After 75 years as Williams True Value in Poultney, Vermont, the store has a new name, and owner. It’s now Noble Ace Hardware. Robert Noble III took over, following Bob Williams’ retirement. Customers ...

CABOT – Dan Wyman played fiddle tunes as chatter from the bar a few yards away ambled into the corner where he performed. A couple sat at a table right in front of him, listening and watching closely.

Don Ruggles is not sure why people started calling him “Tip,” but the name stuck at a young age. So did his afterschool job at Somers Hardware in Montpelier, where he started working in seventh grade.

Don Ruggles is not sure why people started calling him “Tip,” but the name stuck at a young age. In seventh grade, Tip started working after school at Somers Hardware in Montpelier. His father, Donald ...

Stay-at-home Vermonters are still venturing out to shop, observes Charlie Spriggs, who works at City Hardware in Burlington — and many of them have long "honey-do" lists. Hardware stores in Vermont — ...