copyright the Chronicle February 24, 2016 by Tena Starr MONTPELIER — Legislation aimed at pinching the bad guys in the forestry business, while protecting the good guys from nuisance suits and dust-ups with zoning laws, is winding its way through the Vermont H... More »
copyright the Chronicle February 17, 2016 by Tena Starr Armand Brasseur grew up on a dairy farm in Irasburg, but he didn’t want to milk cows, he wanted to fly. He knew that when he was a small boy, four or five years old, and watched planes head south from th... More »
copyright the Chronicle February 17, 2016 by Tena Starr It was a perfect trifecta of bad luck – the coldest day of the year by far, not enough snow to insulate foundations, and an outage that left roughly 1,500 Vermont Electric Cooperative (VEC) members withou... More »
copyright the Chronicle January 13, 2016 by Tena Starr A couple of months ago I became the owner of a World War II issue Yugoslavian Mauser. The story behind that unlikely purchase is complicated, but part of it had to do with the San Bernardino shootings. A... More »
copyright the Chronicle January 13, 2016 by Tena Starr BURLINGTON — Not surprisingly, given the candidate’s career, Donald Trump’s rally here last week resembled a reality TV show as much as a political rally. Mr. Trump bragged about the 20,000 people who ha... More »
copyright the Chronicle September 23, 2015 by Tena Starr ALBANY — A puzzled Albany farmer is wondering why anyone would want to steal nearly 1,000 pounds of onions. Andy Paonessa arrived at one of his farm fields last week to top and crate onions and discovere... More »
copyright the Chronicle September 9, 2015 by Tena Starr IRASBURG — A loose coalition called the Irasburg Ridge Alliance (IRA) has formed here to oppose David Blittersdorf’s plans for a two-tower commercial wind project on Kidder Hill. The group will hold a m... More »
copyright the Chronicle September 2, 2015 by Tena Starr BARTON — Dave McCausland, Sue Stenta, and Ms. Stenta’s three children — the youngest being 17 — are living in tents at Pageant Park campground here on Crystal Lake this summer. They say it’s not by choi... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 26, 2015 EAST ALBANY — The nearly 150-year-old Catholic church here could go up for sale soon. Mass hasn’t been said at the church for some time now, but it has been used for weddings, baptisms, funerals, and until a few years ag... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 19, 2015 by Tena Starr This is the time of year when we have what we call “summer food” dinners. Mainly those dinners are about the vegetables. It’s a time of year when it’s a pleasure to cook. People often talk about having to... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 5, 2015 by Tena Starr For quite some time I’ve had an itch, and this year’s cool, rainy summer has done nothing to scratch it. After a bitter winter, I craved warm — no, hot weather, and I wanted a road trip. Some people like to ... More »
copyright the Chronicle July 29, 2015 by Tena Starr NEWPORT — Melissa Mount of Westfield got her first pony when she was three years old. It was a Shetland, a small pony, which is the reason parents tend to buy them for children — despite the fact that they ... More »
