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Tuition drives WRVS budget increase

WAITS RIVER—Less than 50 voters from Corinth and Topsham approved a $7.3 million operating budget for the Waits River Valley School in 2023-2024 at the annual district meeting on May 1. In a hand count, the budget article was approved 39-9.

Orford retains old cruiser

ORFORD—The Orford Selectboard voted to hold on to a decommissioned police cruiser and transfer it to the highway department. The vote came during a regular meeting on April 26.

Preview: Oxbow annual meeting next week

BRADFORD—Looking to the future with lessons learned from the past has been Oxbow Unified Union School Board’s focus in preparing a budget for the 2023-2024 school year. The annual meeting of the Oxbow Unified Union School District will take place May 9 at 6 p.m. at Oxbow High School and the voters will consider the […]

NASA program comes to Haverhill schools

NORTH HAVERHILL—“We are going back to the moon!”  That is what nearly 800 students in the SAU #23 School District learned on April 20 after attending assemblies profiling NASA’s Moon to Mars program. After a morning session at Woodsville High School, guest speaker Rosa Avalos-Warren moved on to the Haverhill Cooperative Middle School where students […]

Jury convicts kidnapper

BURLINGTON—A federal court jury needed about two hours before deciding a St. Johnsbury man was guilty of kidnapping a 23-year-old mother and her son four years ago, and stealing two cars and taking them across state lines.

In Times Past: Drugs for a cure

For over two centuries, druggists and pharmacists have dispensed remedies and medicines to physicians and the general public. Some were standalone businesses, while others were housed in general stores.  This column covers the local history of medicines and cures as they transitioned from home remedies to patent medicines to modern drugs sold by registered pharmacies. […]

Simpson trial winds down

BURLINGTON—A federal court jury is expected to wrap up its work this week in the case of a St. Johnsbury man charged with the abduction of a woman and her son four years ago and taking them across state lines after he fled a drug rehabilitation facility in Bradford.