![by Tena Starr LOWELL — Ken Charbonneau and his wife, Mulunesh “Mulu” Kidane, had owned the Lowell General Store little more than two weeks when tragedy struck. Mr. Charbonneau and his wife bought the store on August 3. On August 20, he texted her to ask her to come to work. When there was no response, he checked on her at their attached residence, “and she was gone,” he said. Ms. Kidane was just 26 years old when she […]](https://bartonchronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lowell-store-cmyk-1400x912.jpg)
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![by Tena Starr SOUTH BARTON – Lois Lew’s house, a 60-year-old mobile home, was destroyed by fire Monday evening, and it wasn’t insured. Yet, Ms. Lew considers herself kind of a lucky woman. She had stopped at the laundromat after work – her job is at RDI in Newport – and got home about five minutes after someone called 911. “It was on fire,” she said, adding that she has no idea what happened. “I rushed up to get the […]](https://bartonchronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Lois-Lew-fire-1400x912.jpg)
![by Joseph Gresser LYNDON CENTER — The first game of the 2020 football season came late this year, but the wait proved worthwhile for the North Country Union High School Falcons, who took a lead early in Saturday’s contest with the Lyndon Institute Vikings and held on to win 48-34. State authorities didn’t give the go-ahead to start high school sports until September 22, and set September 26 as the day to resume competition. The delay, of […]](https://bartonchronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/nc-football-tap-cmyk-1400x912.jpg)
![by Tena Starr COVID has had many unexpected consequences. In the Northeast Kingdom it’s apparently led to a pig glut. Some folks who, in the early days of COVID-related shortages, were looking to guarantee themselves a source of meat might find themselves in the company of a 300-pound porker a lot longer than they’d planned. COVID inspired an unusual number of people to raise pigs. Now it’s fall, time for slaughter, and many of those people are discovering that […]](https://bartonchronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Pigs-cmyk.jpg)
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Tragedy strikes new Lowell store owners
by Tena Starr LOWELL — Ken Charbonneau and his wife, Mulunesh “Mulu” Kidane, had owned the Lowell General Store little more than two weeks when tragedy struck. Mr. Charbonneau and his wife bought the store on August 3. On... More »
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An interview with South Barton fire victim
by Tena Starr SOUTH BARTON – Lois Lew’s house, a 60-year-old mobile home, was destroyed by fire Monday evening, and it wasn’t insured. Yet, Ms. Lew considers herself kind of a lucky woman. She had stopped at the laundromat a... More »
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Falcons open football season with a win
by Joseph Gresser LYNDON CENTER — The first game of the 2020 football season came late this year, but the wait proved worthwhile for the North Country Union High School Falcons, who took a lead early in Saturday’s conte... More »
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Pandemic leads to too many pigs?
by Tena Starr COVID has had many unexpected consequences. In the Northeast Kingdom it’s apparently led to a pig glut. Some folks who, in the early days of COVID-related shortages, were looking to guarantee themselves a sou... More »
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