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Staff Reports ORFORD — Rivendell Academy senior Zach Gould has played most every position on a soccer field, save for one. He got to try it for about 10 minutes of his senior game on Friday.Rivendell boys soccer coach Kevin Brooker made an offer to...

GILFORD, N.H. — The Hanover High boys nordic ski team claimed seven different top-10 finishes to edge Kennett and claim the NHIAA state championship.Noah Phipps had the high finish of the day for the Marauders, taking third in the freestyle race in 12...

SOUTH ROYALTON — They may be representing the new school on the block, but the White River Valley School girls basketball team already has a grasp of history.Riding Toni Turner’s double-double, the seventh-seeded Wildcats won their school’s first VPA...

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — Motorists used to scanning their rear-view mirrors for telltale Ford Crown Victoria Interceptors as they speed down Vermont highways have some adjusting to do.Vermont State Police today are retiring their last in-service Crown...

By John Lippman

Randolph— Not long ago, there used to be a lot of soot inside the Vermont Castings foundry, where workers would come off shifts coated in black, looking like they had just emerged from a coal mine.But carbon particles don’t mix well with $450,000...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

South Royalton — During the two years Sisyphus Bradford has been enrolled in Vermont Law School, she has aired and otherwise pursued a variety of concerns and grievances about the South Royalton institution, ranging from how it has handled its tight...

BY ALEX HANSON — VALLEY NEWS STAFF WRITERThe Last of the Hill Farms: Echoes of Vermont’s Past; photographs and text by Richard W. Brown; David R. Godine; 133 pages; $40Vanishing Vermonters: Loss of a Rural Culture, by Peter Miller; Silver Print Press;...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Newbury, Vt. — Butch Spear built his own house. He raises his own beef. He trains his own dogs, and he uses them to help him shoot his own bear meat, right out of the tree.With this year’s bear season a week old, Spear eases out of his driveway and...

By Alex Hanson

A few years ago, I bought an old car.Even though I’ve bought a few old cars over the past several years and ought to have known better, the old car in this case had some rust. Actually, a lot of rust.But since I hadn’t paid much money for it, and...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Vershire — Sitting in the dim light of his heavily cluttered office space, Allen LaFlamme, owner of Allen’s Affordable Auto Salvage, peered at his computer screen, scrolling through a national directory of used vehicles for sale.Sixty-four years old,...

By Nicola Smith

After World War II, Dutch elm disease began its decimation of the American elm, a tree that was the glory of hundreds of Main Streets in the Northeastern and Midwestern U.S. At the same time, it also affected the American elm’s lesser-known cousin,...