You may have read a few weeks back in The Herald under Royalton Selectboard minutes, that the kitchen at the Academy Building wasn’t being cleaned. It went on to state that the South Royalton Senior ...

A little before Town Meeting day, VTDigger reported that efforts are underway to beef up security at the State House. That means limited entry, metal detectors, and security guards. Add our ...

Twenty-five years after Amanda Janoo gave her eighth grade graduation speech in the Strafford Town House, she returned to the same location to launch her bid for Governor of the State of Vermont in ...

This July, Dr. Sherry Kollmann will assume the post of president at Vermont State University. Current president David Bergh announced his retirement last spring, triggering what the Vermont State ...

Marshall Armstrong, who grew up on the family farm in East Randolph, is an old friend of your Strafford Correspondent and my wife Lisa. Many Herald readers will recognize his name from contributions ...

The man who just this month added Pittsfield’s Swiss Farm Market, Route 100’s popular Pitt-Stop, to his collection of stores in the area, isn’t interested in changing what isn’t broken. In a recent ...

The day after the 2024 election, Pam Mischen decided what she would do. She’d make a quilt. A big one. A national, movement-building blanket themed around climate change and reminiscent of the AIDS ...

Littleton, N.H.—Patrick Stewart McKerley, 45, died on February 6, 2026, six months after being diagnosed with colon cancer. He engaged his treatment as he did most things in life, with strength and ...

Royalton—Charles “Charlie” Morse, 83, a lifelong resident of Royalton, passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. He was born on November 10, 1942 in Randolph, Vermont to Henry ...

Chelsea—Barbara Joan Middleton Spinella Presch, 88, died at The Gill Odd Fellows Home in Ludlow, Vt. on March 3, 2026. Barbara was born August 26, 1937 in New Britain, Conn., the fourth daughter to ...

Bethel—Andrea Kay Farnsworth, 78, died on March 3, 2026, in her home with her family by her side. Andrea was born on July 8, 1947, in Randolph, the daughter of Clifton and Marzelia (McPhetres) Lowell.

Kai Slayton and Jesse Martin, graduates form the Newton School in South Strafford, have over the last three years honed their skills in Thetford Academy’s outstanding robotic program, to the point ...