by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — A woman who received a deferred three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to three separate felony charges of selling heroin will spend between 18 months to three years behind bars after all. Kassandra Medellin-Oliver, 36, of... More »
Beverly Vivian Young Winslow Beverly Vivian Young Winslow died and went home to be with Jesus on June 19, 2023, passing peacefully at home in her sleep after battling a brain tumor. She was born September 11, 1937, in Ridgewood, New Jersey, to Louis J. and H... More »
Bob Montgomery captured these photos of Barton Village flooding with the use of his drone this Tuesday morning. More »
Last Friday’s violent thunder and lightening storms hit a little too close to home at Vern and Beverly Devereux’s property off Rte. 16 in Barton. Mrs. Devereux was on the phone with her husband when she heard a bang so loud that it startled her causing her t... More »
Homer Selby of the Mt. Sinai Shriners’ Northeast Kingdom Fire Brigade makes pass after pass at curbside spectators in his tiny fire truck. “I love it and it’s really great, but we’re not too serious about it,” Mr. Selby said after the Brighton Fourth of July ... More »
by Trisha Ingalls ORLEANS — Last summer, it seemed the Jones Memorial Library was dangerously close to making the tough decision to close its doors. Staff turnover, the absence of a friends’ group, and languishing fundraising activities led to a special truste... More »
by Leanne Day Harple GLOVER — The Bread and Puppet Theater performed a new show to a packed Dirt-Floor Cathedral Sunday. The show is called Idiots of the World Unite Against the Idiot System, and will be performed Saturday afternoons throughout this summer.... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Skylar Michael Thatcher-Bushey, 28, of Vernon, appeared in the Criminal Division of Orleans County Superior Court on June 29 and pled innocent to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a felony, reckless endangerment, unlawful m... More »
Donna Guillette and her horse Bandit steal the gold in the Runoff 2023 Open Adult Reserve and Championship in the Gymkhana held at the Barton Fairgrounds Saturday. In a tie breaker run, the two pushed for the fastest run at the course, finishing with a time o... More »
Robert C. Morse Robert “Bob” C. Morse, 88, died peacefully on June 28, 2023, at McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester, with his loving family by his side. Bob was born on August 6, 1934, the son of Howard Morse and Lillian (Doubleday) Morse. On a Vermo... More »
by Joseph Gresser DERBY LINE—What could be more charming than an evening spent with the characters from stories we heard as children? A lot of things, actually, especially when the stories come from pens belonging to the brothers Grimm or the French writer Ch... More »
