by Joseph Gresser BARTON — Monday morning people driving through Glover on Route 16 were slowed a little by traffic around Currier’s Market and the Busy Bee. That isn’t terribly unusual, but even a casual glance at the license plates of the cars that lined th... More »
by Kenzie Strange NEWPORT — Traffic was the first noticeable thing on eclipse day. The streets were unusually crowded. Cars flooded the highway, and it took ten minutes to drive through downtown Newport. I played the “license plate game” as I did when I w... More »
by Tena Starr It was a Saturday, a couple of days before the solar eclipse when I got a call at the Glover library where I work part-time. The woman asked if we’d mind if she sat in the library parking lot with her daughter to watch the eclipse. She said she’d... More »
by Joseph Gresser ORLEANS — A federal lawsuit could, if successful, upend the way Vermont towns collect overdue property taxes. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Burlington, by Vermont Legal Aid, acting on behalf of Penny Flynn in January. It ar... More »
by Matthew Wilson GLOVER — The select board here discussed the coming eclipse at its March 28 meeting. Members made preparations and looked over the what-ifs and the worst-ofs that could come from the increased activity around the event. The board also talke... More »
by Matthew Wilson DERBY — The select board had a few properties to talk about at their meeting on Monday night, one of them a major land preservation initiative moving into its final phase. The board also had to make a decision about other properties that m... More »
by Trisha Ingalls TROY — The daily routine in the Racicot household in Troy looks a little different from a typical young family’s. Two-year-old daughter Aurora was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) when she was only six days old. Cystic fibrosis is a progr... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Police say a Winooski man held several people hostage and put a gun to the head of one of them. Forty-one-year-old Donald S. Perry appeared in the Criminal Division of Orleans County Superior Court on March 28 to plead innocent to t... More »
by Joseph Gresser A federal grand jury handed up an indictment charging a Connecticut man with conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute drugs including fentanyl. The man, 29-year-old Marvin Byrd Jr. of Hartford, Connecticut, appeared in ... More »
by Joseph Gresser An unusually high number of people attended the Lake Region Union High School Annual Meeting on a stormy night and voted 97 to 51 to approve a budget of $9,907,398 for the 2024-2025 school year. At the March 20 meeting, voters were led throu... More »
by Matthew Wilson On April 8, the moon will pass between the Earth and the sun causing an eclipse visible along a 113-mile-wide path stretching through 13 states. Northern Vermont is on the path of totality, the area where the moon passing between the Earth... More »
by Matthew Wilson BARTON — While some are making maple syrup, the family behind Kingdom Kind is working on another concentrated product meant to please. Just as sap is taken from one form to another in pursuit of a pure, viscous, and appealing syrup around ... More »
