Last year, we traced the early history of Black professional baseball through the Independent Era, when talented teams barnstormed across the country but struggled to establish lasting leagues. That ...

When visitors walk into Chandler Gallery for Phil Godenschwager’s new retrospective, they’ll begin where every artist begins. Kindergarten. Among roughly 70 works spanning drawings, paintings, stained ...

Over coffee on an early spring morning, arrest and court records and other papers piled before her on her kitchen table, a Bethel woman told a story of abuse spanning years. She told of the last time, ...

Today our nation is more than 250 years old and Vermont, our home, is 249. That’s when our first constitution was created—for the Republic of Vermont amid turbulent disagreements with New York and New ...

The following are Gifford’s birth announcements for June, 2026: Wednesday, June 3: A son, Carl, was born to Jessica and Michael Jones of Johnson. Sunday, June 7: A daughter was born to Hannah and ...

Joshua Kane Coburn, 47, of Sharon, passed away on July 8, 2026, after a long battle with liver failure. Joshua was born on April 30, 1979, in Randolph, to William Coburn and Pamala McNamara (née ...

Vermont history often celebrates Ethan Allen’s daring exploits and Thomas Chittenden’s long tenure as the state’s first governor, but retired Superior Court judge and historian Robert Mello believes ...

A Braintree man originally charged with 15 felony counts of possession of child sex abuse material pleaded guilty to two of those counts and will serve no jail time. Stephen Fisk, 74, was sentenced ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I just like to help people. It makes me happy.” Those were words Daisey Darling repeated throughout an interview on Tuesday morning while she worked to get lunch prepared for the noon rush at RB’s ...