by Elizabeth Trail MONTPELIER — Holland Elementary School’s Junior Iron Chef winners brought enough of their special wonton nachos to the State House last Friday to serve 100 people, even though event organizers had suggested 60 to 70 servings. …To read the re... More »
by Tena Starr NEWPORT — Vermont’s dwindling workforce, along with taxes, regulation, and concern for the environment were the focus of Monday’s legislative breakfast at the East Side Restaurant here. …To read the rest of this article, and all the Chronicle‘s ... More »
by Tena Starr GLOVER — More than a month after stepping down as town clerk here — a job she held for 22 years — Donna Sweeney still tears up when certain memories come to mind. Like when a former selectman was dying of cancer and needed papers notarized. Rea... More »
by Elizabeth Trail HARDWICK — When I was a child, Pete Seeger’s folk music was playing on our old phonograph nearly every day. I grew up feeling almost as though he’d actually been in our living room. I could see him sitting on the floor with my father, tal... More »
by Joseph Gresser BRIGHTON — On Sunday, when steam was pouring out of louvres on many sugarhouses in the Northeast Kingdom only one of the four big stacks on top of Sweet Tree Holdings’ Brighton plant was active. …To read the rest of this article, and all the ... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — On March 27 the accused killer of Theresa Swartz, her husband, Randall E. Swartz, had a charge of first degree murder added to the second-degree charge he was already facing. …To read the rest of this article, and all the Chronicle‘... More »
To the editor, Once again you Chroniclers outdid yourselves with your April 1 Comicle. I guess maybe after a whole year of focusing your minds on who/what/when and where, as April finally comes around, your imaginations are like heifers let out of the barn for... More »
by Joseph Gresser BARTON — After a gap of several weeks, the Barton Select Board convened on March 26. Its meeting was the first since voters chose Paul Sicard on Town Meeting Day in place of Lenny Zenonos, who did not stand for re-election. …To read the rest... More »
by Joseph Gresser JAY PEAK — Around 240 people — farmers, legislators, regulators, bankers, and others interested in finding ways to help keep the dairy business alive — gathered Monday afternoon to begin a day-and-a-half of presentations and discussions at Ja... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Members of a task force created by Governor Phil Scott to figure out what Vermont schools can do to prevent the kind of mass shootings seen in other states and nations, came to Newport Monday in search of people’s ideas. …To read t... More »
by Meghan McCarthy McPhaul A few winters back, there was a doe that frequented our compost heap. The garden fence around it proved an inadequate barrier, as she simply hopped over it to nosh on the rotting shards of Jack-o-lanterns and the latest veggie scrap... More »
by Tena Starr Sick of winter yet? Apparently, it’s not sick of us. Adding insult to the injury of a winter that started early and is ending late, a Nor’easter dumped more than two feet of snow in some places in Orleans County Friday, leading to clogged roads a... More »
