by Trisha Ingalls ALBANY — The select board’s administrative assistant Terri Campbell called in to its May 3 meeting to discuss the process for hiring a new Town Clerk and Treasurer. Albany voters gave the board authority to choose a successor to Debra Ann ... More »
LOWELL — Cameron King, Ephraim Elmer, and Cedar Decker, three eighth-graders from Lowell Graded School, decided in December 2021 to participate in the Greenway Institute’s Sustainable Engineering Challenge for the 2021-2022 school year. This year’s challeng... More »
Alex Gonyaw driving Jay and Jack as they pull 5,000 pounds earning second place. More »
by Matthew Wilson BARTON – People have looked to horses as a symbol of strength for longer than humanity can recall. Ridden and worked, these beasts once took center stage as engines to perform feats that manpower alone could not accomplish. A good draft h... More »
BARTON—By a vote of 48 to 100 Barton Village turned down the proposed sale of their electric department to the Vermont Electric Cooperative. Barton’s trustees had urged the sale, saying it would relieve the village of the burden of serving customers in Brow... More »
by Trisha Ingalls BROWNINGTON — Brownington residents have a great sense of humor and a unique community. For Vermont Council on Rural Development (VCRD) CEO Brian Lowe, those were some of the key takeaways from last Thursday’s community visit. According to... More »
by Joseph Gresser BARTON—Nate Sicard, the chair of the Barton Village Trustees started Sunday’s information meeting on the two Articles that will be voted by Australian ballot on May 10 with a small joke. He suggested that the 40 or so village residents showe... More »
by Joseph Gresser BURLINGTON — The last of three men federal authorities say were responsible for the AnC Bio fraud will spend five years in a federal prison. Ariel Quiros Sr., who pled guilty to three charges related to the bio-medical facility that was to... More »
Sue C. Menard Sue C. Menard, 70, died on April 25, 2022, in Newport. Sue was born to Dean and Barbara (Willis) Comstock. She is survived by her husband, Francis Menard to whom she was married for 50 years. Sue graduated from Lake Region Union High School i... More »
Anthony “Tony” George Royer Anthony “Tony” George Royer, 60, of Berlin, died on April 15 at his home. He was born on January 19,1962, in Newport to Emile P. Royer and Jeannette C. (Bernard) Royer of Irasburg. Tony attended Lake Region Union High School and... More »
Spectators, including students from Orleans Elementary School, crowd the banks at Willoughby Falls Monday to watch steelhead trout make their annual run. The fish make the journey upstream on their own schedule and the spectacle lasts only a short while, so... More »
by Joseph Gresser BURLINGTON — William Kelly, the second of the four men indicted on fraud charges for the failed AnC Bio project, was sentenced on April 20 to spend 18-months in federal prison. He earlier changed his plea to guilty to one count of conspirac... More »
