copyright the Chronicle, October 9, 2013 by Tena Starr Stella Halpern is hoping someone will solve a mystery for her. What was a very old, battered, handmade black doll doing in the rafters of a house in East Burke? Mrs. Halpern bought the doll in 2003 at an ... More »
The statistics presented by the district health department Saturday are alarming. Seventy-five percent of the people in Orleans and northern Essex counties are overweight or obese, they say. What might be even more alarming is the assertion made by the film W... More »
by Tena Starr ORLEANS — The heavy rain and wind that hit northern Vermont last week had an unusual victim: the magnolia tree that has, for some reason, been thriving in Orleans for nearly 60 years. Magnolias don’t generally overwinter in far northern Vermont ... More »
by Tena Starr NEWPORT — About 75 percent of the people in Orleans and northern Essex counties are either overweight or obese. Thirteen percent of 12- to 19-year-olds are considered obese, as well as 11 percent of kids under five. In the state as a whole, 28 p... More »
copyright the chronicle September 4, 2013 The Disenfranchised, Stories of Life and Grief When an Ex-spouse Dies, edited by Peggy Sapphire. Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., Amityville, New York. Paperback. 217 pages. $49.95. Reviewed by Tena Starr Some tim... More »
by Tena Starr ALBANY — An Albany firefighter, who allegedly told police he has a problem with fire and needs help, has been accused of trying to burn down his own department. Elmer Joerg, 45, of Holland pled innocent last week in the Criminal Division of Orle... More »
by Tena Starr NEWPORT — Carlton Bickford, 76, a retired electrician and well-liked longtime Glover resident, shambled into court in shackles Monday and pled innocent to first-degree murder in the shooting death on Friday of 72-year-old Rachel Coburn of Barton,... More »
by Tena Starr “It’s kind of a nightmare.” That’s how Brandon Tanner of Glover described this summer’s weather and his own efforts to put in hay for his dairy cows. “It’s one of those things where you’re forced this year to get what you can get when you can get... More »
by Tena Starr WESTFIELD — Terrie Davis-Perry has long supported cancer research, maybe more than most people. She’s regularly donated to the American Cancer Society and fund-raising events, and she sponsors a Relay for Life team member. But when the disease ... More »
Reviewed by Tena Starr The Vermont Farm Table Cookbook, 150 Home-Grown Recipes from the Green Mountain State, by Tracey Medeiros. Photographs by Oliver Parini. 254 pages. Paperback. Published by the Countryman Press, Woodstock, Vermont. $19.95. This is a ... More »
Greening Vermont, The Search for a Sustainable State, by Elizabeth Courtney and Eric Zencey. Paperback. 173 pages. Published by Thistle Hill Publications, North Pomfret, Vermont, and the Vermont Natural Resources Council, Montpelier, Vermont. $35.00 Reviewe... More »
by Tena Starr copyright the Chronicle 12-19-2012 BARTON — For the first time in two centuries, an Abenaki tribe in Vermont can claim tribal forestland. As of Monday, the roughly 1,000-member Nulhegan Abenaki own 65 acres in Barton on the May Farm Road. Title... More »
