Vermont history often celebrates Ethan Allen’s daring exploits and Thomas Chittenden’s long tenure as the state’s first governor, but retired Superior Court judge and historian Robert Mello believes ...

The Rochester Selectboard approved the town’s fiscal year 2027 municipal tax rate Monday, five days after convening an emergency meeting to consider how to address a $37,500 deficit identified during ...

When we hear of a place called Transylvania, a land in the center of modern-day Romania, we often think of gloomy forests, wolves howling at night, forbidding castles on cliffs, and vampires. For it ...

This illustration from the British Library’s collection of Western Drawings shows Lord Macartney’s first meeting with the Qianlong Emperor in 1793. (Wikimedia Commons) Probably the worst decision in ...

A team of Percheron horses owned by Jackie Merriam of West Meadow Apiary pulled grand marshals Gail and Chris Billings through downtown Randolph on Independence Day, leading a string of more than 50 ...

Three months and one day after losing his wife of 56 years, Sandra, Osmyn “Butch” Stevens lost the home they’d shared for 30 of them to a March 19 fire. The couple’s farmhouse on Bryant Road in Bethel ...

While the role of high bailiff, Vermont- wide, has earned an objectively dull reputation over decades of disuse, the man who’s taken on the job for Orange County is active in international circles— ...

Early summer 1971, a visitor to the White River Valley left a mark on the landscape, the lore of which outlasted its permanence. That was the year that Ward McCain, a sculptor and student at ...

Vermont State University celebrated the Class of 2026 during commencement ceremonies in Randolph Center, recognizing graduates’ perseverance, personal growth and commitment to their communities. The ...

What started out as a onetime visit to West Hill in Granville to satisfy a need to see Rob Ford’s meadow in the Green Mountain National Forest has led to our more-than-a-decade-long late summer ritual ...

Stone structures have been a part of Vermont’s landscape as far back as our written record. Documentation exists in a letter dated 1654, written by John Pynchon to John Winthrop, Jr., inquiring about ...

A week after the general election, Chris Helali of Vershire was named winner of a contested write-in race for Orange County high bailiff. The state Canvassing Committee met in Montpelier this week and ...