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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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Incumbents returned to office  

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copyright the Chronicle November 9, 2016, County votes for Scott, Trump Despite some hard fought races, Orleans County returned all incumbents to office Tuesday. The closest contest was the Orleans-Lamoille House race, where Republican Mark Higley fended off a... More »

At long last, Lake Region reigns

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copyright the Chronicle November 9, 2016 by Tena Starr and Brad Usatch It’s been nearly 40 years since the Lake Region Union High School boys soccer team made it to a championship game. The last time was in 1978 when they lost to Milton. In the school’s 49 yea... More »

Sanders rallies for Democratic candidates

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copyright the Chronicle November 2, 2016  by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Senator Bernie Sanders has seen bigger crowds than the one that greeted him Friday afternoon at the Gateway Center here. But it’s doubtful that any gave him a more enthusiastic reception. Mu... More »

Congressman Welch visits Orleans County

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copyright the Chronicle November 2, 2016 by Joseph Gresser BARTON — Peter Welch spent half of Monday in Orleans County. He dropped by the Chronicle for a morning conversation before heading up to Newport for a meeting with city officials and legislators. The s... More »

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 »