![The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department reports that bear hunters in Vermont had another safe and successful hunting season in 2020. Preliminary numbers show that hunters took a record 914 black bears during the two-part early and late bear seasons. The previous highest harvest ever recorded in Vermont was 750 in 2019. Fish and Wildlife also says there were no hunting-related shooting incidents. The average number of bears taken over the previous ten years was 608. The hunting season […]](https://bartonchronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/bear-hunt-success-cmyk-1400x912.jpg)
![The Old Barton Landing High School, which was located on School Street and located where the Orleans Federated Church now stands. In the past, instead of union high schools, many towns had their own high schools. Then, as now, class trips were often held, and more often than not the destination was Washington, D.C. In a shoebox, that came from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Harris, was a collection of photographs documenting a class trip to Boston, […]](https://bartonchronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OCHS-Barton-Landing-High-School-1400x912.jpg)
![by Emmett Avery MONTPELIER — Walking up State Street toward the Capitol around noon Sunday, one might have reasonably thought the Vermont press corps was picketing the State House — under heavy police observation. But the swarm of press and heavily armed law enforcement were at the state’s capitol in response to an FBI bulletin warning of potential demonstrations and violence by armed supporters of President Donald Trump. That violence did not come to pass Sunday, though the bulletin […]](https://bartonchronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Capitol-Protest-Capitol-Police-cmyk-1400x912.jpg)
Barton, Brownington to vote on retail pot stores
by Tena Starr BARTON — Voters in Barton and Brownington, as well as Newport City, will be asked at Town Meeting this year if they want to allow licensed retail cannabis stores in town. Voters in each municipality must deci... More »
Vermont bear hunters had a record season in 2020
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department reports that bear hunters in Vermont had another safe and successful hunting season in 2020. Preliminary numbers show that hunters took a record 914 black bears during the two-part e... More »
COVID briefing. Some good news for a change
by Joseph Gresser For the first time in a great while the news from Governor Phil Scott’s press briefing was largely positive on Tuesday morning. A decline in the rate of cases of COVID in the region and the nation provides some reason for optimism, said Commissioner of Financial Regulation Michael Pieciak. In addition, new assistance programs could provide an infusion of cash to hard-pressed b... More »
Plenty of police, few protesters
by Emmett Avery MONTPELIER — Walking up State Street toward the Capitol around noon Sunday, one might have reasonably thought the Vermont press corps was picketing the State House — under heavy police observation. But the s... More »
