With hunting season well underway the Old Stone House Museum has shared these rare images of the C.S. Phillips Co. of Glover, the renowned taxidermy shop of Chester Scott Phillips. Photos courtesy of Old Stone House Museum …this photo and more of Mr. Phillips ... More »
by Joseph Gresser Governor Phil Scott and other members of his Administration continued to press Vermonters to avoid unnecessary travel and to refrain from mingling with people from other households during the holiday season. At his press briefings on Friday... More »
Ralph S. Swett Ralph S. Swett, 90, of Brownington died peacefully on Saturday, November 21, 2020, in the comfort of his home, following a courageous battle with cancer. He was born on February 21, 1930, in Orleans, the son of the late Leon E. Swett Sr. and E... More »
Alan Austin of Sheffield shot this 230.2 lb., nine-point buck in Newark on Friday, November 20. Photo courtesy of Mark Boutwell More »
As shown in screen shots below, 51 new cases were confirmed in Vermont on Wednesday, November 18 and 148 additional new cases were confirmed the following day on November 19, 2020. The November 19, 2020 VT Department of Health report says Vermont is seeing a... More »
Children’s author takes aim at adult readers Spychip Armageddon, by Raymond Perkins, illustrated by Stephanie Perkins, 400 pages. Available from Amazon. $12.95 in paperback, $2.99 on Kindle. reviewed by Chris Braithwaite If the kids in your family are fa... More »
Coettia “Keta” McCabe Stoddard Coettia “Keta” McCabe Stoddard of Phoenix, Arizona, and longtime resident of Barton, died on September 28, 2020, in Phoenix. She was born August 7, 1942, to William A. McCabe and Nellie M. Endsley in Miami, Arizona. She was one ... More »
by Joseph Gresser DERBY — Members of the Derby Select Board mourned the loss of their longest-serving member at their meeting Monday night. Board Chair Grant Spates said he heard of Beula-Jean Shattuck’s death just after the board’s meeting on November 2. Afte... More »
This week, the Orleans County Historical Association sent two snapshots found in the Austin Collection in the archives of the Orleans County Historical Society and Old Stone House Museum. Pictured here is the Old Stone House in Brownington circa 1920. Notice... More »
by Tena Starr COVID has struck in a third school in the North Country Supervisory Union (NCSU). Two students and one staff member at the Troy school have tested positive for the virus, NCSU Superintendent John Castle said in a letter to parents Monday. The sc... More »
by Leanne Harple Near the end of Monday’s Lake Region Union High School Board meeting Principal Andre Messier began preparing the school board for the probability that Lake Region will soon be going to remote learning. Because people are no longer supposed to... More »
Nova, a three-year-old American Staffordshire terrier from Derry, New Hampshire, has been reunited with her family, who had thought her gone for good. Nova first turned up in Lyndonville, then was taken to the Pope Frontier Animal Shelter in Orleans. Her fam... More »
