Town Meeting Day is just past and once again the Chronicle provides the most complete coverage of Orleans County meetings. To learn what decisions Northeast Kingdom citizens made this year, click here and follow the link to your town.
Lake Region Rangers Basketball
Both boys and girls basketball teams went to the Division III finals in Barre. They failed to carry away the championship trophy, but each team showed grace and pride under pressure and played some serious ball. Relive some of the season in these galleries, which offer photgraphs that have never been published along with images from the pages of the Chronicle.
In a losing cause, wind project opponent Don Nelson casts his vote Tuesday at Lowell Town Meeting. Behind him is his wife, Shirley. The oficial at the ballot box is Gaston Doyon. Photos by Chris Braithwaite
LOWELL — Voters here approved the proposed commercial wind project on Lowell Mountain Tuesday by a margin of three to one: 342 to 114.
The 456 ballots cast exceeded the turnout for Town Meeting itself by a substantial margin. Town Clerk Nanette Bonneau said roughly 230 absentee ballots had been requested, and about 80 new voters had registered during the campaign for and against the wind project, bringing the town checklist to just over 580.
Walking to Gatlinburg by Howard Frank Mosher; published by Random House, New York; $25 in hardback.
Reviewed by Chris Braithwaite
And so the soldier Morgan Kinneson keeps walking because walking is what he knows to do. He believes that if he can but walk far enough, now trending south by southwest by the general’s compass, he will get where he needs to go even if he is not quite sure where that is.
Walking to Gatlinburg is Irasburg author Howard Mosher’s second novel about an epic journey.
His 2003 book, The True Account, faithfully followed the explorations of Lewis and Clark to the Pacific Coast, an account embellished only by the exploits of one True Kinneson of Kingdom County, Vermont, who beat them there.
Photographer John Miller takes time to speak with a pair of his models and their family. Catherine and Elizabeth Miller are students at Holland Elementary School, where they were photographed as they participated in the school’s gardening program. Their mother, Claudine Currier, stands at left. Behind the girls are their grandparents, Pasquale and Sarah Silvestri. Photo by Joseph Gresser
NEWPORT — In the past the Vermont Arts Council promoted travelling exhibits, such as the puzzle and palette projects that presented a view of art as simply a fun activity. This year the organization has taken a radically different tack.
With inspiration and support from Lyman Orton of the Vermont Country Store, the council has mounted The Art of Action, a show that makes a strong case for visual art’s place in any discussion of the state’s present and future.
Mr. Orton writes in the exhibit catalogue that the show came about when he decided he wanted to expand his collection of Vermont art with art about the future of the state. The result was a call for artists to create work inspired by a report produced by the Commission on the Future of Vermont (CFV).
Town Meeting Day is just past and once again the Chronicle provides the most complete coverage of Orleans County meetings. To learn what decisions Northeast Kingdom citizens made this year, 
Walking to Gatlinburg by Howard Frank Mosher; published by Random House, New York; $25 in hardback.
