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 ...

Vermont holds the title as the state with the strictest, most burdensome land-posting law in the country. Vermont’s current law requires landowners to erect notices prohibiting hunting, trapping, and ...

When we hear of a place called Transylvania, a land in the center of modern-day Romania, we often think of gloomy forests, wolves howling at night, forbidding castles on cliffs, and vampires. For it ...

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 ...

When Tropical Storm Irene tore through Vermont in 2011, Stephen Farrington found himself stranded. The floodwaters had transformed his Stockbridge neighborhood into an island, washing out roads, ...

I am currently a patient of Gifford Medical Center’s Chelsea clinic. Last week I was informed that my primary care provider, Dr. Laura Barber, had been given her termination notice and would be ...

A South Main Street business that’s been a fixture in Randolph for over a century is set to close at the end of this year. Mary Merusi, 83, owner of Beacon Printing for going on five decades, plans to ...

Fifty years ago this fall, on a rainy and overcast day, a small motorcade of cars rolled through Exit 4. Nearby, a photographer stood on a wet hillside and snapped a few photos. Though dampened by the ...

The Tunbridge World’s Fair is many things to many people, but Sunday at the Grandstand, it’s all about the tractor pull. One after another, farmers and tractor enthusiasts take turns trying their luck ...

One of your Strafford’s correspondent’s favorite authors as a boy, and for my children and grandchildren, is Virginia Lee Burton. She wrote such classics as “Katy and the Big Snow,” Mike Mulligan and ...

All numbers are multiples of “1.” But although primitive humans were instinctively aware of the concept of unity, it took a long while to conceive a full understanding of its multiples. Even today ...

For the first time anybody can remember, the Bethel Public Library has suffered a break-in and theft. And for an operation its size, the loss of two of its three public computers is a big deal.