By Jaime Thomas The Hartford and Fort Ann junior and senior classes watched as emergency responders used hydraulic equipment to extricate their classmates from a car crash. One of them had to be loaded onto a stretcher; the other was carried away in a zipped up body bag. It was all part of the districts’ [...]
DWI arrest in Hampton
A local man was arrested last week following an accident on County Route 18 that police said was alcohol related. Stephen L. Lonsdale, 56, was charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and issued tickets for excessive speed and failure to keep right. The one-car accident occurred at [...]
Man arrested for illegally taking fish
A Whitehall man was arrested on a warrant in Fair Haven after being pulled over for a routine traffic stop. Garth Martel, 24, of Whitehall was stopped after police saw him swerve out of his lane several times. He was arrested for illegally taking fish from on a prior warrant. While they were running his [...]
Local man arrested for DWI
A Whitehall man was arrested for DWI in Fair Haven after he was pulled over and had a blood alcohol content more than twice the legal limit. Michael J. Wilson, 24, of Whitehall, was arrested on Nov. 6 after police observed a motor vehicle he was driving leave the roadway on Route 4A in Fair [...]
DWI crash
A 57-year-old Troy man faces multiple charges including driving while intoxicated following a single car crash in North Granville Wednesday afternoon, May 25. David E. Cooney’s blue Saturn station wagon failed to follow Upper Turnpike as it curves out to the west to meet Route 22 near D & K Automotive and drove over an [...]







VPR commentator entertains at Slate Valley Museum
By Jaime Thomas About 75 people gathered at the Slate Valley Museum Thursday evening to listen to Vermont Public Radio [...]