The editor’s pick of some of the best stories of the week from the Barton Chronicle, a highly read weekly newspaper based in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom region.
by Matthew Wilson BARTON – Voters turned down the highway budget proposed by trustees and lowered the water department budget at the Barton Village Annual Meeting on March 12. The 35 village residents who turned out for the meeting wanted explanations for the... More »
by Leanne Day Harple GREENSBORO — With a little more than two weeks to go until the big day, pre-festivities celebrating the highly anticipated upcoming solar eclipse on April 8 are officially getting under way in the Northeast Kingdom. Because Vermont lies... More »
by Kenzie Strange As is usual at its first meeting after Town Meeting Day the city council, Monday evening, reappointed officials and filled empty posts. The biggest change was the choice of a city council president to succeed John Wilson, who decided not to ... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — On the evening of March 12, two people were apparently bludgeoned and stabbed to death in their Orleans apartment. A neighbor noticed what was happening and reported what she was seeing to police. When police arrived they found Pau... More »
by Joseph Gresser BARTON—Voters ended an impasse between the town and the Orleans County Sheriff’s Department at Town Meeting on the evening of March 5. The town hasn’t had a contract with the department, nor any formal agreement to provide police protection ... More »
by Joseph Gresser The 150 voters who turned out to Lake Region Union High School Monday night for the Lake Region Union Elementary and Middle School District’s annual meeting approved the district’s $17,387,565 budget by a narrow, but sufficient, margin of 81 ... More »
by Joseph Gresser MONTPELIER—The Vermont Supreme Court said the developers of a proposed assisted living facility planned for Newport had no right to challenge the decision of a grant panel that awarded money to a competing project. Housing Our Seniors in Verm... More »
Select board expanded to five by Kenzie Strange WESTMORE — Before Town Meeting in Westmore began, current select board member Pete Hyslop said he was “nervous” about the vote concerning the change in select board size and wanted the community to weigh in. Mir... More »
by Kenzie Strange CRAFTSBURY — The Craftsbury Academy and Elementary School held its first student mock Town Meeting on February 22, and invited its third, fourth, and fifth grade students to participate. Their meeting was presided over by Craftsbury Modera... More »
by Matthew Wilson The Price is Right, a show that has been a staple of broadcast television since the heyday of game shows, is one that many people are familiar with. It’s actually the longest-running game show there is, familiar to any viewer with but a si... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT —A man who was released on conditions after pleading innocent in January to five charges of possession of child sexual abuse material, was back in court on February 12, this time for several assault charges. After Judge Rory Thibault ... More »
Amy McCoy, a first-grade teacher at Newport City Elementary School, hands out cards to her students. Her classroom has been inundated with valentines since she posted a request for them online. The children have gotten mail from all 50 states and many countr... More »
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