Vermont holds the title as the state with the strictest, most burdensome land-posting law in the country. Vermont’s current law requires landowners to erect notices prohibiting hunting, trapping, and ...

Pacific Grove, Calif.— Margaret Meagher Oxford, born on October 30, 1948, passed away on November 10, 2025, at the age of 77, with her brother and daughter beside her. Margaret was a life-long ...

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 State Police responded to 256 Whitney Hill Road in Tunbridge for a family fight on October 22, they learned that Keith Whiteman, 43, of Tunbridge, was seen driving a vehicle on Spring Road while ...

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, ...

Last year, Josh and Andrew Jonestein would often spend evenings on their patio in Dallas, brainstorming an exit strategy from Texas. All it took was a birthday trip to Vermont last November and a tour ...

Man Charged After Knife Threats Vermont State Police arrested a Bethel man after a report of an assault. The incident took place just before 8 a.m. June 26 on Store Hill Road in Bethel. Donald F.

Dan Sargent, center right, discusses the attributes of the Granville Rescue truck with curious kids during the weekly Rochester Farmers Market at Main Street Park, a Touch-A-Truck event that was held ...

Baruch Spinoza was one of the most hated and reviled people of his time. Yet he was an unassuming, homely, polite, gentle, shy young man who earned a meager living as a lens grinder and lived a ...

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 ...

A South Main Street business that’s been a fixture in Randolph for over a century is set to close at the end of this year. Mary Merusi, 83, owner of Beacon Printing for going on five decades, plans to ...