copyright the Chronicle July 27, 2016 by Jef Barker Beware of those yellow roadside flowers that look like Queen Anne’s lace — the sap they produce can burn your skin. Flowering parsnips pose a little known danger — they didn’t even get a cameo on last Friday... More »
copyright the Chronicle July 27, 2016 by Joseph Gresser A steep drop in milk prices over the past year or so is hurting farmers, and the insurance program intended to help them has not done its job. That’s the bad news from Leon Berthiaume, general manager of ... More »
copyright the Chronicle July 20, 2016 by Steve Maleski At any given moment there are roughly 1,800 thunderstorms grumbling and sparking over the surface of the globe. That’s approximately 40,000 per day. Sixteen million per year. They’ve been recorded as far a... More »
copyright the Chronicle July 20, 2016 by Joseph Gresser A survey measuring risks to Vermont youth suggests Orleans County may be hazardous to their health. The state Department of Health conducts The Youth Risk Behavior Survey every two years. It is part of a ... More »
copyright the Chronicle July 20, 2016 by Elizabeth Trail MORGAN — Only days after officials from the Public Service Board (PSB) toured the hayfield overlooking Lake Seymour where energy entrepreneur David Blittersdorf is planning to put a 500-kilowatt solar pr... More »
by Jef Barker copyright the Chronicle July 13, 2016 ORLEANS — “They said I might have one or two hairline fractures in my ribs, but I can live with that,” Moe Jacobs said casually about his recent brush with death. His rescue involved CPR chest compressions ... More »
by Elizabeth Trail copyright the Chronicle July 13, 2016 IRASBURG — The average wait for a double lung transplant is 90 days. Katrina Griffin was officially added to the waiting list on March 20, so she’s almost to the four-month mark. She carries a beeper e... More »
by Joseph Gresser copyright the Chronicle July 13, 2016 CRAFTSBURY COMMON — Sterling College President Matthew Derr wanted it clear that he does not consider recent vandalism at the school to be a prank. In a conversation Monday, Mr. Derr also insisted that ... More »
by Tena Starr copyright the Chronicle July 13, 2016 ISLAND POND — Leesa Timpson was upstairs doing housework last week when she heard noise in the kitchen. “Hey honey,” she called down, thinking her husband had come in and was making an early lunch. But it w... More »
copyright the Chronicle July 6, 2016 by Steve Maleski It was 1:20 p.m. We’d been up since six, on the road since just before seven. Hundreds of miles had flowed by under the wheels of the big white Toyota 4Runner that we picked out of the lineup in the lot of ... More »
copyright the Chronicle July 6, 2016 by Joseph Gresser Bill Stenger, the president of Jay Peak Resorts and one of those named in a civil suit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in U.S. District Court in Miami, Florida, has asked for time to ... More »
copyright the Chronicle July 6, 2016 by Joseph Gresser BURLINGTON — When U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss gave her approval to the $50-million settlement reached between dairy farmers and Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) and its marketing arm Dairy Mark... More »
