Sybil A. Moffat Sybil A. Moffat, 91, of Shelburne died peacefully on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. She was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, to Kimball and Ruth (Cook) Adams. Sybil was a 1948 graduate of Colby Junior College (now known as Colby-Sawyer) in New Lo... More »
Emily Knaggs captured this footage of emergency crews arriving on scene last evening. Area fire and rescue crews responded to a fire at Lois Lew’s on LaClair Lane in South Barton Monday evening. Neighbors said the fire broke out around 8 p.m. Ms. Lew was no... More »
State Lawmakers Pass Funding Package in Support of VSCS Allocation includes bridge funding to stabilize the system for students, employees, and communities of VSCS Montpelier, VT – Today, the Vermont Legislature advanced to the Governor a state budget that und... More »
Parson’s Corner Restaurant in Barton is now open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast & lunch available Wednesday through Sunday. Dinner Thursday through Saturday until 8 p.m. Their breakfast menu includes classic favorites as well as breakfast bowls, sa... More »
Update sent to us this morning, Friday, September 25: Good morning All, Barton Village Staff located our major leak during Phase 2 shut down last night. The location was narrowed down to 900 feet on Park St. by 2 a.m. Park Street remains shut down from the ... More »
by Joseph Gresser Fall sports can begin when Vermont schools officially move to less restrictive step three measures on Saturday, Education Secretary Dan French said at Governor Phil Scott’s press briefing Tuesday. School opened at step two, under which stu... More »
by Joseph Gresser IRASBURG — The District Seven Environmental Commission has decided what questions it will ask as it considers a revised Act 250 permit for an asphalt plant here. In a pre-hearing conference report and order dated September 18, the commissi... More »
by Joseph Gresser BROWNINGTON — Alexander Lucius Twilight will turn 225 on September 23, or he would have had he not died in 1857. The Orleans County Historical Society is marking the occasion with several days of events that kicked off Sunday on the ground... More »
by Joseph Gresser ORLEANS — Paul Sicard was ready for a scrap when he appeared before the Barton Design Review Board (DRB) last Thursday evening, but before a half hour was out members of the board were asking his advice on ways to simplify the town’s zoning... More »
by Tena Starr BARTON — A Barton home and its owners’ vehicles were vandalized about 12:30 a.m. on September 13 with damages in the vicinity of $10,000. Maria Morris said one of her daughters woke up that Sunday after hearing “loud banging.” Mrs. Morris said... More »
Robert F. Fischer Robert F. Fischer, of Boca Grande, Florida, and Craftsbury Common, died on Saturday, September 5, 2020. Robert was born on November 25, 1945, in Newark, New Jersey, to Albert and Jennie Fischer. He graduated from Union Township High School... More »
Landon Baker, age 5, of Glover helps harvest sweet corn from his family farm on the Borland Road in Glover this past weekend. Each year Colburn’s Village View Maples and Beef grow sweet corn in the middle of their cow corn to share with family, friends and the... More »
