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Prime Ag Soil Hotly Debated

Is Sam Sammis’ proposed Green Mountain Center a well-designed development that will bring good-paying jobs and thousands of tourists to the Randolph area, or an urban-scale project that will eat up precious farmland and weaken the existing downtown? You won’t find too many people in the middle on this one. Opposition to Sammis’ proposed multi-use development of 172 acres he […]

Picking Up Bales on A Sunny Day

Supervised By The Devil and Angel

It doesn’t matter if you were wearing gloves, your hands blister anyway. I’m left alone in a field, as the tractor drives off to greener pastures, and I look over several acres, dotted with hundreds upon hundreds of bales. My job is to stack them, all of them, in groups of a dozen or so, by the time the hay […]

Dramatic River Rescue Ends Purr-fectly

Kitten Plucked From SoRo’s White River

On July 15, Kory Hirak of Barnard was not supposed to be crossing the bridge over the White River that early Wednesday morning. She was supposed to be at a doctor’s appointment that ended up cancelled and rescheduled, so instead Hirak headed in to her job at the law school as usual. As she started to drive over the bridge […]

Area Farmers On Guard Against ‘Late Blight’

Tomato Disease Has Struck in Parts of Vt.

The first Vermont case of late blight was confirmed on the Hinesburg farm of David Zuckerman July 7, and a second confirmed case on Pete’s Greens in Craftsbury. It’s very early in the season for the disease. No White River Valley growers have been infected yet, but that doesn’t mean the blight isn’t on their minds. In an interview Monday, […]

Summer Abundant With Classical Music



Lyra Summer Music Workshop, founded in 2010 by New York City pianists Mary Prescot and Akiko Sasaki is in full swing in Randolph again this summer. For three weeks, classical piano and strings students are provided a conservatory-style program, removed from distractions of everyday life and technology and mentored by dedicated, accomplished musicians. On Tuesday this week, Lyra offered a […]

Vt. Law School Library Now Open to Public



Vermont Law School’s law library will provide legal reference services to the public beginning this week, Dean Marc Mihaly announced. The law school seeks to fill the gap in services created with the closure of the Vermont State Library’s law library program in Montpelier. “We are pleased to share our extensive legal resources with our Vermont neighbors,” Mihaly said. “The […]

Herald Wins Awards For Writing and Photos



The Herald continued its tradition of gathering writing and photography awards from the Vermont Press Association last Thursday, as the statewide organization held its annual meeting in Montpelier, with about 70 people attending from newspapers around the state. The Herald garnered five awards, even though, through a glitch in the process, most of the photography awards could not be given […]

Woodchuck Recipe Correction



A recipe in last week’s A-3 article, “Cooking Your Own Whistlepig,” contained an error. Writer Jo Levasseur notes, “Frank Hewitt grills his marinated woodchuck wrapped in foil during the indirect heat process, or smoker, to stew the meat in its juices for slipoff the-bone tenderness. “My omission was due to a lapse in note-taking, and shouldn’t reflect on Frank’s cooking […]

Motorcyclists Lose Limbs In Camp Brook Road Crash



A serious crash between a motorcycle and a vehicle left two with serious injuries and closed Camp Brook Road in Bethel for several hours last week. Dale O’Keefe, 74, of Mason, Wisc., was driving a motorcycle with his passenger Lisa O’Keefe on the afternoon of July 14 when Gustavo Chang, 22, of Manchester, N.H. crossed the centerline in his car […]

Troopers Respond to Crashes, Arrest Three for DUI



Three area crashes resulted in arrests on charges of suspected drunk driving this week. In one case, the person arrested was a first responder who had driven his personal vehicle to the scene of a serious crash, July 14 on Camp Brook Road in Bethel. In that incident, state troopers on the crash scene detected the smell of intoxicants on […]