Hyde Park News

Liz Hayes can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4680. Officials yesterday tried to convince residents that designating a 700-acre area as the hub of Allegheny Township would improve the tax base and economic potential while maintaining the rest of the township's farms.

Hyde Park, Vt., is a special place. It has beautiful scenery and a tight community of residents.

A soldier from Hyde Park got a heroes welcome Saturday morning. U.S. Army Private First Class Andrew Parker was the star of a parade that spanned over several towns.

HYDE PARK, Vt. a ' For Pfc. Andrew Parker, it was a bittersweet homecoming: He was hailed as a hero, feted with a star-spangled parade and showered with gifts at a welcome home ceremony.

An autistic student has been granted legal permission to walk at today's Peoples Academy graduation in Morrisville without collecting a diploma and without jeopardizing his right to receive special education services from the school for the next four years.

Police say a worker in a Morrisville dentist's office has been charged with embezzling more than $120,000 from her employer over a 21 2-year period.

A son, Jacob Andrew Bloom Haveson, was born May 4, 2009, to Michael Haveson and Mary Tirpok of Hardwick.

Sen. Susan Bartlett, a Hyde Park resident and longtime chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, has added her name to a growing list of Democrats seeking the state's top elected office in 2010.

An Essex police officer accused of fatally shooting his neighbor's dog pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Vermont District Court in Hyde Park to committing cruelty to an animal.

Two Wolcott residents are facing charges for allegedly stealing from several Morrisville businesses late last week, said Morristown police.

Three of Castleton State College's 2009 graduates walked onto campus four years ago without anything in common.

Police are investigating a crash that killed an Eden man. Twenty-year-old James M. Maytas Jr.

A 20-year-old Eden man was killed Friday after the car he was driving apparently left the roadway in Hyde Park.

BARRE - Jonathan Therrien sat at a table Friday night at LACE, a food-based community center in Barre, and ate a plate of roast pork, rice and beans, coleslaw and cornbread.

An Essex police officer who was charged today with animal cruelty will remain on duty, at least for now, the department said in a brief statement this afternoon.

Times are tough and news is bleak. One response is to bury our heads in today's details and sit on our hands in fear of tomorrow.

Eric Williams of Hyde Park, VT dominates the 11th Annual Merchants Bank 150 as the last 106 laps are completed without a caution.

Greg Barnes is reluctant to say publicly what else he might need help with to make his home ready to accommodate the needs of his quadriplegic-soldier son because he'll probably find it outside his front door.

The Lamoille County Players are "off to see the Wizard" this summer, and you can join them! Auditions for LCP's summer musical comedy "The Wizard of Oz" will be held on May 2 and 3. The auditions will be located at Lamoille Union High School in Hyde Park starting at 1 p.m. The show dates are July 16-19 and 23-26 at the Opera House.

Yet another well-known Neil Simon comedy is coming to the Hyde Park Opera House this spring.