Bridport News

Despite poor visibility and heavy snowfall that made crisp views hard to come by, hundreds -- or perhaps thousands of people -- lined the Lake Champlain shoreline Monday to watch the Champlain Bridge come down in a controlled explosion.

Vermont 125 will be the conduit and viewing area Wednesday to watch an explosives company bring down the Lake Champlain Bridge.

The Red Knights Motorcycle Club has clubs in ten countries including the United States, Canada, Okinawa, New Zealand, Austria, Iceland, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, Ireland, and Australia and is growing with five chapters in Vermont.

Three farms to receive temporary payments MONTPELIER Three Vermont dairy farms, including two from Franklin County, are getting help from the Public Service Board because low power prices have caused them to nearly quit a popular alternative energy program.

One of the best deals in town can be had Wednesday nights at the Scuffer Steak & Ale House on the Church Street Marketplace.

STATE OF VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY VERMONT STATE POLICE PRESS RELEASE INCIDENT: Motor Vehicle Stop; Possession of Marijuana , Possession of a controlled substance.

Dairy farmers are to vote today on a proposal to impose mandatory limits on milk production.

TROOPER: Sgt. Mathew Amadon, Sr. Troopers Michael Dudley, Michael Dion, Hugh O'Donnell STATION: Bradford CONTACT#: 802-222-4680 DATE/TIME: 10/27/09 0058 hrs.

Meat department manager Frank Pace of Healthy Living Market in South Burlington, Vt., quarters a heritage breed Tamworth pig from Bridport, Vt., farm Vermont Heritage Grazers.

Power will go out in Benson, Hubbardton, Sudbury, Brandon, Orwell, Leicester, Whiting, Shoreham, Bridport and Cornwall Saturday morning.

For Marie Audet of Blue Spruce Farm in Bridport, it's not good enough to say that "shit happens." On her family's farm, shit happens to earn them money.

At a time when milk prices are lower than they have been in decades farmers are struggling to keep afloat.

The Red Hen Bakery was named Vermont Small Business of the Year by the Central Vermont Economic Development Corporation .

A motorcycle crash in Texas claimed the life of a decorated Vermont soldier. Twenty-five-year-old U.S. Army Capt.

A Vermont solder based at Fort Hood was killed in an accident near Fredericksburg, Texas, Sept.

Dancing Cow Farmstead GLENN RUSSELL, Free Press Cheesemaker Karen Getz prepares to washe cheese in the ageing room at the dairy she operates with her husband Steve, Dancing Cow Farmstead Cheese in Briport on Tuesday August 18, 2009.

Dancing Cow Farmstead GLENN RUSSELL, Free Press Cheesemaker Karen Getz prepares to washe cheese in the ageing room at the dairy she operates with her husband Steve, Dancing Cow Farmstead Cheese in Briport on Tuesday August 18, 2009.

Meat department manager Frank Pace of Healthy Living Market in South Burlington, Vt., quarters a heritage breed Tamworth pig from Bridport, Vt., farm Vermont Heritage Grazers on Aug.

Dancing Cow Farmstead GLENN RUSSELL, Free Press Cheesemaker Karen Getz prepares to washe cheese in the ageing room at the dairy she operates with her husband Steve, Dancing Cow Farmstead Cheese in Briport on Tuesday August 18, 2009.

The Vermont Mozart Festival mixed classical music and storytelling for a special performance just for kids.