Editor's note: This commentary is by Margaret MacLean, who is an educator with 40 years' experience and a Peacham resident. A former Vermont Principal of the Year, MacLean’s term on the Vermont ...

BRATTLEBORO -- The last five years in Vermont and New Hampshire have been the some of the wettest on record in more than a century.

Students in Vermont have been studying areas of the world recently to prepare for the state-level competition of the National Geographic Geography Bee. Friday was the last day for individual schools ...