Bethel News

BETHEL, Vt. - June Tierney and Kellie Burke never envisioned island living in the Vermont woods, but Tropical Storm Irene had other ideas.

Iowa and Nebraska get together Thursday for their own version of the Big Ten Network show, "The Journey." The title could be "Careful What You Wish For." Or, "The Butler Did It." The Hawks and Huskers are trying to find the road back, back to a place where they were happier than they knew at the time.

BETHEL, Vt. June Tierney and Kellie Burke never envisioned island living in the Vermont woods, but Tropical Storm Irene had other ideas.

By Eric Francis Standard Correspondent WHITE RIVER JUNCTION - A common denominator has emerged during the course of several otherwise unconnected criminal investigations across the region this fall and winter ranging from some of the individuals connected to the homicide in Bethel to the rash of thefts from cars in Woodstock to the burglarizing of ... (more)

Many of the suggestions in a 71-page report released Friday on the state's recovery efforts after Tropical Storm Irene should be taken to heart and become official policy in an era when the severity of storms and their variability has been increasing.