Worcester News

Our thoughts on the news of the week: H appy Fourth of July! The Montpelier celebration, traditionally held July 3, might have been a little soggy this year, but still brought together the central Vermont community for some good music, games for children, a parade that marched down State and Main streets, and other festivities.

Sorry, but you're going to need a few more witty quips about arks, ducks and web-feet in your arsenal to get through the next few days.

A son, Jacob Andrew Bloom Haveson, was born May 4, 2009, to Michael Haveson and Mary Tirpok of Hardwick.

Police are looking for a Subaru with substantial driver's side front end damage after a driver drove onto the lawn of a Middlesex resident and then fled the scene.

Paul Betz tries to salvage an antique cast-iron cook stove from the charred remains of his kitchen in Woodbury on Wednesday after a fire last week that destroyed his family's home and damaged their organic farm business.

Upset over government spending and high taxes, protestors held a modern-day Boston Tea Party.

The Vermont Sugar Maker's Association has kicked off it's fifth annual Operation Maple Sweetness.

Two political activists were within their free speech rights when they briefly disrupted a 2006 graduation speech by a top Bush administration intelligence official, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled Friday.

A woman from Berlin was seriously injured on Wednesday after her car ran off the road and struck a utility police, said Vermont State Police.

Eighteen-month-old Andrew McKinstry exclaimed, "Wow!" as he opened the pages of a new book brought to his day-care. Andrew is one of six children at Telia's Daycare in Worcester who is visited by two women of ...

A Worcester selectman expects a lively debate during town meeting about whether voters should ask the Legislature to help shut down the Yankee Nuclear power plant in 2012.

A woman driving down Route 100 in Duxbury veered off the road Wednesday and collided with a tree, state police said.

Free Press Staff Report The storm clouds are gone, but new snow remains. Ten inches or more of fresh powder blanketed parts of Vermont on Thursday morning.

Vermont 12 through Worcester Village will be closed to through-traffic because of downed utility pole and power lines.

The Worcester fire chief has not yet determined the cause of a fire that destroyed a home on a frigid Saturday morning, but he has ruled out arson.

An early-morning fire in Worcester had devastating consequences for a family of four.

Two families lost their homes in separate fires Saturday morning. One took place in East Wallingford.

Perhaps we should explain. Seems Cash Allen Bador, a bouncing baby boy, whose parents reside in Worcester was the first infant delivered at CVMC in 2009.

While one district is experiencing growth, the other is seeing a decline in enrollment, which begs the question, again: Would a merger make sense? During a recent public conversation about budget goals for the ...

The first major storm of the winter blew in Thursday, bringing icy roads and threat of downed power lines.