(WEDNESDAY, Sept. 4, 2019) — Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Wednesday announced that the Vermont Department of Health will soon receive its third State Opioid Response (SOR) grant of $4,020,896 from the Sub... More »
by David Dudley NEWPORT — The Tamarack Program —targeted at repeat offenders who may be driven by addiction — was rolled out statewide in July of 2017. Two years later, though, it’s hard to say exactly how well it’s working because the impact it has on offend... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Several schools in the North Country Supervisory Union that provided free breakfasts and lunches to all students no longer qualify for the program that paid for the meals, said Superintendent John Castle, Friday. But he is working ... More »
by Amanda K. Camargo NEWPORT — When people think of a business on wheels, often they imagine cantinas and trendy food trucks. But one Newport woman is peddling yarn. Lucille LaPlume, who is 72 and retired, a former stitcher at Bogner, is opening a yarn store n... More »
The Falcons line up during the National Anthem at their home opener on Friday against the U-2 Raiders. For more photos, see this week’s Chronicle. More »
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 »
