by Elizabeth Trail Orleans Central Supervisory Union (OCSU) voters once again said a resounding “no” to consolidating their seven elementary school districts and Lake Region Union High School into a single district. …To read the rest of this article, and a... More »
Gloria Bruce to direct Newport development by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — About 80 people showed up at the North Country Career Center Monday evening for a gathering billed as the Newport City Development Summit. They were welcomed by Newport City Manager La... More »
Barton Village Trustees Plowing agreement will save village $100,000 this winter by Elizabeth Trail BARTON VILLAGE — The trustees here gave final approval at their meeting Monday to a long-awaited deal with the Barton Select Board that, along with a similar ... More »
Act 46 Area SUs face reckoning as November deadline looms by Elizabeth Trail With November just around the corner, Act 46, the 2015 school district merger law, is galloping toward final implementation. “We went in and looked at 20 some-odd proposals last wee... More »
Coming Home — an intimate moment with folks we might avoid by Paul Lefebvre There was a time when, at the very mention of seeing a documentary film, people’s eyes would glaze over, as if they were emitting an inaudible groan. But that is changing. Thanks... More »
by Joseph Gresser COVENTRY — A 51.2-acre expansion of the New England Waste Services of Vermont (NEWS-VT) landfill here moved a step closer to approval on October 12 when the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) Department of Environmental Conservation ... More »
by Paul Lefebvre ISLAND POND — Gone are the days when traffic and spectators congested the lanes of travel at the state and town highway garages here. Missing are the racks of embroidered clothing from Maine, and food carts, hosted by members of the Brigh... More »
by Elizabeth Trail Late in September, a logger hired by the town of Albany began clear cuttinga section of a long-fallow piece of land the town owns at the top of Hartwell Pond Road. According to a memo the select board handed out at its October 2 meeting, th... More »
BARTON — The Barton Select Board, operating without Selectman Bob Croteau as has been the case since it changed its meeting time earlier this year, decided to designate Orleans Emergency Unit as the town’s ambulance service. Barton Ambulance went out of busin... More »
by Tena Starr A plan to spend $850,000 in settlement money from G-I Holdings, a former owner of the big, long defunct asbestos mine in Lowell and Eden has met with resistance. The money, paid in full early this year, is supposed to offset environmental damage ... More »
by David Dudley BROWNINGTON — Ten years ago, Ralph Swett made a promise to himself. The self-proclaimed farmer, father, Native American, businessman, and damn hard-working Orleans native, decided to write his autobiography. At 88 years young, as he likes to s... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — A Newport entrepreneur hopes to build a 210-unit assisted living facility on Lakemont Road, near North Country Hospital. Heidi Eichenberger, who owns Hearing Center of Vermont on Route 5 with her husband, has built similar establish... More »
