Sentinel



A lone horse quietly welcomes the morning sun on the Illsley Farm on Route 12 in East Braintree early Wednesday. The National Weather Service predicts unseasonably cold air through Saturday. (Herald / Bob Eddy)

Stagecoach No Longer In Crisis

But Will Be Looking For More Volunteers

Just a year after the Stagecoach board of directors ousted founder and director David Palmer, plunging the organization into a period of uncertainty, the transportation agency is back on its feet, with stable management and financing. Still, however, area towns will likely be asked to commit more money to the organization at Town Meeting next year, and more volunteers are […]

LEDs Ready To Light Up Randolph

Solar Solution May Be Unique

When the Christmas holiday lights go on in Randolph’s downtown this next Wednesday, Nov. 26, it will be a tribute to local leadership in lighting technology—and a tribute also to the community’s habit of working together on a good idea. The old lights, Town Manager Mel Adams explained, were basically unusable and falling apart, and he shared that fact a […]

VLS Student Wants SoRo Train Stop

Online Petition Asks for Change

Vermont Law School student Juan Carlos Vallajo found out on his first visit to Vermont Law School that having no car is a big obstacle in rural Vermont. Taking the bus from Burlington, he found himself stranded and spent the night in Montpelier, because the only bus from there to South Royalton goes once a day, leaving Montpelier at 6:15 […]

Police Search Finds Body Of Local Man



An intense search for a missing Randolph man that started Saturday afternoon ended the next morning, November 16, when a search team found his body in a field off Mason Road. Terrence “Terry” Delaney, 66, apparently died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Det. Sgt. Jean-Paul Schmidt of the state police Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Det. Sgt. Schmidt said […]

Slippery Roads Are Back for the Season

At Least One Injury Results from Ice

Here it comes. Winter driving. State police reported multiple crashes in the past week, most of them due to icy road conditions, and one of them resulting in significant injuries for the driver. Gerald LeBlond, 67, of Rochester, was injured in the early morning hours of November 14, when he lost control of his 2006 Saturn Vue on a snow- […]

Food Activist Speaks to Capacity Crowd at VLS

‘Green Revolution’ Called a Failure

The “Green Revolution,” the agricultural enterprise that was supposed to “feed the world,” has failed. That was the message delivered to a standing-room-only crowd at Vermont Law School last month by international food activist and Indian native Vandana Shiva. The project’s benefits, she argued, are overshadowed by the pattern of unintended consequences that has unfolded. This pattern includes our reliance […]

Fire Destroys Family’s Home In Stockbridge



The volunteer fire departments from Stockbridge, Bethel, Pittsfield, and Barnard responded to a lateafternoon house fire on Whitney Road, off of Ranney Road in Stockbridge, Tuesday, Nov. 18. Although the barn next to the house was saved, the home occupied by Kyle Gendron-Gigure, his wife, Angel, and their four-year-old daughter, Rosemary, was totally destroyed. The family was uninjured, but their […]

AFLOAT AGAIN



VTrans and Miller Construction workers put a float in place for Brookfield’s Floating Bridge last Friday. These floats, which replace foam-filled plastic barrels, are manufactured in Maine and must be assembled on site and guided into place. A wooden deck will attach to the top, looking the same as the historic bridge it replaces. Work on the bridge will continue […]

Police Arrest Two On Prior Warrants



In the last week, police took into custody two men wanted on court-ordered arrest warrants On Friday, Nov. 14, at 9:30 p.m., officers from the Royalton Police Department went to a residence on Route 14 in Sharon to serve an arrest warrant on Leonard (Hank) Clark III, 40, of South Royalton. Clark had an active arrest warrant for failure to […]