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BENNINGTON - The Southwestern Vermont Chamber of Commerce announced the annual Garlic Fest will return to downtown Bennington Labor Day weekend as “Garlic Town, USA.”
Bennington has become world-renowned for its annual Garlic and Herb Festival held every year on Labor Day weekend.  Two...

Readsboro Central School File Photo
READSBORO- The Readsboro School Board met Tuesday, May 18, to talk about issues ranging from goals that the board members had for themselves and the district to the final resolution of the last of the required policies that the board had been working on since the beginning of the year. 
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Gov. Phil Scott File Photo
MONTPELIER- At his COVID-19 press briefing Tuesday, Gov. Phil Scott said Vermont could reach his goal of 80% vaccination among eligible Vermonters as soon as Memorial Day weekend, but would likely hit the mark sometime in the middle of next week.
”If you take the number of people (...

Twin Valley Middle High School will be holding its graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 5, at 1 pm at Hayford Field in Wilmington. File photo
WHITINGHAM- At their regular school board meeting Tuesday, board members discussed financial matters, tabled discussions on maintenance matters, and learned there will be an in-person graduation for Twin Valley High School seniors next weekend. 
During her principal’s report, Twin Valley...

Lt. Gov. Molly Gray led a roundtable discussion on family and medical leave last week.
MONTPELIER - Lt. Gov. Molly Gray hosted a roundtable discussion about paid family and medical leave on Monday, May 17. The discussion was part of a series hosted by Gray called “A Seat At The Table.” The discussions covered several aspects of family and medical leave, including elder care,...

Voters wait their turn to cast ballots at the River Valleys annual meeting. Amelia Nick
WARDSBORO- The River Valleys Unified School District held their annual meeting on Saturday morning. They discussed and approved many budgetary and position decisions for the 2022 fiscal year under a large, white tent on the lawn of the Wardsboro Town Hall.
Board members Marc Schauber and...
WARDSBORO- Residents ranging from as young as 11 days to 85 years showed up to the postponed, in-person 236th annual Wardsboro Town Meeting in a white tent on the Town Hall lawn. 
After a rousing play fight between a few dogs who later returned covered in mud, and a bit of trivia with...

Game warden Kyle Isherwood holds an injured bear that was recently found in the yard of a Dover home. The cub has been sent to a rehab facility. Mark Sprague
DOVER - Over the past few weeks, Mark Sprague saw a sow and her cubs pass through his land in West Dover with some frequency. Often, they’d stop to eat grass. Then, on Wednesday, May 12, one of the cubs was left behind. 
“All of a sudden the little one is on the lawn without the mom and...

Gov. Phil Scott

MONTPELIER- At his COVID-19 emergency briefing on Friday, Gov. Phil Scott Issued a challenge to Vermonters, promising to lift COVID-19 restrictions the day it’s determined 80% of Vermonters have been vaccinated with at least one dose. Agency of Human Services Secretary Mike Smith said...

Dover Town Hall
DOVER- On Monday, the River Valleys Unified School District board began their regularly scheduled meeting with an informational budget meeting as they had at the last meeting. This time, however, representatives from the school district were at the Dover Town Hall to hand out absentee ballots to...

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