http://caledonianrecord.com en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 23:17:42 GMT Daily feed of articles http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94664 St. Johnsbury Academy's new head football coach was forced to resign from his head coaching job at Castleton State College for NCAA violations two years ago and was banned from a public park in Rutland last spring after getting into a fight with an umpire after a youth baseball game. NEWS Tue, 21 May 2013 13:23:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94667 The Vermont State Police has finished investigating a case in which a state trooper was photographed while texting in his cruiser. NEWS Tue, 21 May 2013 13:10:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94645 LANCASTER, N.H. -- The case against the Colebrook man indicted last year on multiple counts of sexually assaulting his stepson in the 1990s has resulted in two mistrials. NEWS Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94673 Dr. Janet Gorman McCarthy, a former president of Lyndon State College whose tenure at the helm of LSC lasted for six years, died at her home on Cape Cod last week. She was 76. NEWS Tue, 21 May 2013 12:55:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94646 NEWPORT CITY -- Three Supreme Court justices upheld two cocaine convictions against a New York man in a recent decision. NEWS Tue, 21 May 2013 12:50:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94644 St. Johnsbury resident Bob South, a local representative to the Vermont House, has a new job in a new town but is not leaving his St. Johnsbury home. NEWS Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94662 NEWPORT CITY -- A Derby man who allegedly stole and crashed a school bus, stole a Morgan man's pickup truck, tried to steal another truck from a Morgan driveway, and absconded with a beloved Labrador retriever headed back to jail after his arraignment in Orleans Superior Court-Criminal Division Monday. NEWS Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94670 WHEELOCK -- The abutting property owners to a Class 4 road have asked that the town put up, or abandon the road, and the select board will hold a special meeting today at 5 p.m. on the petition at the intersection of Jill's Hill and Chandler Pond Road. NEWS Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94671 Fernando Johnson, 32, Milwaukee, Wisc., places a call after he rolled this Dodge 2500 cargo van owned by Burkina Express, Madison, Wisc., on Interstate 91 Monday morning. He skidded on the rain-slick road at about 10:30 a.m. According to Trooper Matthew Tarricone, Johnson was uninjured but the vehicle was a total loss. NEWS Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94672 LITTLETON, N.H. -- Two months after approval at town meeting, the wood pellet district heating system for the highway garage and firehouse has been installed, with an estimated 20-year cost savings of $300,000. NEWS Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94681 NEWPORT CITY -- Vermont's Lt. Gov. Phil Scott will listen to local business people at a roundtable discussion Thursday at the Newport Country Club. NEWS Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94623 NEWPORT CITY -- A former Orleans man who admitted bludgeoning his roommate with a large wooden ashtray will spend a year in jail. NEWS Mon, 20 May 2013 12:23:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94631 LYNDON CENTER -- Dozens of area trash haulers as well as supervisors from the more than 40 towns which make up the Northeast Kingdom Waste Management District gathered this week at Lyndon Institute to talk about how the trash collection and separation system can gear up for mandatory state recycling. NEWS Mon, 20 May 2013 12:15:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94635 Eleanor Machell, 85, of Lyndonville, was killed Saturday when a car she was a passenger in on Route 122 in Lyndonville flipped over. NEWS Mon, 20 May 2013 12:10:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94625 The St. Johnsbury School Board of Directors tonight will likely consider the issue of eliminating Martin Luther King Day as a student vacation. NEWS Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94617 JOHNSON -- Voters of the state's second largest electric utility - Vermont Electric Cooperative - re-elected incumbents to the board of directors to represent eastern districts in the Northeast Kingdom on Saturday. NEWS Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94618 It was a picture-perfect day for the annual "Dandelion Run," with the course framed by an abundance of the color yellow as thousands of dandelions crowded the fields to watch their race. NEWS Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94621 SUTTON -- The owners of a hoped-for gravel pit off Route 5 in Sutton have finally secured a Land Use Permit following a lengthy delay because of an issue with a train crossing to the site. NEWS Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94622 Landon Letourneau, 2, of St. Johnsbury, scopes the St. Johnsbury Fire Department's ladder truck Saturday during a fundraiser at Kinney Drugs in St. Johnsbury for the Children's Miracle Network. NEWS Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94626 NEWARK -- Filling retiring Principal Mary Ann Riggie's shoes wasn't going to be an easy task, as the school board chairman said earlier, but the school board has selected Patrick Ely, who is leaving a post in the St. Johnsbury School District to take over the tiny rural school. NEWS Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94632 Reenactors perform Saturday on the common in Haverhill, N.H., during a celebration of the town's 250th birthday. From left are Wayne Mitchell of Haverhill, Glen Page of Haverhill, and Med Chandler of Lisbon. The event included other reenactments and a reading of the town charter. Emergency vehicles were on hand for youngsters. Newbury in Vermont was also celebrating its 250th on Saturday. NEWS Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94633 NEWPORT CITY -- State Police say a 22-year-old Newport man is in jail on charges of stealing and crashing a Newport City school bus and stealing two other vehicles. NEWS Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94634 WILLIAMSTOWN, Vt. (AP) -- Failing 9th grade for the second year in row, A.J. Swan had accepted that he wasn't going to graduate from his Vermont high school. He'd barely made it this far, after being held back in 7th grade. NEWS Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94640 Lyndon State College granted the wish of a retired dentist from West Glover. NEWS Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://caledonianrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=145&ArticleID=94641 St. Johnsbury's 2011 audit was posted to the municipality's website this week as requested by residents. NEWS Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT