by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — After 45 minutes in executive session at a special meeting held on Friday, the city council emerged and without discussion or explanation voted by a three-to-one margin to fire City Manager Jonathan DeLaBruere. According to the mot... More »
Phyllis Firkey Phyllis Rena (Sargent) Firkey, 88, died at her home in Essex Junction on Monday, November 4, 2024. Phyllis was born in North Troy on April 23, 1936, and was the daughter of the late Hazelton and Rena (Jewett) Sargent. In 1960, Phyllis married t... More »
Trooper Abigail Drew said in an affidavit that Taren Marckres , 32, of Wolcott, killed a woman’s cat after getting in a fight with her on October 19, 2019. Mr. Marckres pled guilty to a felony charge of cruelty to animals resulting in a fatality. Judge Thibau... More »
By Maria Amador GLOVER — At the select board meeting here on October 24, board members and town residents discussed the condition of Shadow Lake and the road that winds around it, following written and spoken complaints. Monday, two town officials spoke wit... More »
by Maria Amador COVENTRY — Friday, waves of students from the Coventry Village School walked from their classrooms to the town office to take part in a mock election — the first since COVID-19 broke out in 2020. Students from kindergarten through eighth grade... More »
This eight-point buck was taken by Paulette Webster at 9:30 a.m. on October 17. Ms. Webster was hunting from a stand in Irasburg when she got this 188-pound beauty. It was her twentieth deer according to the information she provided with her photo. Photo co... More »
Sharleen Webster Surrounded by her family, Sharleen Alice Webster of Richmond, Virginia, died on October 30, 2024, at the age of 62. She was born on March 26, 1962, in Hardwick. She is survived by Bradley Lemoine; siblings: Pamela Webster, Valerie Nuckols, and... More »
On Tuesday, October 22 at 4:20 p.m., The Vermont State Police received a report that a blue Ford truck had damaged a railing in the driveway of the school grounds at St. Paul’s Catholic School in Barton and then fled from the scene directly afterward. Witness... More »
by Matthew Wilson NEWPORT — One’s life is a patchwork of memories and deeds, each accomplishment, endeavor, or instance one of many scraps stitched together to make up the whole we are. When a life is blessed with longevity, it forms a fine tapestry that defi... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — A Barton woman denied charges that she defrauded Medicaid of around $18,000 by improperly billing Northeast Kingdom Human Services (NKHS) for care for a relative provided by someone who the state Attorney General’s office says was n... More »
by Matthew Wilson NEWPORT — It was an up and down week for the girls of North Country Union High School. The girls soccer team met the Stratton Mountain School Bears on October 23 and cruised. Friday they found themselves out of contention after a last momen... More »
by Matthew Wilson NEWPORT CENTER — Justin LeBlanc lives on Leadville Road here. He’s a hunter and outdoorsman and he placed a game camera on his property hoping to spot some big game. Instead he caught footage that was more disturbing than he expected. His c... More »
