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The editor’s pick of some of the best stories of the week from the Barton Chronicle, a highly read weekly newspaper based in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom region.

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NKHS doesn’t meet standards

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  by Tena Starr The state’s Department of Mental Health (DMH) has put Northeast Kingdom Human Services (NKHS), which contracts with the state to provide mental health, disability, and substance abuse services in Orleans, Caledonia and Essex counties, on provis... More »

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Vaccines arrive in Orleans County

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  by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Dr. John Lippmann sat quietly in a homey little room at North Country Hospital Friday evening.  Respiratory care practitioner Shaynea Shover was showing him literature laying out a short list of potential aftereffects from the vac... More »

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Sweeney buys Currier’s

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  by Tena Starr GLOVER – Ray Sweeney, owner of the C&C Market in Barton, is now also the owner of Currier’s Quality Market in Glover.  He took ownership of the store last week, December 17, after several COVID-related delays in sealing the deal. The store was ... More »

Unexpected COVID boon

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  by Kristin Anderson COVID has been a surprising boon to at least one sector of business — home improvement and construction. With more people staying home, and others moving to Vermont, those businesses have experienced an uptick in sales that no one could h... More »

No post-Thanksgiving surge, vaccine arrives

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    Governor’s briefings   by Joseph Gresser It appears Vermonters listened to state officials and skipped the big family Thanksgiving for a year.  According to figures presented by Commissioner of Financial Regulation Michael Pieciak at Governor Phil Scott’s ... More »

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Reward offered for info about who shot family pet

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    by Tena Starr CRAFTSBURY – The reward for information about the person who shot a longtime family pet, apparently mistaking it for a coyote, was at more than $1,500 Saturday and still climbing. Alison Mcknight let Cassady, her 11-year-old Alaskan husky, ou... More »

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Meet Fred the K9 training aid

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   by Tena Starr NEWPORT CENTER — Fred is about six feet tall with a rubbery face and wobbly legs.  He’s not much of a dresser, and he has a small vial of placenta in one of his pockets. Yes, placenta.  That was last week.  On another day he might have a bit o... More »

How to hold a Town Meeting during a pandemic?

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  by Joseph Gresser   Town Meeting Day is set for March 3, 2021.  In normal times that would be a boring statement of fact, but the past year has been anything but normal. While the coronavirus continues its work, getting the family together for dinner is prob... More »

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Police say huge amount of fentanyl found in car

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  by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Two days after a man was sent to the University of Vermont Medical Center with a gunshot wound to his leg, the story took another twist.  Police say they found a huge stash of fentanyl in the car where the shooting took place. Acc... More »

First vaccines expected in a week or so

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  by Joseph Gresser The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has yet to approve a COVID vaccine for use in the U.S., but the expectation is that it will be only a short while before it does.  At Governor Phil Scott’s press briefing Tuesday, Health Commissioner D... More »