Jim Lafayette is always prepared for a few extra kids when the Marine Corps Reserve Dunkin Donuts Toys for Tots Train pulls into town, but even he was unprepared for what he saw on Sunday. As families began to arrive at the Amtrak Station on Sunday morning, Lafayette realized that his projection of 160 kids [...]
Winter storm pushes many to the edge (of the snowbank)
Phil Juckett feels your pain. “I hate to do that,” he said looking down from the driver’s seat of one of the village’s ‘wing’ plow trucks. Juckett just filled in the entry to yet another driveway which has already been shoveled of snow. Residents, some of them still shoveling or using the snow blower [...]







VPR commentator entertains at Slate Valley Museum
By Jaime Thomas About 75 people gathered at the Slate Valley Museum Thursday evening to listen to Vermont Public Radio [...]