East Montpelier News

Not all made the cut here, but in general, we find the quality of the music produced in our state to be superior.

Cate Wirth said Tuesday she was "taken aback" recently when she and her longtime civil union partner, Elizabeth Wirth, were turned down as Cub Scout leaders because of their sexual orientation.

In many ways, 2009 felt like a long year in Montpelier. The city moved from severe traffic snarls this summer to the disclosure in October of an enormous accounting error made in 2004, to a serious fire that damaged the Senior Activity Center.

Transportation officials say a recent ruling by environmental regulators could clear the way for the first phase of a long-planned upgrade of Route 2, Vermont's major east-west traffic corridor.

"Favor Johnson," Willem Lange's well-known Christmas tale of an old dairy farmer, his beloved dog, Hercules, and his flatlander doctor-neighbor is the smash hit of the Christmas book season in Vermont: Its first printing has sold out.

The Bluegrass Gospel Project will perform Sunday evening at the Unitarian Church in Montpelier.

There has been a giant wave of support for the Senior Activity Center and its members following a fire late Monday night that damaged a portion of the building at 58 Barre St.

Beloved author and radio commentator, Willem Lange and illustrator Bert Dodson, will present their Christmas folktale book for children, "Favor Johnson: A Christmas Story," on Sunday, Dec.

As a student in Paris, Karen Kane studied in the mornings and pounded the pavement each afternoon, weaving through the streets of her favorite city, learning its secrets along the way.

Hanna Satterlee and Michael Nadolski rehearse a lift for their Dec. 16 performance in Burlington.

They know well the wages of war.Kathrine Muller lost her son, Pvt. Adam Muller, to a roadside bomb in 2007.

Starline Rhythm Boys' "Masquerade for Heartache" By ART EDELSTEIN Arts Correspondent - Published: December 11, 2009 Christmas is soon upon us and Vermont-made music should be on your gift-giving list.

In a nondescript building just north of the village of Waterbury, Bill Beard and Mark Casey oversee a trove of used merchandise that piles in daily from across the state.

Several educators' positions could be in jeopardy at the U-32 middle and high schools as district officials look to hold the line on school spending next year.

Speaking of this weekend's "toy and dollar drop" in City Hall Park we're told there's a reasonable chance Mayor Thomas Lauzon might come dressed for the occasion, but he won't be wearing a Santa suit.

East Montpelier resident Willem Lange is a short-story writer and Vermont Public Radio commentator.

An intoxicated East Montpelier man crashed into the back of a minivan that was stopped for a school bus on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Vermont State Police.

The King & the Thrush performance and CD release, Friday, November 27, 7 p.m., at the T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

Oh, joy! We're saved. Opportunist-in-Chief Thomas Salmon comes riding on his charger, helmet plumes waving.

These are some of the calls received by the Barre Police Department from Nov. 8 - 14: Nov.