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By MARION UMPLEBY

BRADFORD, Vt. — A driver from Maine significantly damaged a wooden footbridge used by students at Bradford Elementary School when he drove his vehicle onto the bridge last month.

By ALEX HANSON

NEWBURY, Vt. — On a recent warm Thursday morning, four students at the Newbury School of Weaving were performing an activity once so common it would have been widely understood: They were “dressing” looms in preparation to start weaving.

Oxbow High School Class of 2025: Owen L. Andrus; Andrew Davis Barrett; Caleigh Elizabeth Bean; Isibeal Kate Bohan; Summer Louise Bolles; Anastase Dee Bourgeois; Aud rey L. Bowen; Samant ha Nancy Brist ow; Lynzi Stella Brochu; Cooper Jonathan Brunet; Aundrea Jaidyn Blais Burke; Alexander James Daigle; Lolita Malayla Danis; Ethan Neil Davis; Liliana J. Dicks; John Lincoln Drugach IV; Maggie Mae  Ellsworth; Ethan Philip Emerson; Violet May Farnham; Chase R. Fischer; Lily Faith Gendron; William Harvey Gravlin; Kaylie A. Hathaway; Aiden Attilio Hervey; Emma Cheyenne Hitchcock; Cooper James Hodge; Rueben Marley Keefe; Gabriel Warren Limlaw; Kaydin Joseph Lovely; Alex E. Mattoon; Chaunte Marie May; Adrianna  I. Merchand; Kevin Thomas Miceli; Shane M. Morse; Liam Edward O’Connell; Liam Christopher Pearl; Caleb A. Peavey; Caleb A. Peters; Lance Raphael Piette; Richard Louis Roberts V; Skylar A. Robinson; Isaac Kenneth Russ; Rayanna M. Salomaa; Oden Timothy Schlager; August Silverwood; Laurel  Ann Slagle; Christi ne Elizabeth Swift; Domineaq Taylor; Owen Keith Taylor; Abigail Ann Tellier; Connor Elie Thurston; Ivie Lou Trojanowski; Willow Madison Tuttle; Kaiden Scott Vail; Navah E. Vincent; Zadian James Walton; Hope Marie Welch; Cameron Lee Whitney; Savanah R. Williams; and Mallari Irene Young.

BRADFORD, Vt. — Voters added $100,000 to put toward food services in the Oxbow School District’s four schools during the annual school meeting on Wednesday night.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

BRADFORD, Vt. — Residents of the two-town Oxbow Unified Union School District will vote on a $21.4 million budget during the annual School Meeting Wednesday evening.

NEWBURY, Vt. — Halls Lake is now the second Upper Valley lake to be recognized with a Gold Lake Wise Award, the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation announced Wednesday.

NEWBURY — Voters approved a $700,000 bond to build a new fire station by a very wide margin Tuesday.

Articles of note: An Australian ballot article asks whether voters support a $700,000 bond for the construction of the town fire station. The bond is expected to cover approximately half of the total cost of the project.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

NEWBURY, Vt. — Voters will decide in March whether to approve a $700,000 bond to fund the construction of a new fire station at the same Chapel Road site as the current station.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

NEWBURY, Vt. — The town Development Review Board has approved the first phase of construction at a sustainable teaching farm proposed by a Puerto-Rico-based nonprofit.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

NEWBURY, Vt. — A Puerto-Rico-based nonprofit is seeking town approval to turn 101 acres into an educational facility to promote sustainable land management and farming.The project would be an extension of Plenitud Puerto Rico’s nonprofit farm and...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WEST NEWBURY, Vt. — The power was out at West Newbury Hall due to high winds on the night of the 63rd annual West Newbury turkey supper and bake sale last month, but the more than 70 volunteers organizing, cooking, serving and cleaning up afterward...

NEWBURY, Vt. — Route 5 in Newbury will close for 34 hours later this week as state transportation crews work to repair a failed culvert.Traffic will close just north of Longmoore Hill Road from 7 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 31 until 5 p.m., on Friday, Nov....

NEWBURY, Vt. — A 22-year-old Newbury man died in a vehicle rollover crash on Wallace Hill Road over the weekend, Vermont State Police reported in a news release.Daniel Sweet, a 2020 graduate of Oxbow High School, was traveling north on Wallace Hill...

NEWBURY, Vt. — Residents will have a chance to weigh in on a proposal for a new fire station in Newbury Village during a meeting Wednesday night.The Selectboard meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at the Newbury Village Fire Station, at 60 Chapel...

BRADFORD, Vt. — Voters Monday evening approved a $21 million budget for the Oxbow Unified Union School District, 110-58.The district includes Newbury, Vt. and Bradford elementary schools, Oxbow High School and the River Bend Technical...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

BRADFORD, Vt. — Voters will consider whether to approve a $21 million school budget for the Oxbow Unified Union School District on Monday, May 6. The budget marks a nearly 14% increase over last year’s $18.4 million operating budget for the district,...

By FRANCES MIZE

NEWBURY, Vt. — After being regaled with stories of its former owner, a Finnish farmer, and the old ski tow that once tugged residents up a slope on the land, voters at Town Meeting directed the Selectboard not to sell a 24-acre parcel of town property...

Articles of note: In separate articles, voters will be asked whether they authorize the Selectboard to sell 20 acres of town-owned land on Old Stagecoach Road and 24 acres of land on Halls Lake Road, also known as the Old Ski Tow property. Another...

WEST NEWBURY, Vt. — A fire that investigators believe began in a garage destroyed a home in West Newbury, Vt., on Saturday morning.Four area fire departments responded to a two-alarm fire of a manufactured home at 308 Critter Crossing, near Hall’s...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHELSEA — A 70-year-old man who is charged with killing his adult daughter when she went to bring him cookies at his Newbury, Vt., home is suffering from mental delusions but nonetheless is competent to stand trial, according to a psychiatric...