Admiral Zheng had commanded the largest fleets in the world at that time, each with one-hundred to three-hundred ships carrying sometimes over 25,000 men. Some of the ships were far larger than any ...

In the works at VTSU Randolph is a project that hopes to bring sustainable, local beef to campuses across the state. The school is partnering with the Northeast Grass-Fed Beef Initiative (NGBI), as ...

Last Saturday, Valley HUB, the organization responsible for the rennovation and reuse of the Rochester High School, sponsored an event. Promoted as a “Homecoming,” it was meant bring community members ...

Last year, Josh and Andrew Jonestein would often spend evenings on their patio in Dallas, brainstorming an exit strategy from Texas. All it took was a birthday trip to Vermont last November and a tour ...

A pair of mourning doves take shelter in a pine tree on Christmas morning on after snow storms swept across Vermont. (Herald / Kyan Smith) ...

Exactly why I was there is irrelevant in this retelling, but there was a moment this past October when I was walking the streets of Helsinki, Finland with friends. I had been shown a building where ...

A week after the general election, Chris Helali of Vershire was named winner of a contested write-in race for Orange County high bailiff. The state Canvassing Committee met in Montpelier this week and ...

Still warm apple pastries and thick slices of pumpkin bread, a Sunday afternoon snack, are delivered from a small kitchen. Stockings hang from a fieldstone fireplace bedecked with greenery and ...

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 ...

Sunderland Farm, a sixth-generation dairy farm in Bridport, has been named the 2020 Vermont Dairy Farm of the Year. Principal owners of the farm, a 450-head Holstein operation on 835 acres, are ...

Now that our beloved Officer Tom Simpson has departed this life, I for one have to share what an outstanding person Tom was. In my opinion, Tom was able to diffuse any potential confrontation with ...

Well, we’re ready to close the book on 2025 and it’s been such a blur that there’s hardly time to catch a breath before we dive headlong into the new year. One of the biggest annoyances of The ...