by Trisha Ingalls NEWPORT — A new tool to encourage Lake Memphremagog-focused tourism in Vermont and Quebec was unveiled Tuesday, July 18, aboard the Northern Star. The sky was overcast and rainy, but spirits were high as the tour boat took a contingent of pe... More »
Parker Darling, 9, tries to get firetruck drivers in the Irasburg church fair parade to honk their horns. Following the parade, the day ended with a spectacular fireworks display at dusk. More »
by Joseph Gresser HARDWICK — As befits the head of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Secretary Pete Buttigieg arrived in Hardwick Monday afternoon with a caravan of industrial-sized SUVs. Along with him came a sizeable contingent of transportatio... More »
by Tena Starr GLOVER — “This made Irene look like an appetizer.” That’s Cheri Safford talking about the flood that devastated the Saffords’ riverside home and business. She and her husband, Doug, spent a long, tense night last week rescuing what they could ... More »
by Tena Starr BARTON — Lorie Seadale was thinking hard on Saturday as she looked at the muddy mess that was her plant nursery and produce business. She wondered just how much she and a helper should do in the way of cleanup, given that there was a flood war... More »
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 »
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 »
