by Matthew Wilson
NEWPORT CENTER — Lake Road here doesn’t see a lot of traffic. It’s used mainly by those who reside on the eastern edge of Lake Memphremagog, so the lane is a bit of a lonesome passage. Once it took travelers north along the lake, over the border, and into Canada. Like many tiny points of entry that once dotted the United States-Canadian boundary, the road now ends with a forbidding gate. While people tend to respect such restrictions, crossing where allowed, the denizens of the forest show little regard for the two nations’ partition.
Animals go where their instincts dictate, something Herman LeBlanc has observed in the four years he’s lived in his shoreline home off of Lake Road. In that time, he said he’s seen coydogs roaming the hill opposite of his house. With an open yard, peering into the field across from his home isn’t hard. Through a pair of binoculars, he’s seen the canines, only ever one at a time as they lurk beyond the edge of the tree line.
“They’ve been here four years or longer,” Mr. LeBlanc said. He’s been able to trap two of the wild animals and can’t determine what the dog-like cryptids are, and said he does not believe they are typical coyotes.
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