MONTPELIER - Campaign for Vermont Prosperity recently announced that they had commissioned a bipartisan, scientific public opinion poll of Vermonters. The survey interviewed 400 randomly selected Vermont residents to measure their feelings toward state leaders, various issues that policymakers...
VERMONT- The four members of the Vermont Declaration of Inclusion Initiative received the Vermont Community Leadership Award for their work to bring the declaration to all 247 communities in Vermont. The award was presented at the Vermont Council on Rural Development’s 2023 Vermont Community...
DEERFIELD VALLEY- Police are moving closer to an arrest in a spate of school burglaries and attempted school burglaries around southern Vermont and Massachusetts.
In an email that was included in an update to the Twin Valley Elementary School community last week, Vermont State Police...
The entrance to the Horace Hill trail network lies just off the paved Valley Trail in West Dover, north of the pedestrian bridge.
DOVER - Trail work on the town-owned Horace Hill recreation area is nearing completion and will be completed by spring, economic development director Eric Durocher said this week.
Horace Hill is a 53-acre property purchased by the town in 2019 with a dual intention of preserving the land...
Retiring Dover Police Chief Randy Johnson, right, swears in Mike Arbogast as his replacement during Tuesday’s selectboard meeting. Arbogast has served on the Dover Police Department for a number of years, most recently as sergeant. Mike Eldred
By Mike Eldred
DOVER- Almost exactly 10 years after Randy Johnson was sworn in as police chief, he was standing before the Dover Selectboard again – this time, to swear in his replacement.
Following a vote by the selectboard officially appointing (now former) Sgt. Mike Arbogast as...
Kyrra Howard is the new director at the Pettee Memorial Library. Photo by Jackie Howard
New library director settling in, looking forward to the future
WILMINGTON - Pettee Memorial Library’s new director, Kyrra Howard, is eager to meet more members of the community as she settles into her new post.
Howard officially became director as of November 1....
John Caldwell will join the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum’s speaker series on December 7. Courtesy ISHA
STOWE- The Red Bench Speaker Series presents “One-on-One with the Father of Cross-Country Skiing, John Caldwell” on Thursday, December 7, at 7 pm via Zoom.
John Caldwell competed in the 1952 Winter Olympics and later became a cross-country ski coach. He ultimately became the authority on...
VERMONT- Ski Vermont announces the return of its popular Fifth Grade Passport Program for the 2023-2024 ski season. The passport program provides access to 20 alpine ski areas and 24 cross-country areas, with more than 90 days of skiing and riding for any fifth grade student.
The Ski...
JAMAICA- The US Army Corps of Engineers announced recently that the Winhall Brook Camping Area, located within the reservoir lands at Ball Mountain Lake, will not be open for any period during the 2024 recreation season. USACE officials said major flood rehabilitation work due to flooding earlier...
Lyndon Institute student Ellery Norwood won best of show in the Vermont competition of the 2022 Federal Junior Duck Stamp Design Contest with this drawing.
VERMONT- The annual Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program is underway. The US Fish and Wildlife Service invites students from pre-K to 12th grade to create designs featuring ducks, swans or geese in their natural habitats. Designs are judged in four age categories, with awards for...