Published on July 27, 2011

BARTON — The Chronicle and the Barton Village office are the latest victims on what seems to be a growing list of burgled businesses in Orleans County. Both were broken into Thursday night, July 21, by someone who found a window with a room air conditioner, pushed the machine inside and crawled through the window.

Village Trustee Ellis Merchant has dubbed the perpetrators the AC Gang.

The village office reported nothing missing, but said the burglar rummaged through desk drawers and might have taken anything left in a lock box inside the main entrance.

The Chronicle lost a small safe and its contents, along with two laptop computers, three cameras and an emergency radio scanner.

Other businesses which have mentioned to the Chronicle that they have been the victim of a burglary over the past several weeks include Currier’s Quality Market in Glover, Carl’s Equipment, Taylor’s Automotive, Bub’s Used Cars, and the Lake House Saloon in Barton, and Robin’s Roost in Westmore.

As crime waves go, this one has been pretty quiet. With the exception of the most recent incidents at the Chronicle and the village office, police have not issued press releases on any of the burglaries mentioned above.