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By CHRISTINA DOLAN

TUNBRIDGE — A passerby noticed Wednesday morning that four small statues, including a figure of the baby Jesus in a manger, were missing from the Nativity scene outside The Tunbridge Church.Church officials have not yet reported the theft to police,...

TUNBRIDGE — In floor voting on Tuesday, voters approved the town budget with a flat police budget instead of the $10,000 increase that was proposed.

CHELSEA — During the First Branch Unified School District annual meeting on Monday night, Tunbridge and Chelsea voters approved a $9.14 million school budget.

Articles of note: Separate articles ask voters to approve annual salaries of $1,500 for members of the School Board and the School District treasurer.

Article of note: One article asks whether voters support eliminating the offices of first and second constable.

By MARION UMPLEBY

Ever since Daniel “Rudi” Ruddell gathered with his fellow Farm and Wilderness crew members to play music some 40 years ago, he’s had a passion for jamming.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

TUNBRIDGE — Community members have rallied around two longtime residents who lost their home of nearly 30 years in an early-morning fire last week.As of Monday afternoon, more than $56,000 had been raised to rebuild the Monarch Hill Road house of Lisa...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

MERIDEN — To owner Angela Toms, Mill Bridge Farm is a “4-H project gone right.”Toms, a physician, and her husband, Chris Forman, a software engineer, built the barn that houses 11 Guernsey cows in 2018, after their four children joined 4-H and got...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

TUNBRIDGE — A heavy dew covered the grass on Wednesday morning as 22 veterinary technician students from Vermont State University in Randolph, outfitted in coveralls and rubber boots, deployed at the Tunbridge World’s Fair grounds.The students, along...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

TUNBRIDGE — The Vermont Supreme Court is leaving it up to a lower court judge to decide whether the town of Tunbridge has the “right to maintain and repair legal trails within its borders.” The 5-0 decision released Aug. 2 paves the way for a...

By ALEX HANSON

Patrick Schlott is still a young man, a 2016 graduate of what was then called Vermont Technical College, in Randolph. But he is old enough to remember when payphones were still ubiquitous.When he was a student at Montpelier High School, from 2008 to...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

BENTON, N.H. — Henry Swayze wanted to return to where he set out. That was a big mistake, he acknowledges.“I was of the mindset I wanted to get back to Post Mills,” Swayze said of the reason he decided not to land his glider which was losing altitude...

By FRANCES MIZE

TUNBRIDGE — Vermont State Police have cited a man who was shot in the legs in Tunbridge last winter to appear in court in June on a charge of attempted burglary.The announcement of the charge to be brought against Hugh Shackleton, made last Friday,...

By FRANCES MIZE

TUNBRIDGE — This spring, Tunbridge trail volunteers were inspecting Orchard Trail, favored by bicyclists, before its reopening for summer use. They found their way barred by downed trees.On May 14, the Tunbridge Selectboard unanimously passed a motion...

TUNBRIDGE — Voters in the two-town First Branch Unified School District approved an operating budget of $8.4 million at a floor meeting on Monday night.In a paper ballot vote, 84 voted for the budget and 62 voted no.The budget is up from last year’s...

Articles of note: An article proposes transferring $167,000 to the district’s capital reserve fund from a $522,000 surplus. Voters will also consider the transfer of $267,000 from that surplus to a tuition reserve fund. Contested races: Voters will...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

TUNBRIDGE — Voters added $40,000 to the budget to pay for expanded policing and gave the Selectboard the green light to draw up a noise ordinance and adopt a “declaration of inclusion” affirming the town welcomes everyone regardless of their race or...

Article of note: One article asks whether voters will approve a noise ordinance and another asks whether voters authorize the Selectboard to adopt a Declaration of Inclusion.Contested races: Officers will be elected from the floor.Budgets and spending...

BURLINGTON — A White River Junction woman was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to pay $75,000 in restitution following her guilty plea to defrauding her employer, a Tunbridge towing company, during the time she handled the company’s...

By Mike Donoghue

Burlington — Two men have been jailed after federal authorities used a police sting operation to break up what law enforcement officials said was a guns-for-drugs operation in central Vermont.The case also involves the search for 17 firearms belonging...