Voters in Elmore and Morristown who narrowly defeated next year’s school budget will consider a new one that cuts the equivalent of one full-time educator, a decision that school officials see as middle ground between cutting further and cutting nothing at all.
The Lamoille North Supervisory Union School Board on Tuesday set a half million dollars as the upper limit of possible cuts to the budget for the district’s five elementary schools.
Here are the folks towns celebrated or memorialized this year.
The Morristown Selectboard added a new person to its ranks, but some of the old grudges remain.
Voters in Greensboro and Craftsbury turned out last week to approve their towns’ proposed spending — and then some.
It all started with a cat named Ear.
In addition to voting on and discussing local municipal and school matters, Vermonters on Town Meeting Day gave Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley her single state primary election victory.
The Morrisville Rotary Polar Dash may be a little less chilly than in years past when folks would jump into a hole in the ice on an early February day, but the event still raises cold cash for nonprofits.
Earlier this month, Johnson’s internationally recognized artist residency program tore down the Wolf Kahn barn, one of five that suffered significant damage in the July 2023 flood.
In 1994, master printer Sarah Amos and Vermont Studio Center co-founder Jon Gregg launched a 10-year printmaking revolution by inviting renowned contemporary artists for week-long collaborations to work with Amos at the center.
The film follows several storylines: Indigenous forest guardian Marçal Guajajara and activist Puyr Tembé as they fight to protect territories from deforestation; an illegal logger who has no choice but to cut the forest down; and a large landowner at the mercy of thousands of invaders and extractive industries.
A former Vermont State Police trooper already charged with allegedly stealing from an evidence room when he was still on the force is now facing more charges.
Vermont State Police say the death of a 52-year-old incarcerated man who was hospitalized last week does not appear to be suspicious.
Hardwick residents, voting by Australian ballot at the Hardwick Elementary School on Town Meeting Day, said they had a compulsion to vote for a variety of reasons: fulfilling their civic duty, fighting tax increases, and, for some, avoiding ghosts.
Morristown and Elmore residents narrowly rejected the proposed school budget by 22 votes during Town Meeting Day voting on Tuesday.
After reaching the semifinals of the Division II playoffs at the Barre Auditorium for the first time in over a decade, the Lamoille Union girls’ basketball team fell in a heartbreaking, good-old-fashioned rock fight to Fair Haven.
The Champlain Valley Union girls’ alpine skiing team took back the state title from the defending champion Stowe Raiders after two days of downhill action last week, despite the Raiders winning the first day of competition.
Four Peoples Academy students recently won the 40th Troitsky bridge building competition in Montreal with their adviser, Karsten Weiss, who teaches design and technology at the school.
“Rosie’s Mom: Forgotten Women of the First World War” is the topic of the Lamoille Valley Osher Lifelong Learning series at the Stowe Cinema, 454 Mountain Road, from 1-2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20.
The role that fathers play in the lives of their families is changing. What are the expectations of male parents today? Do dad’s parent differently? Is a father’s involvement important? What do studies on fatherhood suggest?
The Bakersfield Historical Society is holding its 24th annual sugar on snow party with live music by Rusty Bucket on Sunday, March 24, 1-3 p.m., at the society’s building, 80 East Bakersfield Road.
Second Congregational United Church of Christ, 16 Church St., invites the community to come breathe, relax, rest your mind, body, soul, meditate and pray, be still and rejuvenate on Friday, March 15, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Stowe Communications president Rick Rothammer, left, is honored by owner Bill Davis for 40 years of service.
The 8- and 9-year-old division, from left, Hazel Kelly, Morrisville; Jasper Paquet, East Montpelier; and Ellie Riendeau, Wheelock.
Mat Kearney, the Nashville-based, Oregon-born artist with a career filled with chart-topping hits, comes to Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, 122 Hourglass Drive, Stowe, on Friday, March 22, 7 p.m., to showcase his multi-platinum songwriting. For information or tickets, go to sprucepeakarts.org.
On March 10 the girls of Stowe Youth Hockey and their families boarded a bus from Lamoille Valley Transit and embarked on an epic journey from Stowe to the University of Massachusetts-Lowell to be part of history as they watched the Boston Professional Women’s Hockey League take on New York.
This series of photographs provided by the town of Stowe shows how much one stretch of the West Branch of the Little River — near the town events field off Weeks Hill Road — has changed over nearly 28 years. The left photo shows the river in April 1996, the middle in June 2019 and the right in April 2023. The white line in each photo indicates where the river bank is currently located, following floods last July and December.
“We're stoked that Stowe received a March Miracle snowfall resulting in more than 20 inches over the last 48 hours! Our season snowfall total has now surpassed the coveted 200-inch mark, reinforcing March’s reputation of being one of the snowiest months for Stowe Mountain Resort,” said Shannon Buhler, VP/General Manager of Stowe Mountain Resort.
It was a wild weekend at Stowe Mountain Resort with almost two feet of snow on Mt. Mansfield.
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