Editor’s Picks
Missing documents found in furnace room of Coventry town clerk’s office
copyright the Chronicle October 12, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail COVENTRY — When selectman Scott Morley and auditor Jeff Graham walked through the doors of the Coventry town office early Monday morning, they saw Town Clerk and Treasurer Cynthia Diaz headed into the... More »
Glover parents question Halloween ban
copyright the Chronicle October 12, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail GLOVER — The October lunch menu at the Glover Community School said that Halloween lunch would be spider bellies, spider legs, and bones. A day later the school sent a corrected menu home with student... More »
Orleans-Caledonia House candidates debate education, guns, taxes
copyright the Chronicle October 12, 2016 by Joseph Gresser BARTON — A conversation Monday evening between three candidates for the state House of Representatives from the Orleans-Caledonia district produced a civil, serious discussion of issues facing the stat... More »
State could end dispatch service
copyright the Chronicle October 12, 2016 by Joseph Gresser After a summer of discussions among emergency service providers and state officials, the Public Service Department plans to ask the Legislature to allow it to stop dispatching except for state agencies... More »
Montreal man starts hemp farm in Holland
copyright the Chronicle October 5, 2016 by Paul Lefebvre HOLLAND — A former construction worker from Montreal with dual American-Canadian citizenship is hardly the kind of farmer one would expect to find here cultivating a crop still deemed to be illegal by th... More »
Auditor calls for asset freeze in Coventry
copyright the Chronicle October 5, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail COVENTRY — The accounting firm involved in trying to untangle Coventry’s financial records is recommending that the town freeze the movements of all of its assets as soon as possible. The select board ... More »
Police mystified by disturbed infant grave
copyright the Chronicle October 5, 2016 by Tena Starr BARTON — Police are mystified by a peculiar incident at the St. Paul’s Catholic cemetery here. In early September, the family of an infant who died more than three decades ago visited the grave and found th... More »
An old railroad town is at a junction, again
copyright the Chronicle October 5, 2016 by Brad Usatch BRIGHTON — The reports from Island Pond were universally grim: The lights are out. The sidewalks have been rolled up. Jennifer’s, Common Sense and the Yellow Deli, Clyde River Outfitters, Ted’s Market, The... More »
Coventry Select Board will hire accountant
copyright the Chronicle September 28, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail COVENTRY — The Coventry Select Board voted Monday to hire an accountant to oversee the books being kept by Town Clerk and Treasurer Cynthia Diaz. Although the accounting firm Graham & Graham hasn’t ... More »
Tony Pomerleau pledges up to $120,000 to St. Paul’s School
copyright the Chronicle September 28, 2016 by Tena Starr BARTON — Chittenden County developer Tony Pomerleau has given St. Paul’s School here a very big birthday gift. He will match every dollar the school raises up to $120,000. This year the school turns 120.... More »
NEK End Addiction holds forum at Lake Region
copyright the Chronicle September 28, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail When Melissa Zebrowski’s brother and Jeannette Birch’s son died of drug overdoses in December and March, the two women’s reactions were to channel their grief into fighting the local heroin epidemic... More »