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 ...

Washington, Vt.—Hannelore Boerner, 88, passed away peacefully on September 4, 2025, at St. Albans Healthcare and Rehabilitation, after the progression of her illness. Born on April 7, 1937, in ...

Tunbridge—Jack L. Demar, commonly known as “Handsome Jack,” passed away on September 1, 2025; fitting for a man who worked hard his entire life. Jack was the cherished son of Elizabeth Rivers and ...

When Tropical Storm Irene tore through Vermont in 2011, Stephen Farrington found himself stranded. The floodwaters had transformed his Stockbridge neighborhood into an island, washing out roads, ...

I am currently a patient of Gifford Medical Center’s Chelsea clinic. Last week I was informed that my primary care provider, Dr. Laura Barber, had been given her termination notice and would be ...

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 ...

About 15 years ago, while still in high school, Hillary and Ben Minerd met working at a farm and garden center. Neither came from farm families, but they talked, even then, of a life together, farming ...

According to Sara Simeone, the value of eight nurses joining a hospital of Gifford’s size cannot be overstated. That gain will soon occur as a cohort of new nurses goes through a new on-site training ...

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 ...

One summer we had an ongoing battle with a woodchuck. Unbeknownst to us, it had dug a burrow in an ideal location—in the center of our dense raspberry patch, about 10 feet from our vegetable garden.

When Robin Berger became a member of the Intervale Community Farm CSA in 1998, she said that toward the end of the summer pick ups, in October, the farm would have a membership survey and invite ...

The Hancock Green Summer Concert series opens on Thursday, July 10 from 6:30-8 p.m., with the newly formed trio of Greg Ryan, Adda Kridler, and Michael Caterisano. This free concert is the first in a ...