Bakersfield News

We took the opportunity today to ask holiday shoppers to compare their financial circumstances this year compared with one year ago.

Associated Press Writer with Messenger reports MONTPELIER, Vt. - Federal immigration officials are cracking down on Vermont dairy farmers as part of a national effort, asking them to provide records to prove their workers are legal.

ENOSBURG FALLS - More than half a dozen people were busy at work by 9 a.m. last Thursday morning in front of the dark red farmhouse at Flack Family Farm.

Will Voigt of the Vermont Frost Heaves is in line to become the new head coach of the Bakersfield Jam of the National Basketball Association's Development League.

AMANDA LAROSE Age: 17 School: BFA-St. Albans Parents: Janet and Mark Laroche Hometown: Bakersfield Top 5 accomplishments: Honor Roll, member of NHS, most improved for varsity basketball season of 2007-2008, Carol McFeeters Basketball Award, VTLSP conference In the community: Participant of SADD, volunteer at Brigham Library, volunteer at St.

In the Lost Nation Valley, hummingbirds visit feeders and daffodils bloom. They are the kinds of sights musicians write songs about, and John Cassel has done just that.