Category — Manchester, New Hampshire

MIDDLEBURY — The author of a book about a family moving from Sicily to Rutland will talk on Thursday at the Vermont Folklife Center about writing memoirs. …

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Actors Workshop brings Allan Miller’s “The Fox” to the Town Hall Theater from March 18 to 21. …

MONTPELIER — In Canada for a trade mission, representatives of Vermont’s two biggest electric utilities hope they can reach agreement on new contracts for power from provincial utility Hydro-Quebec.

If the sampling of opinion at Tuesday’s Business Show is on the mark, the local economy is starting to very slowly come out of its slump. … - By BRUCE EDWARDS STAFF WRITER

Both the Rutland Police Commission’s oversight of the Police Department and the chief of police came under criticism Tuesday in the wake of a Board of Aldermen meeting with the commissioners on Monday. … - By BRENT CURTIS Staff Writer

CASTLETON — The area’s first four-year nursing degree program launches in the fall. … - By GORDON DRITSCHILO STAFF WRITER

PITTSFIELD — Residents have raised concerns about development in town and the town and regional planning commission want to know what, if anything, has to change. … - By CRISTINA KUMKA STAFF WRITER

The developers of the Berwick site in downtown Rutland have reconfigured the breakdown of income-sensitized to fair market housing included in their project following concerns raised by the mayor last week it was weighted too heavily in favor of low- and middle-income options. … - By STEPHANIE M. PETERS STAFF WRITER

WEST RUTLAND — The pancake breakfast scheduled for Saturday at the Masonic Lodge at 63 Franklin St. has been cancelled, according to organizers. …

Two West Rutland teenagers answered to felony drug charges on Monday after police say they found almost a pound of marijuana in their car. …

It’s a pretty cool thing to witness, really. Dennis Steele of Burlington traipses into bar after bar, concert after concert, carting a large pile of wires and radio gear. He is the owner of Free Vermont Radio, an Internet streaming station that broadcasts globally.

MONTPELIER — Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas and business leaders are traveling to Canada to meet with Quebec government officials to discuss a bilateral relationship with Quebec.

AUGUSTA, Maine — An Augusta pellet mill is facing $27,000 in fines for allegedly violating workplace safety standards.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. (AP) — A Bridgewater man will go on trial in September in the 2009 bludgeoning death of a 79-year-old Woodstock woman.

Amy and Mark Yandow are preparing for sugaring already at Sugartree Maple Farm in Williston. Their children Matthew, 7, and Mackenzie, 3, help, too.

Noontime sunshine warmed the cozy front room of the Sampler House as Deborah Dolby prepared her Milton bed and breakfast for a community discussion. The first to show were Christie Vallencourt and Terry Melton, both of the Milton Community Youth Coalition.

Pedometers are the newest fashion accessory in many offices this month. People of all abilities have clipped them on belt loops, pockets and even wheelchairs to track physical activity for Visiting Nurse Association’s “Way to Go” virtual walk-athon.

Cabot butter boxes will be a bit more literary in April thanks to Jackson Glover. Glover, a Hinesburg Community School fifth-grader, won first place in the Cabot Creamery Cooperative’s “Butter Up The World” poetry contest recently and his poem will be featured on the newly designed boxes.

Alderwoman Joanne Slattery resigned from the Board of Aldermen over the weekend, citing personal reasons for her decision in an e-mail to the mayor and board president. … - By STEPHANIE M. PETERS STAFF WRITER

A former employee for General Electric has been awarded compensation by state labor officials who agreed that her longstanding lung ailment was a reaction to inhaling and absorbing beryllium at the company’s two Rutland-area plants. … - By BRENT CURTIS STAFF WRITER

MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS — By a mere six votes, voters in Middletown Springs adopted a town school district spending plan last week that will up their homestead tax rate 2 cents, Town Clerk Laura Castle officially reported Thursday. …

A Pawlet woman is facing three felony charges for allegedly selling more than $1,000 worth of heroin to an informant working with Rutland police. …

A Rutland man faces a pair of criminal charges for allegedly holding a knife to the throat of his partner. …

This is a sampling of more than 500 volunteer positions listed with the United Way Volunteer Center. For more information about these or other volunteer opportunities, visit www.unitedwaycc.org and click on “Volunteer” or call 860-1677, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays.

BRENTWOOD, N.H. — A man obsessed with getting a Harley-Davidson motorcycle beat his landlord to death, assumed his identity and stole the dead man’s new pickup so he could trade it for the bike, prosecutors said Monday. … - By KATHY McCORMACK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In a three-hour meeting Monday night in which the city’s aldermen and police commission made little tangible headway in their attempt to begin the restoration of public trust in the police department, Alderwoman Sharon Davis gave both sides some new information to mull over. … - By STEPHANIE M. PETERS STAFF WRITER

A proposed wind farm in Ira could face opposition from the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, according to a state official. … - By GORDON DRITSCHILO Staff Writer

A federal magistrate Monday ordered Michael Olsen, 35, of Milton to remain in custody while awaiting trial on charges he was the leader of a crack cocaine ring in northwestern Vermont run out of a now-defunct automobile detailing shop Olsen owned in South Burlington.

Vermont State Police say the shanty was stolen sometime between March 2 and Sunday.

Blake Forkey, Chad Anderson, Eric Tallent, Ryan Klingensmith, Greg Eskedijian, Kyle Thomas, Mike McShane, Norwich University: The Cadets received ECAC East postseason recognition.