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2 weeks ago | 
newportvermontdailyexpress.com | Christopher Roy
JAY – In the shadow of Jay Peak, Gerardo Ortiz teaches third and fourth grade students. He has been at the Jay-Westfield (Jay-Westfield) Joint Elementary School for about 14 years. “This is my home,” he said with pride, while sitting in his classroom as students got ready to leave for the weekend. Before working at Jay-Westfield school he worked at Newport City Elementary School and did student teaching at Newport Town School.
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2 weeks ago | 
newportvermontdailyexpress.com | Christopher Roy
NEWPORT CITY – New England certainly is a large historic piece of the United States settlement and Vermont is no exception. A film produced, written, and directed by Jay Craven, a Northeast Kingdom resident, outlines how Vermont became a state. The one hour and 43-minute movie, ‘Lost Nation’, had a public showing at the North Country Union High School Auditorium Wednesday evening.
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3 weeks ago | 
newportvermontdailyexpress.com | Christopher Roy
IRASBURG - The Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) are blaming driver error as the cause of a tractor trailer crash on Route 58 Saturday morning. According to the DMV, at about 9:02 a.m., DMV Law Enforcement and safety inspectors were called to the vicinity of 1864 Route 58 in Irasburg for a commercial vehicle rollover. When they arrived, inspectors located a tractor-trailer combination overturned and off the roadway.
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4 weeks ago | 
newportvermontdailyexpress.com | Christopher Roy
NEWPORT CITY – Some students excel more at book learning while others succeed better with hands-on learning and building things. Many of those who like to use their hands take classes at the North Country Career Center (NCCC). Hazen Converse teaches such students. He teaches the engineering and digital fabrication program at the school. Hazen, a graduate from North Country Union High School, got into teaching because he and his wife decided to relocate to Newport City.
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1 month ago | 
newportvermontdailyexpress.com | Christopher Roy
DERBY LINE – Plans to renovate the historic Haskell Opera House and Library, which is partly in the United States and partly in Canada, are well underway. The plans entail changing an emergency exit on the Canadian side of the building to a regular entrance so visitors entering from Canada can have an egress to the building.
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1 month ago | 
newportvermontdailyexpress.com | Christopher Roy
DERBY – A group of young wrestlers recently received a nice financial donation from Jason Griffth, owner of Vermont Vitality Fitness Center at the Price Chopper Plaza, to help their team. In turn the team recently spent time cleaning Griffth’s gym. Griffth explained the team had been looking for financial donations so it could travel to competitions.
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1 month ago | 
newportvermontdailyexpress.com | Christopher Roy
NEWPORT CITY – President Donald Trump continues to tout plans for tariffs between the United States and Canada as well as Mexico. On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt) and the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, a Member of Parliament for Compton-Stanstead, Quebec, along with about 30 business, state officials, and community leaders met to discuss the tariffs and the ramifications businesses on both sides of the border will face from an escalating trade war.
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1 month ago | 
newportvermontdailyexpress.com | Christopher Roy
HOLLAND – As strong, frigid winds whipped snow around the region on Saturday afternoon, dozens of snowmobilers from both sides of the border and others gathered on Vermont Association of Snow Travelers (VAST) Trail 105A at a new warming hut for its ribbon cutting. The hut is at the end of Sterns Brook Road in Holland, just a few feet from the United States-Canadian Border. It was dedicated to Border Patrol Agent David “Chris” Maland, who died in the line of duty in January.
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2 months ago | 
newportvermontdailyexpress.com | Christopher Roy
COVENTRY – When voters head out on Town Meeting Day next week, they will be asked to approve a school budget of $5,079,682. Last year, they approved a budget of $4,761,619. This is an increase of about 6.68 percent. Despite the increase, Coventry taxpayers are expected to see lower education tax bills due to the Common Level of Appraisal and the state’s weighted formula.
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2 months ago | 
newportvermontdailyexpress.com | Christopher Roy
NEWPORT CITY – The former Bogner factory off the Lake Road, which has been vacant for over five years, has new life. TRACK Inc., “the preeminent dealer in North America for superior snow grooming and specialized off road utility vehicles and equipment,” held a ribbon cutting at their new facility on Friday morning. On Saturday, they held a groomer rodeo and open house. The events came just as the region was bracing for a significant snowstorm.
