Gene Allen Besaw Gene Allen Besaw, 72, well known businessman of Derby, died on April 2, 2019, at the Jack Bryne Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He was born on March 26, 1947, in Newport to Floyd and Idelle (Sanville) Besaw. He married Jeannine Geoffrey Br... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — On March 27 the accused killer of Theresa Swartz, her husband, Randall E. Swartz, had a charge of first degree murder added to the second-degree charge he was already facing. …To read the rest of this article, and all the Chronicle‘... More »
To the editor, Once again you Chroniclers outdid yourselves with your April 1 Comicle. I guess maybe after a whole year of focusing your minds on who/what/when and where, as April finally comes around, your imaginations are like heifers let out of the barn for... More »
by Joseph Gresser BARTON — After a gap of several weeks, the Barton Select Board convened on March 26. Its meeting was the first since voters chose Paul Sicard on Town Meeting Day in place of Lenny Zenonos, who did not stand for re-election. …To read the rest... More »
by Joseph Gresser JAY PEAK — Around 240 people — farmers, legislators, regulators, bankers, and others interested in finding ways to help keep the dairy business alive — gathered Monday afternoon to begin a day-and-a-half of presentations and discussions at Ja... More »
Martha Alice-Jane (Merritt) Brown Martha Alice-Jane (Merritt) Brown, 90, died on March 16, 2019, at the hospital in Newport. She was born December 21, 1928, in Newbury, to Oscar Royal Nigh Merritt and Maude D. (Powers) Merritt. Martha graduated from North Tro... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Members of a task force created by Governor Phil Scott to figure out what Vermont schools can do to prevent the kind of mass shootings seen in other states and nations, came to Newport Monday in search of people’s ideas. …To read t... More »
by Meghan McCarthy McPhaul A few winters back, there was a doe that frequented our compost heap. The garden fence around it proved an inadequate barrier, as she simply hopped over it to nosh on the rotting shards of Jack-o-lanterns and the latest veggie scrap... More »
