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By CLARE SHANAHAN

HARTFORD — The Selectboard voted Tuesday night to trash the town’s curbside recycling program starting July 1.

BRADFORD, Vt. — Voters added $100,000 to put toward food services in the Oxbow School District’s four schools during the annual school meeting on Wednesday night.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

BRADFORD, Vt. — The majority of the volunteer fire department, including the chief, resigned this week in protest of the Selectboard’s effort to expand its oversight over the department.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

WEST FAIRLEE — Town Fire Warden Will Ordway was driving home Monday afternoon when he noticed smoke and fire in the woods on Beanville Road near the border between West Fairlee and Vershire.

BRADFORD, Vt. — A dead raccoon collected in Bradford April 17 has tested positive for rabies, state officials warned the town’s health officer Friday.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

QUECHEE — A construction worker was injured after being trapped under a street sweeper on Quechee Main Street Friday evening as crews worked on a paving project.

By MARION UMPLEBY

FAIRLEE — The Fairlee Drive-in’s towering film screen will remain blank this summer as owner Peter Trapp recovers from an illness.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

FAIRLEE — An Upper Valley congregation is inviting the public to join a worldwide meditation for peace Saturday, May 3.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

BRADFORD, Vt. — Residents of the two-town Oxbow Unified Union School District will vote on a $21.4 million budget during the annual School Meeting Wednesday evening.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

NORWICH — A proposed animal control ordinance that would further restrict where dogs can roam free in town has inspired debate among town officials, dog owners and other residents.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — Police Chief Joe Swanson has be demoted to patrol officer after a ruling by the Woodstock Village Trustees.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

WOODSTOCK — The Vermont Public Utility Commission has approved the municipal purchase of the town’s water system, Municipal Manager Eric Duffy announced Wednesday.

BRADFORD, Vt. — The Orange East Supervisory Union Board has tapped the assistant superintendent for Randolph-area schools to replace its outgoing superintendent.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

HARTLAND — Regulators are seeking public feedback on a 25-year plan that dictates how the North Hartland Lake recreation area can be used and its natural resources preserved.

By NICOLE WINFIELD

VATICAN CITY — He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, washing the feet of a Muslim prisoner, sinking to his hands and knees to implore South Sudan’s rival leaders to make peace.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

WINDSOR — Liz Ross and her husband, David Westby, had been eagerly anticipating the 25th anniversary of their business, CoolSnowGlobes, with Ross planning to celebrate the occasion with a coffee table book featuring the company’s product line including an anniversary globe.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

BRIDGEWATER — Despite her challenges, Kelly Kangas always wanted to live an ordinary life.

By JIM KENYON

Money wasn’t all that Dartmouth Health lost last week when a U.S. District Court jury awarded a Norwich fertility doctor more than $1 million in damages for her unlawful firing in 2017.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

BRADFORD, Vt. — Alivia Patch’s favorite thing about the Bradford Teen Center, known as The Hub, is that she can be around people her own age in a fun and supportive place. “I get to hang out with my friends and cook,” Alivia, 13, said.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLLS

HARTFORD — The Selectboard has canceled a special meeting scheduled for next week to consider adopting a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

RANDOLPH CENTER — The third annual Youth Chess Day will take place at Vermont State University in Randolph Center this Saturday.