Last weekend, an estimated 200 people participated in the national ICE Out For Good protests in Woodstock Village, spurred by ongoing actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the recent killing of 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good. Reached Monday afternoon by the Vermont Standard, Suzie Stulz, a lead coordinator of the Tribou Park Resistance Protesters — a group …

Woodstock Municipal Manager Eric Duffy, who has been trying to demote Police Chief Joe Swanson since last spring, now says he wants the veteran officer fired from the village department.  Duffy, in a letter dated Monday, said he now believes he wants to proceed with trying to dismiss Swanson, 45, and bypass the demotion effort. Swanson’s lawyer, Linda E. Fraas, …

Vermonters across the state — including in the Upper Valley — can expect a new source of healthcare funding, as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that Vermont will receive more than $195 million in Rural Health Transformation Funds in 2026, a bigger piece of the pie than most states. In a press release last month, …

More than 40 communities across the state have adopted a pledge to “end apartheid in Palestine,” including the municipalities of Winooski, Brattleboro, Thetford, and Plainfield. Now, residents in Woodstock and Bridgewater are working to gather signatures in hopes that their towns will adopt the pledge at Town Meeting in March.  The Standard spoke with Woodstock residents Anne Macksoud and Sonny …

By Tom Ayres, Senior Staff Writer Hartland voters will be asked to okay a $4,267,692.52 budget for fiscal year 2027. Following budget workshops at two selectboard meetings last month, the selectboard voted unanimously at its first meeting of the new year on Monday evening to put the proposed 2026-27 budget to a vote at Town Meeting in March. Pending voter …

West Windsor’s historic Mary L. Blood Memorial Library (MLBML) is being slated for a renovation to bring its circulation desk into the 21st century. To fund the project, the MLBML board of trustees is planning to create an endowment that will be used specifically for the preservation and protection of the library.  Michael Epstein, chair of the library’s board of …