Former head of Vt.’s fair policing committee ‘still in the dark’ on firing, as state plans to fill role

Portion of I-91 in northern Vermont named for border agent killed in line of duty

The Vermont Transportation Board approved a measure to name an 11-mile stretch of Interstate 91 the David Chris Maland Memorial Highway to honor a U.S. Border Patrol agent killed during a traffic stop in early 2025.

Opinion: Funding caps will exacerbate teacher shortage, impact students in N.H.

If your community votes “yes” on Question 2 and caps funding for its local public schools on Nov. 3, do you know what the school district could cut?  School sports. Arts and music programming. AP classes. Full-day kindergarten. Bus routes.  In New Hampshire, these programs may not be considered legally necessary to provide an “adequate” […]

A Yankee Notebook: Settling into nature and storytelling

The annual gathering of wilderness paddlers and winter campers and travelers fills the dining hall at Ohana Family Camps on Lake Fairlee, Vermont. It used to be two separate rendezvous, but a general graying of the attendees combined with the hiatus caused by COVID militated for a blending of the two. I’ve been at the […]

Margaret Wood

<html><head></head><body>Margaret "Peggy" Wood<br /><br />Lebanon, NH - Margaret "Peggy" Jane Pierce was born March 6, 1943, in Greenfield, MA. She was the third child of Robert Gage and Grace May Pierce. Peggy grew up in a house o ...

Blair Carter Wood Jr.

<html><head></head><body>Blair Carter Wood, Jr<br /><br />Lebanon, NH - Blair Carter Wood Jr. was born on November 5, 1940, in Waterloo, IA. He was the second of four sons born to Eleanor Alice and Blair Carter Wood Sr. Along with his brothers, Blair ...