by Tena Starr copyright the Chronicle April 30, 2014 GLOVER — A pair of Glover men may have found a new way to get money from trees — birch trees. Longtime maple sugarmaker Bucky Shelton and a friend, Darrell Bussino, have teamed up and are making birch syrup.... More »
by Richard Creaser copyright the Chronicle April 30, 2014 NEWPORT — The purported game time temperature was 46 degrees, but it certainly didn’t feel that way Thursday as the North Country Falcons hosted the Essex Hornets for the first game of the 2014 season a... More »
Wilma Marilyn Wallace Allen Wilma Marilyn Wallace Allen, 93, of Newport died on April 25, 2014, in Newport, surrounded by her loving family members. She was born on December 2, 1920, in Newport, to Earle and Elsie (Unwin) Wallace. On September 5, 1943, she mar... More »
copyright the Chronicle April 23, 2014 Buildings of Vermont, by Glenn M. Andres and Curtis B. Johnson. Published by University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London, 2014. 504 pages. Hardbound. $85. Reviewed by Joseph Gresser Buildings of Vermont mee... More »
copyright the Chronicle April 23, 2014 by Richard Creaser NEWPORT — Mud season is typically a time of year that Vermont residents have come to dread. For the 350 riders in Saturday’s Rasputitsa cycling event, however, mud season represented a challenge that be... More »
copyright the Chronicle April 23, 2014 by Joseph Gresser BARTON — Faulty bearings caused a railroad car loaded with pulp logs to leave the tracks as it crossed May Farm Road here on Friday evening. The northbound train that it was attached to continued on for... More »
Leopold Donat Campbell Leopold Donat Campbell, 88, of Newport died on Friday April 18, 2014, in Newport. He was born in Irasburg on September 24, 1925, to Donat and Jeanne (Stewart) Campbell. In 1947 he married Rachel Gaboriault, who predeceased him on Februar... More »
copyright the Chronicle April 16, 2014 by Bethany M. Dunbar LOWELL — Don and Shirley Nelson have reached a settlement with Green Mountain Power that says the power company will pay them $1.3-million for their home and 540 acres of their farm. The couple has up... More »
copyright the Chronicle April 16, 2014 The Starling God, by Tanya Sousa. Paperback. 265 pages. Published by forestrypress.com. $12.50 Reviewed by Tena Starr Tanya Sousa’s The Starling God is part allegory, part adventure story, part coming of age tale, and... More »
copyright the Chronicle April 2, 2014 by Tena Starr Karen Zale of Newport grew up knowing that her father, John Zale (born John Zubrzyck), was a veteran of World War II. What she didn’t know, until very late in his life, was that he was a survivor of the Ba... More »
Rodney V. Beal Rodney V. Beal, 64, of Glover, died on April 4, 2014, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, from a short illness. He was born in Milbridge, Maine, to Nehemiah and Esther (Standwood) Beal. He loved lobster fishing with his bro... More »
copyright the Chronicle April 9, 2014 by Paul Lefebvre MONTPELIER — Vermont is going to increase its hourly minimum wage. Vermont legislators generally agreed that it was the right and ethical thing to do. But when, and by how much, is still hanging in the air... More »
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