by Matthew Wilson CHARLESTON—Improvements needed to keep the Barton Village Hydroelectric Station here from springing a huge leak come with a pretty hefty price tag. Saturday’s open house at the station gave village trustees a chance to let the public in on... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Classes start for North Country Union High School ninth-graders on September 3, and many will find classes to be in tents. The remaining grades will start the 2024-2025 school year the following day, September 4. After testing in... More »
by Joseph Gresser GREENSBORO — Monday evening Moderator Tim Nesbit asked the more than 100 people gathered in the Greensboro United Church’s Fellowship Hall to be civil in discussing plans to put 20 affordable housing units in the town’s old high school buildi... More »
reviewed by David K. Rodgers GREENSBORO — Friday evening a new circus came to the Highland Center for the Arts here. We’ve had Bread and Puppet in Glover for some 50 years, the Robert’s traveling tent circus decades ago in Hardwick, Circus Smirkus in Greensbo... More »
by Kenzie Strange BARTON – Merriness was in the air during Barton Celebrates, a weeklong mini-festival that showcased the history and resilience of the village. Families and people of all ages came together to enjoy food, music, and good times, learn more ab... More »
by Kenzie Strange Two young children peer eerily at the viewer, surrounded by jellyfish and fossil motifs. An old woman with a straw, broad-brimmed hat gives a mysterious smile in another room. Four months of Vermont weather hang in perfect symmetry, from Ma... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — North Country Union High School administrators are waiting for test results to decide when and how school will open. Those tests aren’t measures of academic achievement, but measurements of the levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (... More »
by Matthew Wilson BROWNINGTON — The Lake Region Union Elementary-Middle School District board met Monday for a special meeting and board retreat. Members gathered in the old Grammar School at the Old Stone House Museum here for a get-together to foster clos... More »
by Joseph Gresser MORGAN — There wasn’t much beach above water on the north side of Seymour Lake Saturday. That didn’t stop a large crew of Morgan residents from donning barn boots and gloves and wading in to clean out the driftwood and other detritus washed... More »
by Kenzie Strange NEWPORT — A fire burns low but hot at Journey to Recovery (JTR) on Friday afternoon, its embers used to grill burgers and meats to feed hungry campers at midday. A slackline is strung taut between two nearby trees. Hand-carved benches, buil... More »
BURLINGTON — Jayquan Flintroy, 30, of Hartford, Connecticut, who police say was involved in the shooting and wounding of Dante Flowers Sr. in November, 2020, was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss to serve 160 months in federal priso... More »
by Matthew Wilson DERBY — Journey to Recovery, a Newport organization dedicated to helping people who are working to free themselves from all forms of addiction, hopes to open a residential program in a former nursing home here. Lila Bennett, the organization... More »
