by Paul Lefebvre copyright the Chronicle, May 30, 2012 This is part one of a series of articles about hydropower. MONTPELIER — The Legislature gave a nudge this session to a renewable source of energy that roughly 70 years ago dominated Vermont’s rivers and po... More »
by Joseph Gresser copyright May 17, 2006 GREENSBORO — The latest thing in getting Vermont milk to market turns out to be one of the farmer’s oldest tricks. Cheese. Mateo and Andy Kehler, brothers and the proprietors of Jasper Hill Farm, plan to prosper regard... More »
by Joseph Gresser copyright the Chronicle, May 19, 2010 GREENSBORO — Shaun Hill says he feels a sense of responsibility, both to the ancestors who first farmed his family’s plot of land in the 1780s, and to the god of beer. He hopes to live up to both his fam... More »
by Bethany M. Dunbar copyright the Chronicle January 19, 2011 Even in the middle of January, in the middle of an essentially stagnant economy, the local food movement in northern Vermont is showing signs of not only life, but growth as well. Barb Judd at the M... More »
by Bethany M. Dunbar copyright the Chronicle July 26, 2006 WELLS RIVER — If farmers and consumers can make more connections, both will benefit. About 50 farmers and others interested in the politics of food heard that message from an assistant professor and ci... More »
by Tena Starr copyright June 1, 2011 GLOVER — There’s a theory, at least, that the first matches were invented by women in China while their city was under siege. Since they couldn’t gather tinder and start fires in the usual way, they used what was at hand, ... More »
by Joseph Gresser copyright the Chronicle November 30, 2006 GLOVER — Ignatz the donkey is 33 years old. He is also a hero. He was not always 33 and he only became a hero last Wednesday afternoon, November 23. On that day Maria Schumann stepped out of her house... More »
by Richard Creaser copyright the Chronicle April 7, 2004 BARTON – The Candlepin Restaurant outside Barton Village is perhaps the last place you would expect to meet a woman of international mystery. As unlikely as that meeting might be, however, it is still ... More »
by Joseph Gresser copyright September 27, 2006 WHEELOCK — Energy researchers are busy in unlikely looking houses along many of the Northeast Kingdom’s back roads. Most favor low-tech solutions to fueling cars, heating homes or generating electricity. Not so Ph... More »
by Bethany M. Dunbar copyright the Chronicle June 23, 2004 BURLINGTON — Darren Perron of WCAX news has been nominated for an Emmy and is in the running for a national Edward R. Murrow award. He has also taken home a number of Associated Press awards, includin... More »
by Chris Braithwaite copyright the Chronicle, November 9, 1994 A.A. Earle, editor of the Irasburg Independent and Standard, devoted a good deal of his issue of November 1, 1861, to the obituary of John Baptiste Masta, M.D., late of Barton. “When men have attai... More »
by Paul Lefebvre copyright the Chronicle March 15, 2006 MONTPELIER — The long shadow of the former Champion lands appears to have sealed the fate of a proposed wind farm on East Mountain in East Haven. Encumbered by conservation and public access easements, th... More »
