Montpelier, Vt. – Governor Phil Scott today issued an executive order to declare a state of emergency in Vermont in response to COVID-19, commonly known as the new coronavirus. With this executive order, the Governor can exercise his emergency powers to take i... More »
GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO SUSPEND LEGISLATIVE SESSION Montpelier, VT – Today the Vermont General Assembly will suspend the 2020 legislative session for one week, at which time the Joint Rules Committee, composed of bipartisan leadership of both chambers, will reasse... More »
by Tena Starr GLOVER — The Orleans County Sheriff’s Department is looking for the driver of a light gray pickup who may have deliberately splashed a 75-year-old Glover woman while she was out walking last week. The incident caused Carol Borland to fall and su... More »
by Meghan Wayland BARTON — Longtime Chief Deputy Phil Brooks resigned from the Orleans County Sheriff’s Department in February. “I didn’t think a year ago that I’d be sitting in this position now,” he said in a phone interview on Sunday. “On a personal note,”... More »
by Meghan Wayland Judging from random interviews with voters, largely conducted at stores in Barton, Orleans, Newport, and Derby, Orleans County voters want an end to politics as usual. As they went to the polls on Town Meeting Day, they were looking to shake... More »
by Tena Starr WESTFIELD — Fire destroyed Tom and Cheryl Wright’s state-of-the-art sugarhouse in Troy early Sunday morning, right in the middle of prime sugaring weather. Mr. Wright said he woke up about 2 a.m. and checked his monitors, which show him what’s g... More »
Constance “Connie” Carol (Kimball) Hamel Constance “Connie” Carol (Kimball) Hamel of Lyndonville died peacefully Saturday, February 22, 2020, with her family by her side. She was born October 18, 1948, in Middlebury. She was the youngest of six children and gr... More »
Montpelier, Vt. – To support the ongoing work of the Vermont Department of Health and expand the capacity of state government to coordinate the COVID-19 response, Governor Phil Scott today ordered additional state agencies and departments to activate through t... More »
It’s our annual Town Meeting issue, one of our favorite issues of the year. Consolidation of state power has been creeping, sometimes leaping, into Vermont. But on Town Meeting Day Vermonters still have a say in some things, at least. We can vote on how much... More »
by Susie Spikol I have always admired nature’s mutineers: animals and plants that thwart the recognized system and do their own thing. As a child I was the sole member of my own duck-billed platypus club, endeared to this creature with the bird-like bill, be... More »
The first event of the Northeast Kingdom Winter Swim Festival Saturday combines swift swimming with aesthetic millenary. Amy Craigen of Salem, Massachusetts, tried to get in good with the judges by wearing a photo of Kingdom Swim founder Phil White as a chapea... More »
by Leanne Harple BARTON — The annual Barton Town Meeting on Tuesday evening marked the end of an era, when select board member Robert Croteau presided over his last Town Meeting after 30 years of service. His retirement was recognized with a round of applause... More »
