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By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Vermont officials are seeking the public’s help in tracking a new beech tree disease that’s spreading throughout the state.Beech Leaf Disease was first detected last October in Vernon and Dummerston, said Josh Halman, forest health program manager...

By ALEX HANSON

Patrick Schlott is still a young man, a 2016 graduate of what was then called Vermont Technical College, in Randolph. But he is old enough to remember when payphones were still ubiquitous.When he was a student at Montpelier High School, from 2008 to...

By KATE ODEN

ROYALTON — A piece of dairy farming history on the Royalton-Sharon town line is in the process of changing hands leaving its future uncertain.Westlands Farm, a commercial dairy established in 1867, has been on the market for $1.2 million.A sale is...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

THETFORD — When it comes to top programs among Upper Valley sports teams, few schools can boast better success than Thetford Academy’s track and field, which this year won its fifth straight VPA Division III boys state championship and its 12th since...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

FAIRLEE — Residents will have an opportunity to learn more about a proposal for a 19-unit affordable housing project planned for downtown during a public hearing Monday night.Fairlee resident Jonah Richard, who has revitalized several properties in...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — This past Town Meeting season was a particularly challenging one for public officials overseeing Vermont school budgets.Anxieties over rising costs, expiring pandemic-era federal aid and confusion over the state’s new funding...

SHARON — The Selectboard said it will decide within 30 days what action to take against the owner of a dog that bit a jogger as he was running past the dog owner’s home, causing wounds requiring the jogger to make multiple visits for medical...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTLAND — A recent court decision has cleared the way for a farm store project planned for Route 5, just north of Exit 9 on Interstate 91.A July 8 Superior Court ruling denied appeals by the town’s Planning Commission and the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WOODSTOCK VILLAGE — Woodstock Village will enforce a new short-term rental ordinance that was upheld by voters during a Special Town Meeting last week.The Village Board of Trustees and the Woodstock Selectboard approved identical short-term rental...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

BRADFORD, Vt. — For the second time in less than a year, an act of vandalism has caused significant damage to athletic fields at Oxbow High School, and this time it could disrupt the upcoming fall sports season.The fields will be unusable until at...

Jack Myers, of Norwich, works on painting one of the many barns at his family’s farm on July 25. Meeting House Farm has been in his family for 110 years. The family is sprucing up the barns for an August celebration.

By HALEY CLOUGH

SHARON — Four distinctive yurts used as classrooms at The Sharon Academy for nearly 20 years were relocated this summer to make way for a new 5,000-square-foot academic building, now under construction.The shift from circular cloth yurts, akin to...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WOODSTOCK — The Mountain Views Supervisory Union has filed a lawsuit against the Agency of Education and the Agency of Human Services over the state’s refusal to reimburse Mountain Views for the cost of providing special education services for a...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WOODSTOCK — Voters delivered a split decision on a short-term rental ordinance during two Special Town Meetings on Tuesday.Village residents voted to uphold a new ordinance that, in part, would cap the number of short-term rentals, while town...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WINDSOR — Hartford’s former superintendent will serve as associate director of student support services in the Windsor Southeast Supervisory Union beginning in mid-August, according to an email announcement to Windsor Southeast staff last week.Tom...

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...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Special Needs Support Center is looking for volunteers to advocate for children with special needs who attend schools in the Upper Valley.Special Education Advocacy volunteers help parents understand and navigate IEP/504...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

HANOVER — When the Summer Olympic games officially open Friday in Paris, Dartmouth will be well-represented by athletes in the sports of rowing and rugby, including rower Billy Bender of Norwich, a Hanover High School graduate.Bender, a member of...