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 November 29, 2017 by Tena Starr The defunct Barton Senior Center has given Great Barton Arts $20,000. The money is in an escrow account and will be used for programs for seniors, said Ed and Adrien Helm, Greater Barton Arts board me... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 22, 2017 by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Newport can support a 30- to 50-bed hotel, but only during the summer months. A year-round hostelry would have to be considerably smaller. Those were the main conclusions of a report sub... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 22, 2017 by Joseph Gresser HARDWICK — Three Vermont daughters of holocaust survivors explained their plans here last week for creating a permanent traveling memorial to the victims of Nazi atrocities. They also shared famil... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 22, 2017 by Elizabeth Trail WEST GLOVER — Peter Gould is a small man with crinkly eyes and a quiet smile that lit up the shadowy nighttime interior of the West Glover Community Church Friday night. He was there to read from... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 22, 2017 by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Jenna Koloski was scurrying around Newport Tuesday taping television interviews, meeting people, handing out fliers, and putting up postera, all in hopes of gathering a large crowd for t... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 15, 2017 by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Newport City Elementary School fifth and sixth grades got a glimpse of life in the military when they welcomed a dozen veterans to their classrooms Thursday morning, November 9. The men,... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 15, 2017 by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — While the federal and state governments have been making a great deal of fuss over Lake Champlain in recent years, Lake Memphremagog has received far less attention. At a Tuesday meeting... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 15, 2017 With only a few days into the November rifle season for deer, preliminary reports from Orleans County suggest that bigger bucks are being shot. Among the successful hunters, Sterling Richardson of Albany reported a 2... More »
copyright the Chronicle November 15, 2017 by Elizabeth Trail BARTON — A long-dormant junk ordinance is about to be enforced village-wide for the first time since it was adopted in February of 2006. At their regular meeting Monday night, the trustees voted ... More »
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 »
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