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SOUTH STRAFFORD — A section of Rte. 132 between Thetford and Strafford is closed for at least a month to allow for emergency repairs to prevent the road from sliding into the West Branch of the Ompompanoosuc River, according to a Sunday Listserv post...

BETHEL — Police are investigating the death of a Boston man who died at an art festival in Bethel earlier this month.Vermont State Police said in a news release on Tuesday they learned at 11:26 p.m. on July 7 that the Bethel Fire Department and White...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

HANOVER — Shannon Hadlock was a center back for the White River Valley girls soccer team. It was as simple as that.The senior anchored the Wildcats’ strong defense last fall, a unit that allowed just nine goals in 16 games. But on the Vermont team for...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WOODSTOCK — Endurance athletes had already started arriving in the area for the Vermont 100 race when the flooding hit the state.There were 450 runners from around the world and around 80 equestrians who signed up for the 100-mile trek, which was...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, Vt., has become the newest member of the Dartmouth Health system, according to a DH news release.The agreement, formalized on July 1, makes the Bennington hospital the sixth to join the...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Windsor County expungement clinic has been rescheduled for Friday, July 28.It was previously scheduled to take place Thursday, July 13, but is being postponed due to the effects of recent flooding, according to a Facebook...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Six freshly graduated Upper Valley high school senior soccer players will take the field at Hanover High on Saturday for the Lions Twin State Cup games. The event is now in its 48th year and pits top seniors from New Hampshire and Vermont whose high...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Gordie Barnaby watched the White River Valley girls basketball team play three or four times last winter and remembered thinking to himself that the Wildcats would be a fun group to coach.Barnaby coached for six years at The Sharon Academy and nine...

THETFORD — Vermont Route 113 at the town line between West Fairlee and Thetford is scheduled to be closed for 48 hours later this month to allow for a culvert replacement, according to Thetford’s town website.The closure, now scheduled for July 22 and...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Vermont voucher program is making it easier for low-income residents to access local foods.Through the Farm to Family Coupon program, approximately $164,000 in coupons are now available to Vermont households with incomes at or...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

Woodstock High has promoted from within to fill its boys basketball head coaching vacancy, naming Scott Brooks to the position after Steve Landon left to take over the girls’ team at Hartford.Brooks, who came on last winter as the Wasps’ junior...

HARTFORD VILLAGE — A 60-day closure of Route 14 between Ferry Crossing Road and Christian Street in Hartford Village is scheduled to begin Wednesday, July 5, according to the Vermont Agency of Transportation.During the closure a signed detour route...

Vermont is trying to thread the policy needle by promoting, on the one hand, affordable housing and, on the other, land conservation. This experiment, in the form of two bills passed by the Legislature this year, will test the proposition that these...

BURLINGTON — Rivendell Academy freshman Sydney Schoenbeck finished fourth, Hartford junior Jordan Davis finished fifth and the Thetford Academy girls were second in the team competition, finishing only behind Essex, the Division I state champion in...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

A visible reminder of Steve Landon’s first stint coaching the Hartford High girls basketball team hangs on the wall at Hanley Gym.In 2012, his sixth season with the Hurricanes, Landon led Hartford to its only state championship in program history....

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

CASTLETON, Vt. — Chuck Simmons was reluctant to label his Oxbow High softball program a dynasty when the Olympians won their second straight Vermont Division III state championship last spring.After Oxbow completed a perfect season with a third...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

BURLINGTON — Xander Oshoniyi may have fallen three outs shy of a no-hitter, but leading the Thetford Academy baseball team to its first state championship in 37 years as a freshman still makes for a pretty good Saturday.Oshoniyi baffled the White...

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — For all the history the Hartford High softball team made this spring, the Hurricanes’ season ended in an all-too-familiar way.Hartford’s run in the VPA Division II playoffs came to a halt at Maxfield Sports Complex at the hands...

BRADFORD, Vt. — The brilliant pitching of Anastase Bourgeois, not to mention an explosive offense, was more than enough to help top-seeded Oxbow softball earn a berth in the VPA Division III state championship game.The Olympians topped fourth-seeded...