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.
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
copyright the Chronicle April 26, 2017 by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Columbia Forest Products, along with several other manufactures of hardwood plywood, scored a preliminary victory in an international trade case that could mean as many as 70 new jobs at th... More »
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 »
copyright the Chronicle April 26, 2017 by Tena Starr BARTON — Some may not remember when there were fierce competitions at the ball fields at the Orleans County Fairgrounds, or knew there were ball fields there at all. But years ago, they were busy place... More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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