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GRANBY, Vt. — A 49-year-old Newport, N.H., man died from injuries suffered in a motorcycle crash in Vermont in late June, Vermont State Police reported over the past weekend.Michael Flanagan, of Newport, succumbed to his injuries at Dartmouth...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Entering the 2021 season, the Hartford High football team had quite the competition on its hands for the starting quarterback spot.Senior Colin Vielleux, who had spent the previous fall as the backup to the since-graduated Cole Jasmin in the...

By JIM KENYON

I never thought a price tag could be put on reading, but the Vermont Department of Corrections has found a way.On Aug. 1, the DOC implemented a policy change that in upcoming months will increase the cost of purchasing new books, among other items, by...

BETHEL — The death of a 35-year-old man at the Firefly Arts Festival in Bethel in July has been ruled an accidental drug overdose, police said in a news release on Thursday.Vermont State Police identified the man, whose identity had been withheld...

BETHEL — An 83-year-old Bethel man was found safe on Thursday after being reported missing the day before, according to Vermont State Police. Allan Greenberg was reported missing after having been last heard from at approximately at 6 p.m. on...

By RAY COUTURE

ROYALTON — Applause rang out inside the Royalton Academy Building Saturday afternoon as John Moody rose in front of a packed audience, but Moody was quick to shush it.Moody, who runs the Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions in Norwich along with...

NORWICH — Former Norwich Police Chief Wade Cochran took a job at the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, according to a news release from the DMV.Cochran, a Waterford, Vt., resident, has been named DMV enforcement and safety director, the news...

VERSHIRE — Route 113 has reopened between Darling Hill Road and Vershire Center Road, according to a Thursday evening news alert from the Vermont Agency of Transportation.The road had been closed since flooding on July 10 wiped out a bridge in...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — The town announced this week the hiring of Matthew Romei, the former chief of Vermont’s Capitol Police Department, as the town’s new interim chief of police.Romei, who effectively took over the department on Thursday, is replacing former...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Vermont’s Public Service Department is seeking input on its siting process for telecommunications facilities, which includes equipment such as telephone poles and cell towers, in an effort to increase and streamline public...

By MAX SCHEINBLUM

MONTPELIER — In front of a newly gutted Capital Cannabis store Tuesday afternoon, the Cannabis Retailers Association of Vermont outlined a plan to raise money for the industry, members of which expect to lose tens of millions of dollars as a result of...

By FRED THYS

MONTPELIER — As with most of the capital’s downtown, many state government buildings face a long recovery before they can be fully open to employees and the public.The flooding earlier this month affected 22 state buildings in Montpelier, said...

By SARAH MEARHOFF

Representatives of crisis pregnancy centers argue that a newly enacted Vermont law amounts to “viewpoint discrimination” by subjecting their businesses to false-advertising rules.The comments, made in interviews one day after the centers filed suit...

By MAX SCHEINBLUM

The Sharon-based Maverick Lloyd Foundation has made a donation to Vermont Law and Graduate School that is among the biggest the school has ever received.Announced in the wake of flooding not seen in Vermont since Tropical Storm Irene, a $2.5 million...

By AUDITI GUHA

COLCHESTER, Vt. — The Vermont Army National Guard on Wednesday celebrated the first woman to be promoted to brigadier general. During a ceremony at Camp Johnson, Col. Tracey Poirier acknowledged the promotion gives her greater visibility, but said...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A missing Appalachian Trail hiker from Rhinebeck, N.Y., was last seen headed north from Killington on July 9, according to Vermont State Police.Robert Kerker, 67, who goes by the trail name of “Steady Eddie,” was reported...