by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Two people appeared in the Criminal Division of Orleans County Superior Court to plead innocent to obstruction of justice, a felony, and giving false information to a law enforcement officer to implicate another. After they entered ... More »
by Kenzie Strange Two young children peer eerily at the viewer, surrounded by jellyfish and fossil motifs. An old woman with a straw, broad-brimmed hat gives a mysterious smile in another room. Four months of Vermont weather hang in perfect symmetry, from Ma... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — North Country Union High School administrators are waiting for test results to decide when and how school will open. Those tests aren’t measures of academic achievement, but measurements of the levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (... More »
by Matthew Wilson BROWNINGTON — The Lake Region Union Elementary-Middle School District board met Monday for a special meeting and board retreat. Members gathered in the old Grammar School at the Old Stone House Museum here for a get-together to foster clos... More »
Robert Riehl Engle Robert Riehl Engle, 91, died peacefully on August 10, 2024, at Bel-Aire Skilled Nursing Facility in Newport. Bob had broken his hip in May, and dementia had been taking its toll. COVID added to his challenges. Bob was born in Harrisburg, P... More »
NEWPORT — Two wings of North Country Union High School have had extensive work done over the summer to mitigate the presence of PCBs in the air. School administrators won’t know how successful is until technicians take air samples, a commercial laboratory a... More »
by Joseph Gresser MORGAN — There wasn’t much beach above water on the north side of Seymour Lake Saturday. That didn’t stop a large crew of Morgan residents from donning barn boots and gloves and wading in to clean out the driftwood and other detritus washed... More »
by Kenzie Strange NEWPORT — A fire burns low but hot at Journey to Recovery (JTR) on Friday afternoon, its embers used to grill burgers and meats to feed hungry campers at midday. A slackline is strung taut between two nearby trees. Hand-carved benches, buil... More »
BURLINGTON — Jayquan Flintroy, 30, of Hartford, Connecticut, who police say was involved in the shooting and wounding of Dante Flowers Sr. in November, 2020, was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss to serve 160 months in federal priso... More »
by Matthew Wilson DERBY — Journey to Recovery, a Newport organization dedicated to helping people who are working to free themselves from all forms of addiction, hopes to open a residential program in a former nursing home here. Lila Bennett, the organization... More »
Leo Emile Robillard On Saturday, July 27, 2024, Leo Emile Robillard died of Parkinson’s at the Genesis Rest Home in Saint Johnsbury, at the age of 77. He was born in Newport on May 7, 1947, to Joseph and Marie Angle Brasseur Robillard of Derby. He graduated... More »
A house belonging to David and Patricia Webster on Brook Road in Lyndon, fell into the Mountain Brook after eight inches of rain fell in the early morning hours, Tuesday, July 30. A flash flood eroded over 40 feet of bank, catastrophically undermining their ho... More »
