Stockbridge News

It's almost summer, which in Vermont means one thing: It's almost fall. Well, that, and the music-festival season is about to kick off in earnest.

Barnard, Vt. is one of those towns Norman Rockwell would've painted. It's home to the beautiful Silver Lake, a tiny post office, and no traffic lights.

Most of the refuse left behind from Tropical Storm Irene - televisions, refrigerators, books and toys - has been cleared from the pastures and fields of Liberty Hill Farm along the White River.

The 1904 neoclassical design Haskell Free Library and Opera House in Derby Line straddles the US-Canada border, with performers sometimes in one country and the audience in the other.