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Gunshot Reported In Randolph Village

Sheriff’s Dept, Police Respond To Neighborhood Disturbance

Law enforcement personnel from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, Vermont State Police, and the Randolph Police Department temporarily shut down a portion of Maple Street in Randolph after receiving reports of gunshots around 5:30 on Tuesday evening. The scene, which drew onlookers from the surrounding neighborhood, centered on 15 Maple Street, which was being examined by a collection of local […]

Tunbridge School Sidesteps Spores

Leaky Roof, Rain Prompted Brief Closure at TCS

Tunbridge Central School reopened on Wednesday after shutting down early on Friday and cancelling Tuesday classes due to concerns about the possible presence of mold, according to a statement issued by the White River Valley Supervisory Union. The shutdown came after a meeting between WRVSU Superintendent Bruce Labs, Tunbridge principal Joanne C. Melanson, and maintenance director Lou Maraget on Friday […]

Second Board Member Leaves Orange Southwest


Two board members of the Orange Southwest School District resigned abruptly last month, closely following on the heels of the August 13 board meeting. Board Member Jennifer Messier did not attend that meeting, but her resignation fell the same week as the resignation of board member Brooke Dingledine, who left the August meeting early. Both submitted letters of resignation later […]

Man Pleads Innocent of Poisoning

Parezo Accused Of Dosing Co-worker's Drink

Wayne Parezo, 63, of Braintree, appeared in Orange County Superior Court on Wednesday morning, where he pled innocent to a charge of aggravated assault against a co-worker. Parezo, who was an environmental services employee at Gifford Medical Center at the time of the incident, allegedly introduced a cleaning product into the coffee of his co-worker, Susan Henderson, on July, 24. […]

Gifford To Provide Overdose Reversal Kits

Randolph Hospital To Take Part In Vt. Narcan Program

Gifford Medical Center has joined the dozens of other facilities around the state that are distributing free naloxone to their surrounding communities, the first distribution site of its kind in Orange County. Provided at no charge by the Vermont Department of Health, naloxone— also known by the brand name Narcan—is a life-saving drug designed to immediately halt the effects of […]

Vermont AG Sues Pharma Giant Over OxyContin

Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan announced September 5 that his office had filed a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma. The lawsuit alleges violations of the Vermont Consumer Protection Act and a public nuisance law concerning Purdue’s marketing and promotion of opioids. Purdue is the manufacturer of OxyContin. “The State of Vermont has been hit hard by the opioid […]

Tallying the Scores

Weatherwise


After three more steamy August days, Thursday’s mere 8-mph breeze out of the northwest felt positively chilly! On the other hand, imagine going outside on Tuesday evening at 11 p.m with a temperature of 80° at 1,400 feet elevation in central Vermont! These three additional days brought our June through August total to 40 days at 80°F or above; I […]

NU Renews Scholarship For Cyber Security

Norwich University has received a $3.58 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of a “Scholarship for Service” program, in which student-recipients majoring in computer security and information assurance commit to work for the federal government following graduation. A five-year grant to be disbursed from September 2018–August 2023, this is a renewal of a scholarship program that […]