Rita Helen (Lamarche) Brown Rita Helen (Lamarche) Brown, 69, died on October 30, 2017, at her home in Colchester. She was born on June 2, 1948, a daughter of the late Laurier and Flora (Robillard) Lamarche. She graduated from Orleans High School, class of 1966... More »
Charles Frederick (Williamson) Allen Charles Frederick (Williamson) Allen, 75, of North Troy, died peacefully on October 24, 2017, with his loving wife, who gracefully cared for him through several years of health challenges, by his side. Mr. Allen was born on... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 1, 2017 by Tena Starr High winds roared through Vermont early Monday morning, felling trees, branches, and power lines, and plunging tens of thousands of homes into darkness. At the height of the outage early Monday morning... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 1, 2017 by Tena Starr A 20-year-old Irasburg man has been arrested in connection with a moose poaching case in Westmore in late September. Gerin Fortin was arrested on Sunday and charged with six counts of big game violatio... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 1, 2017 by Elizabeth Trail CRAFTSBURY COMMON — To an ecologist, death isn’t the end, Carl Anderson says. It’s really more like the middle. Each of our bodies, the biologist and green burial advocate says, is rich with the bui... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 1, 2017 by Joseph Gresser MONTPELIER — A regulation that sets limits on how much noise a wind turbine can produce was approved by the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules on Thursday, October 26, by a 5-2 vote. The... More »
Over 59,000 children visit an emergency room for medicine poisoning every year — that’s one child every nine minutes. According to Safe Kids Worldwide, in 1980 1.4 billion prescriptions were filled. In 2014 this number had almost quadrupled to four billion. Sa... More »
copyright the Chronicle October 25, 2017 by Joseph Gresser The Caledonian-Record has gone to federal court to accuse the former publisher of the Newport Daily Express and the company that owns the newspaper of racketeering. In a suit filed on October 20 in... More »
copyright the Chronicle October 25, 2017 by Elizabeth Trail BARTON — A new senior center is in the works in Barton. Called Barton Area Senior Services, Inc., (BASSI), the new group incorporated with the state as a nonprofit last week. Its organizers plan t... More »
copyright the Chronicle October 25, 2017 by Tena Starr A Craftsbury Common woman rapidly raised more $2,500 through GoFundMe in order put up a reward she hopes will lead to the conviction of whoever illegally shot a cow moose in Westmore last month. Effort... More »
copyright the Chronicle October 25, 2017 Vanishing Vermonters, Loss of a Rural Culture, by Peter Miller. 168 pages. Paperback. Published by Silver Print Press. $24.95 paperback. $44.95 hard cover Reviewed by Tena Starr Peter Miller is the kind of photogr... More »
The Craftsbury Public Library has introduced a new fund-raiser, a librarian-led tour to Ireland’s west coast. Librarian Susan O’Connell has visited Ireland three times, and she will share the best of the places and stories she has discovered on her travels, as... More »
