Monkton News

Stone by stone, inch by inch, Charley MacMartin is building a wall. It's a surprisingly simple undertaking.

This farmland in Colchester is owned by the Vermont Land Trust. The land trust is allowing so-called "new Americans" to raise goats here to provide meat to the local Immigrant and refugee population.

The brush and forest fire danger is expected to remain high in Vermont through the weekend as an unusually long and intense spell of dry, warm weather continues.

A stubborn forest fire Sunday on steep terrain off Boro Hill Road in Monkton started off a week in which the threat of grass and woodland blazes will be high amid dry conditions and low humidity.

People get caught bringing all kinds of contraband to Vermont's courthouses. Guns, knives, crochet hooks.