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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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Newport DMV office reopening

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  by Joseph Gresser There was some good news from Governor Phil Scott’s press briefings this week and some of the other sort as well. On the positive side those who want to transact business at the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Newport can again do so... More »

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Tragedy strikes new Lowell store owners

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  by Tena Starr LOWELL — Ken Charbonneau and his wife, Mulunesh “Mulu” Kidane, had owned the Lowell General Store little more than two weeks when tragedy struck.  Mr. Charbonneau and his wife bought the store on August 3.  On August 20, he texted her to ask he... More »

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An interview with South Barton fire victim

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by Tena Starr SOUTH BARTON – Lois Lew’s house, a 60-year-old mobile home, was destroyed by fire Monday evening, and it wasn’t insured.  Yet, Ms. Lew considers herself kind of a lucky woman. She had stopped at the laundromat after work – her job is at RDI in Ne... More »

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Falcons open football season with a win

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    by Joseph Gresser   LYNDON CENTER — The first game of the 2020 football season came late this year, but the wait proved worthwhile for the North Country Union High School Falcons, who took a lead early in Saturday’s contest with the Lyndon Institute Viking... More »

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Pandemic leads to too many pigs?

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  by Tena Starr COVID has had many unexpected consequences.  In the Northeast Kingdom it’s apparently led to a pig glut. Some folks who, in the early days of COVID-related shortages, were looking to guarantee themselves a source of meat might find themselves i... More »

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Sicard asked to file for a permit

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  by Joseph Gresser ORLEANS — Paul Sicard was ready for a scrap when he appeared before the Barton Design Review Board (DRB) last Thursday evening, but before a half hour was out members of the board were asking his advice on ways to simplify the town’s zoning... More »

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Vandals do $10,000 damage to Barton home, cars

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  by Tena Starr BARTON — A Barton home and its owners’ vehicles were vandalized about 12:30 a.m. on September 13 with damages in the vicinity of $10,000. Maria Morris said one of her daughters woke up that Sunday after hearing “loud banging.”  Mrs. Morris said... More »

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Molly Gray headlines Craftsbury political rally

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   by Leanne Harple Northeast Kingdom voters spent a drizzly Sunday dining on local cheeses, apple cider, and homemade pies at the home of attorney David Kelley, of Greensboro, in support of Molly Gray, the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor. Ken Dea... More »

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Bluffside rec trail moves forward

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by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Tracy Zschau, the Vermont Land Trust’s Northeast Kingdom regional director, and Dan Kilborn, the organization’s forester, led a visitor last Thursday to Bluffside Farm past a sign that read “trail closed” down to Scott’s Cove. As th... More »

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Youngest of 19 reflects on a well-lived life

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by Chris Braithwaite NEWPORT — In the early summer of 1945 Harvey Robitaille was in basic training, an Army draftee being readied for what was predicted to be a long and bloody conclusion to the Second World War — the invasion of Japan.  In terms of the Robita... More »