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Joseph Gresser

140 posts

Craftsbury graduates warned to beware of snow snakes

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copyright the Chronicle May 30, 2018 CRAFTSBURY COMMON — Although she stood in bright sunshine on a late spring day, Susan Dunklee warned the 14 members of Craftsbury Academy’s Class of 2108 to watch out for snow snakes. The two-time Olympian biathlete was the... More »

Schumann honored for a life of great art

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copyright the Chronicle May 30, 2018 GLOVER — After receiving two significant honors in the past month — an honorary degree from Concordia University in Montreal and the Herb Lockwood Prize, a $10,000 award presented in memory of a Burlington artist who died i... More »

Newport bans the sale of pot

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copyright the Chronicle May 30, 2018 Regardless of what the Legislature does, there will be no legal sales of marijuana in Newport. The city council voted to approve an ordinance written by Police Chief Seth DiSanto that would make the sale of pot punishable b... More »

North Country celebrates fiftieth graduating class

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copyright the Chronicle June 13, 2018 NEWPORT — North Country Union High School completed its semicentennial celebration Saturday with the graduation of the school’s fiftieth graduating class. Family and friends packed the gymnasium and spilled over into the a... More »

Time may be running out for Holland school

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copyright the Chronicle June 13, 2018 HOLLAND — The 45 people gathered at the Holland Elementary School gym Monday evening were a study in pain when Holland School Board Chair Lincoln Petell asked them, by show of hands, to weigh in on the fate of the school. ... More »

Bread and Puppet opens its 43rd season

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copyright the Chronicle May 30, 2018 GLOVER — After the Sacred Harp chorus finished its program of early American church music, it was time to wake the museum guard. That was not as simple as it might sound, for the guard is made of wood and not easily disturb... More »

Swartz pleads innocent to second degree murder

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copyright the Chronicle May 30, 2018 NEWPORT— Judge Robert Bent ordered Randall E. Swartz held without bail Monday afternoon after the 58-year-old Orleans resident pled innocent to a charge of second-degree murder. Police say he shot and killed Thea Swartz, hi... More »

Work Commons will offer a new way of working

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copyright the Chronicle May 30, 2018 NEWPORT — Co-working spaces are usually found only in bigger cities, but developer Rick Woodward plans to open one to cap off his renovation of the Montgomery Ward building on Main Street here. He and his daughter Jamie are... More »

Plea agreement reached in Greensboro shooting death

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copyright the Chronicle May 30, 2018 NEWPORT — Unexpectedly, lawyers for Ryan P. Bacon, 32, of Point Pleasant, New Jersey, and Orleans County State’s Attorney Jennifer Barrett announced an agreement Tuesday to resolve charges that arose from the shooting death... More »

Baird sentenced to 15 to 30 years

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copyright the Chronicle May 30, 2018 ST. JOHNSBURY — Two of the men involved in the murder of 78-year-old Mary Pat O’Hagan in 2010 appeared in Caledonia County Superior Court Tuesday. One, Richard E. Fletcher, 31, of Sheffield had pled guilty to burglary and k... More »