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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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Community weighs in on Trump presidency

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copyright the Chronicle May 3, 2017   Editor’s note: Our staff interviewed people throughout Orleans County over the past week about their views on President Trump’s first 100 days in office. For the most part, Republicans, while not always unconditional in th... More »

Albany Neighbors opposed to gravel pit

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copyright the Chronicle May 3, 2017   by Elizabeth Trail   ALBANY — Father and son Christian and Clark Katzenbach are hoping to earn a living from a vein of gravel on their 203-acre property on Grigg Road. Christian Katzenbach has spent most of his life as a l... More »

Dave’s Rubbish is back in Barton

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copyright the Chronicle May 3, 2017    by Elizabeth Trail   BARTON — Dave’s Rubbish is back on track to pick up trash in the town of Barton. Over the past two weeks, owner Dave Giroux has turned in all of the paperwork the select board had been asking for sinc... More »

If you can see grass, tick season is here

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copyright the Chronicle May 3, 2017   by Brad Usatch   This week’s weather notwithstanding, summer is on its way, and with it, another year of tick vigilance for people and their pets. Lyme disease, the most prevalent pathogen spread by ticks, used to be a fri... More »

Facebook popup leads to scam

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copyright the Chronicle April 26, 2017   by Elizabeth Trail   BARTON — Sharon Bickford of Barton was on Facebook one evening last week when her computer screen suddenly froze. A window popped up, flashing an ominous warning — her computer was under a virus att... More »

Congressman swings through Northeast Kingdom

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copyright the Chronicle April 26, 2017   by Joseph Gresser   NEWPORT — U.S. Representative Peter Welch brought his spring recess tour of the state to the Northeast Kingdom on April 20 with a visit to Derby and Newport. The state’s only Congressional member ask... More »

Orleans sixth-graders learn how to make a difference

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copyright the Chronicle April 19, 2017 by Elizabeth Trail   ORLEANS — How do ordinary people go about trying to solve big problems, like hunger, cancer and homeless cats? That’s the question that Andrea Gratton’s mostly sixth-grade language arts students at Or... More »

Local schools vandalized

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copyright the Chronicle April 19, 2017  Two area schools, Glover and Brighton, were vandalized in separate incidents on Sunday and Monday, according to reports from the State Police. At 8 a.m. on Sunday, April 16, the State Police responded to reports of a bur... More »

Raymond James agrees to $150-million settlement

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copyright the Chronicle April 19, 2017   by Joseph Gresser   A year and a day after the federal and state governments filed civil charges connected with Jay Peak’s EB-5 projects, the receiver in the case announced a settlement intended to pay money owed to con... More »

Easter fire ruins Brighton home

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copyright the Chronicle April 19, 2017   by Sharon (Campbell) Biron   Editor’s note: the following is Ms. Biron’s account of the fire that ruined their Island Pond home Sunday night. She and her husband, Mark Biron, lost everything in the fire. Mark and I had ... More »