Margaret Lampe Kannenstine passed from this earth on Monday, November 20th at Dartmouth Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. Peggy, or Peg, as she preferred to be called, was born in St. Louis, MO on April 1, 1938. Peggy was the eldest daughter of Dr. John A. Lampe, a third-generation Presbyterian minister, and Margaret Elizabeth Lampe (nee) Phillips. Peggy attended Hamilton High School, …
The amazing Doris M. LeBaron, 97, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family on November 21, 2023. Doris was born on June 26, 1926, in Philadelphia, PA to William and Sarah Ann (Sally) McFall. After graduating from high school, she worked for the Philadelphia Railroad as a secretary. She was always so proud of how fast she could type. She met …
‘You see the whole community here’ By Lauren Dorsey, Staff Writer Co-owners Lauren Stevens and Peter Varkonyi commemorated the five-year anniversary of their store, the Brownsville Butcher and Pantry, last Saturday. To mark the milestone, the couple hosted a community celebration where they gave out free chili and cider, hosted live jazz music, and reflected on their time operating the …
The invasive emerald ash borer has arrived at Marsh Billings Rockefeller National Historical Park (MBRNP). Steven Mortillo, the natural resources program lead at MBRNP, discovered evidence of a borer infestation across the street from the park on Sept. 13. The beetle, which has spread to most counties in Vermont, is “devastatingly effective at killing ash species and poses a serious …
Mary B. Keith was born at 6:00 p.m., October 23, 1932, at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, New Hampshire. Born to parents Windsor County Clerk George C. Brockway and pianist and music teacher Marion M. Brockway, Mary Lou Brockway first traveled from the hospital to her cherished lifelong home on Woodstock Road in Woodstock, Vermont by train. When she was …
Mary Jane McClure Arvidson died Thursday, November 16th, 2023, at Dartmouth Health’s Jack Byrne Center after a long illness. She was born in St. Albans, West Virginia on August 8th, 1938, to Lissie and Ottie McClure as their eighth and final child. She graduated from St. Albans High School in St. Albans, West Virginia in 1956 and from Marshall University …
Dr. John N. Schullinger, 94, died on November 13, 2023, at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center of natural causes. He was born June 26, 1929, in New York City, the son of Rudolph N. and Audrey B. Schullinger of New York City and Woodstock, Vermont. He was a graduate of Princeton University (1951) and The College of Physicians and Surgeons …
Barbara Phyllis Condict, 97, passed away peacefully on November 14, 2023, in Woodstock, VT. She was born in Leominster, MA on November 1, 1926, to Erwin W. and Sadie (Goodwin) Smith. She graduated from Leominster High School in 1944 and from Framingham State College in 1948. In August of 1949, she married T. Chubb Condict following only 3 weeks of …
60 rising comics will join the four-day event Celebrated “Saturday Night Live” alum Colin Quinn will headline the second annual Vermont Comedy Festival, which will also bring more than 60 rising stars of the stand-up and sketch comedy realms to Bridgewater, Killington, Pomfret, and Woodstock on Thursday, Nov. 30 through Sunday, Dec. 3. Festival headliner Quinn, the co-anchor on SNL’s …
By Dan Cotter, publisher Friendship. That’s what I’m thinking about as I publish this year’s fourth and final annual appeal article. Of course, that makes perfect sense given our heritage. If you’ve ever seen longtime Vermont Standard icon Phil Camp in action as he walks down Central or Elm Street, or when he’s seated near the fireplace at the Woodstock …