by Joseph Gresser During its 2018 session the Legislature passed a law creating the post of Executive Director of Racial Equity. Governor Phil Scott first vetoed the bill saying it didn’t allow him to fire whoever took the job. That, he maintained, was an ... More »
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by Meghan Wayland For weeks, Orleans County held steady at ten confirmed COVID-19 cases — until just over one week ago, when three cases, a 25 percent increase, registered on the Department of Health’s data map. The number of new cases in the county now total... More »
by Joseph Gresser CRAFTSBURY COMMON — The 17 members of the class of 2020 stood in front of the Craftsbury Academy building just before 6 p.m. Friday. Across the road, on the common, about 50 cars were parked in a rough semicircle facing the bandstand. Memb... More »
by Meghan Wayland IRASBURG — Eric Dupre and his father, Raymond, addressed the Irasburg Select Board for over an hour Wednesday, June 10, about damage to their farmland that has resulted from years of failed repairs on a Class Four road that runs through the... More »
Alice Randall Well mom, today is the day that you read your name in the paper as you are reading the obituaries and sipping your coffee (unless of course it’s the Chronicle you are reading, in which case it is Thursday and the only night of the week that you... More »
On June 14, 2020, the Vermont State Police received a report of a motor vehicle theft from an address on Maple Hill Road in Barton. The victim reported her 1997 Ford F250 diesel was stolen from her driveway between 1800 on 06/13/2020 and 0600 on 06/14/2020. Th... More »
Concord, NH – Late last evening the U.S. Marshals arrested fugitive Douglas Carl Smith, Jr., 31 years-of-age, in West Charleston, Vermont. Smith was being sought on multiple outstanding arrest warrants out of New Hampshire including; aggravated felonious sex... More »
According to the map, there are currently 1,090 cases in Vermont. 544 of those are in Chittendon County and 13 in Orleans County. On March 7, 2020 twenty seven people in Vermont had been tested. As of June 10, 2020, an astonishing 45,742 tests have been comple... More »
Albert Richard Schweitzer Albert Richard Schweitzer, 66, of Lebanon, Connecticut, and Westmore, died suddenly at his Connecticut home on Friday, May 29, 2020. He is survived by his mother, Helen (Kurcinik) Schweitzer; his wife, Nancy; his son Jared and his w... More »
by Meghan Wayland BARTON — This marks the fifth season the Orleans County Fair will be closed in its 153-year history. “We’re talking about ’21 and in the meantime keeping our ears open,” Art LaPlant, vice-president of the fair board, said in a phone intervi... More »
