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.
For the past month or so, an unusual number of businesses and private homes in Orleans County have been burglarized.
In some cases, the burglars got away with some loot; in others they didn’t. In some cases, the items stolen were of largely personal value; in others they had financial worth.
The burglaries in themselves are distressing, of course, but it’s also distressing that it wasn’t common knowledge. It’s the Chronicle’s job to tell people about such matters, but we wouldn’t have known about the extent of the robberies if we hadn’t been burglarized ourselves.
ALBANY — David Hallquist and a handful of other executives from Vermont Electric Cooperative (VEC) came into the lion’s den here Monday night.
Waiting for him were a group of people who seemed unanimous in their opposition to the Lowell wind project, and hostile to VEC’s participation in it.
Mr. Hallquist, the co-op’s chief executive officer, came to Albany for one of a series of informational meetings VEC has held to discuss a rebuild of a power line that would carry wind energy from Lowell north to Jay.
But he didn’t spend a lot of time discussing the details of the proposal, and never got around to showing the Power Point presentation he had brought along.
He began, instead, by asking how many of the roughly 20 people present were undecided about the project, which is the subject of a vote of the co-op membership this month.
Wind towers in Sheffield as seen from Route 91. Photo by Joseph Gresser
The other day, as we were driving down Perron Hill in Glover, I heard my son take a sharp intake of breath. He said, “Oh! Mom, look.”
I thought something was wrong and said, “What?”
He said, “It’s the wind towers. They’re up.”
Five of them were up that day, and they were clearly visible from our road. They will be visible from the house once the leaves are off the trees. I asked my son what he thought. “Awesome,” he said.
The border station in Derby Line. Photo by Richard CreaserDERBY LINE — A Canadian who says she was ordered to stand in line with cars waiting to cross the border here has questioned both the safety and the civility of the way this country welcomes pedestrian visitors.
Kim Prangley, a dual citizen residing in Stanstead, voiced her concerns to the Derby Line Village Trustees following an uncomfortable incident at the border in late May.
Ms. Prangley is not a novice to crossing the border between the two countries. As the former head of the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, daily crossings between Stanstead and Derby Line are commonplace for her.
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