This illustration from the British Library’s collection of Western Drawings shows Lord Macartney’s first meeting with the Qianlong Emperor in 1793. (Wikimedia Commons) Probably the worst decision in ...

A lawsuit filed by a student and her father against the superintendent of the Orange Southwest School District and the co-principals at Randolph Union High School was settled recently. The settlement ...

When we hear of a place called Transylvania, a land in the center of modern-day Romania, we often think of gloomy forests, wolves howling at night, forbidding castles on cliffs, and vampires. For it ...

A round the cluster of structures that make up the White Rock Farm in South Randolph, the fields rise gradually to form a shallow bowl. The treeline along the horizon indicates, more or less, the ...

One of your Strafford’s correspondent’s favorite authors as a boy, and for my children and grandchildren, is Virginia Lee Burton. She wrote such classics as “Katy and the Big Snow,” Mike Mulligan and ...

It was a banner day for Bethel as community members made their way to the village Saturday to partake of the annual Forward Festival. Firefighters grilled their signature half-chickens. Church ladies ...

The sun shines, burning through the mist over hillsides below pastoral Sanders Road up Christian Hill in Bethel. It’s Monday, a school day, just before 9 on a mild autumn morning. From the side of the ...

Raphael’s “Crop of The ‘School of Athens’” depicts Plato and Aristotle’s disagreement between “rational” and “empirical” thought. (Wikimedia Commons) They say that genius is always the enemy of new ...

WAITING GAME Ted Rogers waits for a bite while fishing on the White River in South Royalton Friday evening. “In not too long, the water’s going to be perfect for fishing,” Rogers noted. (Herald / Tim ...

I am currently a patient of Gifford Medical Center’s Chelsea clinic. Last week I was informed that my primary care provider, Dr. Laura Barber, had been given her termination notice and would be ...

From weather to attendance, fair president Gordon Barnaby said that this year’s Tunbridge World’s Fair was a resounding success. “All the concessionaires seemed happy, and all the fair-goers we spoke ...

HEB Manufacturing has been a quiet but storied industrial mainstay in Chelsea since the 1950s and it has found a second life. Brian Kippen, a local entrepreneur known for his work in prototyping and ...