by Leanne Harple GLOVER — Nathan Borland, a local paramedic from Glover, recently returned from a month-long shift in Shreveport, Louisiana. In his regular life, Mr. Borland is CEO of 45th Parallel Emergency Medical Services, a nonprofit ambulance corps tha... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Police say Darryl Johnson, 51, of Greensboro, shot Robert Chaplin, 27, of Hardwick on the night of October 20. Mr. Chaplin, they say, showed up in Mr. Johnson’s drive after the two had a minor altercation at a convenience store. ... More »
Michael does his part judging jack-o’-lanterns at Newport’s pumpkinpalooza contest. The city gave out over a hundred pumpkins for the event, and residents of all ages dropped off their carved creations on Saturday. For more photos of the event, please see th... More »
Ronald Cloutier, who served customers at E.M. Brown for 32 years enjoys his slice of cake while leaning on the fender of a 1950 GMC pickup. Along with the cake the many people who gathered to celebrate the store’s 125 years enjoyed hamburgers, popcorn, apples... More »
by Sylvia C. Dodge LOWELL — If the COVID-19 pandemic teaches nothing else, it teaches that things inevitably change. For students at Lowell Graded School, a plan that started with a goal to build a skating rink has morphed over time to a project to regenera... More »
by Joseph Gresser BARTON — At their meeting Thursday morning, select board members dealt with a mishap on Hollow Road. A road crew member was working on a ditch and clipped a waterline belonging to Pat Russell. The damage was not great. Road Forman Rick Knag... 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 »
by Leanne Harple GREENSBORO — What does it take to live a happy life? Not much according to Jason Crane, the somewhat nomadic office manager of the Greensboro United Church of Christ. Mr. Crane has been living happily, and by choice, in a van since Decembe... More »
by Sylvia C. Dodge For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down all the fun, a group of enthusiasts took to the rails in their restored “motor cars” — railroad track inspection cars also known as speeders, section cars, putt-putts, jiggers, trikes,... More »
by Tena Starr GLOVER — The presence of a tiny hummingbird rarely seen in Vermont has birders flocking to a Shadow Lake home and bed and breakfast here. The rufous hummingbird is native to the Southwest and Pacific Northwest. Sightings of it in Vermont have ... More »
The Outside Story American mountain ash: a rosaceae by any other name by Laurie D. Morrissey There’s a giant living in northern Coös County, New Hampshire. It’s a 61-foot tall tree, the country’s largest known American mountain ash. At last measurement, it ... More »
by Sylvia C. Dodge BARTON — Good news for anglers — next spring May Pond in Barton will be stocked with two-year-old “trophy” brook trout for the first time in a decade. Long Pond in Westmore, Center Pond in Newark, and Martin’s Pond in Peacham are other No... More »
