Hartford News

In an appearance in New Hampshire on Monday Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack offered a glimmer of hope for suffering dairy farmers, saying he was appointing a special commission to look at the damaging volatility of the dairy market.

A dairy plant in Brattleboro to a housing program in Central Vermont were among the agencies and organizations to get the official word Tuesday in Barre they will share a total of more than $3 million in community grants.

The Vermont Golf Association's men's amateur championship is back at Kwiniaska Golf Club for the first time in 15 years.

Police and state fire marshal officials are urging Vermonters to be careful with the things that go pop this July Fourth.

KEENE, N.H. -- Dale Lee of Essex buried a 35-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to capture the New England High School championship at Bretwood Golf Course last week.

2009 Dr. Wansoo Im, president of Vertices LLC, a GIS consulting firm, and a professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, helped students and parents documents routes to school armed with pedometers and digital cameras.

The musical career of Jennifer Hartswick was go, go, go for the longest time. She studied music at the prestigious Hartt School at the University of Hartford, was tabbed by Vermont guitar hero Trey Anastasio to tour with him while his band Phish was on hiatus and was getting serious attention for her own career as a trumpet player and vocalist.

POSTED: 12:47 pm EDT June 11, 2009 UPDATED: 2:09 pm EDT June 11, 2009 HARTFORD, Vt.

A local citizen who found a duffel bag filled with guns and ammunition turned the bag and its contents in to police yesterday.

New Town Administrator Margaret "Margy" Becker is looking forward to her position and will be on the job on Monday.

The state of Vermont is opening eight sites on state land to maple sugar making, giving interested syrup makers until July 10 to get their applications in.

Students in Hartford are on the cutting edge when it comes to a new social studies class at the high school.

At least one safety equipment checkpoint will be set up in Hartford next week, said Hartford police.

The state Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation will open eight sites on state land for sugar making.

The polls are open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. today for a special election to fill a state representative seat vacated earlier this year.

A truck driver is headed to prison for killing an elderly man in a car crash. Police say Sirell Fiel, 24, of New York, was going too fast on snow-covered Route 4 in Quechee two years ago, when his tractor-trailer jackknifed and slammed into another car.

Baseball Mark Shimrock, Erich Enns, Donald McKillop Middlebury College: The trio received All-NESCAC honors on Wednesday.

Hartford may halve its street lights. Norwich may generate its own power. And several towns and cities are helping residents figure out how to use less power.

The Hartford Parks and Recreation Department has received nearly $20,000 to connect the trail systems between Kilowatt North and South parks.

Longtime Windsor County assistant judge William Boardman was suspended from his judicial and administrative duties for six months Friday by the Vermont Supreme Court, which agreed with the state's judicial disciplinary board that Boardman had acted unethically involving the sale of county property.