Delvin Warner (left), Paul Daniels, and Lindsay McCaw put down their bows and do a little fancy stepping at the twelfth annual Mary Pat O’Hagan Memorial Fiddlers Contest in Sheffield Monday afternoon. The annual event drew hundreds to Millers Run School on a ... More »
by Clai Lasher-Sommers, executive eirector, GunSense Vermont Another series of mass shootings — this time in Dayton, El Paso, Mobile, and Odessa — ushered in the expected “thoughts and prayers” from elected officials across the nation. Forty people were kille... More »
by Tena Starr BARTON — A petition is circulating here calling for a special Town Meeting to see if people want to increase the number of select board members from three to five. It needs 97 signatures. Those who initiated it said they’d hoped to present it ... More »
Elizabeth Clara (Graves) Woodmansee Elizabeth Clara (Graves) Woodmansee, 91, of Waterbury Center died at her home on August 29, 2019, leaving this beautiful Earth. She was born on January 31, 1928, the daughter of Leslie and Gladys (Hart) Graves. She was marr... More »
These pirates looked right at home in a wet Labor Day parade in Albany Monday. Pictured, from the rear, are Linden Urie, Nell Urie, Maeda Urie, Maya Kitteredge, Tressa Urie, and Captain Chubb. Photo by Tena Starr More »
Raven Draper, right, on her appaloosa Shiloh, and Raven’s mother, Danielle Draper, on quarter horse Dixie led the Albany Labor Day parade on Monday. Despite the rain, Labor Day festivities went on, including the parade More »
Photo by David Dudley Everything, right down to the placement of the white outlet covers appear to be in perfect line at this space. If this were a “what’s different” picture, would you guess that a yoga ball chair is missing to the right of the table near the... More »
Terrance “Terry” P. Tice Terrance “Terry” P. Tice, 72, of Holland died peacefully, surrounded by family on August 23, 2019, in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Terry was born on January 6, 1947, in Newport. He lived most of his life in Holland, where he was a dairy ... More »
By Joe Rankin Last February you might have seen news stories about an impending insect apocalypse. ‘Huge global extinction risk.” “Plummeting insect numbers threaten collapse of nature” …this story and more in the full edition of this week’s paper. Subscribe n... More »
by Joseph Gresser BARTON — New board member Doug Swanson and a small crowd of citizens had to wait for an hour to get into Barton’s municipal office building last week for the regularly scheduled select board meeting. Board Chair Robert Croteau showed up at ex... More »
by Tena Starr The Diocese of Burlington last week published a list of 40 priests, from 1950, who a seven-member lay committee found had credible accusations of sexual abuse of minors made against them. Sixteen of them worked in Orleans or Essex counties. …thi... More »
A propane gas leak in the basement of a Brownington home caused an explosion and fire there Friday, the state Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit says. …this story and more in the full edition of this week’s paper. Subscribe now to access our e-version or to... More »
