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By PATRICK ADRIAN

SHARON — The new owners of a former convenience store hope to turn it into a multi-purposed community hub, with a potential to support start-up ventures, special events or social gatherings.Joel Senger, 40, and his wife, Kristin May Senger, 41,...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

SHARON — Residents overwhelmingly voted against switching all town business to Australian ballot voting during Tuesday’s traditional Town Meeting.Just under 100 people turned out to Sharon Elementary School Tuesday morning to debate town business...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

SHARON — The approximately 90 residents gathered in Sharon Elementary School’s gymnasium Monday night voted to reduce the school budget and rejected a petition to increase the size of the School Board.Voters also reelected Will Davis to his second...

Articles of note: One article asks whether voters will approve eliminating the office of constable. Others ask whether voters approve moving to Australian ballot voting for town officers, budget articles and all public questions. A school article asks...

From left, Josh Mollov, Chip Mollov, 8, Christian Potter, all of Sharon, and Arhaea Lowe, 13, of South Royalton, take part in a pizza making class taught by Ryan Haac, of Sharon, during the Sharon Skill Swap at Sharon Elementary School on Saturday....

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

SHARON — The School Board has delayed a vote on a roughly $10 million proposed bond to renovate Sharon Elementary School until after March’s school meeting.The School Board opted to delay because it has concerns about the effect Act 127 — a law...

By NICOLA SMITH

Jane Spooner, who lives with her husband in Woodstock, relies on a regularly scheduled UPS delivery of medical supplies that comes through the Woodstock post office and is delivered to their home mailbox. They’ve never had problems with delivery,...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

SHARON — The Sharon School Board is preparing a roughly $10 million proposal to renovate the town’s elementary school to provide permanent preschool classrooms and additional space for students.Earlier this year, a committee that included board...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

SOUTH ROYALTON — The South Royalton Rescue Squad is about halfway to its goal of raising $865,000 for a new crew quarters and garage.The squad responds to emergency calls in Royalton, Sharon and part of Tunbridge, as well as a 12-mile stretch of...

Line workers Noah Simeon, right, and Cole Woods of Green Mountain Power return to their trucks after removing a fallen tree from wires in Sharon on Tuesday. Crews worked through Monday and into Tuesday to restore power to thousands of customers after...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

SHARON — At the start of a Bob Ross-inspired paint and sip event on Friday at Seven Stars Arts Center, instructor Christine Traverson asked the participants how long it had been since they had last painted.For some students in the Sharon art class,...

By MAX SCHEINBLUM

The Sharon-based Maverick Lloyd Foundation has made a donation to Vermont Law and Graduate School that is among the biggest the school has ever received.Announced in the wake of flooding not seen in Vermont since Tropical Storm Irene, a $2.5 million...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shana Hickman started a virtual “Show-Off Show” where people shared what they’d been up to when they were stuck at home.“I had a lot of knitting and sewing things,” said Hickman, the library director at...

SHARON — A Sharon town official and business owner faces criminal charges after he allegedly held a man at gunpoint when the man trespassed on his property on Monday afternoon.Alexandre Bird, the Sharon health officer and owner of Inn at Idlewood, has...

SHARON — Sharon residents approved a budget of $1.9 million at the town’s floor meeting on Tuesday. $1.4 million of that is slated to come from taxes.The budget is up from last year’s $1.86 million budget, resulting in education spending of $19,889...

Articles of note: In three separate articles, voters will be asked whether to charge 1% interest per month on overdue taxes; a 2% late fee on payments due on Feb. 14, 2024, paid on or before Feb. 28, 2024; and an additional 6% on payments made after...

By RAY COUTURE

SHARON — A framed obituary of the Edward K. Baxter Memorial Library’s namesake hangs near the red-brick building’s back entrance and, on Friday night, that picture rested just above a plastic table holding tins of homemade chili and bags of jalapeño...