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Tracy Davis Pierce

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Derby VSP report stolen ATV

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Eric Dean contacted the State Police Derby Barracks to report an ATV was stolen from Bushey Hill Road in Derby, VT, sometime between Sunday October 18 and Friday October 23, 2020. The ATV was described as a 1998 Polaris Explorer 400 ATV, green in color. Anyone... More »

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Glover 12-year-old bags first buck

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McKenna Rowell, 12, of Glover shot this 160-pound, six-point buck while hunting with her dad, Andy Rowell, in West Glover on Saturday, October 24.  It was McKenna’s first deer.  Photo courtesy of Casey Rowell   More »

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Willie the cow on I-91

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    ACCUSED: Willie the cow AGE: 1 CITY, STATE OF RESIDENCE: Newbury VT   SUMMARY OF INCIDENT: On October 21st at approximately 1120 hours Troopers with the VT State Police responded to a report of a large cow on I-91 South in Newbury, near mile marker 107. Th... More »

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Speed limit on unpaved roads to be lowered in Barton

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BARTON — At their meeting on October 15 the members of the Barton Select Board voted to lower the speed limit on all the town’s unpaved roads to 35 miles an hour. …this story and more in the full edition of this week’s paper. Subscribe now to access our e-vers... More »

Billis returned to prison

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  by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Christine M. Billis, who served seven years of a seven-to-15-year sentence for manslaughter in the 2009 death of her husband, Charles Billis, was sentenced Friday to serve 16 months of a 16-to-18-month term for domestic assault. T... More »

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Big challenges faced retiring OCSU superintendent

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  by Tena Starr Orleans Central Supervisory Union (OCSU) Superintendent Bev Davis is retiring after four decades at OCSU, the last four as its superintendent.  She will be leaving at the end of this school year. “It’s been 40 years since I started at OCSU,” sh... More »

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COVID case closes Barton bank

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  by Tena Starr BARTON — An employee at Community National Bank’s Barton office has tested positive for the coronavirus, bank CEO Kathy Austin said. By phone Monday, Ms. Austin said the Barton branch is closed until further notice.  She said bank officials wor... More »

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Angry farmer offers reward

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by Joseph Gresser HOLLAND — Laurent Letourneau’s 219-acre farm here is as manicured as a golf green.  He told a visitor Monday that he mows his hay fields but his daughter runs the baler. “When she sees a stone like this,” he said picking up a rock about half ... More »

Obituaries 10.21.20

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Aaron Leigh Terhune Aaron Leigh Terhune was born January 4, 1993, in Barton, Vermont, to Timothy and Laurie Terhune, whom he predeceased. One of eight children, his seven siblings survive him:  Jesse Terhune and his wife, Stacey, and their children, Shaun Terh... More »