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Fires in Albany, Holland

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copyright the Chronicle December 20, 2017   by Tena Starr   The county has seen two bad fires in the past few days. In Holland on Friday, about 40 milk cows died in a barn fire at the farm owned by Scott and Melanie Gilles, Derby Line Fire Chief Craig Ellam sa... More »

Dairy Air Wind takes down its Holland MET tower

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copyright the Chronicle August 9, 2017 by Elizabeth Trail   HOLLAND — Dairy Air Wind has taken down a controversial wind measurement (MET) tower in Holland. The tower stood in a cornfield on land owned by Linda Champney and leased to Brian Champney of Dairy Ai... More »

Lost hunter tells his story

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copyright the Chronicle November 23, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre   HOLLAND — A seasoned Brattleboro deer hunter who kept thinking positive survived four nights in the big woods here that extend across the border. John Chapman, 72, was found early Sunday afternoon in... More »

Montreal man starts hemp farm in Holland

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copyright the Chronicle October 5, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre HOLLAND — A former construction worker from Montreal with dual American-Canadian citizenship is hardly the kind of farmer one would expect to find here cultivating a crop still deemed to be illegal by th... More »

Holland citizens continue to oppose Dairy Air Wind

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copyright the Chronicle July 27, 2016   by Elizabeth Trail At the Holland Select Board meeting on July 18, a recently formed group called Citizens for Responsible Energy in Holland (CREH) presented a petition signed by 52 citizens, asking the select board to d... More »

Woman gets jail for starving goats

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copyright the Chronicle June 29, 2016 by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — The Holland woman whose barn was filled with starving and dead goats admitted guilt Tuesday and will spend 15 days of an 18-to-36-month sentence in jail. Stacey Lynn Lopes, 42, now of Rehoboth, ... More »

Dairy Air plans single turbine wind project

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copyright the Chronicle June 1, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail HOLLAND — The Public Service Board awarded Dairy Air Wind, LLC, in Holland a long-term contract on May 27 to sell about 6,000,000 kilowatt hours of power a year to Vermont utilities. That puts dairy farme... More »

In Holland: School budget is down, tax rate is up

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copyright the Chronicle February 24, 2016 by Joseph Gresser HOLLAND — The Holland School Board has crafted a budget for the town’s elementary school that reduces spending by nearly $80,000 compared to last year. Working with a very sharp pencil, they reduced t... More »

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How to bring Town Meeting back to life

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copyright the Chronicle March 11, 2015 All Those In Favor, Rediscovering the Secrets of Town Meeting and Community, by Susan Clark and Frank Bryan. Paperback. 87 pages. Published by Ravenmark, Montpelier, Vermont. Reviewed by Tena Starr Frank Bryan is likely V... More »

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Safe Haven — a home for unwanted horses

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copyright the Chronicle October 22, 2014 by Tena Starr HOLLAND — Tara Girard has taken in 17 horses this year, all of them horses that someone else didn’t want anymore, or at least couldn’t afford. Of the ten harbored by Safe Haven Farm right now, she said tha... More »