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By ALEX HANSON

Two Upper Valley educators with experience in reorganizing school districts are members of the task force charged with drawing a new school district map for Vermont.

By MARION UMPLEBY

BRADFORD, Vt. — A driver from Maine significantly damaged a wooden footbridge used by students at Bradford Elementary School when he drove his vehicle onto the bridge last month.

By JIM KENYON

It’s troubling but in no way surprising to see federal agents wearing face masks while they round up people who have a legal right to live in the U.S. That’s what wannabe authoritarian regimes such as the Trump administration do.

By ALEX HANSON

Even before Monday’s votes on legislation that is expected to radically reshape Vermont’s education landscape, Upper Valley school officials, and a few local lawmakers, were calling for its defeat.

By ALEX HANSON

In a sign of how heated Vermont’s education reform debate has become, the board of the White River Valley Supervisory Union has cut ties with the organization that advocates for the state’s public school boards.

By ALEX DRIEHAUS

WOODSTOCK — Cooper Brochu, fisheries specialist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department Fisheries Division, stocked yearling rainbow trout in the Ottauquechee River last month.

By MARION UMPLEBY

SOUTH ROYALTON — Vermont Law and Graduate School is the recipient of a $10 million gift from an anonymous international organization to advance the school’s environmental advocacy work.

By JAMES M. PATTERSON

SOUTH ROYALTON — Catherine Phillps, left, and Gemma Phillips, 6, of Poultney, Vt., and Kierra Rice of Granville, N.Y., walk back to White River Valley High School in South Royalton after Phillips had her class picture taken on the green on Tuesday.

Toy Storey clears leaves away from a patch of squills in her front yard while wearing a hand-drawn “Go Harvard” sweatshirt, which she made in support of the school’s response to demands from the Trump administration, at her home in Norwich on Tuesday. Storey, who is in her 90s, has traveled around the world and stays active through gardening, biking and volunteering. “I don’t even have a bucket list,” she said, noting that she lives a very full life without one.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A tractor trailer jumped the median on the Exit 1 off-ramp from Interstate 89 to Route 4 when the driver lost control of the vehicle on Tuesday morning.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Jill Horne, of White River Junction, took a walk with her cat, Juniper, 2, through the village on Wednesday.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A tow truck clears a tractor trailer from the scene of a crash involving three tractor trailers in the southbound lane on Interstate 91 between exits 12 and 11 on Thursday.

By YARDAIN AMRON

Authorities now believe the disappearance of a Bradford man last month was “suspicious” and could be related to a crime, Vermont State Police said in a press release Tuesday night. 

By JAMES M. PATTERSON

BETHEL — The Vermont State Police Drug Task Force executed a search warrant at about 6 a.m. at 62 Gage Road in in East Bethel on Thursday.

By ALEX HANSON

CORINTH — It might not seem this way at first, but Vermont Almanac is the product of an uneasy time.The annual publication’s fifth volume reached store shelves in late November. Weighing in at nearly 300 pages full of writing and imagery about rural...