Caledonian Accuses Former Newport Daily Publisher of Racketeering
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Hunter Barton gets his first hopes to clean up moose in Averill junky yards. 32 3 the Chronicle THE WEEKLY JOURNAL OF ORLEANS COUNTY TWO SECTIONS, 52 PAGES VOLUME 44, NUMBER 43 OCTOBER 25, 2017 ONE DOLLAR Caledonian Hay is for horses accuses former Newport Daily publisher of racketeering by Joseph Gresser The Caledonian-Record has gone to federal court to accuse the former publisher of the Newport Daily Express and the company that owns the newspaper of racketeering. In a suit filed on October 20 in U.S. District Court in Burlington, the Caledonian-Record says it was damaged when Ken Wells lied about his newspaper’s circulation to advertisers and downloaded nearly 700 photographs from Associated Press (AP) using the St. Johnsbury- based paper’s password and account without its knowledge or permission. Most or all of the photos were published in the Daily Express, the suit claims. Pete and Chantel Gonyer put together this creepy and colorful Halloween display on Route 105 just outside North Troy Village. Hundreds of pumpkins and gourds are for sale. They are grown on the family farm, one of Although the Express had an AP account, it the biggest dairy goat farms in the area. The ghoulish creatures guarding over them are not for sale, but you probably wouldn’t want to take them home anyway. For more photos, please see page sixteen. (Continued on page twenty-six.) Photo by Tena Starr In Barton Reward offered in New senior center moose poaching case is in the works by Tena Starr GoFundMe page: “Vermont state by Elizabeth Trail It’s not certain that lunch will game wardens are seeking tips to be offered every week. But this A Craftsbury Common woman help solve a case of a moose that BARTON — A new senior center week and last week, people have rapidly raised more than $2,500 was poached in Westmore. A is in the works in Barton. Called stepped up to donate food. And through GoFundMe in order put up reward is available to anyone with Barton Area Senior Services, Inc., former Barton Senior Center cook a reward she hopes will lead to the information leading to an arrest by (BASSI), the new group incorporated Giselle Chevallay has offered to conviction of whoever illegally shot calling Operation Game Thief at 1- with the state as a nonprofit last cook without pay for a few a cow moose in Westmore last 800-75 ALERT. The cow moose was week. Its organizers plan to resume Thursdays. month. shot from the road out of season a regular schedule of meals and It might even be possible to hold Efforts to reach Cindi and at night on Saturday, senior activities as soon as the IRS a potluck, as some seniors Bollettieri, who launched the September 23. After poachers shot grants it nonprofit status. suggested, as long as the meal is campaign and put up $1,000 the moose, they dragged the animal “If everything goes right, they held as a private gathering. herself, were unsuccessful, but she could be up and running around the “Senior meal sites have strict posted the following on the (Continued on page thirty-one.) first of December,” said Lallie health and safety rules,” said Ms. Mambourg at the Council on Aging Chevallay, who trained under the in St. Johnsbury. That agency auspices of the Council on Aging provides oversight of senior meal before being hired by Barton Senior Committee strikes sites in the area and reimburses Center last spring. them for part of the cost of the The IRS typically approves meals they serve. applications from prospective senior part of wind tower rule In the meantime, local meal sites in a matter of weeks, Ms. the same fate at the committee’s volunteers hope to offer coffee, by Joseph Gresser Mambourg said over the phone on next meeting on October 26. cards, and lunch on Thursdays at Monday. A legislative committee charged According to Senator Joe the Barton Memorial Building. BASSI’s three-member starter with vetting administrative rules Benning of Lyndonville, the board — the minimum required for had knocked down a major piece of administrative rules committee state incorporation or the IRS wind generation noise regulations voted down a portion of the rule 501(c)3 application — consists of drawn up at the request of the state drawn up by the state Public Cathy Swain, Cathy Reinstein, and Legislature. One member of the Utilities Commission. It would Marianne Royer. Patsy Tompkins Legislative Committee on have required industrial scale wind Administrative Rules wonders (Continued on page twenty-four.) whether the whole rule might meet (Continued on page twenty-five.) Page Two the Chronicle, October 25, 2017 the Chronicle Surf’s up INDEX Birth ..............................................................6B Crossword Puzzle..........................................25 Kids’ Corner ................................................17B Kingdom Calendar ...............................12B-17B Letters to the Editor ....................................4-8 Obituaries................................................4B-5B Perimeter......................................................3B Property Transfers ......................................10B Ruminations..................................................2B Sudoku Puzzle ...............................................11 Wedding........................................................6B Advertising Sections Auctions & Real Estate ............................8B-9B Auto .........................................................30-31 Building Trades ....................................10B-11B Classified Ads.......................................18B-19B Hair................................................................26 Jobs................................................................29 Pets................................................................27 Restaurants & Entertainment..............13B-14B NO POWER? 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Don’t miss out on the best prices in the area! $245 for the first 1,000 gallons, and $200 for the following tanks. The more you pump the more you save! • Conventional in-ground septic systems • Complex mound systems • Presby environmental • Performance-based mound • Peat moss tanks • Singular tanks • Trouble-shooting problems with leach fields • Tank & pipe locating 512 HZ receiver • Tank filters • Snaking of clogged lines • Roto Rooter • Hydrojetting • Charcoal air filter for odors • Residential & commercial excavation & trucking • Poly riser and cover installation 802-525-6663 • 802-673-7450 • Sewer camera the Chronicle, October 25, 2017 Page Three News briefs from around the county by Elizabeth Trail Among other things, the rules prohibit having filling the excavation back in and waiting until more than four vehicles visible from the street. Town Meeting to get voter approval for the larger Blittersdorf gives up Kidder Hill In fact, visibility is all. Owners of trash, salt shed, pouring the slab and storing the salt on wind towers scrap metal, and junk cars can keep them if the slab under a tarp until there are more funds, they’re not visible from any point outside the and going ahead with the original design. Wind developer David Blittersdorf is giving property —including the upstairs windows of No decisions were made at the select board up the two 112-foot wind turbines that power his neighboring homes. meeting about which way to go with the salt cabin in Irasburg — and the Certificate of Public In other business, the Barton Water shed. Good (CPG) that goes with them. Department is moving forward with the idea of In any event, the board agreed to pay The towers will be removed from Mr. drilling a test well as the next step toward a contractor Paul Lefebvre for the work he’s done to Blittersdorf’s Kidder Hill property by November municipal well for the village. date. 15, he said in a letter to the Public Utilities The well would replace the existing contact Elizabeth Trail, Commission (PUC). groundwater