Coventry News

A Vermont landfill energy project is opening up to visitors. Washington Electric Cooperative has been using methane from the Coventry landfill since 2005.

Here are some phavorite Phish tales of the past while looking to next weekend's Phish Festival 8 in Indio: "The last Phish festival, Coventry, was a disaster for me.

"I would sit in a week's - worth of traffic for Phish!" So says one earnest, bearded young fan in the new documentary We Enjoy Yourself , which captures the devotion of thousands of Phish followers as they endure a nightmarish traffic jam - some waited in their cars for over 50 hours - to witness what was billed as the lauded jam band's final shows ...

Five years ago, Trey Anastasio announced to the world that he and the rest of Phish were breaking up, saying that he thought the band had "run its course." Phish played a tear-filled farewell festival in Coventry, Vt., in August of 2004, and that was that.

A Newport Center man will serve more than two months in prison for shooting and wounding a fellow hunter.

Grade A- Bottom Line Finally, a studio album that stands up to the live show The goal for all previously released Phish albums has been the same: to capture the magic of their on-stage, conversational style of playing in the studio.

NORWALKBy A.J. O'CONNELLHour Staff WriterIn 2004, tens of thousands of fans of the band Phish converged on Coventry, Vt.

Phish isn't really a band. Nor is Phish a collection of obscure, unrecorded tunes, unofficially taped, scribbled as sets lists on scraps of paper, cataloged by diehard listeners and presently pegged into a myriad of databases on fan Web sites like a baseball statistic's almanac.

A splash page currently displayed on Phish's website currently reads, "Save the Date ... A 3-day festival 10/30, 10/31, 11/01." Further details, including the location of the festival, haven't been announced, however, current rumors have the event taking place at Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA, where the annual, multi-day Coachella and Stagecoach ...

COVENTRY, Vt. a 'Some dairy farmers in Vermont are changing their cows' diet to help fight global warming.

Vermont dairy farmers Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint, have changed their cows' diet to reduce the amount of gas the animals burp - dairy cows' contribution to global warming.

An Irasburg teenager and three acquaintances are facing charges they stole $600 to $700 worth of coins from the boy's father.

The Phish tribe pined away, and finally - finally! - its messiahs returned: the four hirsute, goofy, cheerily musical Vermonters who created a cult of jam-craving, rock-loving, gooey-eyed enthusiasts rivaled only by the Grateful Dead's. Phish looked to be gone in 2004 - they played what was thought to be their last at a muddy, sloppily delivered ...

Phanatics, rejoice! We know Phish's August 2004 farewell weekend concert in Coventry, Vt., harshed your mellow.

A Newport man has been charged with selling cars, trucks and parts that he didn't own.