Woodstock News

Rest easy, lambs and citizens of South Woodstock. There will be no slaughterhouse on Church Hill Road.

My boss, Patrick Garrity, got an iPhone last week. You know, one of those "smart phones" with the Internet, e-mail and an entire galaxy of available applications.

The long-awaited adoption of the deed of conservation easement that will forever protect most of the Comeau property from development is scheduled to take place early next week on the grounds of the town-owned, 76-acre Comeau parcel, Woodstock supervisor Jeff Moran announced on November 10.

It was an enduring love and life-long pursuit of 'gobs and gobs' of data mixed with a hardcore birding passion that led Vermont Center for Ecostudies scientist Kent McFarland, 43, of Woodstock to coordinate the Web site Vermont eBird.

One of the most intense concerns of theenviro-laden majority party in recent Legislature has been to find some invisible way of subsidizing its favorite corporate welfare recipient, "renewable energy." The 2005 Legislature created a Clean Energy Development Fund to make grants and loans to qualified wind, solar, biomass, methane, small hydro and ...

Mother Nature played a cruel trick on the town police this Halloween. But what started as a scary incident had a treat of an ending, the town's police chief said.

Opponents of the proposed slaughterhouse in South Woodstock sat in the town's rustic country store and sipped their coffee contentedly.

In small towns, combining many grade levels into one building makes sense in terms of pooling resources.

The end credits were rolled across the marquee of the Movieplex 9 theater in downtown Rutland on Tuesday.

The 2010 legislative session is coming fast and one of the biggest items on the Legislature's plate is whether Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon should receive permission to continue operation past its original license expiration date of 2012.

Once in a while, if we're lucky, something comes along that expands our perception of the world around us.

A horse and his owner were reunited Sunday afternoon after the horse spent the weekend lost in the woods.

In her new book, "Libation: A Bitter Alchemy" , author and Vermont restaurateur Deirdre Heekin weaves together tales of grape-growing, wine-making and palate-expanding explorations into mysterious and alluring spirits like alkermes, absinthe and sazerac.

Visitors examining the pieces made by Vermont high school students. Fine Woodworking's managing editor, Mark Schofield, awarding Will Barstow first prize for his Queen Anne chair.

Bill and Cecilia Hoyt make a naked table. Their work can be seen this weekend at the sixth annual Vermont Fine Furniture and Woodworking Festival at Union Arena in Woodstock.

Planning and Zoning Administrator Michael Brands is less than thrilled with local businessman Frank Abballe's plan to truck as many as 500 animals per week into town to be slaughtered.

A former water buffalo farm in South Woodstock may soon be the state's newest slaughterhouse.

Controversy is stirring in an Upper Valley tourist town. At issue: whether to open a slaughterhouse.

Autumn is Vermont's most popular season among tourists because of the amazing colors this tiny state takes on.

Hi, I'll be in this area next w/end and would love to visit a local farmers mkt and stock up on good stuff.