copyright the Chronicle February 21, 2018 NEWPORT — Monday evening’s city council meeting started with a discussion of the Vermont Land Trust’s plans for Bluffside Farm and a vote to fund another round of Music on the Waterfront. What began as a placid convers... More »
copyright the Chronicle February 21, 2018 WEST GLOVER — With little fanfare, at least little fanfare outside the snowmobiling community, Rock Maple Racing returned to West Glover Saturday for an exciting day of cross-country racing. Rock Maple racing might be ... More »
By Elizabeth Hewitt, VTDigger.org Migrant Justice is planning a protest this week against the detention of a farmworker by immigration authorities near the Vermont-Canada border earlier this month. The group, which represents immigrant farmworkers, says that J... More »
By Elizabeth Hewitt, VTDigger.org The Vermont Senate on Thursday advanced a measure that would raise the state’s hourly minimum wage to $15 by 2024. The bill, S.40, would incrementally hike the state’s minimum wage over the next six years, from the current lev... More »
By Alan J. Keays, VTDigger.org Guidebook author and public TV travel show host Rick Steves told a Senate panel on Thursday that when pot became legal in his home state of Washington he didn’t smoke more marijuana, he just no longer felt a criminal when he did.... More »
By Kelsey Neubauer, VTDigger.org Gov. Phil Scott has told the leaders of both the Vermont House and Senate that he wants the Legislature to act quickly to pass equal pay bills, so he can sign them into law before Town Meeting Day on March 6. In a letter sent t... More »
By Tiffany Danitz Pache, VTDigger.org Vermont’s school spending in the past year is coming in far below expectations, meaning property owners will see a significant drop in expected taxes. The tax department had predicted a 3.5 percent increase in school spend... More »
By Anne Galloway and Alan J. Keays, VTDigger.org The ribbon was cut Wednesday afternoon on the last major development at Jay Peak, coming just a few months before the resort is expected to hit the market in search of a buyer. The 800-plus EB-5 investors who we... More »
Northeast Kingdom Learning Services, Inc. (NEKLS) was recently named one of the “2018 Best Places to Work in Vermont” on a list compiled by Vermont Business Magazine, the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, the Vermont Department of Economic Development, the Vermont ... More »
The MAC Center for the Arts, 158 Main Street, in partnership with ACT 1, the Northeast Kingdom’s premiere children’s theater academy, will host a half-day theater workshop for children aged five to eight. “Rodeo Roundup” will offer theater, learning, songs, an... More »
copyright the Chronicle February 14, 2018 For a long time the Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover had a regular circus act performed by The Rotten Idea Theater, which drew the audience’s attention to, well, rotten ideas. We’re not performance artists, sadly not... More »
copyright the Chronicle February 14, 2018 ISLAND POND — Fat snowflakes drifted down over Island Pond as a line of snowmobilers waited their turn for the annual blessing of the snowmobiles. Robed in white, Muriel O’Gorman touched each sled and its driver with... More »
