by Joseph Gresser BROWNINGTON — At the first of a pair of special Town Meetings called to overturn ordinances passed by the Brownington Select Board, voters here on Monday rejected a plan to impose a blanket 35-mile-an-hour speed limit on the town. The decisi... More »
Linere Zupan Silloway Linere Zupan Silloway, 68, died suddenly on Sunday, August 25, at her home on Echo Lake in East Charleston. On Sunday evening, August 25, she was sitting on her deck enjoying her view overlooking Echo Lake, with a clear view of Bald Mou... More »
Funds Support New Housing, Childcare Centers, Infrastructure and Community Development Projects Statewide St. Albans, Vt. – Governor Phil Scott joined local, state and federal partners Thursday to announce over $2.7 million in community development grants to 1... More »
(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 »
