‘Art of Action’ finalist has a mission



    FLETCHER — Photographer Clair Dunn is alarmed by the changes that have turned the Vermont landscape from farms and fields, to more and more dwellings.

By JOY CHOQUETTE

Messenger Staff Writer



    FAIRFIELD —    Over the years many children have become less familiar with what grows in the garden and how the food they eat comes to end up on their plates.

By LISA M. BOUCHER

Messenger Correspondent



U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant, and 1994 Bellows Free Academy, St. Albans graduate, Kenneth Young has been named the U.S. Marine Corps 2007 Male Athlete of the Year.

Enosburg High graduates in national contest



By MELISSA BETTY

Messenger Staff



ENOSBURG FALLS — Cold Hollow Career Center students Jeremy Bushey and Lance Swick, along with their auto instructor, Baxter Weed, can’t wait to leave Sunday afternoon for Dearborn, Mich.

By JOY CHOQUETTE

Messenger Correspondent



    ST. ALBANS — Victor Gruen, the architect who created the first mall in America once said, “It is our belief that there is much need for shopping centers—market places that are also centers of community and cultural activities.” Gruen’s marketing practices gained such popularity over the years that the “Gruen Effect” was named after him.

By NAT WORMAN

Messenger Correspondent

 

    HIGHGATE – The pool is in! And yesterday, eight-year-old Scotty Hemond rolled over and over in the grass to get to it.

    Editor’s Note: Lt. Col. Dan Pipes, of Fairfield, is serving with the Vermont National Guard in Afghanistan. This is his second  report from in theatre. Camp Stone is the name of our forward operating base and it and Team Stone were named for Master Sergeant Tom Stone, a Vermont Army National Guard medic who was killed in action on his third tour in Afghanistan in 2006. A profile of Pipes appeared in the April 12 Messenger.



By Lt. Col. DAN PIPES

Special to the Messenger



HERAT, Afghanistan — As Team Stone settles in for our tour, Afghanistan is suddenly in the forefront of the American people.

By JASON COVELY

Messenger Correspondent



    SWANTON —  What on earth is a lake-glass hunter, and why do these glass hunters hunt for it in Lake Champlain?

City’s program hopes to help liberate victims



    ST. ALBANS CITY — Corporal Sean Bourgeois, of the St. Albans City Police Department, began his talk to a group at City Hall Wednesday night, but then paused for nine seconds.

Franklin man in hospital for stress disorder

 

Written by NAT WORMAN



     FRANKLIN – One hundred miles away from his wife, Mikell, and his home on Middle Road here, Dennis Delisle, 44, is in the VA Hospital in White River Junction again.

Franklin teenager celebrates being ‘different’

 

By NAT WORMAN



    FRANKLIN – By various vocabularies, Zoe Pierce-Dickens, 14, is biracial, a person of color, of mixed race or ethnicity.

Area native singer in Air Force band



    One might suggest that Franklin County native Victoria Bruyette is earning her rock ’n’ roll stripes while serving overseas in the military.

1977 Chevy Concours one spiffy vehicle



By JASON COVELY



    RICHFORD — Beatrice “Bea” Demar has owned many vehicles in her 82 years. She learned to drive in her father’s 1929 Model T Ford when she got her drivers license back in 1945.

African country’s children continuously at risk



    Editor’s Note: Belinda Laidley-Collias, a former Georgia resident is serving in the Peace Corps in Lesotho, Africa. With the help of her mother, Dr. Bettina Laidley, of Georgia, the Messenger recently contacted her via e-mail and asked her to comment about her life and work there. Belinda has access to the Internet only once she travels into a nearby town. The 23-year-old has been in Africa since June of last year. She is a graduate of Georgia Elementary School. She has a degree in biological sciences from the University of Vermont.



By BELINDA LAIDLEY-COLLIAS

Special to the Messenger



    LOSOTHO, Africa — As you probably know Lesotho is a small, independent country, which is completely landlocked by the republic of South Africa

Rescue volunteer specializes in bulldogs and bull mastiffs



By JULIE CONCANNON

Messenger Correspondent



    Over the past 15 years, Colleen Rouhan has experienced the love and challenges that come from welcoming more than 400 animals into her home. She has become a trusted member of the animal rescue community due to her dedication to volunteer work with both rabbits and dogs.