Brattleboro News

The extremely cold winter created a deep frost this year and O'Connell knew that once the ground started thawing out in the spring it was going to cause major headaches on the town's gravel roads.

Public safety was cited as the main reason for the unexpected closure of the Interstate, between Exits 1 and 3, Saturday night through Sunday night, after "slight shifting" on the northbound bridge occurred during demolition.

Broad Brook Grange in Guilford annually awards a scholarship to a Brattleboro Union High School student from Guilford who has been accepted at a 2-or-4-year college.

The decommissioning of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant will surely be an economic blow to the tri-state region, but a group of people who met at Landmark College on April 2 prefer to think of it as an opportunity.

Police say a 43-year-old woman from New Hampshire was riding her bike at the Exit 3 Rotary when an 18-wheeler hit her.

Greta Larson, a junior from Williamsville, has been named the Windham Regional Career Center's March 2014 Student of the Month.

There's a story that director and musician Melvin Van Peebles tells about when he first took up running.

About 60 people sat captivated in the Education Conference Center of the Brattleboro Retreat for a solid 90 minutes Friday to view a documentary on the torments of opiate addiction.

Safety concerns led to the sudden closure of a section of Interstate 91 in Brattleboro over the weekend.

The Brattleboro Area Farmers' Market is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

Plaistow Fire Chief John McArdle says two factors help set up prime brush fire conditions: warm air and no wind.

A judge has granted a request to move the trials of a couple accused of killing a Vermont teacher in 2012 to another county.

An afternoon fire destroyed a Barn on Appleton Road in Bradford. Fifty to sixty firefighters from surrounding towns were on scene late into the night trying to keep the blaze from spreading to adjacent silos.

Bridge repair work on Interstate 91 in Brattleboro means detours can be expected to continue till at least 8:30 p.m. Sunday according to police.

Still weighing a possible run for president, independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders told a New Hampshire crowd he doesn't shy away from a platform based on a socialist agenda.

After The Guilford Gazette published what might have been its last issue in 2013, town librarian Cathi Wilken heard a common refrain.

Jean Luc Dushime, 33, is a Burlington photographer who grew up in Rwanda until he was 13, when he was forced to flee the country with his mother and siblings because of the Rwandan genocide.

In a scene from the new Ken Burns film "The Address," Ethan Pond talks about how confident he is as he and his fellow students at The Greenwood School get ready for the school's annual competition that day to recite the Gettysburg Address.

There is virtually no doubt that global warming exists. Aside from a few cranks and those heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry, the scientific consensus is that the Earth's climate is changing, and changing faster than ever before.

I have early memories of a bookmobile visiting my hometown neighborhood in Western Massachusetts.