2,000 square feet...

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVER — Dartmouth College football coach Buddy Teevens usually spots his wife, Kirsten, during the latter stages of his team’s practices on Memorial Field.Kirsten Teevens often arrives to chat and bring her husband dinner in a small bag. Often it’s...

By ALEX HANSON

It is a measure of how far comics have risen in stature that they are now being used to teach schoolchildren and adults alike how American democracy is supposed to function.Or is it a measure of how diminished our government is that cartooning has to...

By JOHN P. GREGG

ORANGE — Road crews in Orange and Canaan scrambled to repair washed-out roads and bridges on Friday after more than 4 inches of rain — and over 6 inches in at least one count — fell across southeastern Grafton County the night before.Flash flooding on...

By JORDAN CUDDEMI

GRAFTON — While authorities publicly revealed the fate of a long-missing New Hampshire woman just this week, her family was told months ago that her remains had been located and she was deceased, according to one of her relatives.Trish Haynes’ remains...

By TRIS WYKES

LEBANON — Brandon Little was inconspicuous at Lebanon High on Saturday, watching the Twin State all-star boys lacrosse game in a flannel shirt and a baseball cap while leaning on a chain-link fence.The 43-year old, however, had an outsized impact...

By JORDAN CUDDEMI

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Chelsea man who was sentenced to 25 years to life for his role in the 2001 stabbing deaths of two Dartmouth College professors has withdrawn his request to get out of prison early following objections from the victims’ family.James...

By TRIS WYKES

For the past couple of years, whenever Emmanuel College (Mass.) men’s lacrosse coach Trevor Craven has hosted a prime recruit on campus, it’s been Ben Hartig-Orr he’s had show the prospect around.“He can talk to anybody,” said the Saints’ second-year...

By JORDAN CUDDEMI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Windsor Superior Court judge on Wednesday sentenced Gregory Smith to 13 to 15 years in prison for the fatal shooting four years ago of a Springfield, Vt., father who was upset about suspected drug dealing in the...