Bridport News

As Vermont milk producers struggle through their worst economic straits in decades, local dairy activists are lining up behind a new policy initiative that's seen as a key to long-term survival for those who manage to weather the current crisis.

Thirteen young women and nine teens representing nine Vermont counties will vie for the title of Miss Vermont 2009 and Miss Vermont's Outstanding Teen 2009 on Saturday at the Barre Opera House.

We should thank Sen. Harold Giard, D-Bridport, who has introduced a legislative resolution addressing the excessive bonuses recently paid to managers of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Vermont .

David E. Pidgeon of Pidgeon's Gun Shop and Gunsmithing in New Haven: Happy 50th Anniversary.

Leanna Inzalaco, 24, of Burlington plays her G. Verde accordion for audiences along Church Street on Tuesday May 19, 2009.

Steve and Karan Cutler bought a house in Bridport with commanding views of Lake Champlain.

Green Mountain Equestrian Center is located at the corners of East and Cross Street and brings to Addison County the combined talents of Jane Costello and Jacki Galenkamp, who together have been involved with horses for over thirty years.

A New Jersey driver crashed into the northeast corner of Countryside Carpet & Paint at the intersection of Court Street and Creek Road May 8. May 16, 2009 A bizarre accident, that could have proved fatal for the driver and the owner of a Middlebury commercial center, ended with a damaged building and some jangled nerves.

An apparent tornado carved a path of destruction through the heart of this Orange County town Saturday afternoon as high winds tore the roof off a six-unit apartment building and razed a sizable barn.

Students upset with budget cuts at the University of Vermont tried - with mixed success - to get faculty and staff workers to back them at a noontime rally Thursday, one day after a sit-in at the Waterman administrative building resulted in 31arrests.

"Still sits the school-house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry-vines are running." - John Greenleaf Whittier, In School-days, 1869 One-room schoolhouses have been a visual record of rural life in Vermont for many years.

For the past sixty years, the Bridport Volunteer Fire Department has been working to protect the town and meet the demands for emergency service.

Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph has created a new program, "The Next Generation," for showcasing young local talent in the area of classical music.

A Bridport man charged with attempted murder was ordered held without bail on Monday after a Rutland judge described his alleged crime as being "as serious as it can get without successfully killing someone." Adam J. Brouillard, 39, pleaded innocent in Rutland District Court Monday to a charge of attempted second-degree murder and felony ...

With no room to spare and people spilling into the halls, about 300 same-sex marriage supporters gathered in a room next to the governor's office Friday morning to send a message to the governor that they're angry about his promise to veto a same-sex marriage bill.

In her book, Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses, Isabelle Allende relegates bread baking to the lonely.

One subject of the new exhibit at the Henry Sheldon Museum is lost to time. Another is frozen in it.

Everyone is feeling the effects of the ailing economy, especially farmers. With the price of milk collapsing in recent weeks, many are forced to rely on their subsidy payments from the program called MILC .

Warmer weather has given maple sugar season a jump start. In Bridport one producer says the season began at the same time as it did last year -- just getting started today.

Kevin Cheney owns a music fan's dream collection of posters, many of them autographed, framed, and hanging at the offices of Green Mtn.