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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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Cash tax payments definitely missing in Coventry

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copyright the Chronicle November 2, 2016   by Elizabeth Trail COVENTRY — A Coventry resident who prides himself on being the first person to get his taxes paid every year also became the first person to prove he made cash tax payments that never made it to the... More »

News from around the county

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copyright the Chronicle November 2, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail Coventry finds arsenic in water Arsenic measured above the allowed level in the spring that provides water to about 60 Coventry Village residents and the school, said Jeanne Desrochers, who came to th... More »

Glover parents want holidays returned to school

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copyright the Chronicle October 26, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail GLOVER — It was standing room only at Glover Community School Monday night as community members crowded into a classroom to talk to the school board about the news that there won’t be a Halloween cele... More »

Orleans-2 candidates agree on much

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copyright the Chronicle October 26, 2016  by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — It would have been difficult to tell what party the four candidates seeking to represent Orleans-2 belong to just by listening to them at Monday night’s candidate forum. The only clue was ho... More »

Burros was a pioneer in “political” food writing

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copyright the Chronicle October 26, 2016 by Joseph Gresser Marian Burros began her career as a food writer because she and a friend needed to give affordable engagement gifts. She ended up changing the field because she recognized a simple truth — food is poli... More »

Moose kill down from 2015

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copyright the Chronicle October 26, 2016 …To read the rest of this article, and all the Chronicle‘s stories, subscribe: by Paul Lefebvre The success rate among moose hunters for the 2016 archery and rifle season, which ended Thursday, October 20, is lagging sl... More »

Coventry board calls in State Police

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copyright the Chronicle October 19, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail  COVENTRY — The State Police have been asked to take a look at the unfolding accounting crisis in Coventry. Last week, an attorney specializing in municipal law, Paul Gillies of the Montpelier firm of... More »

House candidates debate in Westfield

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copyright the Chronicle October 19, 2016 by Tena Starr A good 60 people came to the community center here Monday evening to listen to Republic incumbent Mark Higley and Democratic challenger Katherine Sims debate the issues. Mr. Higley has been the Orleans-Lam... More »

Lawyers for Stenger tell state to bring it on

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copyright the Chronicle October 19, 2016 by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Lawyers for Bill Stenger have told the state to bring it on. In a September 7 filing in the Civil Division of Washington County Superior Court, they denied all the fraud charges related to EB... More »

Editorial

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Editorial VOTER BEWARE OF SOCIAL MEDIA This has not been a pleasant election year.  At the national level, the discourse, if you can call it that, veers between astounding and revolting. However, we’re happy to say that, locally the conversation has been large... More »