Hartland Wants School Choice, No Matter Cost
By Katy Savage, Standard Staff Hartland is considering branching away from Windsor Southeast Supervisory Union to comply with Act 46, the school merger law, because the Vermont State Board of Education...
View ArticleIn Some Towns, Background Checks Moving To Forefront
By Katy Savage, Standard Staff Starting soon in Plymouth, the names of employee candidates who work with at-risk people will be cleared with the Vermont Crime Information Center and sex offender...
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Scientists Explore Why Greenland’s Glaciers Are Melting
By Virginia Dean, Standard Correspondent The Danish country of Greenland is the world’s largest island, over three-quarters of which is covered by the only contemporary ice sheet outside of Antarctica...
View ArticleFormer Reading Principal Pleads Guilty To DUI
By Katy Savage, Standard Staff After nearly two years of missed or canceled court dates, former Reading Elementary School Principal Lou Lafasciano pleaded guilty last Friday to driving under the...
View ArticleTwo Trucks Crash Into Woodstock Green
Staff report A truck driver is being charged for simple assault for punching another truck driver in the face after they both crashed into the Woodstock green Monday morning. Justin Kinney of Maine,...
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Fall Photo Contest: And The Winner Is…
Congratulations to Jennifer Waite who submitted a photo of Brothers Road in Hartland, Vermont. Jennifer who won week 4 of the contest, has won the grand prize, a overnight stay and dinner for two at...
View ArticleFire Destroys Little Ascutney Cabin
By Nancy Nutile-McMenemy, Standard Correspondent PERKINSVILLE — An old and isolated logging cabin on Little Ascutney burned to the ground Sunday evening. One firefighter suffered a minor toe injury as...
View ArticleJudge Denies Windsor Cop’s Request To Handle Rifle
By Eric Francis, Standard Correspondent WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Windsor police detective who is facing allegations that he used excessive force when he shot a drug dealer in the arm through a car...
View ArticleGrandpa’s Gravel Pit May Become Huge Solar Farm
By Curt Peterson, Standard Correspondent For Green Mountain Power, silence apparently means support. Neighbors haven’t registered complaints about a proposed 27,000-panel solar array GMP has planned on...
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‘Old School’ Skiing Coming To Ascutney
Take It Outside, By Anne Richter Arnold The first rope tow in America was set up on Gilbert’s Hill in Woodstock back in January of 1934, so it seems to appropriate that our area, the home to that and...
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Alpaca: Coming To A Plate Near You
By Katy Savage, Standard Staff WEATHERSFIELD — Jennifer Lutz towed a computer monitor on a red wagon behind her. She walked into an alpaca pen, one of 10 in the barn at the top of the Mount Ascutney...
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Ukrainian Artist Finds Her Place In North Hartland
By Katy Savage, Standard Staff Anna Hranovska Vincelette studied her pottery. ‘This is candied, like caramel, sweetened up, like, sugared,’ the Ukrainian woman said. The handmade clay turtle she was...
View ArticleHartland Considers Switching Police Services
By Katy Savage, Standard Staff HARTLAND — The select board met with three police units this fall as it explores its options with police services. The town has had a contract with the state police for...
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Mendon Woman Taken To Hospital After Car Goes Into River
Staff report WEST WOODSTOCK — A 50-year-old Mendon woman suffered minor injuries after driving her car off Route 4 and into the Ottauquechee River on Monday afternoon. Kathleen Burns, of Mendon, was...
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This Week’s Headlines, November 25, 2015
Read these stories and more on the eEdition, on Wednesday night, pick it up on the newsstands Thursdays or subscribe. Firearms And Family Dave Frary has taught his children: Grace, 15, and Zach, 10,...
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Writing: It Is The New Best Medicine
Marv Klassen-LandisBy Virginia Dean, Standard Correspondent From free verse to his experiments with such forms as the Persian ghazal and the Malaysian pantoum, the poetry of Marv Klassen-Landis...
View ArticleWindsor Teen Dead, Another Injured After Being Struck By Train
By Eric Francis, Standard Correspondent WEST HARTFORD — One person was killed and another critically injured after they were hit by the southbound Amtrak Vermonter passenger train mid-morning on Friday...
View ArticleMan Smashes Vehicle With Snowboard In Killington Parking Lot
Staff report KILLINGTON-A man smashed through the sun roof of a vehicle parked beside him at the Killington Ski Resort K-1 Gondola parking lot on Friday because it was too close to his car, Vermont...
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This Week’s Headlines, December 3, 2015
Read these stories and more on the eEdition, on Wednesday night, pick it up on the newsstands Thursdays or subscribe. Help Your Selfie Kate Overbay of Pomfret shows a photo on her smartphone to her...
View ArticleNew WUHS Boys Hockey Coach Is A Familiar Face
Woodstock Boys Hockey Team’s first home match up will be against Northfield on Saturday, December 12 at 8:10 at the Union Area. The Wasps play Brattleboro (12/2) and Hartford (12/9) away. View the full...
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