Dorset News Archives

“We do them with multiple cameras so they look good and they make sense and we do them with multiple microphones so they have clear sound”

Televising Manchester Select Board meetings has become part of GNAT-TV's programming in recent months, but complications have arisen in their attempt to expand coverage to the Dorset area. via Manchester Journal

“It was a lot of ground water that was running down Meadow Lane to Cheney Road and also water that was coming off the roof. Once the water table got high it just started to seep into the basement”

Several days of rain coupled with the melting of the abundance of snow the region saw this year resulted in flooding of numerous area business and residences earlier this month - the Dorset Playhouse perhaps ... via Manchester Journal

“Both my father and grandfather ran Italian restaurants in Brooklyn, and I've always loved food”

Jack DeSario and Lindsay Martin are partners in Dorset's newest bakery and cafe. via Manchester Journal

“I have complete faith in the jury's verdict in this case and I concur with it”

A Dorset man who has been told he has a year to live was sentenced Thursday to serve 10 years to life after a jury found him guilty in November of sexually assaulting a female relative from the time she was 6 ... via Rutland Herald

Emilie Anne Velsor, 26, died Wednesday, March 5, 2008 in Stinson Beach, Calif., following a 21-month battle with cancer. via Manchester Journal

“It had all the classic characteristics we've found in the other caves where bats were infected. Bats were flying out of the cave during the day and just dropping into the snow or they were clustered outside the cave”

Another cave in Bennington County has been found to be infected with "white-nose" syndrome, according to Vermont Agency of Natural Resources biologist Scott Darling, the state's experts on bats. via Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus

“There was never any skin-to-skin contact”

A woman who lives in the Willowbrook Apartments is facing 12 years in prison after police said she instructed a 15-year-old girl to conceal sexual abuse that police said was happening in the grandmother's home. via Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus

Last month I shared with you the news that one of our cats, Dorset, had joined her ancestors in that great cat condo in the sky. via Burlington Free Press

The Stratton Foundation considers applications for the McCarty Grant and the Focus Grant programs in the spring and fall of each year. via Manchester Journal

“It seems like (the Planning Commission) looked at this in terms of what we don't want to happen in that area as opposed to what we want to see happen there”

The Select Board declined to approve the completed package of zoning changes submitted by the Planning Commission after some questions arose at their Tuesday meeting about banning restaurants on Main Street ... via Rutland Herald

The Dorset Players continue their 80th anniversary season with "Amadeus," Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning examination of a mediocre 18th century composer, Antonio Salieri, who is haunted by his lone ... via Manchester Journal

“We think all the duties of tax collector could be borne by my office”

When all the votes had been tallied, incumbent Margery Freed was reelected for her third one-year term as a member of the Select Board and Bradford Tyler supplanted Timothy Burke. via Manchester Journal

A Bennington County man charged with attempted murder may face new charges for trying to persuade a key witness not to testify at the trial. via WCAX-TV Burlington

“We are encouraging people not to handle the bats. We don't want to create fear but we don't know the cause and we want people to be cautious”

As scientists around the country try to determine what is killing off thousands of bats in the Northeast, the state is asking for help identifying the problem after a dead bat was recently discovered in ... via The Brattleboro Reformer