2023-02-02 E-Edition

Students Celebrate Lunar New Year

Food, Community Take Center Stage For VLGS Gathering

The Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA) hosted its annual Lunar New Year celebration at Vermont Law and Graduate School Friday evening, bringing music, food, and laughter into the year of the rabbit. The group, which serves Asian American and Pacific Islanders, has celebrated the period in the past with a lantern festival and a Lunar New Year celebration. […]

Town Governments Make Ready for Town Meeting Day


Town Meeting Day is fast approaching and selectboards and town clerks are working to meet deadlines and fulfill their statutory duties heading up to the big day. Town Meeting Day is March 7 this year. Most towns in the White River Valley conduct business from the floor, but a few choose elected leaders by paper ballot. Strafford conducts its business […]

Chandler Names Next Executive Director

FREE Powell Brings Local Knowledge, Music and Nonprofit Experience

After a months-long search, board president Ramsey Papp, announced this week that Chandler Center for the Arts had found its next executive director not far from home. Chloe Powell, who has spent the past several years juggling work as an agent for musicians, as the music programming director at the nonprofit BarnArts, and booking music for the summer’s Feast & […]

Vt. Organic Dairy Farmers Seek $9.2M Helping Hand

Hope Program Could Help Reverse Trends

Eleven organic dairy farms in Vermont closed in 2021. The next year, 18 more followed. And this year the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont expects to lose another 28 farms. That data—compiled by a state dairy task force and described to legislators recently— is why the association wants to see $9.2 million sent to organic dairy farmers in this […]

Eye in the Sky

The cold of winter settles into the White River Valley as January comes to a close. (Herald / Tim Calabro)

New Suit Against Tunbridge

Land Owner Hopes 2nd Try Will Meet Judge’s Approval

Landowners who have been fighting the Town of Tunbridge over trail access have filed another lawsuit a month after a similar argument was tossed by a Superior Court Judge. In the filing, Judge Elizabeth Mann dismissed the case for lack of ripeness, or that there was no actual question of a violation of the law. But John Echeverria and Carin […]

ValleyNet/GWI Transfer Complete

ValleyNet has announced that it has transferred all of its staff and operating responsibilities to GWI Vermont in an undertaking that was years in the making. The recently formed GWI Vermont is a subsidiary of Biddeford Internet Corporation, d.b.a GWI. GWI, based in Maine, was founded in 1994 as a benefit corporation and was the nation’s first B Corporation Certified […]

Gun Rights Groups Critical Of Senate Gun Regs Effort


Gun rights advocates have few qualms with most of a new, wide-ranging bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee. But they’re raising concerns about the constitutionality and effectiveness of several of the bill’s measures. The bill, S.4, includes a litany of restrictions on those accused of drug and human trafficking—or who enable them—and on fugitives of justice and people subject to […]

UVM’s Katz Joins Herald for Semester

Lauryn Katz, a third-year environmental and Italian studies student at the University of Vermont, joins The Herald as an intern in the college’s Community News Service program. She looks forward to learning the trade and getting real-world experience with journalism in the White River Valley. “I’ve never written for a paper before, so I’m just excited to learn more about […]