Good season, about average. Syrup was overall darker in color, no amber. We are a backyard operation with a 3×4 arch.

Following months of discussion over the condition of the town pool, Bethel officials announced last week that the swimming venue will not open this summer— a decision that’s elicited impassioned ...

Imogen Corcoran and DeRoss Kellogg approached the Royalton Selectboard asking whether the town would consider accepting 6-½ acres on the Gage Road to be held in a conservation easement. The board said ...

I, along with many people in Bethel and the surrounding communities, was deeply disappointed to hear that the rec center pool will not open this summer, and may potentially be filled in and replaced ...

A funeral service for Eleanor Stoddard Jacques who died on November 21, 2025 will be held on Saturday, May 16 at 11 a.m. at the United Church of Chelsea. Burial will follow at the Chelsea West Hill ...

In just their second year on the job, K9 Kye and her handler Dep. Jackson Howe, of the Windsor County Sheriff’s Department, have earned the Dedicated Service Award by the Vermont Police Canine ...

The Randolph Selectboard heard a vicious dog complaint on April 27 and the fate of Snow White is to be determined after the 87-pound Great Pyrenees attacked and injured another dog on Elm Street. A ...

This illustration from the British Library’s collection of Western Drawings shows Lord Macartney’s first meeting with the Qianlong Emperor in 1793. (Wikimedia Commons) Probably the worst decision in ...

A week after the general election, Chris Helali of Vershire was named winner of a contested write-in race for Orange County high bailiff. The state Canvassing Committee met in Montpelier this week and ...

What started out as a onetime visit to West Hill in Granville to satisfy a need to see Rob Ford’s meadow in the Green Mountain National Forest has led to our more-than-a-decade-long late summer ritual ...

Early summer 1971, a visitor to the White River Valley left a mark on the landscape, the lore of which outlasted its permanence. That was the year that Ward McCain, a sculptor and student at ...

Fifty years ago this fall, on a rainy and overcast day, a small motorcade of cars rolled through Exit 4. Nearby, a photographer stood on a wet hillside and snapped a few photos. Though dampened by the ...