Chester News

A Townshend landmark, Harmonyville Store reopened on June 4 with two fresh faces behind the counter.

A Castleton man is in jail on charges he led police on a 20-mile high-speed chase across four towns.

A Townshend landmark, surrounded by Sycamore trees, Harmonyville Store reopened Thursday, June 4, with two fresh faces behind the counter.

It was a very special Flag Day on Sunday for business owners and residents whose star-spangled banners were stolen earlier this month on another national hallmark - D-Day. Local police recovered 13 American flags and two Vermont flags from undisclosed locations in Bellows Falls on Sunday.

Two Chester residents denied charges Tuesday they assisted in a North Springfield convenience story robbery.

A Massachusetts man whose son was killed last summer is frustrated by what he calls a deliberate effort to keep him from being involved in court proceedings.

Putnam State Forest in Grafton will be opened for sugar making, the Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation announced.

Three Windsor County residents were recently honored for their charitable work. During a ceremony last month in the National Life Building, Chester resident Maria Contro received the 2009 Governor's Community Service Award from Gov.

"My mom says I used to suck on a rib bone as a teether," says Sarah Tuff, 25. She sits at a picnic table at Curtis' All-American Restaurant , which she and her fiance, Chris Parker, 26, own together.

Two Vermont planning groups are studying the potential development along the Vermont Route 103 corridor from Rockingham to Chester.

Bobby Bliss Sr., native Vermonter, became the man of summer. This transformation waited in the wings for most of a lifetime, but everything he ever did took him inexorably towards that exalted status.

The Saxtons River Art Guild, under the auspices of the Greater Rockingham Area Services, recently hung a new show at Hospital Court in Bellows Falls.

A Cavendish teen who is already facing counterfeiting charges was arraigned Tuesday on charges he stole money and medication from his grandparents.

Nine local area artists and craftspersons, members of the Vermont Crafts Council, will open their studios Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 23 and 24 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to share their fine handcrafted artwork during the Councila s 17th Annual Open Studio Tour.

INCIDENT: Mobile Home Fire CASE #: 09D101171 TROOPER: Det. Sgt. Mark P. Galle STATION: Williston CONTACT#:802-872-4090 ext 2015 DATE/TIME:05-12-2009 11:05 p.m. LOCATION: 23 Rounds Road, Rockingham, VT VICTIMS: John and Deborah Simonds CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Rockingham,VT On 05-12-2009 at approximately 11:00 p.m. John Simonds awakened to the ...

A mobile home fire Tuesday night left a family of four homeless. Shortly after 11 p.m., fire departments from Rockingham, Bellows Falls, Springfield, Chester, Saxtons River, Walpole, N.H., and North Walpole, N.H., responded to a fire on Rounds Road.

The Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary No. 2445 will hold a covered dish supper on Saturday, May 2, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Eagles Home, 54 Chickering Drive in Brattleboro.

A Springfield man who was convicted 15 years ago of shaking his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter to death will get out of jail five years early after he was re-sentenced Thursday for the 1992 crime.

A Chester man who is already facing charges in a high-profile burglary denied additional charges of stealing diesel fuel.

What: Author and wildlife biologist Mark Freeman reads from his first novel, "The Kindling of GreenFyr: Book One of the Reunification Conspiracy." When: Thursday, April 16, 7 p.m. Where: Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St., Brattleboro.