Joseph Romeo Lionel Blais Joseph Romeo Lionel Blais, 80, of Newport died on Sunday, September 2, 2012, at his home among family. He was born on July 30, 1932, in Holland, a son of Albert and Ida (Carignan) Blais. He graduated from Sacred Heart High School in ... More »
by Chris Braithwaite copyright the Chronicle October 22, 2008 NEWPORT — A 24-year-old farmhand we are calling Wendell walked out of Orleans County Probate Court Thursday afternoon, October 16, with something he had never had before: his freedom. Wendell has b... More »
copyright the Chronicle October 22, 2008 A friendly, soft-spoken 24-year-old farmhand goes into Probate Court and, after a brief hearing, wins his emancipation from his mother’s guardianship. He’s been living and working away from home for more than a year, a... More »
by Chris Braithwaite copyright the Chronicle October 29, 2008 NEWPORT — Few private citizens have had more experience with the Vermont court system than George St. Francis. Few people could have found it more bewildering. The battle over Mr. St. Francis has g... More »
by Paul Lefebvre copyright the Chronicle November 19, 2008 A Family Court judge is expected to rule on allegations that the Safe Choices program — the program founded in 1993 to deal with sex offenders judged incompetent to stand trial — interfered with a Newp... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 26, 2008 Last week, in one of a series of articles this newspaper has published about the Safe Choices program, Paul Lefebvre wrote of a lawyer’s struggles to maintain contact with her client. Brain damaged in a childhood accid... More »
by Paul Lefebvre copyright the Chronicle December 23, 2008 NEWPORT — The press won a qualified victory last week by being allowed access to a Family Court hearing involving a petition by a Safe Choices client to get out the program and be served by a private g... More »
by Bethany M. Dunbar copyright the Chronicle 9-5-2012 Annette Smith wants a recount in the Progressive Primary race for Governor. Secretary of State Jim Condos has certified the result in the race, so in order to ask for a recount, she must file a petition in... More »
Arthur H. Blouin Arthur H. Blouin, 72, the last of his generation, died on August 27, 2012, in Burlington. He was born on December 14, 1939, in Barton, the son of George and Roseanna Blouin. He was a carpenter and handyman who also loved tinkering on cars and ... More »
by Paul Lefebvre copyright the Chronicle February 25, 2009 NEWPORT — A Safe Choices client moved significantly closer to ending his state custody and trading a public guardian for one of his own choice during a Family Court hearing here that was closed to the ... More »
copyright the Chronicle Feburary 25, 2009 “Trust me, this is for your own good.” Anybody who hears those words knows that something unpleasant is about to happen. We suspect that George St. Francis, though only about 30 years old, has heard them far, far more... More »
by Chris Braithwaite copyright the Chronicle May 20, 2009 Lowell House is a modest farmhouse that sits at the top of a twisty dead-end road off Route 100, south of Lowell Village. It’s not a place anyone is likely to just happen by. And if anyone did, he would... More »
