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Johannes Quartet tonight ROCHESTER - Tonight, the Rochester Chamber Music Society will celebrate the opening of its 15th anniversary season with a return of one of the finest string quartets, the Johannes Quartet.

Union officials say nearly 200 teachers are being laid off by the Rochester School District.

A well-worn copy of The Little Engine That Could rests on top of an antique upright piano in Amy Braun's classroom at the Hancock Village School.

The aged maple floorboards are scuffed and creaky, worn thin and smooth by thousands of youngsters over the years in the Hancock Village School.

Randolph sculptor Jim Sardonis, known for his whales tails sculpture that is visible from Interstate 89, each year makes marble sculptures for recipients of Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment global environmental citizens award.

Filling up your gas tank seems to be costing more every day. According to a national survey, pump prices climbed nearly 10 cents a gallon over the past three weeks.

Nestled south of Sugarbush on Route 100 and east of the Snow Bowl on Route 125 is the little town of Rochester.

School officials in Pittsfield explained to voters Thursday why their property taxes are expected to shoot up this year - a school tax break, one that began at least 15 years ago, has come to an end.

Larry Holden is an anomaly in Hollywood circles: The actor and moviemaker doesn't sell his award-winning indie films to Netflix and, for the past two years, he's been shooting and producing in teensy Granville, ...

BARRE -- Keith Friel went 7-for-15 from 3-point range in scoring 33 points, helping the Rochester Razorsharks defeat the Vermont Frost Heaves, 113-103, in Premier Basketball League action Saturday.

The parents of Erica Anne Holmquist and Micheal Scott Calcaterra, both of Rutland, announce their engagement.

Vermont State Police issued a warning of a phone scam after a complaint from a Rochester resident.

A glider that failed to make it home to the Sugarbush-Warren Airport and landed in Blueberry Lake, everyone was safe.

Sunday's storm brought snow to much of the state. Snowfall totals, in inches, from the latest storm for selected towns across Vermont: * Marshfield: 17.8 * Rochester: 17.5 * Chelsea: 16.0 * Island Pond: 15.0 * ...

The Green Mountain National Forest has a new district ranger overseeing the Middlebury and Rochester ranger districts.