Hartland News

November 09, 2009, 7:08 AM / With contractors in place, the Royalton-Hartland School District is looking to begin construction on a $4.3 million expansion within the next three weeks.

The field of candidates hoping to become Vermont's next governor is getting bigger.

A light kind of emptiness. That's how veteran Mike Heaney of Hartland, Vt., described his feelings upon returning to Vietnam 42 years after losing several men in his platoon during a 1966 ambush.

Former State Sen. Matt Dunne announced Tuesday morning that he would run for Vermont governor next year, joining an already crowd mix of Democrats seeking to replace the retiring Gov.

An Upper Valley couple denied charges of burglarizing a Hartford household and stealing $3,000 in firearms.

Vermont's 2010 gubernatorial race has another possible candidate. Former Democratic State Sen.

Former State Sen. Matt Dunne is considering a run for governor. "I have a timeline of November of this year to make a decision about my participation in the election process in the state of Vermont," Dunne said Wednesday by telephone.

HARTLAND VT, USA The Sustainability Institute, founded in 1996 by the late Donella Meadows, announced this week the appointment of Bastiaan "Bas" de Leeuw as their new executive director.

A Chittenden County man sentenced in January for possessing stolen property from a Windsor County woman is in custody after allegedly leading police on a high-speed chase early Wednesday morning.

An accused arsonist who claimed multiple personality disorder after being charged in a pair of 2006 fires was ordered to serve almost four years in prison.

Gordon Richardson's grandparents bought a 450-acre parcel in Hartland back in 1905.

A fifth-generation farm has been named Vermont Dairy Farm of the Year. The Richardson family has a 450-acre operation on a hillside in Hartland.

An accused arsonist who claimed multiple personality disorder after being charged in a pair of 2006 fires was ordered to serve almost four years in prison.

An accused arsonist who claimed multiple personality disorder after being charged in a pair of 2006 fires is expected to change her plea Wednesday.

A Windsor man's need for speed has him facing his third drunken driving charge. Tuesday, Matthew C. Fotion, 36, pleaded innocent in White River Junction District Court to a felony charge of drunken driving, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $2,500 fine.

Scott L. Morrison, 43, of Lebanon, N.H. is facing his second driving under the influence charge arising from a traffic stop Tuesday in Hartland.

The lawyer for an accused arsonist said to suffer from multiple personality disorder plans an insanity defense at her trial.

The 92 students at Sterling College are used to roughing it - they learn how to use an ax, sleep outside in the winter and raise a quarter of their food.

POULTNEY -Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., will deliver the commencement address at Green Mountain College's 172nd graduation ceremony May 16 on the Griswold Library lawn, college officials said today.

Their water supply still contaminated as the result of a 1997 fuel spill, a Hartland couple is asking the town to drill them a new well using some of the $460,000 it got in a legal settlement.