The Rochester Selectboard approved the town’s fiscal year 2027 municipal tax rate Monday, five days after convening an emergency meeting to consider how to address a $37,500 deficit identified during ...

When we hear of a place called Transylvania, a land in the center of modern-day Romania, we often think of gloomy forests, wolves howling at night, forbidding castles on cliffs, and vampires. For it ...

A brief downpour failed to put a damper on Chelsea’s Independence Day celebration Saturday as residents turned out in force for the town’s annual parade and community festivities, marking the nation’s ...

The Town of Randolph has begun its search for a permanent town manager, seeking an experienced municipal leader to guide the community through a period of growth and several major priorities, ...

This illustration from the British Library’s collection of Western Drawings shows Lord Macartney’s first meeting with the Qianlong Emperor in 1793. (Wikimedia Commons) Probably the worst decision in ...

While the role of high bailiff, Vermont- wide, has earned an objectively dull reputation over decades of disuse, the man who’s taken on the job for Orange County is active in international circles— ...

A team of Percheron horses owned by Jackie Merriam of West Meadow Apiary pulled grand marshals Gail and Chris Billings through downtown Randolph on Independence Day, leading a string of more than 50 ...

Stone structures have been a part of Vermont’s landscape as far back as our written record. Documentation exists in a letter dated 1654, written by John Pynchon to John Winthrop, Jr., inquiring about ...

Early summer 1971, a visitor to the White River Valley left a mark on the landscape, the lore of which outlasted its permanence. That was the year that Ward McCain, a sculptor and student at ...

Our heartfelt thanks to everyone for their prayers, cards, flowers, acts of kindness, and donations in Bob’s memory. Your support has helped us through a difficult time.

Massachusetts Troopers charged a Randolph man with illegally possessing firearms and having drugs in his vehicle after a stop on Interstate 91 in Greenfield, Mass., in October. Isaac Hodgdon, 25, was ...

For a small Vermont town, its general stores serve an almighty purpose. To locals, “going to the store”—whether for coffee, the paper, groceries, or just a healthy dose of town gossip—means much more ...