Calais News

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A fatal car accident this morning in Washington County. State Police say the single-car crash happened shortly after 2 a.m. on Route2/High Street in Plainfield, when a car carrying five people left the road and hit a tree head-on. The driver of the car, 17-year-old Caidin McKeever, of Montpelier, was not wearing a seatbelt and died at the scene.

A car accident has claimed the life of a 17-year-old Montpelier boy. Vermont State Police say Caidin McKeever died early Tuesday when the Honda Civic he was driving veered off Route 2 in Plainfield and hit a tree.

Fay Jacobs Robinson was born on March 10, 1938, at Heaton Hospital in Montpelier, Vermont.

A Berlin man faces charges after he allegedly assaulted his niece and her boyfriend with a crowbar in a dispute over missing equipment, state police said.

Our thoughts on the news of the week: T he U-32 High School probably doesn't need to hire someone to watch over the front door - almost a guard, if you will.

PRESS RELEASE MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH / FATAL CASE#: 09A102174 TROOPER: Cpl. Kevin Scott STATION: VSP / Williston CONTACT#: 878-7111 DATE/TIME: 05/25/09 at approximately 1129 hours LOCATION : at 6469Vermont Route 17, Buel's Gore VEHICLE #1 OPERATOR: John Gall AGE: 55 SEAT BELT? N/A CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: East Calais, VT DESCRIPTION OF VEHICLE: 2006 ...

A motorcycle crash Monday afternoon left a woman dead and her husband hospitalized with what police call "severe, life-threatening injuries." Police say John Gall, 55, of East Calais, lost control of his Harley and left the road.

While Nick Neddo weaved reeds into a basket next to an open fire, Andrew Danielsen hollowed out a gourd with the intention of making a bowl.

An East Calais woman died today after the motorcycle on which she was a passenger crashed on Vermont 17 in Buels Gore.

The differences in the approaches to the state budget by legislators and Gov. James Douglas may be more than a difference of money.

Joan Poulin of Montpelier leaned in while stained glass artist Fred Varney explained how he cuts glass for his pieces.

Mud season is over, spring has sprung, and all across the state Vermonters are back in the dirt.

The Legislature has passed a measure that will save countless animal lives and prevent childhood emergencies by requiring antifreeze to have a bittering additive.

'Schools that have effective and respected educational leaders at the helm have the best chance to improve,' says VPA Executive Director Bob Stevens.

About 1,200 people were without power for a little over an hour on Sunday after a tree fell on a line.

Melinda Karr of Berlin and Ryan Morissette of Middlesex are engaged to be married.

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.

Volunteer chef Roger Huntington got to the Twin Valley Senior Center in Marshfield at 5 a.m. recently to cook up a new operation.