NEWPORT — The city of Newport was forced to make the difficult decision to close the Gardner Park playground earlier this month over safety concerns. An annual risk management report performed by
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Resident Engineer Jeremy Dean provides an update on trail construction progress at VLT’s Bluffside Farm, in Newport. In this video, the helical piles that will support a bike path over Scott’s Cove
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LOWELL — A 52-year-old man was arrested on multiple charges including DUI, following a crash in Lowell on Sunday. The two-vehicle crash took place on Vermont Route 100 at around 4:51 p.m.
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NEWPORT — Sgt. Debra Munson has been promoted to commander of the Derby State Police Barracks. Lt. Munson’s predecessor is Lt. Walter Smith, who is retiring in early 2021, and the effective
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ISLAND POND — Marilyn W. Maxwell of the Island Pond Historical Society recently received an Individual Achievement Award from the Vermont Historical Society. Maxwell is the treasurer for the Island Pond Historical
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GLOVER — Earlier this year, the town of Glover, in partnership with the Shadow Lake Association, received a grant of $13,427 for the operation of the greeter station from the Vermont Agency
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NEWPORT — Russ Ingalls of Newport will join Robert Starr of North Troy in Montpelier this January after both picked up over 20 percent of the vote in the two-seat Essex-Orleans Senate
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NEWPORT — Green Mountain Farm-to-School says they recently partnered with the Vermont Everyone Eats program to distribute prepared meals to people negatively impacted by the pandemic. The group says they are delivering
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DERBY — The Officers of Community Bancorp. recently held their 2020 Annual Shareholders meeting. Stephen Marsh, Board Chair of Community Bancorp. and Community National Bank, welcomed the online audience and shared instructions
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With election day looming some issues rise to the surface during the election process. I would like to see Vermont governed by Vermonters. Just over half of our elected officials were born
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