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By FRANCES MIZE

WOODSTOCK — Itinerant slaughterer and sheep-shearer Mary Lake came of age among images of Vermont agrarian life.Lake, who now lives in Tunbridge, grew up in South Hero, Vt., flipping through photo books like Peter Miller’s iconic 1990 “Vermont People”...

Note: our local sports roundups depend on coaches or others sending results within hours of their completion to sports@vnews.com. If you do not see your team’s results, please contact its coach and/or the school’s athletic director.LEBANON — Lebanon...

HANOVER — Hanover High’s Sydney McLaughlin didn’t convert the deciding penalty kick Tuesday during the Bears’ 2-1 girls soccer defeat of NHIAA Division I foe Merrimack. The senior certainly earned an unofficial assist, however, crashing to the...

By LUKAS DUNFORD

Logging and ecology and wood-based arts and crafts were all on display over the weekend during the annual Forest Festival at the Marsh-Billings-Rockafeller National Historical Park.“We’re celebrating all things wood and forestry,” said Rainey McKenna,...

By FRANCES MIZE

WOODSTOCK — Fundraising efforts for a new Woodstock Union Middle and High School building have crested the $3 million mark, according to Mountain Views Supervisory Union officials.Voters in the supervisory union — which includes the towns of...

By FRANCES MIZE

WOODSTOCK — Residents in Woodstock were left without drinking water for more than a week after July’s floodwaters ripped through pipes maintained by the Woodstock Aqueduct Co.Like much public infrastructure, water systems sit hidden in plain sight...

Lead cashier Nina Paczykowski opens The Woodstock Farmers Market for the first time in 56 days in West Woodstock on Friday after is was forced to close by the floods of July. Customers began congregating at the doors shortly before 8 a.m.Valley News...

NEWPORT — The Mascoma High girls soccer team is off to a flying start.The Royals improved to 2-0-0 this season with a 4-1 victory over Newport on Wednesday. The decision matched Mascoma’s win total from last year’s 16-match campaign and is one short...

By FRANCES MIZE

WOODSTOCK — The sourcing strategy behind the sloppy joes served to students in the Mountain Views Supervisory Union is anything but disorganized.They’re made with beef from Cloudland Farm in Pomfret, carefully selected for the students with the Upper...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WOODSTOCK — While many students across the Upper Valley have returned to their classrooms in recent days, pupils of the Woodstock Nursery School are still waiting for their school’s doors to reopen.On hot days like the Upper Valley has had this week,...

WOODSTOCK — The Woodstock Selectboard unanimously appointed a new member at a meeting last week.Greg Fullerton replaces Joe Swanson, who left the board when he was appointed the town’s police chief. Swanson, the son of late town manager Phil Swanson,...

By FRANCES MIZE

WOODSTOCK — Thursday evening, residents of Woodstock will get a chance to discuss the Woodstock Aqueduct Co., the privately-held company that came under scrutiny after it left customers on “do not drink” notice for 10 days last month after historic...

Emmy, 13, left, and Hannah Whitney, 10, both of Quechee, Vt., greet dogs as they march by during Puppies and Pooches On Parade on the green in Woodstock on Saturday. Chris Whitney said she brought her granddaughters to the event because they love...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WOODSTOCK — It’s good to be back. That’s the feeling among members of Twin State Derby, the Upper Valley’s roller derby league, which is nearing the end of its first season back since the COVID-19 pandemic.“We have tons of new rookies who are training...

By LUKAS DUNFORD

HARTLAND — Iryna Burtolik and Antonina Reznichenko first became friends 15 years ago, while working at a restaurant in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Since then, they’ve gotten together nearly every weekend — despite both finding husbands and starting...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Nutritional programs for older adults have received a sustained boost in state funding, which will be distributed to programs throughout Vermont that provide home-delivered and congregate meals.The additional $1 million, part of the...

WOODSTOCK — The Town of Woodstock is set to direct $45,000 in wage relief to employees of Woodstock-based businesses who lost wages, or will continue to lose wages, due to the recent flooding and subsequent water shutdown.The money comes from the...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Late at night on Aug. 2, 1923, a telegraph came through to the Southern Vermont Telephone Co. in Bridgewater.It woke up Nellie Perkins, who worked as an operator at the company founded by her husband, Winfred A. Perkins, in 1907.“She’s going to hear...