John S. McCright


  • Eighty COVID cases traced back to Vergennes Christmas services

    Eighty COVID cases traced back to Vergennes Christmas services

    VERGENNES  — After Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine singled out a Vergennes church as the source of 80 recent COVID-19 cases, the pastor of Victory Baptist Church…

  • Harvey Smith returns to House

    ADDISON-5 — Longtime incumbent Rep. Harvey Smith said he was surprised that his margin of victory in the Addison-5 House race wasn’t closer. Smith, a New Haven Republican,…

  • Conlon to serve a third term

    ADDISON-2 — Incumbent Rep. Peter Conlon, D-Cornwall on Tuesday easily won reelection to a third term representing the Addison-2 Vermont House seat that represents Cornwall, Salisbury, Leicester, Ripton,…

  • Drive-through Halloween a big success in Middlebury

    Drive-through Halloween a big success in Middlebury

    MIDDLEBURY — Community promoters know that Halloween is a BIG deal for kids and they didn’t want to let the coronavirus ruin the holiday. So the folks at…

  • Many in county have already voted

    Many in county have already voted

    ADDISON COUNTY — In a normal election year dozens — sometimes scores — of absentee ballots come into town clerks’ offices around Addison County before the main event,…

  • Senior Lifestyles: Area seniors stay active in election despite COVID

    Senior Lifestyles: Area seniors stay active in election despite COVID

    Anyone who has been to a polling place in Vermont on Election Day knows that many of the volunteers who help their fellow citizens cast votes are senior…

  • ‘Spit’n Lyon’ melds music and history onstage

    ‘Spit’n Lyon’ melds music and history onstage

    The nation is torn apart by factions haranguing their fellow citizens for wrong-headed thinking and transgressions both real and fabricated. The president, emboldened by sycophants, abuses his power,…

  • Thomas Dairy to cease operation; Monument Farms still chugging along

    RUTLAND TOWN — After more than 100 years in the milk business, Thomas Dairy is closing its doors.  The venerable dairy on Route 7 in Rutland town had…

  • At Middlebury College, the show must go on… online

    At Middlebury College, the show must go on… online

    If she is being completely honest, bassoonist Monica Ellis has reservations about performing online. “I miss terribly the palpable energy that comes only from live performances with my…

  • Protesters condemn Postal Service cuts

    Protesters condemn Postal Service cuts

    ADDISON COUNTY AND BRANDON — Anger over the precipitous decline in the quality of mail delivery from the U.S. Postal Service showed itself this past Saturday when protests…