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By CLARE SHANAHAN

ROYALTON — After three years of fundraising, a recent six-figure donation has cleared the way for the South Royalton Rescue Squad to build a new home.

By MARION UMPLEBY

BETHEL —When Kolleen Scaff worked a summer at the Bethel Drive-In back in the ’90s, her friends would often show up a couple hours before the film started to hang out and eat a dinner of fried food from the since-closed Onion Flats, the takeout spot down the road.

By MARION UMPLEBY

BARNARD — A special town meeting scheduled for next Wednesday will decide whether the town of Barnard should lease the old fire station to theater nonprofit BarnArts for 15 years with an annual rent of $1. 

By BIANCA NUSCA-DAGON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — In a unanimous voice vote, the Hartford Planning Commission gave preliminary approval Monday to the nonprofit Hartford Community Restorative Justice Center’s plan to expand its footprint by renovating a late-19th century house on Maple Street.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The bright, well-lit space at rePlay Arts at 87 Maple St. offers a variety of arts material and separate spaces for classes and organizing donations. A craft table near the entrance invites anyone to try making something or adding on to a project that others have already started.

By MARION UMPLEBY

HARTFORD — The Selectboard set the town’s property tax rate for the 2026 fiscal year in an emergency meeting last week.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Shopping at the Cover Home Repair and Store is a bit like going on a treasure hunt.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

ASCUTNEY — The more Nicole Gagnon collected items for area nonprofits serving those in need, the more she saw a bigger role for herself filling that need.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Christopher Lane was among the people in 30 households staying at Shady Lawn Motel through Vermont’s motel voucher program before the state stopped funding emergency housing earlier this month.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

BETHEL — A fire Sunday night rendered a home uninhabitable, displacing the family who lived there, Bethel Fire Chief Paul Feeney said Monday morning.

WOODSTOCK — Two Upper Valley residents were awarded prizes in Billings Farm & Museum’s annual quilt exhibition.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — A public meeting called to review the job performance of the municipality’s top official was cut short barely five minutes into the session when the husband of Woodstock’s former police chief continued speaking beyond his allotted time.

By JAMES M. PATTERSON

TUNBRIDGE — Prouty support riders David Moynihan, of Lebanon, right, diagnoses a problem for Julia Surgenor, of Meriden, left, with the gears of her bike during the Prouty Ultimate as Ella Bankert, of Essex Junction, Vt., second from left, Greta Close, of Norwich, middle, and support rider Jeremy Kehoe, of Lebanon, second from right, watch in Tunbridge on Friday.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

NORWICH — Phineas Soucy approached a display containing the innards of a Hokey Pokey Elmo toy at the Montshire Museum of Science.

By BIANCA NUSCA-DAGON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Office desks double as meeting spaces and coffee tables. It’s a trek to the restrooms. An enclosed booth with a glass door is about the only place available to carry on sensitive phone conversations.

By LUKAS DUNFORD

ROYALTON — Residents expressed frustration with the Selectboard this week following the board’s recent decision not to construct a temporary bridge at Fox Stand Bridge, also known as Royalton Hill Bridge.

NORWICH — After a town-wide reassessment, the total value of property in town is $1.26 billion.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

TUNBRIDGE — A judge ruled this week that Tunbridge officials have the right to maintain and repair public trails on private property.

By JAMES M. PATTERSON

WEATHERSFIELD — Peyton Demers, 7, draws an ocean on her family’s driveway last week.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Monument Committee is asking members of the public to submit names of veterans to be added to a new monument to honor those who served in Korea, Vietnam and after 1975.

By MARION UMPLEBY

LEBANON — Last summer, 48 artists working within an array of mediums exhibited work in AVA Gallery and Art Center’s biennial juried show. From that group, the juror chose four artists to receive a small cash prize and a year to develop a solo exhibition featuring new work. The fruits of that labor go on view this Friday on the gallery’s main floor.