Manchester News

Vermont Health officials say some people left a Manchester flu vaccination clinic without being vaccinated even though there was vaccine available.

Four schools in Vermont have closed to date as a result of student absences in large part caused by the swine flu, including the Websterville Baptist Church and the Christian School in Orange, the Health Department reported Thursday.

The Federated Church of East Arlington's annual Eat for Heat Supper will be on Saturday, Nov.

With the economic downturn affecting all of us in so many ways a common weekend activity with family and friends is no longer an option in the Rutland community.

Almost three years after he entered into a plea arrangement that set off a national controversy, Andrew C. James, a convicted sex offender, may be facing real jail time within the next month.

Rebecca Adamson, founder and president of First Peoples Worldwide, will deliver the morning keynote address at Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility's 17th annual fall conference in Manchester on Nov.

One was vexed about the use of a private corporate jet by the head of AIG, the insurance giant whose financial woes played an outsized role in triggering last year's Wall Street meltdown.

The Manchester Police Department is investigating an attempted robbery which took place at Bob's Diner on Routes 11 & 30 Tuesday night.

The Development Review Board has decided that the Chamber's banner program could continue to operate.

It seems a mix of Robert Frost and J.R.R. Tolkien, this southwest corner of the Green Mountain State with its unofficial designation as "The Shires of Vermont.'' As it turns out, there is more than literary background to the moniker.

It started with a single peach tree earlier this year. It yielded 64 jars of peaches, and accomplished two things at once: It represented locally grown food, and in a small way, helped reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere.

One Vermont group has celebrated the International Day of Climate Action by planting an apple tree to mark the sale of 350 fruit trees to residents in Manchester.

The look of Barnumville Road may change in the months ahead. During the discussion about the Capital Improvement Program at the Select Board's last meeting on Oct.

The timely book launch of "Wushu Moon Magic" with this year's full harvest moon marks a new author's fiction debut.

Problems with the pool and the kids pool already have town officials thinking about their future at the Manchester Parks and Recreation Department.

Officials say the Burr and Burton Academy in Manchester will be closed for two days because of the high number of students and faculty who are sick or absent.

Town officials plan to begin work to bury utility lines in the spring and begin construction of the roundabout to replace "Malfunction Junction" in 2011, according to Town Manager John O'Keefe. The roundabout is a long-planned replacement for the intersection of Routes 1-1/30 and 7A.

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Chris Sprague, who with her husband Ted, owns The Inn at Ormsby Hill in Manchester, has built her reputation for culinary skills during her 21 years of innkeeping.

With cell phone service and signals getting ever stronger and faster in southern Vermont, companies like Wireless Zone help fill the technology needs of local residents.