Check out the label on your Market 32 shrimp.
Radioactive shrimp sold in VT recalled
Keelan: A little boy’s wish
Originally published on Christmas Eve, 2005, and published every Christmas Eve since, this column was awarded 3rd Place in the 2021 New England Better Newspaper Competition, sponsored by NENPA.
Selecting the PERFECT Christmas Tree, by An Anonymous Husband
He will lug them one by one to the window, wishing for her early approval, but it will take many trips back and forth and frozen fingers before she relents and reluctantly settles for a Fraser fir.
After Bondi Beach, rabbi at State House Hannukah celebration says Jews will ‘stand strong’
Tuesday, December 16, the halls of the Vermont State Capitol were filled with light and song as the community gathered for the annual Hanukkah celebration. A tradition for the last 15 years, the event serves as a public declaration of religious freedom and communal resilience.
Audio: Eight decades on, “The House of Bread” still calls
Late one night, a tired writer falls asleep at his desk while faint organ music drifts in from somewhere distant. In his dream, an old man named Word appears on a high cliff and tells him to seek the House of Bread—then the writer wakes up, packs his things, and sets off with his companion to find it.
“Faith Warms the Winter Night”
Revelation 3:21 reminds us that grace is not inherited, but chosen: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” Amen.
Wright: A call to restore the true meaning of Christmas
This world-shaking miracle has been pushed to the margins of relevance within the cultural bubble that much of secular America, and even many believers, now inhabit.
Vermont Veterans’ Home receives its Christmas tree for 2025
For the seventeenth year in a row, The Vermont Veterans’ Home received its Christmas Tree from Marine Veteran Don Keelan’s property in Arlington. The tree, a 15-foot balsam, was delivered along with the traditional honorary escort from several Troopers with the Vermont State Police.
Berlin Police report ‘theft’ at mall
Police are looking into a light-hearted series of theft reports at the Five Below store in the Berlin Mall after officers received a second call on November 29 involving what appears to be the same mischievous suspect.
Norwich to lay wreaths at university cemetery December 6
Norwich University in Northfield will host its first Wreaths Across America Ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 6, at 1 p.m., at the Norwich University Cemetery. Students, alumni, veterans, and members of the Central Vermont community are invited to take part in the laying of remembrance wreaths and the reading aloud of the names of the fallen.
Success! Every veterans cemetery grave will have a wreath
First time ever!
Wreaths Across America Vermont coordinator: “We’re soooooo close”
Two locations have already reached the finish line: Fort Ethan Allen Cemetery and the Vermont Veterans Home Cemetery in Bennington have fully met their wreath goals.
Vermont Thanksgiving of bygone era seen in 1955 promotional video
If you’re nostalgic for a taste of a Thanksgiving from the good old days, you might want to watch “Thanks to Vermont,” a 1955 promotional video for Vermont products.
Thanksgiving feast more affordable this year
By the time the turkey hits the oven and football flickers across millions of living room screens this Thursday, a small but welcome relief will already be on the table: Thanksgiving dinner costs are finally coming down.
Just over 1 Week left to get 2,718 Vermont Wreaths Sponsored
Participating Vermont cemeteries still need over 2,700 wreaths sponsored for our departed veterans
The wild turkey’s contribution to Thanksgiving
More than 140,000 servings of Vermont wild turkeys are harvested each year – that’s 140,000 servings of free-ranging, wild and sustainably harvested protein.
Vermont cemeteries face urgent wreath shortages as Dec. 1 deadline nears
The Vermont Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Randolph has the largest remaining need in the state, with 2,584 wreaths still lacking sponsorship.
Halloween in the Rotary lights up downtown Winooski with 1,000 jack-o’-lanterns
Families, students and local businesses came together for a festive evening to kick off Halloween.
H.P. Lovecraft’s Green Mountain sojourn
A landscape of inspiration and dread
Batman-crazy news reporter started Rutland Halloween parade
“Tom was wild about Batman,” recalled former Herald colleague Bob Bennett of Shelburne. “Every day, when other reporters came to the office wearing ties, Tom wore a sweater with a Batman image on it — one his wife had knitted for him.”
Homes for bats on Halloween
Holy wildlife housing,next week is Bat Week!
