Lippitt Morgan Show This Weekend At Fairgrounds



Lippitt Morgan Show This Weekend At Fairgrounds To own a Morgan horse is to love, quite unabashedly, a Morgan. You don’t need to meet too many Morgan owners to figure that out. The formula might be especially true for owners of Lippitt Morgans, a branch of the family that has been carefully "linebred" to preserve the characteristics of the breed’s […]

Monro, the Town That Almost Was



Monro, the Town That Almost Was It was redistricting that folks in Randolph wanted, back in 1809, also folks in Tunbridge, Bethel and Royalton. Notice I did not say all the folks wanted it, and that’s where the rub came. A petition, signed by 56 residents of the Middle Branch valley living in the aforementioned towns, was presented to legislature […]

Weather is More

Than a Pastime

Weather is More Than a Pastime Or a job: It’s an Obsession Everyone observes the weather and lives based on its idiosyncrasies. But for Bob Boyce of Chelsea’s West Hill, the weather has moved beyond observation to a way of life. To the unsuspecting passerby, the Boyce home is a modest, one-story niche just off the dirt road. A mound […]

Fighting under Fertig on Mindanao: One GI’s Incredible Story from WWII



Fighting under Fertig on Mindanao: One GI’s Incredible Story from WWII Earl A. Cook is one of the guys that Tom Brokaw’s book, “The Greatest Generation,” did not include, but should have. Earl, a long time resident of Pittsfield, is one of the many Americans who were abandoned in the Philippines and did not surrender to the Japanese. His story […]

$1 Million Grant For Downtown Project In Randolph



$1 Million Grant For Downtown Project In Randolph Town of Randolph, Vermont Technical College and the Randolph Area Community Development Corporation announced this week that the U.S. Economic Development Administration has formally invited an application for $1,000,000 for two Randolph projects. The EDA grant is “the final piece of a quilt of funds making the projects possible,” according to consultant […]

Braintree Dairy Farmer In Big Expansion



Braintree Dairy Farmer In Big Expansion The new dairy system at Circle Saw Farm in Braintree is the key to the Simpson family staying in farming, keeping milk production high, and making life easier. Of the 31 years he has owned the farm, Bob Simpson has been planning the expansion of his dairy for the past ten and is looking […]

Travels with the Fairbanks Museum



Travels with the Fairbanks Museum Braintree’s Caitlyn Jacobs traveled to Venezuela in February as a member of a "Student Ecology Workshop" trip, organized by the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium. Through the museum’s Ecology Workshop program, small groups of high school students travel annually each February to one of four countries: Costa Rica, Peru, Belize, and Venezuela. Next year’s trip will […]

The Lure of the Red and Green Antique Tractors Connect to the Past, Enliven the Present



The Lure of the Red and Green Antique Tractors Connect to the Past, Enliven the Present A love of antiques, connection to the "way things used to be", and family ties have led several area men to their hobby of collecting antique tractors. Red Farmalls, green John Deeres and orange Case tractors: these are the stock-in-trade of the Central Vermont […]

Two Reasons To Buy a Store,

And Both Are 18-Months Old

Two Reasons To Buy a Store, And Both Are 18-Months Old For Eric and Stacey Flanders, the new owners of the North Tunbridge store, there were two reasons to move from Rutland, buy a general store, and find a change in lifestyle. These reasons have names: Katelin Marie and Kristin Lee. They are the Flanders 18 month-old twin daughters. And […]

Summer Pastime at floating bridge



Summer Pastime at floating bridge Darby Smith, 6, of Northfield takes a stroll on Brookfield’s Floating Bridge while her dad samples the fishing. The floating bridge in quaint Pond Village, Brookfield, is one of Central Vermont’s favorite tourist spots. The village has a gravel road because the townspeople didn’t want it paved. They also resisted having an interchange onto Interstate […]