Darren Marcy

A longtime member of the Barnard road crew has been charged with sexual assault and lewd and lascivious conduct following his arrest recently. Town Administrator Kassie Hull confirmed that Delmar Balch, 58, of Barnard, who has been with the town for close to three decades, had been placed on paid administrative leave by the Barnard Selectboard at an emergency meeting

A part-time police officer with the Royalton Police Department is on paid administrative leave after he was charged in connection with a domestic assault. Jakob Oliver, 31, of Woodstock, was arrested Friday, Sept. 6, by troopers with the Vermont State Police, days after a woman obtained a relief from abuse order against him. Oliver was cited into court on charges […]

Students at Randolph Union Middle and High School had a delayed start to their day by more than an hour after a bomb threat was called in on Monday, Sept. 9. A call to the Barre dispatch center said that a vehicle with a bomb inside had been parked at the school and the caller claimed to be planning to […]

After nearly two years of trying to find a buyer for their restaurant, Shane Niles and Josh Niebling are ready to call it quits and will close One Main Tap & Grill on October 12, if a buyer isn’t found. Niles, in a letter to the community sent to The Herald, said, “It’s been truly an honor to be such […]

In a meeting on September 10, the Tunbridge Selectboard again took up the issue of legal trails in town and many of the usual characters were on set to play their familiar roles. The message board members heard was that after more than four years, including two years in court, people want things settled, and the situation might be heading

Coming on the heels of a disappointing 2023 apple season, this year is shaping up to be a banner year at many orchards. Locally, owners of Brookfield’s Liberty Orchard, Sami Abdelfatah and Anna Bowlen, say they are looking at a good season. However, the much loved apple orchard on the Vermont State University campus in Randolph Center will be closed […]

There weren’t many surprises during a nearly two-hour forum that featured a crowded field of Senate candidates from Windsor County, as well as a pair of candidates for the Windsor Orange-1 House seat. Close to 60 people filled the Chase Community Center on the campus of Vermont Law and Graduate School on Monday evening for the forum, which was sponsored […]

For nearly two hours, six candidates seeking to represent the area for the next two years made their cases for election to local residents with just more than a month to go before the November 5 election. With early and absentee ballots hitting people’s mailboxes, the forum gave a roomful of voters an in-depth look at the candidates, as White […]

Residents of Chelsea and Williamstown will have a new representative serving in the Statehouse when the Vermont Legislature reconvenes in January. Republican Rep. Rodney Graham, of Williamstown, decided after five terms serving in the House that he needed to step away to take care of some personal things. That opened the door for Republican Joshua Dobrovich, also of Williamstown, to […]

Bridge No. 35 in Gaysville has been closed by the town to all vehicular and pedestrian traffic following a Vermont Agency of Transportation inspection that found significant deterioration, resulting in “visible lateral movement,” as vehicles passed over it. The single span steel truss bridge crosses the White River on Bridge Street near the Gaysville Post Office. It was built in […]