copyright the Chronicle September 14, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail BARTON — The select board here unanimously voted Monday to allow members of an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) group to use a two-mile stretch of Barton roads starting in the spring. That will give the to... More »
copyright the Chronicle September 14, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre MORGAN — Selectmen here are accusing the Public Service Board (PSB) of failing to give the town a fair shake in granting a Certificate of Public Good (CPG) to the developer of a 500-Kilowatt solar pro... More »
copyright the Chronicle September 14, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail A little over a year after Vermont’s comprehensive recycling law went into effect, opinions are mixed on how mandatory recycling is working out in the Northeast Kingdom, even among people who work m... More »
copyright the Chronicle September 7, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail JAY — Monica Caffrey is tiny, muscular, and tanned. She’s 14 years old, and an eighth-grader at North Country Union Junior High School. And she was recently crowned the amateur women’s national flowb... More »
copyright the Chronicle September 7, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail On Friday, September 9, Lake Region Union High School will hold a mock evacuation drill. The point is to see how the school’s written plans will work out in real life. In the middle of the morning on... More »
copyright the Chronicle September 7, 2016 by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Mayor Paul Monette has been unemployed since June, except for some part-time bookkeeping work. He was the head of information technology at Newport City Elementary School, but the school bo... More »
copyright the Chronicle September 7, 2016 by Joseph Gresser Bill Stenger, the former president of Jay Peak Resort, is no longer a defendant in the civil lawsuit filed by the federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against him and the owner of the reso... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 31, 2016 by Joseph Gresser and Tena Starr The man who was the cause of a heavily armed police presence in Barton Village Monday pled innocent in the Criminal Division of Superior Court in Newport Tuesday to a felony count of unla... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 31, 2016 by Joseph Gresser A pair of Orleans County farmers say conventional dairying is in a crisis that is invisible to those outside their industry. Deborah Blay, who runs D&D Farm in Westfield with her husband, Durwood, and P... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 31, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail MORGAN — The Public Service Board (PSB) has awarded Seymour Lake Solar’s proposed 500-megawatt solar farm in Morgan a Certificate of Public Good (CPG.) That will allow the company, owned by energy deve... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 31, 2016 by Tena Starr IRASBURG — A spark started the fire that destroyed the Robillard family’s historic round barn here, Denise Robillard said this week. “They were fixing stalls that morning in the barn that was hooked to the ... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 24, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre IRASBURG — A fire Tuesday destroyed the round barn here on Robillard Flats that had become a cultural landmark for those who live or travel through Orleans County. Originally built in 1908, the barn had ... More »