Scenes from Burlington Labor Day Parade
Activists for illegal immigrants and Palestine joined anti-Trumpers paraded through Burlington Monday. Photographer Troy Austin was there.
Montpelier parade, festivities July 3
The fun begins at 3pm with the July 3rd Food Truck Festival and FamilyFest on the State House Lawn. The Montpelier Mile Road Race begins at 6 PM and kicks-off the Community Parade.
Teenager surprises grandfather veteran with Memorial Day honor
Ed was seriously injured in a catastrophic fire and series of explosions in 1967 while aboard the USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Legislature honors Vermonters who served and died
“In our own body we have in our midst two members who have lost family as a result of service to our country during conflict,” Morgan said.
Deal: On guard, and for our Guard, on Memorial Day
Let us today never forget what such a memorial means for our freedoms, and for those we love. Let us never stop striving to do better for those who have given everything imaginable to us all.
Guv to read Hannukah story to children after Menorah lighting this evening
Latkes, sufganiyot, and games of dreidel will be available in the State House while the Governor reads a Hanukkah story to children in his State House Office.
Balint: Legislate away loneliness
Editor’s note: The holidays are a particularly lonely time of year for many people. Rep. Balint’s bill addresses a real problem.
Tree farm dream continues at Murray Hill
Bob Murray and his wife, Carlie, bought the 60-acre plot of land and planted their first tree in 1976.
Bumps in the not-so-Silent Night
M.R. James and the tradition of Christmas ghost stories
Keelan: A little boy’s wish
Originally published on Christmas Eve, 2005, and published every Christmas Eve since. It was awarded 3rd Place in the 2021 New England Better Newspaper Competition, sponsored by NENPA
In time of our deepest polarity – Thanksgiving
Several weeks after the battle of Gettysburg on July 1st of 1863, in which more than 7,500 Americans died and scores more were wounded, Abraham Lincoln set forth a Thanksgiving Day proclamation.
Unprecedented traveling and snowy weather set for ‘nonpolitical’ Thanksgiving
Don’t eat raccoon.
Vermont axed Columbus Day. Is Thanksgiving next?
“The history is inaccurate and has generated numerous counter-observances over the years to honor the Indigenous people who were the ancestral stewards in the North American land before European contact and the genocide that resulted from it,” the state-funded VORE says.
Dages recalls his time in the Mekong Delta, burning his fatigues and wet feet
He and his fellow platoon members spent long weeks during the rainy season trying to interdict enemy troops throughout the Mekong Delta, conducting sweeps during the day and night.
Poem: Dark Money
Aghast, I ask, what are the odds…..
Anthropologist says Christopher Columbus critics have their history wrong
“First of all, people know nothing about Columbus, and they are blaming him for things that he did not do,” an eminent anthropologist and historian told True North.
This Constitution Day, thank James Madison
The diminutive Virginian stood tall in protecting our individual rights.
Sound of Freedom flyover draws praise, criticism
“You certainly know how to put a damper on celebrating the nation’s birthday,” said a comment about a criticism of spending money on the flyover.
Bagpipers lead musical Independence Day parade in Montpelier
Stirring music in one Independence Day parade, and political cancellation in another.
Air National Guard to perform July 4 flyover
The flyovers have been planned to coincide with some towns’ Independence Day parades.
Revolutionary weekend at Hubbardton Battlefield
Scores of reenactors from around the northeast will set up camps and participate in the largest Revolutionary War living history weekend in northern New England.
Angwin: Memorial Day thoughts
Mostly about productivity
History firsts on the First
The first day of the new year also marks the anniversary of several milestone moments in history. See how many of these “firsts on the First” events you know with this short, fun quiz.
Keelan: A little boy’s wish
Originally published on Christmas Eve, 2005, and published every Christmas Eve since. It was awarded 3rd Place in the 2021 New England Better Newspaper Competition, sponsored by NENPA
Video: Why you should water your Christmas tree
Beware the pretty firebomb in your living room.
Marine vet and wife donate Christmas tree to Vermont Veterans Home
For the 15th year in a row, a Marine veteran familiar to Chronicle readers and his wife have provided the Christmas tree for the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington.
