The Outside Story by Meghan McCarthy McPhaul It is a question I face each year as March winds into April: when to take down the bird feeder. Our avian feeding station is basic: a single run-of-the-mill hopper, which I fill with a local mix of seed that seem... More »
The Outside Story ….Owls on the nest by Anna MorrisAmong the very earliest signs of spring are the strange caterwauls of the barred owls that haunt our woods: “Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?” Their hooted conversations, thrown back and forth throu... More »
The Outside Story by Jen Weimer A winter walk in the forest reveals a flurry of wildlife activity that often goes unnoticed during other times of year. Often among the many tracks in the snow are the nearly heart-shaped prints of deer. The white-tailed deer (O... More »
by Daisy Dopp Daisy Dopp lived most of her life on the Glover farm that is now home to the Bread and Puppet Theater. When her husband, Jim, died in 1970, Daisy Dopp moved to a home in the village and spent some of her time writing articles recalling life on... More »
Katherine Sims prevails over Vicki Strong In the game of musical chairs that began when the two-person Orleans County district jointly represented by Vicki Strong of Albany and Katherine Sims of Craftsbury was reduced to a single-member district, Representativ... More »
by Fiona Bock Fiona Bock is a middle school student at Glover Community School. GLOVER — On October 22, with the midterm elections on November 8 drawing near, this reporter stood outside Currier’s Market to ask people their opinions on democracy and voting; no... More »
Part II by Tena Starr Although Vermont has been spared a school shooting, one of the many things that “Stella,” a classroom teacher, frets about these days is violence. Responsibility for keeping her young students safe weighs heavily on her. “The rise in sch... More »
This is the first of two articles about the causes of the teacher shortage in Vermont schools. by Tena Starr Spend ten minutes listening to a classroom teacher, and you will begin to understand two things: Why many are leaving and how devoted to their s... More »
This is the first installment of a story about a place, a family, and a cousin that will appear consecutively in the paper over the next few weeks. by Paul Lefebvre During a lifetime of trapping beaver, the most successful season my cousin had was the year he ... More »
Each week we will feature headlines and a little bit of the stories published 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago. History April 3, 2019 Chronicle history 20 years ago Milk price lower than last year The milk price paid to farmers rallied a bit in March, but remained far ... More »
©the Chronicle, 2015 by Elizabeth Trail ORLEANS — Nine-year-old Nolan Myers has been watching his mailbox ever since last spring, when he sent a letter to President Obama, along with a picture of a model of the White House that he’d made in his third-grade art... More »
