| Quechee Motorist Goes to Court Over Speeding Ticket From 1980
-- Windsor District Court, like those all over the country, has been known to take months to dispense with the simplest criminal cases. See full story
NEWS: High Blood Pressure Often Missed in Kids
Chicago -- More than 1 million U.S. youngsters have undiagnosed high blood pressure, leaving them at risk for developing organ damage down the road, a study suggests. See full story
SPORTS: Duct Tape and Band-Aids
Woodstock -- You wouldn't know it by the giant 2007 Vermont state championship trophy sitting in her window, but two just months ago, Woodstock recreation director Gail Devine was sweating over whether the town could have a swim team this summer.
State, IBM show off service center, but doubts linger
The state human services agency provided a look yesterday at a service center that will change the way Indiana delivers food stamps and other welfare benefits. But questions remain among some advocates and others who work with recipients. .
Sharapova rolls into third round
NEW YORK: Maria Sharapova produced another display of fearsome big hitting to roll into the US Open third round on Thursday, while top American hopes Andy Roddick and James Blake struggled to stay on course. The 20-year-old Russian glamour girl opened her shoulders to blast past overmatched Australian Casey Dellaqua 6-1, 6-0 in just 51 minutes. .
In Fairlee, the Whole Family Goes to Summer Camp
Every year at summer camp in Fairlee, Joanna Bassett makes at least one basket. On a crystalline morning earlier this week in the Aloha Camp's craft barn, Bassett was absorbed in the methodical task of weaving canes. I would never make baskets at home because I would have to go out and get all the stuff, Bassett said. Although it was early in her week at camp, Bassett was nearly done with her basket, giving her plenty of time to help Marcie Kaplan and Audrey Rubin, and Kaplan's daughter, Chloe, and Rubin's daughter, Sophia, both 9, with their own attempts. The relaxed scene was what drew all three women, and their children, to Aloha Camp, a camp for girls age 12 to 17 which for one week at the end of the summer opens up to families. Thanks to steady demand for family-camp programs over the past decade, Fairlee's Aloha Foundation is cleaning up a 112-acre camp it purchased on Lake Fairlee in Thetford to serve almost entirely as a family camp.
Fire commander keeps flames, public in control
It didn't take long for Ketchum residents to realize they were in good hands. Standing in front of a big crowd in the Hemingway Elementary School gymnasium at the first fire-related community meeting Monday, Aug. 20, California Interagency Incident Management Team 3 Commander Jeanne Pincha-Tulley achieved the near impossible. No, she didn't instantaneously extinguish the flames of the then rapidly expanding 10,000-acre Castle Rock Fire, but she did manage to restore calm to hundreds of local homeowners inching toward panic due to the proximity of the flames and the dearth of information. Exactly two weeks after the infamous lightning strike ignited the fire, Pincha-Tulley explained Thursday that her ability to maintain an affable attitude in the face of intense pressure is a result of her upbringing.
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