Chester News

What: UVM professor and VPR commentator Philip Baruth will present his historical novel "The Brothers Boswell" in the third event of the Vermont Voices series.

Little remained of the Putney General Store on Monday after a fire broke out the night before.

Lt. Col. Carol Hitchcock hugs Hannah Perillo following ceremonies honoring Hitchcock at Park Street School in Springfield.

Vermont Voices 2009, in its ninth annual edition, will bring four Vermont authors to Chester on four Sundays in November, and it is a delightful mix -- a veteran mystery writer, a former governor and ambassador, an expert on Boswell and a Middlebury professor.

Opponents of the proposed slaughterhouse in South Woodstock sat in the town's rustic country store and sipped their coffee contentedly.

A Chester man is free on bail after pleading innocent to his second burglary charge in as many months.

Kate Weare dances during one of the two acts she and her company performed Wednesday, Oct.

Submitted by the Green Mountain Festival Series The Green Mountain Festival Series is thrilled to begin its 25th Season on Saturday, October 24 when we present A Haunted Night at 7:30 p.m. at Green Mountain Union High School in Chester.

Come on down Saturday night for a foot-stompin' and finger-lickin' good ol' time during the Throwdown at the Charity Hoedown, featuring auction items, square dancing and some of the best barbecue in Vermont.

Whether you live in a nearby town or are traveling from far, the 26th Annual Weston Craft Show is worth the trip.

The executive director of the Rockingham Area Community Land Trust abruptly resigned last month shortly after he was confronted with information that officials in Oregon, where he had last worked, had accused him of misappropriating $55,000. Russ Brink, who had taken over the leadership of the organization in August 2008, resigned for personal ...

DESPITE THE FACT THAT PRINCE OF POT, MARC EMERY, IS UNDER IMMEDIATE THREAT OF EXTRADITION TO SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, U.S.A. FROM CANADA; THE UNITED STATES MARIJUANA PARTY WILL NOT BUCKLE DOWN TO THE FACIST DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY REGIME, AND WILL APPEAR ON THE 2010 OFFICIAL ELECTION BALLOT IN THE STATE OF VERMONT! DESPITE THE FACT THAT PRINCE OF POT, ...

A builder from Chester will spend four to nine years in jail for home improvement fraud and embezzlement.

Two local men were arrested Friday when the Bellows Falls Police Department executed three search warrants and found 10 marijuana plants and more than a pound of marijuana.

Police are investigating a crash in a construction zone on Route 103 in Rockingham, Tuesday, and another crash near Exit 6 of Interstate 91 northbound.

A North Springfield motorcyclist is listed in serious condition after a crash Wednesday afternoon.

In the beginning there was sex. And sex begat skill, and skill begat judgment, and judgment begat insecurity, and insecurity begat doctors' visits, which begat treatments, which have flourished into a multibillion-dollar industry, so that sex between men and women is today almost inconceivable without the shadow of disorder, dysfunction, the ...

A Springfield man who is charged with an aggravated assault on a dying man who threatened him with a splitting maul is now facing charges of prescription fraud.

Less than two months after longtime Connecticut Valley daily Eagle Times closed its doors, a new weekly newspaper, The Messenger, has emerged.

A Pennsylvania family-owned newspaper chain is poised to become the new owner of the Eagle-Times newspaper, with plans to rehire former employees and resume publication of the daily paper that ceased publication in early July.