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A passion for woodworking becomes a new custom furniture business

WILMINGTON - For Oleg Skuja, owner of Skuja Design Studio, working with wood was a craft that was in him before he really realized it. Now, he has his own custom furniture company.
Skuja grew up in Estonia, where his father was a carpenter. He didn’t consciously take on the wisdom of his...

State sues Monsanto for PCB contamination

Note: A PDF copy of the Vermnt Attorney General's complaint filed in Chittenden Superior Court is appended below the article. Twin Valley tops list of affected schools
WILMINGTON- PCB contamination at Twin Valley schools may play a key role in a lawsuit filed against...

Amy and Steven Adams hold a photo of former owners Cindy “Jesse” Wiesner and Jim Weisner in front of the Creemee Stand. Photo courtesy of Amy and Steven Adams

Survey says local ice cream shop tops in Vermont

Online polls finds the Creemee Stand is state’s favorite
WILMINGTON - The Creemee Stand owned by Amy Adams and Steven Adams is Vermont’s favorite place to get creemees, according to an ongoing poll by VTDigger.
In April, Vermont Secretary of Agriculture Anson...

Shaun Golden was convicted of an investment scheme involving Stag’s Leap property.

Former property investor sentenced to prison

WILMINGTON- A former New York investment adviser has been sentenced to one to three years in prison for a fraud scheme involving the purchase of five Stag’s Leap Lane properties from James Barnes’ Hermitage Inn Real Estate Company.
Shaun P. Golden, owner of Golden Wealth Management and...

Business owner demands apology

DOVER- East Dover resident and business owner Janet Rivers met with selectboard members Tuesday night, demanding a “retraction” of comments they made at their regular meeting two weeks earlier, as well as an apology.
The remarks Rivers’ referred to were made in regard to an application...

A SOVTA mini excavator at work on Dover’s Crosstown Trail.

Dover and SOVTA look to form more defined partnership

DOVER- Selectboard members stopped short of severing ties with the Southern Vermont Trails Association Tuesday evening, and instead will seek a more limited partnership with clearly defined roles.
For almost two years the town and SOVTA have clashed on several issues, from the membership...

From home office and pig barters to a full-service dental practice

After four decades, Dr. Ruhl retires
WILMINGTON - After 44 years at Deerfield Valley Dental Care, Dr. Robert Ruhl has retired.
Ruhl bought the practice in 1979. It was originally opened by Dr. Ian Hay and Dr. Hazel Haughey Hay, a married couple who met in dental...

Dover seeks a solution to water supply issues at two town-owned buildings on Dover Town Common - Dover Town Hall and the former school house, which now houses Dover Free Library and Kids in the Country Daycare.

PFAS contamination at day care, library creates conundrum

DOVER- A question mark continues to hang over the water supply at Dover Town Common, despite the recent drilling of a new well and the expenditure of more than $120,000 to address PFAS contamination.
At Tuesday evening’s regular selectboard meeting, the board discussed their options with...

Author debuts personal memoir about psychedelics, healing

WILMINGTON - Katherine MacLean, a neuroscientist, author, and local, will hold a book launch event at Bartleby’s this weekend. The event, which will happen on Saturday, June 24, at 6 pm, will be the first held in honor of MacLean’s new book, “Midnight Water,” described as “a psychedelic memoir...

Wilmington selectboard approves water district budget

WILMINGTON- The selectboard met on Tuesday, unanimously approving the water district budget, a request for $7,300 in funding from the 1% local option tax fund, and discussed the need to rebuild or even possibly relocate the town tennis court.
Along with approving the $353,045 water...