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Fly fishing guide Colin MacMillan, right, of White River Junction, congratulates Arthur Leopold, of New York City, after catching a smallmouth bass in the White River in Hartford Village on Friday.Leopold spent Labor Day weekend with his family in...

ALEX CERVANTES

WINDSOR — The Windsor football team, victors of the last three Division-III state championships, commenced another title defense Saturday hosting Division-II Fair Haven.But this offseason has been a period of transition for the Yellowjackets. Coach...

ALEX CERVANTES

WINDSOR — Moments before kickoff, White River Valley girls soccer coach Kim Prestridge held up a large easel paper pad outlined with a list of goals for her team to accomplish Friday. Prestridge got the idea from her assistant coach, Omar...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

BRADFORD, Vt. — A 29-year-old woman living in a Bradford hotel faces child abuse charges after her 11-month-old infant was admitted to the hospital in critical condition as a result of what doctors determined to be a “serious physical injury” not...

By ALAN J. KEAYS

The Vermont Supreme Court has doubled the penalty for a Woodstock lawyer — suspending his law license for two years — ruling that his lack of remorse and failure to cooperate with an investigation into his misconduct had warranted the tougher...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Republicans running for three seats representing Windsor County in the state Senate call for cutting back state spending, reducing regulations and a more balanced mix of political views in the state’s Democratic-controlled...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Housing, education funding and climate change readiness are major priorities of three Democratic candidates running for the Vermont Senate in the Windsor District — while a fourth candidate, a fiscal conservative, believes the...

Members of the Hartford Fire Department Swiftwater Rescue Team pull inner tubes out of the Connecticut River after safely rescuing their occupants who were stuck in a current near Sumner Falls in Hartland, Vt., on Saturday.“It’s probably not safe to...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — A cluster of measles infections tied to an international traveler who visited Hanover last month has grown to three and health officials on Tuesday provided a new list of Upper Valley locations where people may have been exposed to the...

By HALEY CLOUGH

THETFORD — Upper Valley proponents of a national movement to keep kids from using cell phones while in school made their case during a community forum Tuesday at Thetford Academy.Panelists at the forum, hosted by the Vermont Phone-Free Schools...

With a heat advisory issued for the Upper Valley through 8 p.m. Thursday, Heather Fernandes and her children Caleb, 6, and Wyatt, 8, cool off in the White River in West Hartford on Tuesday. Caleb Coture with Vermont Heating and Ventilating grinds a...

By ALEX HANSON

A couple of weeks before Town Meeting Day, longtime Norwich School Board member Neil Odell wrote a letter to future Vermonters about the demise of public education.“Rather than double down on our public education system,” Odell wrote, “we instead...

WEST FAIRLEE — Students at Westshire Elementary School learned a variety of circus tricks, from tumbling and juggling to aerial skills during a circus workshop led by the Upper Valley Circus Collective on Monday. The workshop was held at the school...

Jazmine Lantz, of Woodstock, walks her 2-year-old rooster Presley, named after Elvis, around the farmers market on the green in Woodstock on Wednesday. “He loves the attention,” Lantz said as passersby stopped to stare at her feathered companion. 

RANDOLPH — Vermont State Police cited a 35-year-old Barre, Vt., man for DUI after he allegedly crashed into a flagpole at the Vermont Veterans Memorial Cemetery on Furnace Road on Memorial Day, according to a news release. Troopers observed signs of...

By JIM KENYON

On a bitter cold February night in 1963, Howard Coffin packed his cardboard suitcase and walked to U.S. Route 5 in the village of Lyndonville, Vt., where he stuck out his thumb to hitch a ride home to Woodstock.“A trucker came by and picked me up,”...