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March 27, 2008
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The Randolph Planning Commission made the finishing touches last week Wednesday to a bold, innovative, and complicated land use plan for the town’s most commercially valuable property—the area around Exit 4 with its heavy north-south traffic. More...
How Does It Work?

The overall concept for Exit 4 is to permit a mix of uses that will provide jobs, services, and housing, while requiring adherence to a host of environmental regulations, with particular attention to the viewshed. Here are the formal "purposes" of the Northwest quadrant zone, which are typical: More...

A special selectboard meeting called by newly-elected chair Stephen Webster brought out an angry crowd Monday evening, questioning why the meeting was necessary and why its business should be held in secret. More...

After passing by large margins at all town meetings where it was on the warning, the East Central Vermont Community Fiber Network (ECFiberNet) is set to move into its next phase. More...

Music, jokes and hilarious costumes will highlight the 56th Annual Tunbridge Show this weekend, Friday and Saturday nights. More...
Cast aside your fear of yoga! In "Pocket Yoga: 52 basic asanas for practice at home or on the road," Jenny S. Wilker speaks through Vera Sana, experienced yogi, to produce a readable and amusing description of yoga. More...
Sports practices for softball and baseball teams throughout the White River Valley were being held in gymnasiums and school corridors this last week, as playing fields continued to be covered in as much as two feet of snow. More...
•The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, featuring pianist Joseph Kalichstein, violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson, play music by Haydn, Ravel, and Tchaikovsky; 7 p.m. More...
SOUTH ROYALTON—John R. Dukett, 79, died Wednesday morning, March 19, 2008 at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in White River Junction. He was born August 24, 1928, on Happy Hollow Road in South Royalton, the son of Raymond L. More...
Wounded U.S. Soldiers
More than 67,000 U.S. military personnel have suffered either physical or psychological wounds in military operations in Iraq and Afghan. A non-profit organization called Quilts of Valor Foundation (QOVF), which is keeping track of those soldiers, wants to give each and every one of them a beautiful... More...
New Selectboard
Is a Little Hasty
I would have thought the new majority on the Randolph Selectboard would have let things settle a bit after the election before smacking the voters up side the head over the town hall move. More...
I dread flying. I haven’t done it often; just three times in 50 years, but still every time I fly, I remember why it’s been just three times in 50 years. More...
The new majority on the Randolph selectboard is playing with fire if it hopes to summarily dismiss the results of the Town Meeting vote on moving the municipal offices. More...