Barre News

A 47-year-old Barre woman pleaded innocent to domestic assault and unlawful restraint on Wednesday for allegedly hitting another woman and handcuffing her to a bed.

Rep. Paul Poirier isn't holding his breath waiting for health care reform to come down from Washington, D.C. Poirier, a Barre City independent, has spent the past several months talking to people about health care reform and his idea that Vermont could launch its own public option health insurance as a way to reduce costs and insure more people.

The City and the Town of Barre won't be seeing each other in court after all. Nearly two years after the town slapped the city with a lawsuit alleging the community failed to live up to its end of a 33-year-old water agreement, and that it had chronically misused some funds raised through local water rates, both sides reached an out-of-court ...

If the Christmas spirit hasn't grabbed hold of you yet, maybe that parking ticket on your windshield will help.

Vermont's Democratic, Republican and Progressive parties meet for their annual conventions this weekend.

A former Northfield village trustee and frequent political candidate was arrested on Friday on two criminal charges after he allegedly hit a traffic flagger with his pickup truck in Northfield.

An employee at a bank branch in Berlin and his girlfriend have been cited to appear in court to face felony charges of embezzlement for allegedly diverting thousands of dollars from an out-of-state bank account into a local account.

A Montpelier woman was arrested for allegedly driving with a suspended license and stealing license plates from other vehicles, according to the Berlin Police Department.

Vermont has paid a bigger price than any other state in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

An accommodating selectboard enthusiastically approved a tax stabilization request that will aid a Barre-based capacitor manufacturer's federally funded expansion plans in Wilson Industrial Park.

Police have arrested three Washington County men in the last week for several violent attacks over the previous five months in Barre, including a vicious beating last summer that left a Barre man with what a doctor called a "severe brain injury." Sean Clark, 39, of Barre was arrested on Friday for his alleged role in the beating of 27-year-old Sean ...

Over 250 Vermont communities are sending their loved ones to Afghanistan. The Vermont National Guard released the hometowns of the 1,210 Task Force Phoenix troops who are preparing to spend at least a year overseas.

Hundreds of Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, veterans and their family members from around the state flocked to downtown Barre on Saturday and paraded down Main Street to say thank you to the men and women who have donned military uniforms and served the United States of America.

Ah, stick season, that wonderful time of year when the ground is as bare as the trees, the temperature begins to drop precipitously, and the only excited people around these parts are anxious hunters champing at the bit.

Scratch a sewer Vactor off the short list of joint ventures involving Barre and Barre Town.

There are still some details to be worked out and permits to be amended, but the selectboard appears willing to reverse its earlier position banning trucks from hauling 150,000 cubic yards of fill excavated from E.F. Knapp Airport along the town-owned portion of Airport Road.

Residents with thoughts or concerns about the looming re-development of Merchants Row are encouraged to attend a special meeting tonight at City Hall.

A convicted sex offender's legal challenge of a residency ordinance that prohibits him from living in Rutland is getting attention beyond the city's limits.

This is the first of two monthly columns on monument retailers by the Vermont Granite Museum.

Police arrested a 25-year-old Middlesex man on an arrest warrant Tuesday but had to call in a police dog to find the suspect who had fled the scene, according a news release from the Washington County Sheriff's Department.