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10 years ago:
Wilmington resident Lisa Granfors, owner of The Coffee House at the junction of Route 9 and Route 100, collaborated with her coffee supplier, Dean’s Beans, to create “Bernie Buzz,” a blend of dark roast beans. As a supporter of Bernie Sanders’ recently...
“Judevine: A Love Song for a Place and Its People.” 
David Budbill, Rootstock Publishing, 2025. David Budbill’s Judevine, Vermont, like Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, is a fictional immortalization of a real place, its people, and its time. Behind...
Billy Wheeler retires after 40 years of service  WILMINGTON - At 2 pm on Saturday, Billy Wheeler clocked out of Nido’s Service Station for the last time. After 40 years of service, Wheeler has retired from his post as station manager. 
Wheeler began work at the service...

Sri Lankan-born Batuvangala Dhammarathana, a Buddhist monk known in his monkshood as Bhante Rathana, offers guided meditation sessions at the Green Mountain Meditation Center, part of Serenity Central of New England, in Jacksonville. Lauren Harkawik
JACKSONVILLE - On Sunday, June 8, Serenity Central of New England will host a celebration in honor of the Buddha’s birthday. All are invited to attend the celebration, where the public can meet and learn more about Buddhist monk Batuvangala Dhammarathana, known in his monkshood as Bhante Rathana...
10 years ago:
Dover School Board members held a public hearing to discuss H.361, which was to become Act 46. The bill required school districts to study and propose union school district mergers, and provided incentives for communities to adopt the proposals. According to...

Skiers race on Fountain Mountain at Mount Snow. The frozen mound of ice and snow was used for a summer ski camp 55 years ago. File photo
10 years ago:
Twin Valley School Board was eager to turn over the ownership of the former high school building in Wilmington to the Old School Enrichment Center (OSEC) committee before the end of the fiscal year on June 30. But OSEC said they still lacked the tenant...
10 years ago:
The Legislature passed Act 46, an education reform bill that promised to reduce the cost of education and improve student outcomes through the consolidation of schools, mainly by merging districts to create union school districts, and spending controls. The bill was in...

Claudette Hollenbeck
I am so fed up with humankind.  Everywhere I look these days are examples of man’s inhumanity to man.  I am so glad I live in Vermont.  Most of the folks one encounters day to day here are decent folk with whom I am comfortable. The Yankee stock that is the backbone of this “brave little state” ...

Laura Stevenson
“Abundance”
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Avid Reader Press, 2025
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson open their book with a utopian vision: You wake up in a room heated and cooled by clean energy sources, reflecting that 40 years ago, your parents had depended for energy on the...
10 years ago: The Deerfield Valley News profiled Pat “Tuffy” Bakaitis, owner of Hoosick Sand & Gravel. Bakaitis was well known for his work on “Building Wild,” a National Geographic Channel program. Examples of Bakaitis’ work on the show included a cabin in Dover that was...

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