Copley Health Systems officials discussed finances and outlined goals for the upcoming year during the organization’s annual meeting.

About 40 people gathered at the Charlmont Restaurant and Pub on Monday night to hear presentations related to Copley Health Systems, which includes Copley Hospital, Copley Woodlands, Copley Terrace and the Health Center Building.

Author Rick Winston will present “Red Scare in the Green Mountains: Vermont in the McCarthy Era 1946-1960,” the second of nine lectures sponsored by the Lamoille Valley Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at the Commodores Inn on lower Main Street, Route 100 South in Stowe.

Have you noticed the “Little Free Libraries” around Brattleboro? Rotarians built many of them. Or, have your kids played on the wooden train at Living Memorial Park. Rotarians built it.

Rotary International, along with its various clubs throughout the world, has established January as Rotary Awareness Month.

At the turn of the year it is customary to not only acknowledge successes, but losses from the past year. Brattleboro suffered one loss that has not been clearly reckoned in our local press: the loss of students on the School for International Training (SIT) campus.

An initiative to steer people toward recovery began earlier this year after community members wanted to tackle drug use downtown.

The July 4 weekend in 2017, when emergency personnel responded to between 10 and 12 overdoses in town, may have been the tipping point.

The founder of a global analytics firm, a nurse educator, a highly regarded police chief, a public safety consultant and an economic development specialist are being inducted into the Vermont State Colleges Hall of Fame.

Aretha Franklin, Anthony Bourdain, John McCain, Stephen Hawking, Barbara and George H.W. Bush: These are a few of the celebrities and public figures who died in 2018.

If you’ve drive on Route 127, the Burlington Beltline, you might have caught a glimpse of a mysterious, black, keyhole-shaped opening standing out in the hillside to your right.

With three Select Board terms ending in March, a flurry of candidate interest might be expected — and that’s already the case.

The dust has yet to clear, and won’t finally settle until all nomination papers have been certified in late January, but voters appear likely to have a range of choices in the March 5 annual town election.

The Winooski mayor’s job is up for grabs.

Seth Leonard will step down from the post January 28 and pass the baton temporarily to city councilor and deputy mayor Nicole Mace. She’ll serve until a new mayor is elected on Town Meeting Day in March. Leonard’s term would have lasted until March 2021.