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By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — Area residents no longer have to drive all the way to West Lebanon, Randolph or Rutland to pick up their prescriptions.Smilin Steve’s Ottauquechee Pharmacy recently opened in Woodstock, bringing a pharmacy back to the town after the...

By JIM KENYON

In the late summer days following Tropical Storm Irene’s rampage through Riverside Mobile Home Park in Woodstock, Nelson Gilman and Al Pristaw loaded donated orange juice, bread and carefully placed cartons of eggs into a wheelbarrow.The two longtime...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

HARTFORD VILLAGE — A 28-year-old Woodstock man who was charged with wielding a machete in West Lebanon in the spring is facing new charges after Hartford police say he brandished a knife, ran from officers and jumped into the White River earlier this...

By ALEX HANSON

WOODSTOCK — In her will, Marianne Gaillard Faulkner set up long-term funding for a park she dedicated in her husband’s name, a place “to be used for rest and quiet and not for sports or other noisy activities,” the document states.That was in 1958,...

By ALEX HANSON

WOODSTOCK — A proposed new middle and high school for Woodstock and six surrounding towns would cost an estimated $73.3 million, a figure that a committee studying the project thinks will not pass muster with taxpayers without other funding sources.At...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

The Village Butcher in Woodstock is in new hands.   George and Linda Racicot, owners of the Elm Street butcher shop and deli for decades, have sold their business to Alex and Cristy Beram, Upper Valley transplants from Massachusetts who promise to...

By JOHN P. GREGG

WOODSTOCK — Starting on Monday, tourists and commuters will again have to pay $1 an hour to park in the heart of the village of Woodstock during the day. But now they’ll have more choices on how to do so.The village has replaced its notoriously...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — Come Oct. 4, the Woodstock Pharmacy will have dispensed its last prescription.Owner Gary Smith said Friday that the 167-year-old pharmacy would soon end its run, confirming speculation that has swirled for weeks.Smith “concluded the best...

By ANNA MERRIMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 26-year-old Hartford man pleaded not guilty this week to charges he sexually assaulted a child more than a decade ago.Justin Chamberlin appeared in Windsor Superior Court on Friday on charges of aggravated repeated sexual...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WOODSTOCK — The Vermont Board of Dental Examiners has revoked the license of a Woodstock dentist, citing his use of unsterilized instruments and a history of “unprofessional conduct.” Dr. William McDonald, a 77-year-old Woodstock resident whose...

By DAVID CORRIVEAU

Jim Yeager is shuffling the deck of his life as a working musician, with relief and regret in equal measure.Take the Wednesday-night open mic at Skunk Hollow Tavern in Hartland. After five years as host of the Skunk’s venerable weekly gathering of...

By MIKE DONOGHUE

BURLINGTON — A former Woodstock business executive who was jailed and also ordered to make more than $550,000 in restitution for a series of fraud cases is back in trouble with federal authorities who say he failed to follow his supervised conditions...

By JORDAN CUDDEMI

WOODSTOCK — A 25-year-old Hartland woman is suing Billings Farm & Museum and the foundation that owns and operates it, alleging the nonprofit Woodstock Foundation wrongfully terminated her employment in September 2017.Alayna Perkins, who became the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — The music and dancing — and food — is going to stop at Bentleys.The long-time village restaurant, bar and nighttime entertainment spot will close its doors by the end of April, the owners confirmed on Thursday. It will end a 42-year run at...

By EmmaJean Holley

By modern-day standards, 20-year-old Frederick Ransom was dead to begin with.But when someone died of tuberculosis in 1817, one could never be too careful. Before modern medicine shed light on the idea of contagion, even doctors in Woodstock thought...

By John Lippman

South Woodstock — It takes a village. And sometimes a family can help out, too.That is the situation unfolding in South Woodstock, where the family of Florida real estate developer and South Woodstock resident Pritam Singh has, in rapid succession,...

By David Corriveau

When he’s vacationing in Woodstock, Val McCallum spends a lot of time padding around his house in bare feet.On Friday morning, a couple of weeks after finishing a European tour with Jackson Browne, for whom he has played lead guitar for 20 years,...

By David Corriveau

Even if they wanted to, Bill Boardman and Laura Spittle doubt that they could forget the Woodstock Country School.“Every time I drive into downtown Woodstock, I drive by Greenhithe,” Boardman, a 1956 graduate of the progressive boarding school, said...