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 ...

The Federated Church on Main Street in Rochester will once again serve their traditional Community Thanksgiving dinner on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27. This complimentary dinner welcomes ...

There’s a cinematic lull in August and September as blockbuster season winds down but before horror season picks up. That—plus the fact that the gap between theatrical release windows and home video ...

When Tropical Storm Irene tore through Vermont in 2011, Stephen Farrington found himself stranded. The floodwaters had transformed his Stockbridge neighborhood into an island, washing out roads, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using only popsicle sticks, Elmer’s glue, and dental floss, 26 middle school teams competed in Vermont Technical College’s Popsicle Stick Bridge Building Competition on Thursday in Randolph Center.

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 ...

Fifty years ago this fall, on a rainy and overcast day, a small motorcade of cars rolled through Exit 4. Nearby, a photographer stood on a wet hillside and snapped a few photos. Though dampened by the ...

Recent federal immigration enforcement actions have raised concerns about due process protections in our communities. Reports include detention without legal representation, use of detainers without ...

For a small Vermont town, its general stores serve an almighty purpose. To locals, “going to the store”—whether for coffee, the paper, groceries, or just a healthy dose of town gossip—means much more ...