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Tracy Davis Pierce
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Obituaries & Service 7.12.2023
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 »
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Brighton Fourth of July parade
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 »
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Jones library reawakens
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 »
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Bread and Puppet show looks at dust and dirt
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 »
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Police say man asked them to shoot him
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 »
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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 »
Obituaries & Notice 7.5.2023
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 »
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Borderline Players offer a journey into the woods
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 »
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Lakeview will stay open next year
by Joseph Gresser GREENSBORO—Lakeview Elementary School will stay open for at least another year while the Orleans Southwest Union Elementary School District (OSUESD) board and local residents consider options for the future. Lakeview’s enrollments have droppe... More »
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Man didn’t stop at Lowell fatal, police say
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — When Shayne Bessette, 52, of Lowell died when his Ford Ranger went off the Hazen Notch Road on May 18, the press release from Vermont State Police Sergeant Thomas Howard described it as a single-vehicle accident. At the same time, S... More »
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Pride parade attracts hundreds to Newport
by Matthew Wilson NEWPORT — Main Street was filled with rainbows on Sunday, as the city hosted its first Pride Parade. Several hundred people, members of the LGBTQ+ community and their supporters, marched through Newport’s downtown behind the event’s grand ma... More »
