by Tena Starr SOUTH BARTON – Lois Lew’s house, a 60-year-old mobile home, was destroyed by fire Monday evening, and it wasn’t insured. Yet, Ms. Lew considers herself kind of a lucky woman. She had stopped at the laundromat after work – her job is at RDI in Ne... More »
by Joseph Gresser LYNDON CENTER — The first game of the 2020 football season came late this year, but the wait proved worthwhile for the North Country Union High School Falcons, who took a lead early in Saturday’s contest with the Lyndon Institute Viking... More »
by Tena Starr COVID has had many unexpected consequences. In the Northeast Kingdom it’s apparently led to a pig glut. Some folks who, in the early days of COVID-related shortages, were looking to guarantee themselves a source of meat might find themselves i... More »
Daily Update on Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) September 28, 2020 Time to Get Your Flu Shot! It’s more important than ever to get your flu shot this year ─ when both flu viruses and the new coronavirus may be spreading at the same time. There are many more u... More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
