Tracy Davis Pierce

B ARTON — The Elm Street Bridge, which has been closed for more than a month, won't be replaced before 2029, but it will be partly reopened in the next few weeks. That was the report Gina Lyon, who chairs the Barton Trustees and serves as village manager, gave at the October 13 trustees meeting.

B ARTON—What is the job of lieutenant governor? According to Vermont's Constitution, the person who holds the office acts as the head of the executive branch when the Governor is out of the state, or that office is vacant. The lieutenant governor also is the president of the state Senate.

N EWPORT — Detective Paul Petralia, an investigator for the Office of Professional Regulation (OPR), part of the Vermont Secretary of State's office, said in an affidavit that a traveling nurse took drugs intended for two residents of the Union House Nursing Home in Glover. Detective Petralia's affidavit, filed to support the charges filed against Anneka Brooks, 46, of Titusville, Florida, says she diverted Oxycodone prescribed to two different patients.

N EWPORT — Despite concerns expressed by Northeast Kingdom residents at hearings held to discuss it, the board of the Northeast Vermont Development Association (NVDA) approved the organization's regional plan. The board met at Le Belvedere on October 15 for the organization's annual meeting, not long after the third hearing on the plan.

N EWPORT — As part of a statewide tour, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amanda Janoo both asked and answered questions to a full house at the Gateway Center here on Monday. More than a hundred people attended the town-hall-style event, seeking information about Ms. Janoo's plans for Vermont. In turn, she got to hear the priorities and concerns of the community in attendance, as well.

A lifelong educator, he rose from a Windsor math teacher to a highly decorated principal of Waterbury Elementary School and superintendent of the Washington West Supervisory Union.

D ERBY LINE — Ah, coincidences. Some feel serendipitous; others feel like a cruel joke from the universe. In Two Tents , Stanstead-based writer and director Ross Murray leans into the latter. At a campsite, aptly named Painted Scenery Campground, Mel (Sarah Hardin) and her husband, Jim (Mic Hallinan), just so happen to set up their tent next to her long-ago ex, Dale (Benj Tabah), and his much younger girlfriend, Nancy (Holly Lillis). As the weekend progresses, secrets are revealed, relationships tested, and lots of stress beers are consumed. But, in the end, the play offers an honest reminder that life has a funny way of working out, whether it's planned or not.

N EWPORT — Ezra Foss, 28, of Morgan pled innocent to felony charges of first-degree aggravated domestic assault and first-degree aggravated domestic assault with a weapon, as well as three charges of reckless endangerment. Judge Justin Jiron, one of several judges who presided in the Criminal Division of Orleans County Superior Court while Judge Bonnie Badgewick was overseeing a jury trial, ordered Mr. Foss to be held without bail.

E than Allen Interiors shareholders meet on November 4 for the company's annual meeting and shareholders are being asked by activist investor Doug G. Bergeron to oust the current board and replace all five members with his nominees. While the meeting will be held in Danbury, Connecticut, most of the votes, known as proxies, will be cast ahead of time by what amounts to absentee balloting.

I n conjunction with an art show and spaghetti dinner, the Lake Region Union High School Music Department put on its annual Modern Band concert on Friday evening. As usual, the talented cohort truly rocked — with musical tributes to late legends Dolly Parton and Ozzy Osbourne, and impressive original songs that Lake Region's first audio engineering students performed.