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Vermont's Abenaki and French heritage is being celebrated during the Vermont Lake Champlain Quadricentennial , which will also highlight the recent influx of immigrants from Africa, Asia and the Balkans.

After more than 30 years, Col. James Baker gave his final 10-42, police radio code for "officer off duty, at the Shaftsbury barracks of the Vermont State Police on Tuesday.

The Vermont State Police in Williston are investigating an incident that occurred on Route 7 near the intersection of Lime Kiln Road in the Town of Charlotte June 6, shortly before noon.

There's a transition happening at schools in Sudbury and Leicester - teachers are taking on new administrative roles.

Annie Watson likes to keep her garden messy. The honeybees like it, too. Watson of New Haven, a longtime gardener and a beekeeper of three years, shared tips at Red Wagon Plants in Hinesburg on Sunday on how to attract honeybees and other pollinators, like bats and birds, to gardens.

NEW HAVEN - Vergennes Police Chief Michael Lowe was under the influence of prescription drugs when the cruiser he was driving Sunday afternoon struck a parked car, the Vermont State Police said Tuesday.

David E. Pidgeon of Pidgeon's Gun Shop and Gunsmithing in New Haven: Happy 50th Anniversary.

A mother and daughter both face domestic assault charges following a bizarre altercation that started in a car and spilled out on to the highway over the weekend.

With two days left in the month, May hasn't quite sloshed its way into the National Weather Service's record books for soggiest Mays, but it's close.

INCIDENT: George C. Grant Located CASE #: 09C200976 TROOPER: New Haven Troopers STATION: New Haven CONTACT#: 1-802-388-4919 DATE/TIME: May 3, 2009 0645 hours LOCATION: Maple Street Waltham, VT Person of interest: George C. Grant AGE: 23 CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Waltham, VT SUMMARY OF INCIDENT On May 3, 2009 at approximately 0645 hours New Haven ...

Vermont State Police took a man they found in a tree house into custody for a mental health examination Sunday morning.

The Vermont State Police are currently investigating an incident in Waltham in which a male subject entered a wooded area on his parents property at approximately 4:45pm, Thursday, 04/30/2009 and has not been seen since.

On 28 April 2009 at 2:41pm, Vermont State Police in New Haven were notified by the Addison County Counseling Service that John Sodaro of Austin Drive in Bristol, VT had a gun and was threatening to harm himself with the gun.

The state Medical Examiner's Office will perform an autopsy on a Bristol man police believe may have died before the car he was driving crashed Tuesday in New Haven.

Vermont State Police say they believe a man whose car veered off a road and rammed a utility pole died of natural causes before that.

On 4/14/09 at approximately1032 hrs, the victim, Ralph C.White, of Bristol, was involved in a one car minor motor vehicle collision on Town Hill Rd, just off of US Route 7 in the Town of New Haven, VT.

A Bristol man involved in a single-vehicle accident in New Haven on Tuesday morning is believed to have died of natural causes prior to colliding with a utility pole, according to State Police.

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People watch a salamander cross a roadway in New Haven, Vt., Sunday, March 22, 2009.

The black salamander with yellow spots sat on the roadside in the dark, ready to make a go of it.

But it was not on its own. It got help from an escort _ one of 45 people who volunteered on a recent night to carry salamanders, frogs and newts across the road during their annual migration to mate.

On rainy nights in early spring, roads between forests and vernal pools are hopping and crawling with activity. On some nights, hundreds of amphibians cross small stretches of asphalt to mate. But many don't make it.