by Trisha Ingalls NEWPORT — A new tool to encourage Lake Memphremagog-focused tourism in Vermont and Quebec was unveiled Tuesday, July 18, aboard the Northern Star. The sky was overcast and rainy, but spirits were high as the tour boat took a contingent of pe... More »
An emergency flood assistance outpost opened with little fanfare in the basement of the Barton Memorial Building Thursday. It’s brief run will end Saturday afternoon, July 22. Representatives from state agencies including the Department of Health, OSHA, Dep... More »
by Joseph Gresser HARDWICK — As befits the head of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Secretary Pete Buttigieg arrived in Hardwick Monday afternoon with a caravan of industrial-sized SUVs. Along with him came a sizeable contingent of transportatio... More »
by Tena Starr GLOVER — “This made Irene look like an appetizer.” That’s Cheri Safford talking about the flood that devastated the Saffords’ riverside home and business. She and her husband, Doug, spent a long, tense night last week rescuing what they could ... More »
by Tena Starr BARTON — Lorie Seadale was thinking hard on Saturday as she looked at the muddy mess that was her plant nursery and produce business. She wondered just how much she and a helper should do in the way of cleanup, given that there was a flood war... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — On July 11, while Barton Village was still being battered by a flooding Barton River, police say a woman was seen banging on the window of a Glover Road home “begging to be let out.” In his affidavit, Vermont State Police Trooper Ja... More »
by Matthew Wilson DERBY — After Derby’s Independence Day Parade eyes were on the sky following the Independence Day Parade, as the Newport Rotary Club held its second Lindy Palin Fly-Over. The endeavor saw thousands of ping pong balls flung from above, an a... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — A woman who received a deferred three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to three separate felony charges of selling heroin will spend between 18 months to three years behind bars after all. Kassandra Medellin-Oliver, 36, of... More »
by Trisha Ingalls ORLEANS — Last summer, it seemed the Jones Memorial Library was dangerously close to making the tough decision to close its doors. Staff turnover, the absence of a friends’ group, and languishing fundraising activities led to a special truste... More »
by Leanne Day Harple GLOVER — The Bread and Puppet Theater performed a new show to a packed Dirt-Floor Cathedral Sunday. The show is called Idiots of the World Unite Against the Idiot System, and will be performed Saturday afternoons throughout this summer.... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Skylar Michael Thatcher-Bushey, 28, of Vernon, appeared in the Criminal Division of Orleans County Superior Court on June 29 and pled innocent to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a felony, reckless endangerment, unlawful m... More »
