He had a rivalry with the Proctor family of the Vermont Marble Co. Clement held several political offices and ran for governor three times before being elected in 1918 at the age of 73.

Bill Field engaged a distinguished typographer to re-design the paper, and he moved the Herald into its present Wales Street building.

Mitchell started at the Herald in 1935 as a Vermont Press Bureau reporter in Montpelier, later became editor in 1941, and was acting publisher during World War II, when Field enlisted.

In 2016, the Mitchell family sold the Herald and Times Argus to Vermont Community Media, owned by businessmen Chip Harris of New Hampshire and Reade Brower of Maine.

Award-winning cartoonist Jeff Danziger started his career with the Herald in 1975 and still contributes editorial cartoons[7] and a weekly serial titled 'The Teeds: Tales of Agriculture for the Young and Old'.

[8] Susan Youngwood's 2007 article[9] detailing the anti-Wikipedia stance of professors at Middlebury College has become a commonly cited description of the lack of expertise of Wikipedia editors.