The offices of Re/Max North Professionals in Colchester are bright, spacious and modern. Visitors are greeted in the reception area with a warm, glowing fireplace, a trickling copper fountain, and sketches of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “Wrapped Reichstag.”... Read more

Bright rays of sunlight flooded the sanctuary of Burlington’s Unitarian Universalist Church last Saturday afternoon in fitting tribute to a man who spent much of his life illuminating injustice. John Whitehead Tucker III, a civil rights activist and leader of Burlington’s African American community, was being eulogized.... Read more

Citizens of Morristown are still reeling from allegations that a local schoolteacher sexually abused two of his male students over a period of five years. The charges against Shaun Bryer have also focused a spotlight on the state agency charged with investigating such matters. School officials brought their concerns about Bryer to the attention of the Vermont Department for Children and Families, but their concerns didn’t trigger a formal investigation.... Read more

Mary Houle says she’s sick and tired of being painted as the “town SOB.” But that won’t stop the two-term select board member from doing what she thinks is best for Richmond, a burg known for its neighborliness and “green” ethic.... Read more

The University of Vermont wants you — or, more accurately, your remains once you’ve shuffled off this mortal coil.

It’s not the kind of information medical schools typically advertise in a local newspaper. Then again, this isn’t a typical year. For the first time in anyone’s memory, UVM has a critical shortage of cadavers. And if the number of donations doesn’t pick up by January, the university will have to start hunting around for dead bodies.... Read more

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) has sported virtually the same logo since the union’s inception back in 1891: a clenched fist grasping radiating bolts of electricity. But that symbol could use a 21st-century update, showing an outstretched hand capturing rays of sunlight.... Read more

If Omni Measurement Systems of Milton ran an ad for its best-selling product, the Advanced Mission Extender Device, it might look something like this:

One F-16 Falcon fighter jet: $14.6 million

Cost of training a fighter pilot for one year: $2.6 million

Cost, per flight, of using the Advanced Mission Extender Device: $50

Freedom to empty your bladder at 35,000 feet during a Mach 3 dogfight: priceless... Read more

When 70-year-old Dave Warful moved to the Lindale Mobile Home Park on the eastern outskirts of Middlebury three years ago, what drew him to the community was that it was quiet, wooded and serene. He expected it to stay that way.... Read more

For Marie Audet of Blue Spruce Farm in Bridport, it’s not good enough to say that “shit happens.” On her family’s farm, shit happens to earn them money.... Read more

In 1969, Joe Edley went to San Francisco to find himself. Today Edley claims that, unlike many young people drawn to California in the ’60s, he never once took a drink or smoked a joint. Instead, he says, “I got high on the things I did.”... Read more