Altercation sparks social media outcry
BRADFORD—An altercation at a Burlington parking garage captured on video has plunged Bradford and Oxbow High School into the middle of the social media spotlight.
Trial date set in kidnapping
BURLINGTON—A Vermont man, who is charged with abducting a woman, crossing state lines, and sexually assaulting her in front of her son in Windsor County three years ago, is now due to go on trial in March in federal court in Burlington. Everett A. Simpson, 45, most recently from St. Johnsbury, also wants the federal […]
Biomass plant shuts down temporarily
EAST RYEGATE—The owner of the Ryegate biomass plant has been ordered by a bankruptcy court judge to sell off almost all of its assets to Hartree Partners, a New York-based investor that is one of its largest creditors. Stored Solar filed for bankruptcy in Maine in September. On Nov. 23, a judge approved a plan […]
Local pilot injured in airport crash
NORTH HAVERHILL—Lynn Perry, 70, of Newbury was badly injured over the weekend after his gyrocopter crashed at the Dean Memorial Airport. He was found by two people who noticed the wreck while walking by early Sunday afternoon. As of Tuesday morning, Perry was being treated in the burn unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in […]
Photo of the Week
A common loon stretches its wings in Ryegate on the morning of April 18.
