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Tracy Davis Pierce

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A glimpse of local history

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Fred Dutton Pierce at approximately three years of age poses with a stuffed deer in the E.F. Dutton Pharmacy circa 1885.  Mr. Pierce would go on to operate the Pierce Pharmacy in Barton for over 50 years.  He was a well known Barton businessman.  He died in Br... More »

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Barton seeks remedy for pokey truck

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  by Joseph Gresser BARTON—Barton needs a solution to its truck problem before snow comes, the select board and road foreman Rick Knaggs told representatives of Advantage Truck Group (ATG) last Thursday morning. According to Mr. Knaggs and members of the selec... More »

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Ingalls takes Rodgers’ Senate seat

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  Orleans and Essex counties declined to return Senator John Rodgers of Glover to the State House.  Russ Ingalls of Newport will head to Montpelier in his place in January. Mr. Rodgers finished fifth in a five-person race.  He lost his spot on the Democratic t... More »

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What’s behind that dismal apple crop?

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  by Joseph Gresser Eleanor Leger was blunt when she was asked about the 2020 apple harvest. “Terrible,” she said. Ms. Leger, who with her husband, Albert, founded and runs Eden Specialty Ciders, said a combination of a warm early spring followed by a cold sna... More »

Obituaries 11.4.20

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  Clayton Mansel Stowell Clayton Mansel Stowell of Lyndonville, born June 14, 1928, died on Sunday, October 25, 2020. Born and raised in Lyndon, he was the third child of Clayton Belser Stowell and Beatrice Wastson Stowell. A combat infantryman during the Kore... More »

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Annual jack-o-lantern contest winner

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Meg Gibson of West Glover was one of the Best Adult winners at the Chronicle’s annual jack-o’-lantern contest.  Her pumpkin carving was inspired by the murder hornet.  Photos from the participants … more in the full edition of this week’s paper. Subscribe now ... More »

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Teen bags moose in Morgan

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    Camdyn Meigs (right), 19, of St. Johnsbury shot this moose on Monday, October 19.  He is the grandson of Ernie Emmerson of Holland (left), who got the permit.  Mr. Meigs was his second shooter.  The guide was Mr. Emmerson’s nephew Hugh Flynn, also of Holla... More »

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Does anyone know where this was?

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This is a mystery photo.  It could be a little store that was once in Irasburg.  Theresa Perron found this copy upstairs in the Pierce Pharmacy Building in Barton.  “It reminds me very much of a photo that we have somewhere in our archive that I cannot seem to... More »

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An interview with Scott Milne

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  by Joseph Gresser BARTON — Friday was probably one of the last pleasant days of the year, so when Scott Milne, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor stopped by for a chat it was possible to sit at the Chronicle’s picnic table. Mr. Milne is a relax... More »