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By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Two incumbents and five challengers, including one independent candidate, will compete in November to fill Windsor County’s three seats in the Vermont Senate, following the state primary election Tuesday night.On the Democratic...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Nine candidates will compete in the primary election in August for three Windsor County seats in the Vermont Senate — including the one held by Sen. Dick McCormack, who is retiring after more than 30 years of legislative...

By JIM KENYON

In talking with people while following up on a couple of recent columns, new developments emerged. Some were more surprising than others. With apologies to “Saturday Night Live,” here’s my Weekend Update: Waiting pays offJennifer Kahn’s wage dispute...

By JIM KENYON

A gang of gung-ho Republican election deniers got their day in Vermont Superior Court last week. But it wasn’t the outcome of the 2020 presidential election that has these Windsor County partisans in a tizzy.They’re riled up about the Windsor County...

By JIM KENYON

A few updates of recent columns while waiting for the New Hampshire presidential primary to be over so network TV can get back to running mostly ads hawking wonder drugs and snack chips.On campus With students having returned to campus after a...

By JIM KENYON

As revolts go, the one staged by a small band of Windsor County Republicans against Chairman John MacGovern last Saturday was tame and orderly.That’s not to say the GOP renegades, however, still don’t pose a threat to democratic norms.The 50 or so...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A South Royalton man who pleaded guilty last year to shooting and killing his estranged wife in front of her nephew and brother told a court that he didn’t understand his plea agreement at the time and had lied to the judge...

By JIM KENYON

To paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield, I went to a fight the other morning, and a meeting of the Windsor County Republican Executive Committee broke out.How bad (or amusing, if you’re a Democrat) was it?The dozen Republicans in the room didn’t make it...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A South Royalton man who is accused of breaking into neighbors’ homes twice within the space of a week will get to stay out of jail while his cases proceed, after a state judge rejected an attempt by prosecutors to revoke the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A South Royalton man who was charged with breaking into a neighbor’s house last month is facing new charges after he allegedly broke into the home of a second neighbor and stole a crossbow before a third neighbor got the man to...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Southeastern Vermont Community Action, the community action agency serving Windsor and Windham counties in Vermont, has a new director. The Westminster, Vt.-based anti-poverty organization’s board selected Josh Davis, of...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — If you’re a rent-a-cop and decide to pretend to be a real one, here’s a pro tip: Try not to pull over drivers who happen to work for a police department.A 24-year-old Norwich man who works for a Vermont private security firm was...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Criminal charges have been dropped against a former Sharon town official and business owner who allegedly held a Tunbridge man at gunpoint when he trespassed on his property last summer.Vermont state prosecutors filed a notice...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 44-year-old man whose conviction of sex assault against a minor was dismissed by a trial judge before being reinstated by the state Supreme Court finally was handed down a prison sentence on Thursday.Larry Labrecque was...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 30-year-old Hartford man has pleaded guilty to a sex offense that occurred more than 13 years ago, concluding a three-year prosecution in which the state’s case was undercut after a judge found that police investigators had...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Bethel man will serve 18 months in prison and be required to complete sex offender treatment and register as a sex offender under a sentence handed down in court after he pleaded guilty to a charge of lewd and lascivious...

Staff Report

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 59-year-old Springfield, Vt., man who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2018 in the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend recently pleaded guilty to a felony charge that he attempted to stab a man with a knife weeks...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The family of the victim of a fatal wrong-way crash on Interstate 91 excoriated the other driver on Tuesday for the lasting agony she has caused them. The driver, who was intoxicated at the time of the collision, told the court...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Windsor County expungement clinic has been rescheduled for Friday, July 28.It was previously scheduled to take place Thursday, July 13, but is being postponed due to the effects of recent flooding, according to a Facebook...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A free expungement clinic is scheduled to take place on Thursday, July 13, in Windsor County, according to a news release.Appointments are available between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and can be made by calling the Vermont Attorney...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 60-year-old former Windsor man pleaded guilty to sexually molesting a minor, drawing to a close a criminal case that dragged on for so long that the defendant already served a substantial portion of his prison sentence in...