Reading News

About a year ago, Scott Beck got an email that cost him $75,000. It wasn't from a Nigerian claiming to be the administrator of a millionaire's estate, but from a company in New York called On Demand Books .

It's a Rutland High School junior's dream - no finals, free parking, lunchtime off campus and other senior privileges.

The 2010 legislative session is coming fast and one of the biggest items on the Legislature's plate is whether Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon should receive permission to continue operation past its original license expiration date of 2012.

There is something special about fall, something cozy about the season's predictability.

It was 11 years ago now that Middlebury College's John Elder published 'Reading the Mountains of Home,' and I don't believe an autumn has passed since when I haven't spent an evening or two becoming reacquainted with a chapter or two from it.

Library Card SignUp Month and the beginning of the academic year seems like an appropriate time to reach out and introduce our community to new services and upcoming programs being offered by the Bennington Free Library.

Brad Kelley's love of wine started at the ripe age of 21 as simple curiosity. Growing up in Virginia, Kelley's father was always into wine but "it didn't register when I was younger," said Kelley, now the owner of Burlington Wine Shop.

The action will be in Manchester this week as the Vermont Arts Council's "Art of Action" project begins its almost yearlong tour through Vermont with an exhibition at Hand Motors.

Its day 3 of the Champlain Valley Fair, and it's Kids' Day. The midway was busy, as many families enjoyed a day off before the start of school.

Vermont high schoolers saw their SAT scores drop last year. Math dropped five points to 518.

In 1979, the U.S. Catholic Bishops issued a Pastoral Letter on Racism, which is as relevant now as it was then.

In 1979, the U.S. Catholic Bishops issued a Pastoral Letter on Racism, which is as relevant now as it was then.

Running north and south, the Green Mountains limit a motorist's options to travel between the eastern and western parts of the state.

At the Windsor County Agricultural Fair this weekend, milk was free. At the fair's snack bar, along with the staples of a summer diet - hamburgers, cheeseburgers, grilled barbecued chicken, soda and water, milk was being given away at no charge to fairgoers.

The Mark Skinner Library will host their Book Bash, the opening celebration for the Summer Reading Program, "Be Creative @ Your Library," on Thursday, July 9, from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. The Book Bash begins a 6-week series of creative, exciting activities that will include an author visit by Woody Jackson, a movement workshop, a field trip to the ...

On Thursday, June 18, Gary David Goldberg, the creator, writer and producer for the television series "Brooklyn Bridge", "Spin City" and "Family Ties" will be at the Bennington Museum to participate in Books for Bennington.

The decision by Mater Christi School to cancel an anti-racism event raises difficult questions about how we draw such distinct lines based on our beliefs that we are no longer capable of listening to people with whom we disagree talk about even unrelated subjects.

The abrupt cancellation of a Reading to End Racism event at a Burlington parochial school has left presenters of the program dismayed.

Library awarded grant for summer program: The Hannaford Charitable Foundation has awarded the Fletcher Free Library youth department a $3,000 grant to support the library's 2009 Summer Reading Program.

Richard Cole Sweet of Reading, Vt., died Tuesday, May, 26, 2009. Husband of Elizabeth Flugel Hill-Sweet, he was born May 21, 1923, in Norwich, Conn., son of Frederick and Georgie Sweet.