Route 5 Closed Due To Accident
Staff report Hartland emergency officials have closed Route 5 north of Hartland on Friday at 9:40 a.m. due to fallen power lines following a single-vehicle crash. No injuries have been reported. The...
View ArticleWind Chill Warning This Weekend For Windsor County
Staff report The National Weather Service has issued a wind chill warning for Windsor County from early Saturday morning to Sunday evening. Forecasters are predicting wind chill levels to reach minus...
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Officials Fighting Fire, Freezing Temperatures In Weathersfield
Staff report Below-freezing temperatures are causing difficulty for firefighters battling a blaze in Weathersfield on Monday morning. Firefighters are having trouble keeping their hoses from freezing...
View ArticleWinter Weather Advisory Monday Night/Tuesday
There is a winter weather advisory in effect from 7 p.m. today (Monday, February 15) to 1 p.m. Tuesday for all of central Vermont. Two to Four inches of heavy snow is expected to accumulate along with...
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Sign Singes Trump Supporters
By Katy Savage, Standard Staff Recently, Woodstock Home and Hardware staff fielded angry phone calls from people across the country about its sign. “Most of them fairly abusive,” said store owner Larry...
View ArticleFlooding Causes Outages In Reading, Weathersfield, W.Windsor
Staff Report About 1500 Green Mountain Power customers in Reading, Weathersfield and West Windsor lost power Tuesday night due to a flooded substation in Brownsville. The damage was so extensive Green...
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This Week’s Headlines, February 18, 2016
Read these stories and more on the eEdition, on Wednesday night, pick it up on the newsstands Thursdays or subscribe. Area Fires Take Their Toll On Communities by Katy Savage, Standard Staff A 1815...
View ArticleHartford Reconsiders Option Tax
By Eric Francis, Standard Correspondent QUECHEE — Voters at Hartford’s annual Town Meeting on March 1 are going to get another chance to consider the imposition of the so-called “local option tax” that...
View ArticleTowns Scramble For Road Funds
By Katy Savage, Standard Staff Many town officials apply to the same grant every year, even if they know their likelihood of getting one is slim. “They’re quite competitive,” said Preston Bristow, who...
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WUHS Winter Sports Finals Schedule
(See the regular season schedule & results – click here.) Boys Basketball (13-7-0) beat Bellows Fall (10-10-1) in the first round of the playoffs on Wednesday night. Advancing, the Wasps will take...
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ArtisTree Wants To Bring More Art To Local Classrooms
By Katy Savage, Standard Staff Teachers are busier now than ever with heftier curriculums, science standards to meet and literacy initiative demands. For a teacher, hands-on learning like the arts,...
View ArticleBoys Basketball Goes To Barre After Quarterfinal Win
By George Calver Standard Correspondent The boys basketball team will travel to Barre Auditorium tonight, Monday, to take on No. 8 Mount St. Joseph at 8:15 p.m. The Wasps punched their ticket to Barre...
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VOTE: Choose The Winter Photo Contest Grand Prize Winner
The following photos are weekly winners of the Vermont Standard Winter Photo Contest. You choose the Grand Prize winner! Take a look at the five weekly winners and choose your favorite to win the grand...
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This Week’s Headlines, February 25, 2016
Read these stories and more on the eEdition, on Wednesday night, pick it up on the newsstands Thursdays or subscribe. I Think We’re Going To Need A Bigger Sled Ella and Sophie Shepherd show off their...
View ArticleAwaiting Court Ruling, Quechee Highlands Gets Construction Permit
Staff Report QUECHEE — A major development project is being appealed in Superior Court but a permit indicates construction can start anytime. Pomfret resident Scott Milne got the land use permit Jan. 9...
View ArticleSome Reps Sponsor Bills They Don’t Fully Support
By Katy Savage, Standard Staff There are 842 bills in the Vermont House. There are 265 bills in the Senate. There is a bill about making the state native insect the tri-colored bumblebee. There’s a...
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Town Meeting Preview: Chamber Bond, Lower School Budget Up For Vote In Woodstock
WOODSTOCK Town Meeting – Sat., Feb. 27 at 10 a.m. (Voice Vote) Woodstock Town Hall Voting Tues., March 1 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. (Australian Ballot) Woodstock Town Hall Woodstock voters will gather at town...
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Town Meeting Preview: Act 46 Amendment Drops Tax Rate In Reading
READING Town Meeting Sat., Feb. 27 at 9:30 a.m. (Floor Vote) Reading Elementary School The Agency of Education earlier this year made a calculation error that would have cost Reading Elementary School...
View ArticleTown Meeting Preview: School Taxes Expected To Fall In Hartland
HARTLAND Town Meeting Tues., March 1 at 9 a.m. (Floor Vote) Damon Hall On Tuesday, March 1 at 9 a.m. Town Meeting will commence at Damon Hall. A proposal has been made by the board of selectmen raising...
View ArticleSouth Woodstock Fire Displaces Two
Staff report The Woodstock Volunteer Fire Department responded to an apartment fire at 11 Kelly Way in South Woodstock on Saturday at 7:45 p.m. The small fire was reportedly under control around 8:30...
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