Vernon News

Protesting the nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vt., Friday morning, a group walks along Route 142 in Northfield toward Vernon to deliver letters asking that plant be closed.

Windham County lawmakers expect the upcoming legislative session will predominantly center around balancing the state's ever-expanding budget.

Exactly one year after a two-alarm fire damaged a majority of her historic 19th century farmhouse, Annette Roydon is ready to host a Christmas Eve celebration at her home once again.

A Vernon family who rushed to the aid of the victims of a car accident near their home are the toast of their town.

The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon can increase the amount of heat it discharges into the nearby Connecticut River, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday in turning aside a challenge from environmental groups.

The Vermont Supreme Court has upheld a 2008 Environmental Court decision to allow Entergy Vermont Yankee to release thermal discharge water into the Connecticut River that is expected to raise the temperature of the river by one degree.

With one week until Christmas, the 73rd annual Reformer Christmas Stocking keeps struggling to meet this year's goal of $90,000. Thursday's donations of $3,175.39, brings this year's total so far up to $39,387.58. The Stocking is keeping pace with last year's donations, although in 2008, the goal of $90,000 was not reached until Dec.

One of the country's largest cellular phone companies announced Wednesday that it has launched its mobile broadband network in Vermont.

AT&T* today announced an update on the availability of its third generation mobile broadband network in Vermont.

Following a rescue effort by local residents that may have saved two lives, the third man in a vehicle that careened into a Vernon pond died on Thanksgiving.

Some Vermont Yankee opponents who want the state to block the nuclear power plant's re-licensing are planning to hit the road to make their point - walking 122 miles from Brattleboro to Montpelier to buttonhole legislators at the Statehouse.

The Vernon Emergency Operations Center will move from the town fire department into a newly renovated building just outside of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.

Two additional suspects in the investigation of a tri-state burglary ring were each charged with three counts of burglary and one count of unlawful mischief and pleaded not guilty Monday in Windham District Court.

Two Brattleboro men are facing charges in a dozen burglaries in southern Windham County.

Plenty of people have plenty to say on both sides of the Vermont Yankee debate, but there's evidence that too little real communication is going on even among key players, such as lawmakers and owners of the nuclear power plant.

A Brattleboro man, who has already spent six of his 23 years in prison, now could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted on more than 25 charges related to about a dozen burglaries in southern Windham County.

A local man suspected in a string of burglaries in the tri-state region could face up to life in prison if he is convicted.

Three Massachusetts residents whose names have not been released at this time ended up in Lily Pond in Vernon, Saturday, after their Toyota Corolla careened off the road.

The West Dummerston Covered Bridge is scheduled to close for roughly two weeks to repair the bridge decks.

Vermont Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin is ready to announce his candidacy for governor.