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Bellows Falls hosts North Country during its home-opening football game Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. Bellows Falls won 56-49.

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Bellows Falls hosts North Country during its home-opening football game Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. Bellows Falls won 56-49. WESTMINSTER — In an early contender for game of the year during the first week of the regular season, the Bellows Falls football team defeated North Country 56-49 at Hadley Field on Friday to open its title defense.

Hinsdale hosts Moultonborough in a boys soccer match on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. HINSDALE, N.H. — In a physical game where a couple of key sequences didn’t go its way, the Hinsdale boys soccer team fell 2-0 to Moultonborough in its regular season home opener at School Street Field on Thursday. Connor Dixon led the way in goal finishing with 12 saves including one on a penalty kick in the second half.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — In observance of Labor Day, all town offices will be closed on Monday, Sept. 7, with the exception of emergency services. Parking is free at all metered spaces and in the pay-and-display lots on Monday. All other violations will be enforced. Brooks Memorial Library will be closed on Monday. Trash, recycling and composting will not be picked up on Monday. All curbside collections will be delayed by one day all week.

WILMINGTON — The Twin Valley boys soccer team continued its perfect start to the season, defeating Otter Valley 10-2 at home on Tuesday and following that up with a 6-3 win on the road against Mill River on Thursday. The Wildcats (3-0) opened the scoring in Tuesday’s game in the first minute as Brayden Brown headed home a cross from Alex Sullivan.

As the climate warms, flora and fauna across the U.S. are heading north in search of cooler temperatures, recent research from Science magazine has found. Experts in Vermont say the state has become an essential North American corridor for species to pass through. In late July, The Nature Conservancy in Vermont allocated nearly $400,000 to four projects with the goal of keeping the state’s landscape connected for species on the move.

To the Editor: I highly recommend that Dolly Parton's name be put on the Kennedy Center. She has done so much for her country, which includes: Gave $1 million to help make a COVID vaccine, sent 3 million books to children ages 1-5 so they could learn to read (also sent books to other countries), and has given millions of dollars to various charities to help others. She did all of this on her own and not once went on TV and bragged about any of it.

Ernest Perham was honored with a Quilt of Valor at the American Legion in Brattleboro on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. BRATTLEBORO — More than six decades after serving as a helicopter door gunner and radio operator in Vietnam, Ernest Perham was wrapped in gratitude Tuesday at American Legion Brattleboro Post 5. Perham, a Westmoreland, N.H., resident and member of Post 5, received a handmade Quilt of Valor in recognition of his military service and decades of work helping fellow veterans.

How did Brattleboro respond to the 9/11 attacks? These recollections were solicited from Brattleboro area residents, with a year’s hindsight, of their remembrances of 9/11. A full accounting of those thoughts may be found in a video at the link at the end of this article. On the morning of September 11, 2001, people in Brattleboro experienced the attacks much as the rest of the nation did: suddenly, through the television screen.