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By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

TUNBRIDGE — Community members have rallied around two longtime residents who lost their home of nearly 30 years in an early-morning fire last week.As of Monday afternoon, more than $56,000 had been raised to rebuild the Monarch Hill Road house of Lisa...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

MERIDEN — To owner Angela Toms, Mill Bridge Farm is a “4-H project gone right.”Toms, a physician, and her husband, Chris Forman, a software engineer, built the barn that houses 11 Guernsey cows in 2018, after their four children joined 4-H and got...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

TUNBRIDGE — A heavy dew covered the grass on Wednesday morning as 22 veterinary technician students from Vermont State University in Randolph, outfitted in coveralls and rubber boots, deployed at the Tunbridge World’s Fair grounds.The students, along...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

TUNBRIDGE — The Vermont Supreme Court is leaving it up to a lower court judge to decide whether the town of Tunbridge has the “right to maintain and repair legal trails within its borders.” The 5-0 decision released Aug. 2 paves the way for a...

By ALEX HANSON

Patrick Schlott is still a young man, a 2016 graduate of what was then called Vermont Technical College, in Randolph. But he is old enough to remember when payphones were still ubiquitous.When he was a student at Montpelier High School, from 2008 to...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

BENTON, N.H. — Henry Swayze wanted to return to where he set out. That was a big mistake, he acknowledges.“I was of the mindset I wanted to get back to Post Mills,” Swayze said of the reason he decided not to land his glider which was losing altitude...

By FRANCES MIZE

TUNBRIDGE — Vermont State Police have cited a man who was shot in the legs in Tunbridge last winter to appear in court in June on a charge of attempted burglary.The announcement of the charge to be brought against Hugh Shackleton, made last Friday,...

By FRANCES MIZE

TUNBRIDGE — This spring, Tunbridge trail volunteers were inspecting Orchard Trail, favored by bicyclists, before its reopening for summer use. They found their way barred by downed trees.On May 14, the Tunbridge Selectboard unanimously passed a motion...

TUNBRIDGE — Voters in the two-town First Branch Unified School District approved an operating budget of $8.4 million at a floor meeting on Monday night.In a paper ballot vote, 84 voted for the budget and 62 voted no.The budget is up from last year’s...

Articles of note: An article proposes transferring $167,000 to the district’s capital reserve fund from a $522,000 surplus. Voters will also consider the transfer of $267,000 from that surplus to a tuition reserve fund. Contested races: Voters will...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

TUNBRIDGE — Voters added $40,000 to the budget to pay for expanded policing and gave the Selectboard the green light to draw up a noise ordinance and adopt a “declaration of inclusion” affirming the town welcomes everyone regardless of their race or...

Article of note: One article asks whether voters will approve a noise ordinance and another asks whether voters authorize the Selectboard to adopt a Declaration of Inclusion.Contested races: Officers will be elected from the floor.Budgets and spending...

BURLINGTON — A White River Junction woman was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to pay $75,000 in restitution following her guilty plea to defrauding her employer, a Tunbridge towing company, during the time she handled the company’s...

By FRANCES MIZE

A lengthy legal brouhaha that has pitted the owners of a former dairy farm against the Town of Tunbridge over the maintenance of public trails is headed to the Vermont Supreme Court.The case is set to be heard sometime this spring, either by a panel...

WEST LEBANON — A 33-year-old man remains hospitalized but is expected to survive after being shot with a rifle in Tunbridge on Wednesday morning, according to Vermont State Police.On Friday afternoon, authorities identified the shooting victim as Hugh...

FRANCES MIZE

TUNBRIDGE — A man was critically injured in a shooting in Tunbridge on Wednesday morning, according to Vermont State Police.The shooting took place at a residence on Button Hill Road in Tunbridge, according to Wednesday evening news release...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

SOUTH ROYALTON — The South Royalton Rescue Squad is about halfway to its goal of raising $865,000 for a new crew quarters and garage.The squad responds to emergency calls in Royalton, Sharon and part of Tunbridge, as well as a 12-mile stretch of...

BRADFORD, Vt. – The Additional Recyclables Collection Center, or ARCC, reopened on Monday, but now accepts fewer items for disposal. Damage from July’s flooding had kept the facility shuttered for four months.Bradford, Chelsea, Fairlee and Tunbridge...

By LUKAS DUNFORD

TUNBRIDGE — Town and state officials are working to avoid disruptions to emergency services while conducting repairs on two separate bridges; work that needs to be completed before winter.The possible simultaneous closures of both Strafford Road and...

By FRANCES MIZE

TUNBRIDGE — The sands of time and the wreckage of a flooded White River are no match for the working steer show at the Tunbridge Fair.Amy Ferris, a longtime 4-H volunteer, started prepping for the event — a storied tradition of agrarian life in...