by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Around 50 people jammed the city council’s chambers Monday evening. Some were there to support opening city streets to all-terrain vehicle (ATV) traffic, and some were there to ask council members to reconsider rental increases for... More »
Lake Region Union High School Ranger forward Peter Gyurcovics (center) celebrates his team’s 3-0 win over the Burke Mountain Academy Burkies Saturday in Orleans. …this story and more in the full edition of this week’s paper. Subscribe now to access our e-versi... More »
by Joseph Gresser IRASBURG — Around 80 people crowded the Irasburg Town Hall last Thursday evening to discuss what some described as an intolerable stench coming from the J. Hutchins asphalt plant just off Route 58 on the Orleans side of the village. Louis Pi... More »
by Joseph Gresser BROWNINGTON — Voters here chose on Tuesday by a nearly three-to-one margin to rescind a proposed ordinance that would have barred junky yards. Forty-six people voted to junk the ordinance while 19 cast ballots favoring the measure. It was th... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Holiday celebrations are easy to schedule, but foliage festivals depend on unpredictable factors, chief among them the weather. This year Vermont’s North Country Chamber of Commerce chose a date that nicely coincided with the onset ... More »
by Tena Starr If I owe you money and you don’t get paid this month, don’t think, at least not yet, that I’m a deadbeat. You see, my goats ate September’s bills last week. If eating bills actually made them go away, I’d probably thank the buggers (or eat some... More »
by Joseph Gresser DERBY — More than 70 people gathered before the Derby Civil War monument on a rainy Saturday to honor the memory of Willie Johnston, a drummer boy in the Union Army, who was and remains the youngest person to have earned the nation’s highest ... More »
by Joseph Gresser WESTMORE — About 20 people showed up at the Westmore Town Clerk’s office Monday evening to hear Game Warden Mike Scott discuss state regulations on ATVs. Fearing an even larger audience of partisans for and against allowing the vehicles acces... More »
by Tena Starr GLOVER — Ask seven-year-old Iso Bock why he marched through Glover Friday to express concern about climate change, and he has a quick answer: “To save the earth.” Iso and his nine-year-old sister Fiona were among the students who organized Glove... More »
by Tena Starr IRASBURG — “It feels like Grand Central Station all night long.” That’s how Odessa Sanville describes living near the Northeast Sand and Gravel asphalt plant here. “If you look up there, you’d think it was a big city,” she said. “I can’t sleep... More »
BARTON — What seemed like a straightforward decision on buying winter sand turned into a controversy after Lenny Zenonos filed a formal ethics complaint against Robert Croteau, the chair of the Barton Select Board. The select board called a special meeting fo... More »
by Tena Starr ALBANY — Spend an afternoon with the team of Growing Resources and it’s hard to say if you’ll leave convinced that growing hemp is a life saver, or a back breaker. Actually, it can be both, they say. And if you’re going to achieve the first, yo... More »
