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VOTE for the Grand Prize Winner, 2017 Winter Photo Contest
The following photos are weekly winners of the Vermont Standard Winter Photo Contest. Please vote for your favorite weekly winner! Polls close on Tuesday, February 21 at noon. The grand prize winner...
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Forum Updates Landowners On Current Use Logging Regulations
By Curt Perterson, Standard Correspondent Everyone in rural Vermont has an opinion about the Vermont Use Value Appraisal Program, commonly referred to as, “Current Use.” And for good reason, according...
View ArticleKillington Board Accepts Floor-Vote Petition
By Curt Peterson, Standard Correspondent KILLINGTON – The Killington Select Board held an emergency meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 3, to approve acceptance of a petition filed after the Select...
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Vermont Flurry Returns to Woodstock This Weekend
By Virginia Dean, Standard Correspondent Using only hand and fusion tools, six teams of sculptors will bring the Woodstock Green alive this weekend with their knowledge of snow carving, propelling the...
View ArticleWUHS Snowboarding Teams Take First Place
By David Miles, Sports Correspondent It was home cooking at its finest as the WUHS Snowboarding teams both concluded the regular season by taking first place at a GS at Suicide Six last week. South...
View ArticleBanios Accepts WCSU Superintendent Job
By Gareth Henderson, Standard Staff Mary Beth Banios accepted a three-year contract as the new superintendent of the Windsor Central Supervisory Union on Wednesday, according to WCSU Board Chair and...
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WUHS Senegal Trip: Students Plant Trees
The Woodstock Union High School students are in Senegal Africa working in two orphanages, to teach and exchange ideas in a rural school, plant native fruit trees at the schools, participate in wildlife...
View ArticleFlood Watch for Vermont – State Warns, Be Attentive
Flood Watch for Vermont – be attentive to rising rivers and streams WATERBURY – The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a Flood Watch for all of Vermont through this weekend. Rain, snowmelt, and...
View ArticleTwo Injured in Route 4 Crash
By Gareth Henderson, Standard Staff Two motorists were rushed to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center following a two-car crash on Route 4 near Echo Ledge Road in West Woodstock on Friday, February 24,...
View Article(Update) NH Man in Route 4 Crash Dies
The Plainfield, New Hampshire, man in Friday afternoon’s two-car accident on Route 4 in West Woodstock has died. Later on Friday, William A. Moeller, 77, succumbed to the injuries he sustained in the...
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Town Meeting Preview: Killington Board Race, New Budgets on Tap
By Curt Peterson, Standard Correspondent Killington’s Town Meeting process spreads over two days. The information meeting and vote on the Killington Elementary School 2017-2018 budget will take place...
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Fire Damages West Windsor Home
WEST WINDSOR – The fire marshall and local firefighters Monday morning were investigating the scene of a fire that damaged this home on Route 44 in West Windsor. No further information was available at...
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WUHS Senegal: Visit to National Renaissance Monument
The Woodstock Union High School students are in Senegal Africa working in two orphanages, to teach and exchange ideas in a rural school, plant native fruit trees at the schools, participate in wildlife...
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This Week’s Headlines, March 2, 2017
Read these stories and more on the eEdition, new edition available Wednesday nights, pick it up a copy on the newsstands Thursdays or subscribe. Sophie Sheppard runs for the finish line with her flag...
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Town Meeting Preview: West Windsor To Debate Budgets, New Fire Truck
By George Calver, Standard Correspondent WEST WINDSOR – School taxes and the proposed purchase of a new fire truck are two of the key issues up for discussion at this year’s town meeting in West...
View ArticleTown Meeting Preview: Higher Woodstock Town Tab Unites Highway Departments
By Michelle Fountain, Standard Correspondent The discovery of a 37-year-old vote that merged the town and village highway departments has caused the Select Board to put forward a budget for 2017/2018...
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Town Meeting Preview: Reading Bridge Work Leads to Town Budget Increase
By Virginia Dean, Standard Correspondent READING – For the fiscal year July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018, voters in this town will be asked to approve a budget of $1,665,995 of which $630,255 is to be...
View ArticleVoters to Decide Act 46 Plan Next Week
By Gareth Henderson, Standard Staff Next week, voters in the Windsor Central Supervisory Union will decide on whether to become a newly unified district under the state statute Act 46, as outlined in a...
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Town Meeting Preview: Barnard Voters to Weigh Town Budget Increase
By Curt Peterson, Standard Correspondent BARNARD – Barnard officials have scheduled the School Meeting at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 7 at Town Hall, before the Town Meeting, which will follow “whenever...
View ArticleTown Meeting Preview: Pomfret Sees a Number of Posts up for Election
By Norwood Long, Standard Correspondent POMFRET – The 245th annual meeting of the Town of Pomfret has been warned for Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at 9 a.m. in Pomfret Town Hall. The Pomfret school district...
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