Lisa Loomis

The temporary bridge over Route 100B just north of Maynard’s farm is down to one lane, with a traffic light, because of a structural failure requiring repairs.

George Shenk, Warren, has spent decades asking what food means. In a new arts exhibit, the farmer, baker and longtime food writer has turned that question into art with work that explores the connections among what people eat, how they grow it and the land, animals and communities that sustain them.

For more than three decades, the Columbus Day weekend tent sale at Baked Beads was a fixture of the MRV — a regional shopping event that drew longtime customers, families and curious browsers looking for jewelry, accessories and deals while raising money for local schools and community organizations

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Erin Chase is making flowers. Lots of them. Some are small and painstakingly detailed. Others are nearly three feet across. There are flowers made from recycled sari silk, paintings, lights, fish, monsters, a spaceship and a fairy dress made entirely of flowers.

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After half a decade of planning bids go out for a wastewater facility for Waitsfield, Vermont

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If there’s one message The Valley Reporter’s readers want to deliver, it’s this: Keep the local news coming.

The Harwood Unified Union School District Board is exploring budget plans for next year that would close two Valley elementary schools and combine district middle schools at Harwood Union. That scenario could save up to $3.9 million and prevent district voters from paying $2.7 million in state penalties for exceeding the state’s per pupil spending cap.