While many of us head into nature to relieve stress and to refocus, such getaways are all the more crucial for our active and former military members, for whom the noise often never seems to stop. This is the goal of Project Healing Waters, a national organization that seeks to assist veterans in rediscovering a calmer state of mind through …

The Village Board of Trustees has named three community members to serve on a newly formed Police Chief Working Committee together with Municipal Manager Eric Duffy and Trustees Chair Seton McIlroy. The committee has begun vetting candidates to replace outgoing Woodstock Police Chief Robbie Blish, who announced in March that he is retiring effective July 16. The application deadline for …

When museum executive, actor, and playwright Kyran McGrath relocated from Washington, D.C., to the Upper Valley region with his wife and family of four in the American Bicentennial year of 1976, the inveterate Irish raconteur fell in love with Woodstock and its people. Not long after settling in as the new owner and innkeeper at The Inn at Long Trail …

The eight trustees of the Woodstock Foundation, who are in a legal fight stemming from serious allegations of misconduct and mismanagement of the Woodstock Inn and the Billings Farm & Museum, have filed additional memorandums in Vermont Superior Court seeking dismissal of the wide-ranging lawsuit. Defendants James S. Sligar. Michael D. Nolan, John T. Hallowell, Douglas R. Horne, David M. …

This Saturday, June 3, is National Trails Day, a day of celebration and service for hometown trails and the people who love them. Established by the American Hiking Society, it launched its very first National Trails Day back in 1993 to recognize and honor all the benefits that federal, state and local trails provide for recreation and communing with nature. …