Rochester


  • Green Ridge Forest conserved

    Green Ridge Forest conserved

    One of Vermont’s largest connected and privately-owned forests outside of the Northeast Kingdom — partially in Addison County — has been protected.

  • Rochester man runs for local state Senate seat

    Rochester man runs for local state Senate seat

    Mason Wade, who is running this November as an independent, joins a field that includes Bray, Hardy, Cornwall Republican Robert Burton and Bristol Republican Lloyd Dike. 

  • Enjoy an evening of poetry with the Jacksons

    Enjoy an evening of poetry with the Jacksons

    The Rochester Public Library will host an evening of poetry with two special guests, Major Jackson and Didi Jackson, on Saturday, Oct. 1, at 6 p.m.

  • ‘Full Frontal Fairytales’ on stage in Rochester

    This one-night storytelling event features new, original fairytales by our artistic community’s best writers that run the gambit from zany to heart-wrenching to profound and back again.

  • Granville, Hancock firefighters battle Rochester fire

    Firefighters from Granville and Hancock were called to fight a major blaze that claimed a Rochester home just before New Year’s.

  • RASTA changes its name, launches Velomont Trail

    RASTA changes its name, launches Velomont Trail

    ROCHESTER­­––The trail network organization that has been called RASTA since its founding in 2013 is changing its name to The Ridgeline Outdoor Collective (ROC), or Ridgeline, for short.…

  • Chamber music to play in Rochester

    Chamber music to play in Rochester

    The Rochester Chamber Music Society presents “Angels, Devils and Visionaries,” a baroque concert celebrating the music of the French Court of Louis XV on Sunday, July 11, at…

  • Free chamber music concert in Rochester

    Free chamber music concert in Rochester

    The Rochester Chamber Music Society opens their 27th season with an evening concert on Thursday, July 1, at 7:30 p.m., presenting the Heliand Consort. The concert is free…

  • ‘Full Frontal Fairy Tales’ plays at Bald Mountain Theater

    Bald Mountain Theater, in Rochester, presents a streamed performance, Saturday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m., of new stories created by our ensemble and special guests. Just the kind…

  • $140K in tax credits to spur development in Vergennes, Middlebury

    MONTPELIER — Among the $3.2 million in Downtown and Village Center tax credits that Gove. Phil Scott announced this week were earmarks for business and living improvement projects…

  • Meet Hancock, Granville and Rochester lawmakers

    HANCOCK — Residents of Hancock, Granville and Rochester will have the opportunity to meet with their legislators on Saturday, Feb. 15, at a legislative coffee and conversation session…

  • Period instruments featured at Rochester series

    ROCHESTER — The Rochester Chamber Music Society closes their 25th summer season on Sunday, Aug. 11, at 4 p.m., in the Federated Church of Rochester.  The grand Baroque…

  • Omer String Quartet tunes up in Rochester

    Omer String Quartet tunes up in Rochester

    ROCHESTER — The Rochester Chamber Music Society presents the award-winning Omer String Quartet on Friday, Aug. 2, 7 p.m., at the Federated Church in Rochester, as part of…