NEWPORT — The entire LSC men’s basketball team met with junior high students at Coventry Village School, Troy Elementary School, Brighton Elementary School and Charleston Elementary School last week. They met with over 263 students and talked about the transition to college, moving away from home, financial aid, scholarships, the recruitment process and the importance…
COVENTRY — A Derby man will have to answer to charges after he allegedly hit a train today and fled the scene. Police say 39-year-old Aaron Horner was cited for leaving the scene of a crash and driving with a criminally suspended license. At around 11:00 a.m. police were notified of a crash at the…
NEWPORT — Police say two drivers are facing DUI charges after separate single-vehicle crashes that took place last night in Orleans County. At around 9:15 p.m. police received a call of a crash in the town of Troy. While speaking with the operator, Gilles Desjarlais, 71, of Troy, police say an odor of intoxicants was…
UPDATE: Police say they have recovered the stolen vehicle, and have collected new evidence in the investigation. COVENTRY — White Mountain Auto in Newport was burglarized overnight, and a car was stolen from off the lot. Police say they were notified of the burglary at 8:00 a.m. this morning. The vehicle that was stolen is…
COVENTRY — A 26-year-old woman from Brownington is facing charges after an incident that took place in Coventry this afternoon. At approximately 1:00 p.m. police responded to a reported vandalism on Nadeau Park Road. Police say witnesses reported Sarah Ray, 26, of Brownington, was the operator of a vehicle at the time of the incident…
GLOVER — A 52-year-old athlete from Canaan defended home turf and won the fourth annual Fly to Pie, Kingdom Marathon with a time of 3:05:11. David Herr, 52, of Canaan, took home first this year. He has run in all four marathons and is a three-time winner. Winning among the women was Karen Benway, 45,…
WEST GLOVER — On Sunday, October 8, Fly to Pie’s 6-mile run, bike, or hike from Irasburg to West Glover will be dedicated to supporting the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. The $25 fee for the walk, run, or bike will be dedicated in its entirety to the Red Cross. Parker Pie is offering…
NEWPORT — Police in New Hampshire say they have charged a woman with negligent homicide and aggravated driving while intoxicated, after a car crash over the weekend took the lives of two Orleans County residents. The head-on collision took place at around 11:15 p.m. Friday night on Route 10 in Croydon, New Hampshire. The crash…
NEWPORT — The Newport Police Department has obtained an arrest warrant for a man who allegedly broke into a business early this morning. Police say they are actively seeking Daniel Greenwood, 41, whose most recent known addresses are in Troy and Coventry. At approximately 4:42 a.m. an officer was dispatched to the West Side Deli…
COVENTRY — A Westfield man is facing charges after a single-vehicle crash in Coventry on Thursday afternoon. At around 4:11 p.m. police were notified of the wreck on US Route 5, just south of Airport Road. The driver was identified as 29-year-old Frank Villegas. Police say Villegas traveled off the traveled portion of the roadway…
COVENTRY — Construction crews working on ledge stabilization along Route 5 in Coventry will continue construction tasks to prepare for the scaling of the ledge. The project is located approximately 2.5 miles north of the Coventry line where the roadway occupies a narrow corridor between the subject rock cut on the west and the Black…
COVENTRY — Police say that a truck that crashed on Wednesday morning, had been stolen earlier from a parking lot in Derby. At around 9:50 a.m. police responded to calls of a white Ford pick-up truck that had gone off the roadway by the intersection of Coventry Station Road in the town of Coventry. Police…
NEWPORT — A 34-year-old man from Derby was injured after being ejected from his vehicle during a crash in Coventry early Friday morning. At around 12:30 a.m. police responded to the single-vehicle crash on Messier Farm Road. When they arrived they found a man on the ground approximately 20 feet from the vehicle with a…
NEWPORT — A 52-year-old woman from Barton was injured in a single-vehicle car crash this morning. At around 9:00 a.m. police responded to the crash on I-91 north, near mile marker 167 in Coventry. Police say the driver, identified as Deanna Simpson, was experiencing a medical emergency, which caused her to veer off of the…
ORLEANS — One of the state’s premier wildlife watching opportunities is happening right now in Orleans. The steelhead rainbow trout have started their upstream migration, leaping up waterfalls in a spectacular display of determination on their way to their spawning grounds. The best place to spot steelhead is at Willoughby Falls just outside downtown Orleans.…
COVENTRY — A 16-year-old driver from Newport Center was taken to the hospital yesterday after a single-vehicle crash in Coventry. The accident took place on Route 14. Police say Andrew Matten was headed toward Alderbrook Road in a 2004 Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck when the vehicle left the roadway. The truck slid and hit a…
COVENTRY — A man was rescued from his home in Coventry after he passed out trying to save his dogs during a house fire early Thursday morning. At around 2:00 a.m. the Newport City Fire Department was dispatched to a fully involved structure fire on Main Street. While en-route the fire department learned that a…
NEWPORT — A 56-year-old woman from Coventry is facing charges after police said she was driving Thursday evening near Newport with a blood-alcohol level almost three times over the legal limit. At around 5:00 p.m. police say they observed a Subaru Outback commit a motor vehicle violation on Coventry Street in Newport City and conducted…
COVENTRY — A police cruiser was hit Monday night by a mailbox still attached to the wooden post and cement block after it was thrown from an overpass on I-91. Deputy Tyler Jacobs was headed north on I-91 in Coventry when he saw a man with the object throw it off of the overpass and…
COVENTRY — A 52-year-old man from Newport was arrested on Wednesday when police say they found him passed out drunk inside a vehicle in Coventry. At around 7:00 p.m., police were dispatched to a report of an unresponsive male in a motor vehicle on Maxwell Road. Police say their investigation indicated that the driver, identified…
COVENTRY — Two people were injured during a car crash in Coventry this afternoon. At around 12:45 p.m. on Thursday, police were dispatched to the two-vehicle crash on Vermont Route 105. Both drivers, Rose Blais, 75, of Troy, and Shirley Kasanoff, 67, of Troy, were headed east, when police say Kasanoff decreased her speed to…
COVENTRY — A section of VT-105 was closed for a short time after a crash took place this morning that sent two people to the hospital. The accident happened at around 10 a.m. in the area of Petit Road. Police say Judith Boucher, 61, of Newport, and Beverly Minnie, 47, of Newport Center, were transported…
IRASBURG — Judith Jackson, a member of the Irasburg Planning Commission, announced on Thursday her candidacy for the Vermont House of Representatives to represent the citizens of Irasburg, Coventry, Newport Town, Newport City, and Troy. Jackson, running as a Democrat, joins her neighbor and fellow Irasburg Ridge Alliance (IRA) organizer Dr. Ron Holland on the…
IRASBURG — Dr. Ron Holland, the senior emergency physician at North Country Hospital, announced his candidacy for the Vermont House of Representatives to represent the citizens of Irasburg, Coventry, Newport City, Newport Town and Troy. He filed the required petition with the District Clerk in Newport yesterday. “I’ve been practicing medicine since 1972, and every…