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12/13/2024

The Glover town road crew are assessing the damage to the plow and its components following Thursday night’s head-on collision with a motorist driving a Subaru Crosstrek. The Crosstrek appeared to be a total loss. Road crew employee Mike Pray said he was maintaining the County Road in West Glover ...

12/13/2024

12/13/2024

12/13/2024

Reportedly, the driver of a Subaru Crosstrek did not sustain serious injuries, but his vehicle appeared to be totaled when it collided head-on with a Glover town plow truck on the County Road in West Glover Thursday evening. The truck sustained minimal damage. Glover Ambulance and the Vermont State....

12/12/2024

Prepare to laugh! You can't make this stuff up and of course if it is going to happen to anyone, it would be Tena!

  by Tena Starr If you happen to run across a shoe, a rat, and a corkscrew, all stuck together in a glue trap, get in touch with me. They’re all mine. Well, maybe not the rat. And don’t get feeling too bad for the rat, because it had been living the high life, dining on chocolate, Saltines and ...

12/12/2024

  Perhaps the Newport City Council is simply bashful. It is hard to think of another reason its members seem so averse to carrying out their duties under the watchful eye of their constituents. Week after week the board shoos observers out of the council chamber and does whatever it does behind clo...

12/11/2024

Cody Alderman of Barton shot this six-point buck, his first, in Barton on Saturday, December 7. It weighed 148 pounds fully dressed (with its heart and lungs removed). For more deer photos, see this week’s Chronicle!

12/11/2024

  by Matthew Wilson DERBY — Everything seems to be getting more expensive, even the cost of having an accident. At its meeting Monday night, the select board was approached by emergency responders said they will increase the cost of their services. Higher wages and the rising price for materials,...

12/11/2024

by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — A Derby Line man told police he went off Route 5 near the Fish and Game Road after being shot at by the passenger in a truck he tried to pass. According to Vermont State Police Trooper Logan Miller, the man’s vehicle showed no sign of having been hit by a bullet, alth...

12/11/2024

by Maria Amador GREENSBORO — In September, 45 strangers gathered at the Highland Center for the Arts (HCA) to audition for a part in the Civic Standard’s production of Charles Dickens’ famed story of a transformative Christmas Eve. Some auditioned with a brief monologue or a tap dance; others,...

12/04/2024

by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — Michelle Miller, 23, who according to Vermont State Police Trooper Aaron Leonard’s affidavit, has no fixed address, called police around 9 p.m. on June 14, 2023. She was in Westfield and told the dispatcher that a family member, who was mentally ill, was having an iss...

11/27/2024

Thirteen-year-old Avery Marckres of Brownington knows. He shot this four-point, 120-pound buck in his hometown at 7:05 a.m. on November 16. Hunters who also have something to brag about can match their bucks against Avery’s in the Chronicle Buck Contest. Details can be found inside on page 18. Pho...

11/27/2024

by Joseph Gresser   NEWPORT — Judge Rory Thibault released Karl E. Cloney on a $1,000 unsecured appearance bond after Mr. Cloney pled innocent to a felony charge of grand larceny. Patrolman Jonathan Morin of the Newport City Police Department said in an affidavit that a man told police that a tru...

11/27/2024

by Matthew Wilson NEWPORT — United Christian Academy (UCA) has a smaller student body than the other schools in the area. Because of this, the academy doesn’t participate in the typical ball sports that most others do. There is a new option for those at the school who wish to compete with those ...

11/22/2024

I hope we get lots of entries! Check the paper each week to see who's photo is in!! (We already have one big one for this next week!!)

11/22/2024

Williston, Vt. – Vermonters affected by July’s severe storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides have until 10 p.m. on Monday, November 25 to apply for federal disaster assistance, which may include FEMA grants to repair homes and replace property. For the storms that took place July 9-11, resi...