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Senior Centers Find Ways To Serve During Pandemic

By Martha Slater | September 3, 2020

Like every other business and organization, the five senior centers that serve older citizens in towns covered by The Herald have had a lot of...

VTC Awarded $7.9M for Manufacturing Program

By Zoë Newmarco | September 3, 2020

This week Vermont Technical College’s Randolph Center campus was awarded a $7,969,000 contract to establish the state’s first advanced manufacturing education, research, and development facility...

State To Bill Rescue Agencies for Dispatch

By Zoë Newmarco | September 3, 2020

For the first time in about a decade, the state Department of Public Safety is going to start charging municipal fire, police, and rescue departments...

Valley Residents Tell Of ‘Canid’ Sightings

By Zoë Newmarco | September 3, 2020

Throughout the Route 100 valley, residents have been spotting— and hearing—large wolf-like canids this year. While it’s not entirely impossible that people are actually seeing...

Communities

Schools Prepare For Remote Learners

By Dylan Kelley | September 3, 2020

As students across Vermont prepare to return to school on Tuesday, some families are opting to pick up where their pupils left off in the spring and attend classes remotely....

KAD Gets Brownfield Funds To Rehab East Randolph Shop

By Dylan Kelley | September 3, 2020

Last week, the East Randolph location of California based KAD Models and Prototypes was approved for a $52,718 loan from the State of Vermont’s Brownfield Initiative. Drawn from the Brownfields...

Paving Progresses on I89, Bridge Ready for Removal

| September 3, 2020

The Vermont Agency of Transportation continues work on Interstate 89 from just south of Exit 2 in Sharon, north to about three miles north of Exit 3 in Bethel. This...

People

Local Birth

| September 3, 2020

Thursday, Aug. 13: A son, Jasper Jacob Golden, was born to Jennifer and Jacob Golden of Cabot. You...

Verse by Verse

| September 3, 2020

Taylor Katz reads a selection personal poems written during her pregnancy for the White River Craft Center’s Belated PoemTown Poetry...

Potter Honored With Gold Cane

| September 3, 2020

The same as all other events this year, Sharon Old Home Day was canceled; however, a small group did gather...

Opinion

Keeping an Eye Out for Warning Signs

By Kirk Postlewaite | September 3, 2020

How do you know if someone is considering suicide? There are situations when this may be obvious, for instance if a person openly talks about suicide or wanting to die....

Likes Townsend For House Bid

| September 3, 2020

We are all fortunate to have my friend Wayne Townsend of Bethel running for state representative for the towns of Bethel, Stockbridge, Rochester, and Pittsfield. Wayne would bring a strong...

Indy Runs For Rutland Co. Seat

| September 3, 2020

I will be on the ballot this November as an independent candidate for state senate for Rutland County. I hold a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in...

Sports

Vermont Bow Hunting Seasons Begin October 1, November 30

Staff | September 3, 2020

The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department (F&W) says hunters look forward to Vermont’s upcoming October 1– November 13 and November 30–December 15 archery deer hunting season. A hunter may take...

Montague’s Club Manager Ben Gives Updates

| September 3, 2020

Well fall is here, I think? Let us hope for a few more warm days to enjoy the course before winter. Aeration took place this past week with the brand...

2020 Corona Champs

| August 27, 2020

A local group of women decided to put together the 2020 Corona Tournament, to allow at least one chance to play softball, while following CDC guidelines for safety. This year’s...