Bethel News

Barnard, Vt. is one of those towns Norman Rockwell would've painted. It's home to the beautiful Silver Lake, a tiny post office, and no traffic lights.

Brian Colleran, a coordinator for the knotweed program for the state of Vermont, examines Japanese knotweed in Bethel.

BETHEL, Vt. - Last year's hurricanes and flooding not only engulfed homes and carried away roads and bridges in hard-hit areas of the country, they also dispersed aggressive invasive plant and animal species.

Funeral services for Richard C. Dumont, 82, who died April 19, 2012 at the Brookside Nursing Home in White River Jct., were held April 25 at the Royalton Congregational Church.

A Hopkinton High School guidance counselor has been charged with attacking and badly injuring his 74-year-old uncle in a Manchester parking garage amid a contentious probate-court dispute.