Hartford News

A sewer plant expansion project has turned up some unlikely things in Hartford -- including artifacts that could be thousands of years old.

DATE/TIME: 10/31/2009 @ 0200 hours. LOCATION : St. Johns Street, Johnson, VT. VIOLATION: Possession of Marijuana with Intent to Sell ACCUSED: Timothy Moore and Brian Dow AGE: 21 and 20 CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Kittery, Maine and Hartford, VT SUMMARY OF INCIDENT: State Police executed a search warrant for marijuana on a residence rented by Timothy ...

An Upper Valley community has plans in the works for a big development project. Its one of several projects the governor is pitching to foreign investors during his trip to Asia this week.

Vermont's unemployment rate dropped slightly last month. The rate for September was 6.7 percent.

The search for a missing Gardiner man took an ominous turn Wednesday when police in Hartford, Vt., found the man's empty car in a parking lot.

An Upper Valley couple denied charges of burglarizing a Hartford household and stealing $3,000 in firearms.

While in the midst of legal battles throughout Northern New England, FairPoint Communications an-nounced it has expanded access to high-speed Internet service in southern Vermont.

A federal grand jury has indicted two Massachusetts men on charges of dealing heroin in the parking lot of the VA Hospital, AJ's Restaurant and Lounge and other locations in White River Junction.

Some of the town's neediest residents will have to wait for help or seek it elsewhere after a leaky roof left a local thrift store temporarily closed.

A Vermont man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for a 2003 burglary in Dyer in which he bound and raped the victim in her residence Jeffrey Garum Cameron, 25, of West Hartford, Vt., issued an apology to the victim, who said she no longer feels safe in her own home and never walks alone at night.

The Rutland area unemployment rate showed some improvement last month but remained the highest in the state at 8.3 percent.

A 31-year-old Winooski man, who allegedly stole a vehicle in Moretown and led police on a chase early Wednesday morning, will face multiple criminal charges in multiple counties, according to the Vermont State Police.

Jason Busic, who earned his doctorate in Spanish literatures and culture from The Ohio State University in June 2009, has been named assistant professor of modern languages at St.

Volunteers are needed for the 17th annual Glory Days of the Railroad festival, which will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept.

Hartford may become the latest Vermont community to impose a local option tax. A proposal headed to the town select board would result in a one percent local tax on rooms, meals and alcohol sales, to be collected on top of the state taxes.

MONTPELIER - Brad Borofsky hopes today's sales tax holiday will draw more buyers to his outfitters shop in search of kayaks, canoes and other high-end outdoor items.

A driveway dispute nearly turned deadly after a man allegedly fired shots at his neighbor and led police on an all-night manhunt.

Though the Hartford School Board voted to consolidate district schools last week, the most difficult decisions might still lie ahead.

A Windsor man whose former employer said has a "jailhouse mentality" denied charges Tuesday he punched the head of a teenager who owed him $20. Wayne B. Keough, 31, pleaded innocent in White River Junction District Court to a misdemeanor charge of simple assault, which carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $1,000 fine.

A Windsor man whose former employer said has a "jailhouse mentality" denied charges Tuesday he punched the head of a teenager who owed him $20. Wayne B. Keough, 31, pleaded innocent in White River Junction District Court to a misdemeanor charge of simple assault, which carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $1,000 fine.