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All that is left after a fire destroyed this Poverty Row home on Monday.
Fire destroys Poverty Row home
WHITINGHAM- A structure fire on Poverty Row Monday afternoon has left two families homeless. According to Whitingham Fire Chief Stanley Janovsky, nobody was home when the fire started. The blaze w...
May 23, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hannah Swanson, Sammy Cunningham-Darrah, Colin Lozito, Kirsten Halbur, Hank Sweeney, Dal Nesbitt, Savannah Nesbitt, and Cade Nesbitt.
TVHS students hike the El Camino
GALICIA, SPAIN- They hiked for eight days and nearly 100 miles, through blisters, sunburns, fatigue, and one farmer’s ostrich pen. With two miles left they stood on Monte de Gozo, the last hill of ...
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New board holds first meeting
WILMINGTON-At their inaugural meeting Wednesday morning, the newly formed Wilmington Works advisory board got to work with an organizational session, opting for two co-chairs instead of a chair and...
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Selectboard tries time limits for each item
HALIFAX- Selectboard chair Edee Edwards presented an agenda with suggested time limits for each item. The meeting moved swiftly, but with no controversial items up for discussion, the new system wa...
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Leanne Tingay presenting the Main Street Program.
Main Street approach workshop at Memorial Hall
WILMINGTON- Businesspeople and town officials along with residents from around the Deerfield Valley and southern Vermont, convened at Memorial Hall Tuesday night for a workshop on how to revitalize...
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A group ponders the revitalization of Wilmington.
Residents offer input for town
WILMINGTON- The Conway School of Design and Architecture held a “crowd-sourcing” workshop with Wilmington residents Tuesday night, to collect input on a land design master plan for the downtown are...
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Two youths charged with threatening email
by Mike Eldred
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WILMINGTON- Police have charged two youths as the result of a threatening email sent to Deerfield Valley Elementary School Monday morning, May 6. According to police, the email was sent from an iPo...
Library has to change hours after board vote
by Jack Deming
May 16, 2013 | 28 28 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
READSBORO- At a special school board meeting with library trustees on May 7, the school board decided with a 2-1 vote to restrict public access to the community library for the remainder of the sch...
Group brings the issue of smoke-free zones to selectboard
by Jack Deming
May 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
WILMINGTON- A panel of anti-smoking advocates presented a request to the selectboard, asking permission to hang signs in the town parks, declaring those spots as smoke-free zones. Cindy Hayford, of...
Hermitage proposes to purchase tax lots
by Jack Deming
May 16, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
WILMINGTON- Hermitage Inn Real Estate Holding Company sent a proposal to the selectboard last week, mapping out a plan to acquire 55 tax lots owned by the town. Hermitage plans to purchase the lots...
School board approves money to give the school website a facelift
by Mike Eldred
May 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
WILMINGTON- Twin Valley School websites will get a facelift to go along with the renovation and construction at the elementary and middle/high schools. At the Twin Valley board meeting Tuesday, boa...
“Hotel Hell” to film at Inn
by Jack Deming
May 09, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
DOVER- Gordon Ramsay will be at the Four Seasons Inn next week, filming an episode for the second season of his hit show “Hotel Hell,” and owner Sandy MacDougall will be the first to tell you he an...