Vershire News

In the weeks after a gunman killed 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school, a group in Vermont set its sights on getting as many towns as it could to vote at town meeting in support of more gun-control measures.

While Vermonters debate school budgets and whether to spend money on new equipment on Town Meeting Day, some communities also will take up resolutions opposing the transport of tar sands oil through Vermont and recommending a ban on assault weapons, following the mass school shooting in Connecticut.

A 12-year-old boy who ran away from home Friday afternoon in Chelsea turned up safe nearly five hours later, according to Vermont State Police.

Take heart, holiday procrastinators: Famed poet Robert Frost once waited until July to get his Christmas cards in the mail.Unlike the flimsy, forgettable cards of today, however, Frost's cards arguably were worth the wait.