Hyde Park News

A group of students from Windham Regional Career Center placed second in New England Culinary Institute's Vermont Culinary Classic competition.

The Essex police officer acquitted Tuesday of a charge of cruelty to animals has returned to patrol.

The results are in, hot from the oven: Green Mountain Technical and Career Center , of Hyde Park, has captured top honors in an annual cooking contest in Vermont's capital, for the second year in a row.

Back when so-called "classic cocktails" were the only cocktails, an ingredient called bitters showed up regularly in recipes.

HYDE PARK After deliberating for about six hours Tuesday, a jury found an Essex police officer not guilty of cruelty to animals for fatally shooting his neighbors dog in April.

OK, so now that there are five Democratic candidates running for governor, how is each going to distinguish him or herself from the others? Not easily.

Last week Channel 3 News told you about a man who allegedly stole a tour bus from Lamoille Valley Transportation in Morrisville.

The bus theft didn't work out. Maybe the film career will. A 38-year-old Morrisville man, who was arrested last week for allegedly stealing a $500,000 coach bus, appears to have filmed the escapade and posted a 4-minute, 40-second video on the Internet.

When Beth and Mark Peloquin of St. Albans hosted Jinsu Kim of South Korea through The World Heritage High School Student Exchange Program, they were quick to learn that in Korea, kimchi gets its own refrigerator.

Police arrested an 18-year-old Johnson man Tuesday in connection with an alleged assault on a Johnson State College student Monday night.

Toward the end of his relatively short life, Vermonter John M. Bissell was largely homebound due to illness.

Want to share Bissell's legacy? Austrian Roma artist Ceija Stojka's exhibit will open with a reception on November 21 at the West Branch Gallery in Stowe and remain on view through January 1. The films associated with the exhibit are still to be determined.

The Columbus Day weekend in Vermont is often the weekend for fall foliage in Vermont - the peak, the pinnacle, the window when the state's trees are ablaze.

A dispute involving a scorned lover and a case of head lice led to a shooting late Tuesday in Morrisville and the filing of attempted-murder charges Wednesday, law-enforcement authorities said.

A Vermont man was charged with attempted murder after he allegedly fired a rifle toward another man Tuesday evening.

A daughter, Jasmine Grace Ormiston, was born Sept. 16, 2009, to Leo Ormiston and Jessica Longe of Middlesex.

HYDE PARK - The Lions Club will accept donations around town Thursday through Saturday to help the vision- and hearing-impaired. During the Lions White Cane fundraising drive members will also be accepting eyeglasses, hearing aids and cell phones to help those in need.

Vermont tourism officials say they're expecting a good fall foliage season, with colors ranging from burnt orange to gold to bright red already showing on many trees.

A school investigation into the Morristown teacher accused of molesting two young male students focused on relationships "of a personal nature" between the teacher and his students, a Morristown School District attorney confirmed Thursday.

A judge has ordered the case of an Essex police officer suspected of fatally shooting his neighbor's dog to go to trial.