copyright the Chronicle November 8, 2017 by Elizabeth Trail JAY — Julie Ste. Marie’s preschoolers at the Jay-Westfield Joint Elementary School will be out in the woods two days a week right through the winter months. In a forest preschool, there are no toy... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 8, 2017 by Tena Starr A scammer pretending to be from the IRS recently made a remarkably bad call. She dialed the Orleans County Sheriff’s Department and, unbeknownst to her, ended up talking to Chief Deputy Phil Brooks, wh... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 8, 2017 by Brad Usatch SOUTH BURLINGTON — They were tried and tested, but in the end the Lake Region Union High School Rangers left Munson Field at South Burlington High School just as they had arrived: as the reigning Divi... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 8, 2017 by Joseph Gresser The price paid to Vermont organic milk producers dropped by $6 per hundredweight over the past year, according to a report provided to the Vermont Milk Commission by the Northeast Organic Dairy Pro... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 1, 2017 by Tena Starr High winds roared through Vermont early Monday morning, felling trees, branches, and power lines, and plunging tens of thousands of homes into darkness. At the height of the outage early Monday morning... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 1, 2017 by Tena Starr A 20-year-old Irasburg man has been arrested in connection with a moose poaching case in Westmore in late September. Gerin Fortin was arrested on Sunday and charged with six counts of big game violatio... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 1, 2017 by Elizabeth Trail CRAFTSBURY COMMON — To an ecologist, death isn’t the end, Carl Anderson says. It’s really more like the middle. Each of our bodies, the biologist and green burial advocate says, is rich with the bui... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 1, 2017 by Joseph Gresser MONTPELIER — A regulation that sets limits on how much noise a wind turbine can produce was approved by the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules on Thursday, October 26, by a 5-2 vote. The... More »
copyright the Chronicle October 25, 2017 by Joseph Gresser The Caledonian-Record has gone to federal court to accuse the former publisher of the Newport Daily Express and the company that owns the newspaper of racketeering. In a suit filed on October 20 in... More »
copyright the Chronicle October 25, 2017 by Elizabeth Trail BARTON — A new senior center is in the works in Barton. Called Barton Area Senior Services, Inc., (BASSI), the new group incorporated with the state as a nonprofit last week. Its organizers plan t... More »
copyright the Chronicle October 25, 2017 by Tena Starr A Craftsbury Common woman rapidly raised more $2,500 through GoFundMe in order put up a reward she hopes will lead to the conviction of whoever illegally shot a cow moose in Westmore last month. Effort... More »
copyright the Chronicle October 25, 2017 Vanishing Vermonters, Loss of a Rural Culture, by Peter Miller. 168 pages. Paperback. Published by Silver Print Press. $24.95 paperback. $44.95 hard cover Reviewed by Tena Starr Peter Miller is the kind of photogr... More »
