The pilot program comes in response to the state's decision to cut funding for motel rooms. Local businesses criticized the waterfront location.

Owner Marilyn Kozlowski started working at the 75-year-old summer snack shack when she was a teen, like many of her employees. She’s ready to retire.

Norman Rockwell's iconic painting "Freedom of Speech" captures the civility of small-town democracy. The painter said he was inspired by a Vermont town meeting — ...