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 »
Bob Montgomery captured these photos of Barton Village flooding with the use of his drone this Tuesday morning. More »
Homer Selby of the Mt. Sinai Shriners’ Northeast Kingdom Fire Brigade makes pass after pass at curbside spectators in his tiny fire truck. “I love it and it’s really great, but we’re not too serious about it,” Mr. Selby said after the Brighton Fourth of July ... 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 »
Donna Guillette and her horse Bandit steal the gold in the Runoff 2023 Open Adult Reserve and Championship in the Gymkhana held at the Barton Fairgrounds Saturday. In a tie breaker run, the two pushed for the fastest run at the course, finishing with a time o... More »
by Joseph Gresser DERBY LINE—What could be more charming than an evening spent with the characters from stories we heard as children? A lot of things, actually, especially when the stories come from pens belonging to the brothers Grimm or the French writer Ch... More »
by Joseph Gresser GREENSBORO—Lakeview Elementary School will stay open for at least another year while the Orleans Southwest Union Elementary School District (OSUESD) board and local residents consider options for the future. Lakeview’s enrollments have droppe... More »
by Matthew Wilson NEWPORT — Main Street was filled with rainbows on Sunday, as the city hosted its first Pride Parade. Several hundred people, members of the LGBTQ+ community and their supporters, marched through Newport’s downtown behind the event’s grand ma... More »
by Trisha Ingalls NEWPORT – It was 84 degrees and sunny Thursday afternoon at Prouty Beach, but nobody was in the water or even on the sand at Lake Memphremagog. Signs warned people away due to cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae as it is commonly known, and t... More »
by Trisha Ingalls IRASBURG — Milking time is play time for the Holsteins at Nelson Dairy Farm on Route 14 in Irasburg. That’s because the Nelson family has made major investments to upgrade their dairy farm — including the addition of a massive rotating milki... More »
