Barre News

Ah, stick season, that wonderful time of year when the ground is as bare as the trees, the temperature begins to drop precipitously, and the only excited people around these parts are anxious hunters champing at the bit.

Scratch a sewer Vactor off the short list of joint ventures involving Barre and Barre Town.

There are still some details to be worked out and permits to be amended, but the selectboard appears willing to reverse its earlier position banning trucks from hauling 150,000 cubic yards of fill excavated from E.F. Knapp Airport along the town-owned portion of Airport Road.

Residents with thoughts or concerns about the looming re-development of Merchants Row are encouraged to attend a special meeting tonight at City Hall.

A convicted sex offender's legal challenge of a residency ordinance that prohibits him from living in Rutland is getting attention beyond the city's limits.

This is the first of two monthly columns on monument retailers by the Vermont Granite Museum.

Police arrested a 25-year-old Middlesex man on an arrest warrant Tuesday but had to call in a police dog to find the suspect who had fled the scene, according a news release from the Washington County Sheriff's Department.

The sicknesses circulating around central Vermont certainly are nothing to sneeze at.

BARRE City police charged two women on Wednesday with assaulting each other and possessing a bag of syringes.

A man accused of raping a woman in Plainfield in 2007 walked away from a Barre courtroom a free man on Wednesday after a jury declared he was not guilty of sexual assault.

Kathy Rubalcaba's three roosters - Rudy, Orvis and Ike - are strutting a little easier today after their owner was finally able to settle her differences with town officials who recently ruled she could keep only one of them.

A 50-year-old Mississippi man accused of drugging and raping a Plainfield woman on Halloween in 2007 was put on trial starting Tuesday in Vermont District Court in Barre.

Investigators have been unable to determine what caused a fire that damaged a Montpelier home last week but said there is no evidence it was intentionally set.

Singer-songwriter Shawn will perform at the Barre Opera House on Friday, Nov. 6, as part of the Celebration Series.

A retired Rutland judge will try to help an embattled East Barre chicken farmer mend fences with officials in her town during a court-ordered mediation session next week.

An East Barre chicken farmer and town officials will try to find a way to avoid ruffling each other's feathers during a court-ordered mediation next week.

A recently repaved city street was ripped up on Thursday so that it can be paved again, at no cost to the city, in the near future.

A popular top polisher for polishing the curved tops of monuments, the vertical polishing machine, was introduced around 1890 by the Concord Axle Co.

A high school sophomore entered a pair of conditional guilty pleas in Vermont District Court on Monday to charges stemming from his decision to leave two sexually suggestive letters in the mailbox of a five-year-old neighbor over the summer.

BARRE City police reported the following: Shareima Williams, of Philadelphia, was cited with harassment after she allegedly made repeated calls to Laticia Harrison, of 122 Meade St., after midnight on Sunday, police said.