copyright the Chronicle August 17, 2016 CRAFTSBURY — A large funeral is expected here Wednesday for a 58-year-old farmer and fireman who was killed Saturday evening in a farm accident. Randi Calderwood was killed on August 13 when the tractor he was driving ro... More »
Tonia Lee Fecteau Tonia Lee Fecteau, 43, of Derby Line, died peacefully on August 10, 2016, in Lebanon, New Hampshire, surrounded by her loving family who gave her the strength to go to a better place with no suffering. She was born on October 28, 1972, in New... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 10, 2016 Incumbent Democrats Bobby Starr and John Rodgers easily fended off a Primary challenge from Ron Horton of Jay for the two Essex-Orleans state Senate seats Tuesday. Mr. Rodgers, from Glover, was the top vote getter with 1... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 10, 2016 by Joseph Gresser BROWNINGTON — The1823 Orleans County Grammar School traveled a third of a mile Monday with the help of 23 yoke of oxen and a pair of powerful hydrostatic motors. Peggy Day Gibson, director of the Old St... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 10, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail JEFFERSONVILLE — A week or so ago, Danny Perry of Newport Center felt a sudden calling to take a trip. Not just any trip, but a 75-mile journey from Newport to Burlington in his wheelchair — and somet... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 10, 2016 by Jef Barker The first publicly available charger in Orleans County is now operational thanks to the Vermont Clean Cities Coalition, the First Universalist Parish of Derby Line, and Derby Line Village. The charger is at... More »
Dorothy Mae Corkins Dorothy Mae “Dot” Corkins, 87, died on Wednesday, July 27, 2016, at North Country Hospital in Newport, surrounded by loving family. Mrs. Corkins was born on July 11, 1929, to Wallace Sr. and Viola (Buchanan) Riegel. She attended schools in ... More »
Victor “Andy” Homer Andrews Victor “Andy” Homer Andrews, 97, of Coventry, died peacefully on June 16, 2016, at the Derby Green Nursing Home, where he enjoyed his stay and made many friends. He was born on April 25, 1919, in Roxbury, to Homer G. and Eva E. (Bel... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 3, 2016 Reviewed by Joseph Gresser Larry Olmsted’s useful and frightening book manages to repeatedly stimulate and quell the reader’s appetite. He highlights some of the finest foods and drinks the world has to offer and explai... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 3, 2016 by Joseph Gresser Annie Get Your Gun is an early product of the golden age of American musical theater. It was first staged in 1946, just a few years after Rogers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma, which kicked off an era of mus... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 3, 2016 by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — It was July 28, Cynthia More’s first day on the job as executive director of the Newport City Renaissance Corporation (NCRC), and she didn’t have the key to her office. Fortunately, Rick Woodwa... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 3, 2016 by Steve Maleski May 25, mid-afternoon, and we are east of Newton, Kansas, in the middle of a slim wedge of very unstable air extruded northward from a reservoir of moist, hot tropical air resident over east Texas and eas... More »
