copyright the Chronicle March 9, 2016 by Joseph Gresser BARTON – Barton Village is a little big bigger than it was before its annual meeting Tuesday night. By a vote of 23 to 1 residents voted to incorporate a small piece of land near the intersection of Rout... More »
copyright the Chronicle March 9, 2016 by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT – The first council meeting after Newport’s annual meeting usually begins with a drowsy run of reappointments to a wide variety of city offices. That pattern was broken Monday when Alderman Steve... More »
copyright the Chronicle March 2, 2016 by Randi Morse COVENTRY – Town Clerk and Treasurer Cynthia Diaz retained both jobs at Town Meeting here Tuesday, despite a caution about her bookkeeping that the select board had put in the Warning for Town Meeting. Audito... More »
copyright the Chronicle March 2, 2016 by Sam Thurston LOWELL – The first order of business at Town Meeting Tuesday was the schools. After re-electing the school directors whose terms had expired, the budget was looked at. Last year the budget was $1,754,498,... More »
copyright the Chronicle March 2, 2016 by Eileen Wolfe BROWNINGTON – Were voters at a mudslinging match? Or a law school class? How about a comedy of errors? Town Meeting on Tuesday seemed to incorporate a bit of all those as people lurched and fought and eve... More »
copyright the Chronicle March 2, 2016 by Tena Starr NORTH TROY – Following a fairly long and typically feisty discussion, voters at Town Meeting here Tuesday agreed to spend $76,000 to buy the so-called Allen property, a lot and house adjacent to the school. T... More »
copyright the Chronicle February 24, 2016 by Tena Starr MONTPELIER — Legislation aimed at pinching the bad guys in the forestry business, while protecting the good guys from nuisance suits and dust-ups with zoning laws, is winding its way through the Vermont H... More »
copyright the Chronicle February 24, 2016 by Nathalie Gagnon-Joseph The increasingly weak Canadian dollar is affecting both U.S. business along the border and the price of maple syrup. Between 2010 and 2014, the Canadian dollar’s value fluctuated right aroun... More »
copyright the Chronicle February 24, 2016 by Joseph Gresser GREENSBORO BEND — Police say Joshua L. Chase-Renault walked into Smith’s Store in Greensboro Bend on the evening of February 8 carrying a knife and intending to rob the place. But Mr. Chase-Renault ... More »
copyright the Chronicle February 24, 2016 by Joseph Gresser HOLLAND — The Holland School Board has crafted a budget for the town’s elementary school that reduces spending by nearly $80,000 compared to last year. Working with a very sharp pencil, they reduced t... More »
copyright the Chronicle February 17, 2016 by Tena Starr It was a perfect trifecta of bad luck – the coldest day of the year by far, not enough snow to insulate foundations, and an outage that left roughly 1,500 Vermont Electric Cooperative (VEC) members withou... More »
copyright the Chronicle February 3, 2016 For decades, Bernie Sanders, who calls himself a democrat socialist, has been a top vote getter in Orleans County, one of the more conservative counties in Vermont. Through random phone calls and man-on-the-street inte... More »
