This illustration from the British Library’s collection of Western Drawings shows Lord Macartney’s first meeting with the Qianlong Emperor in 1793. (Wikimedia Commons) Probably the worst decision in ...

From weather to attendance, fair president Gordon Barnaby said that this year’s Tunbridge World’s Fair was a resounding success. “All the concessionaires seemed happy, and all the fair-goers we spoke ...

A lawsuit filed by a student and her father against the superintendent of the Orange Southwest School District and the co-principals at Randolph Union High School was settled recently. The settlement ...

The sun shines, burning through the mist over hillsides below pastoral Sanders Road up Christian Hill in Bethel. It’s Monday, a school day, just before 9 on a mild autumn morning. From the side of the ...

In the 1990s, Frank Lamson, a newly credentialed pediatric nurse practitioner fresh off a stint at an urban school clinic in Massachusetts, came home to South Royalton with an idea: that such a clinic ...

Noting “serious financial strain” in the wake of federal funding cuts, nonprofits that provide free legal services for low-income Vermonters facing civil litigation recently announced reduction in ...

Last year, Josh and Andrew Jonestein would often spend evenings on their patio in Dallas, brainstorming an exit strategy from Texas. All it took was a birthday trip to Vermont last November and a tour ...

The chair of the governing board of ECFiber said Monday it is ready to take over operations of the telecommunications district. East Central Vermont Telecommunications District, which does business as ...

Sunderland Farm, a sixth-generation dairy farm in Bridport, has been named the 2020 Vermont Dairy Farm of the Year. Principal owners of the farm, a 450-head Holstein operation on 835 acres, are ...

Having worked for multiple years on artificial intelligence (AI) research trying to “figure out how to make things go well,” Nate Soares, a 2007 RUHS graduate, said that the launch of ChatGPT in 2022 ...

A n Orange County Sheriff’s Department employee created a Facebook ruckus recently, but the sheriff said an investigation showed the deputy did not violate any policies. A post on Facebook in several ...

Nearly 40 years ago, sculptor Jim Sardonis had a dream. He saw himself standing on the shore watching two whales dance in the surf. The image of the pair of tails breaking the surface of the water as ...