BETHEL – Bethel voters approved 117-8 a $2.5 million bond for capital improvements to the town’s water system at the polls last month. The vote was originally supposed to occur on Town Meeting day in March, but the town hadn’t met all statutory bond...
BETHEL — Bethel voters will have to wait to vote on a $2.5 million bond for capital improvements to the town’s water system. Initially scheduled to be decided by Australian ballot this Tuesday, the vote will now be non-binding, due to the town not...
Bethel’s inaugural Pride celebration was for the young people, and they turned up to Queer Prom with their personalities on full display — adorned with flower crowns, glitter and capes fashioned from pride flags. It can be difficult to find queer...
BETHEL — Investigators can’t pinpoint the exact cause of the fire that took the lives of a Bethel couple early Tuesday morning.But in a news release Wednesday, the state Department of Public Safety Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit said the fire...
Life is the flow of energy from the Earth through all things. It is the relationships between all things that keep the energy flowing.Like everything else, humans gather energy, then expend it, and eventually we return in totality to the source. Along...
WOODSTOCK — Three Democrats earned the party’s nomination to the three state Senate seats representing Windsor County in voting on Tuesday.State Rep. Becca White, of Hartford, was the top vote getter in the race, earning 11,249 votes, according to...
BETHEL — Though it has a global following at its highest levels, rallying has always been a bit of a niche sport.In a way, that’s part of its appeal. A driver and a co-driver hustle a small, often wildly overpowered car through the woods on gravel...
ROYALTON — A metal building where residents of Bethel, Royalton and five other White River Valley towns dump their trash is in such desperate need of repair that it has been closed to the public.At the same time, the Bethel Selectboard has triggered a...
ROYALTON — The White River Unified District Board has hired a new principal for the White River Valley High School in Royalton, according to a Tuesday news release.Jeffrey Thomas, currently a Hartford High physical education teacher and coach,...
A sign on the front door of James Bannister’s ramshackle 19th-century colonial in Bethel asks that packages not be left on the stoop. He prefers all deliveries get dropped off at his home’s side entrance.In the end, however, it didn’t matter where the...