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.
by Bethany M. Dunbar copyright the Chronicle 1-23-2013 GREENSBORO — Hill Farmstead Brewery was approved for a planning and zoning conditional use permit after a hearing on Wednesday, January 16. The application is to add some room for storage, to bring equipme... More »
by Joseph Gresser copyright the Chronicle 1-16-2013 DERBY — “Since Ames closed five years or so ago my vocabulary has consisted of two four-letter words — when and soon,” said Brian Smith, chairman of the Derby Selectmen, Tuesday. “Now is a good word to use... More »
by Joseph Gresser copyright the Chronicle 1-9-2013 NEWPORT — The trial of Roger Pion on charges related to the destruction of seven Orleans County police vehicles will not be going forward any time soon. Mr. Pion was found incompetent to aid in his own defens... More »
by Paul Lefebvre copyright the Chronicle 1-9-2013 The legal fight between Green Mountain Power (GMP) and Chronicle publisher and reporter Chris Braithwaite has shifted from criminal to civil court. Defense attorney Phil White filed a civil complaint late last... More »
copyright the Chronicle 12-27-2012 Judge Howard VanBenthuysen has dismissed “with prejudice” a criminal charge of unlawful trespass against Chronicle Publisher Chris Braithwaite. More »
by Tena Starr copyright the Chronicle 12-19-2012 BARTON — For the first time in two centuries, an Abenaki tribe in Vermont can claim tribal forestland. As of Monday, the roughly 1,000-member Nulhegan Abenaki own 65 acres in Barton on the May Farm Road. Title... More »
by Paul Lefebvre copyright the Chronicle 12-12-2012 NEWPORT — A utility wind developer company that tried to do the right thing by the press appears to have shot itself in the foot when it allowed the arrest of a reporter and then failed to step forward and re... More »
Chronicle publisher Chris Braithwaite issued the following statement after his trespassing charge was dismissed today (December 5): On the day after my arraignment on a charge of unlawful trespass, I wrote that I believed my conduct on Lowell Mountain on Decem... More »
by Tena Starr copyright the Chronicle 12-5-2012 DERBY — U.S. Border Patrol agents and local police arrested two men on the Derby Road here Monday who were wanted in New Hampshire in connection with a shooting in Nashua. Tuesday night, New Hampshire Assistant A... More »
by Chris Braithwaite copyright the Chronicle 11-28-2012 LOWELL — All 21 turbines of the Kingdom Community Wind project have generated power, a spokesman for Green Mountain Power said Tuesday. And with the project making power, it has beaten the December 31 de... More »
by Richard Creaser copyright the Chronicle 11-21-2012 ISLAND POND — Within the next few days every registered voter and property taxpayer in the town of Brighton can expect to receive a ballot in the mail. That ballot asks the recipient whether or not they fa... More »
by Bethany M. Dunbar copyright the Chronicle, 11-21-2012 NEWPORT — House candidate Katherine Sims of Lowell has asked for a recount of the ballots in the Orleans-Lamoille House district. Mark Higley was re-elected in that district by a vote of 920 to 887, acco... More »
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