FAIRLEE—A moratorium on hunting coyotes with dogs will take effect on July 1 in Vermont after a new bill was approved by the legislature this year.
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says that under S.281, hunters will only be able to pursue and take a coyote with dogs if they are on their own property and acting in defense of a person or property, or if they have signed permission from a landowner who has a legitimate defense of persons or property concern. This moratorium on pursuing coyotes with dogs will last from July 1, until the board is able to put rules in place requiring permits.

BRADFORD—There could be at least one local item on the ballot this fall in Bradford. The selectboard voted on June 9 to ask voters whether they want retail pot sales in town.
Under state law, retail cannabis sales will legally begin in October. Before retail sales can begin in a community, a municipality must first opt in to host a retail cannabis establishment by majority vote. The vote must be by Australian ballot.

NORTH HAVERHILL—“This is way bigger than I ever thought it would be,” a smiling Kristen May, manager and part owner of the family-owned Hatchland Farms exclaimed.
She described the move from the original, small ice cream shop on Route 10 to the spacious new retail store at 15 Petticoat Lane in North Haverhill as a dream come true.

WOODSVILLE—The Town of Haverhill will pay $490,000 to the Woodsville precinct in order to settle a lawsuit between the two entities.
Haverhill Selectboard Chair Fred Garofalo explained the decision during a board meeting on Monday night, saying that as part of the mediation, all claims and counterclaims would be dismissed and the town and the precinct would release each other from most claims.

WARREN—For visitors to Warren, three things stand out: the Redstone Missile conspicuously aimed at the sky from its village common launchpad is one. The second is the historical marker commemorating U.S. Senator Norris Cotton (1900–1989), who was born in Warren and for whom Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s cancer center is named.
The town’s other claim to fame is little Sarah Whitcher, the subject of a folktale. Sometime in the early 1780s, this young daughter of early settler John Whitcher got lost in the woods and was protected, it is said, by a bear.