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Monkton's Mark Lavoie to play the blues at sea

Posted on January 9, 2012 |
By Andrea Suozzo



MONKTON — In just a few weeks, Addison County musician Mark LaVoie will be heading to the tropics on a sold-out luxury cruise.

Sounds ritzy, but for LaVoie the trip will be a working vacation. The East Monkton harmonica player forms one part of a blues-roots duo with New York City-based blues singer Bill Sims Jr., and theirs will be one of nearly 30 groups to perform aboard the week-long Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise in the Caribbean.

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Monkton inventors clinch award

Posted on December 29, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



MONKTON — After winging the first round of an applied science competition in November, a group of young inventors from Monkton honed their programming skills, fine-tuned their robot construction techniques and brainstormed solutions to real-world problems.

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Monkton creates energy panel

Posted on December 8, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



MONKTON — The Monkton selectboard has created a town energy committee to explore energy efficiency programs, like the “Property Assessed Clean Energy” program, or PACE.

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Monkton proposes new building for town offices, library

Posted on December 5, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



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MONKTON — Officials in Monkton say they’ve exceeded the capacity of their 1,200-square-foot town hall. According to the 2010 census, Monkton is one of Addison County’s fastest growing towns, expanding at a rate of 12.6 percent in the last decade to a total of 1,980 residents.

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Young inventors find winning formula

Posted on November 17, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



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MONKTON — Imagine if kids were the ones testing the boundaries of technology. Imagine if they were programming artificial intelligence into robots they built themselves. And imagine if, when widespread problems arose, students invented products to solve them.

Since September, a team of 10 Monkton youths has done just that: created and programmed an autonomous robot made of Legos and invented a prototype lunchbox to protect food from contamination in preparation for the 2011 First Lego League Robotics Competition.

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New rate will save Monkton funds

Posted on August 11, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



MONKTON — The Monkton selectboard on July 25 announced that the bond taken out in 2002 to fund the 2003 fire station addition was refinanced by the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank at a lower interest rate. Meeting minutes indicated that this reduction in future interest payments will save the town money.

“Interest rate reductions don’t kick in until 2015 … so the refinancing will only affect the last two years of bond payments and will only … range from $700 to $1,000 in savings,” said Charles Roumas, town treasurer.

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Monkton attempts to set a new knitting world record

Posted on May 19, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



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MONKTON — Watch out world, a team of Monkton Central School first- and second-graders is poised to break a new record.

The students in Barbara Yerrick’s second-grade class and Suzy Way’s first- and second-grade class have joined forces to break the Guinness World Record for team finger knitting, currently held by a group of Austrian fourth-graders at 3.85 miles.

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Monkton may move town hall building

Posted on February 14, 2011 |
By John S. McCright



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MONKTON — Officials in Monkton are taking a new look at how to solve the problem of lack of space in the town offices while also making for a roomier town library. They will discuss their plans and seek feedback at a meeting this Thursday evening.

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Writing contest celebrates farming life

Posted on February 14, 2011 |
By Andrea Suozzo



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MONKTON — Students at Monkton Central School recently got a special treat: Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, an author from the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, came by to do writing workshops with the students and judge the William C. Shattuck Farming in Monkton writing contest.

Contest founders Eugenie Doyle and Sam Burr run Last Resort Farm in Monkton on land that they purchased from Bill Shattuck. His family had owned the land for 150 years before he sold it, and after his death, Doyle said she and her husband wanted to find a way to memorialize him.

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Early morning fire destroys Monkton home

Posted on February 7, 2011 |
By Tamara Hilmes



MONKTON — On Wednesday morning, fire ravaged the Bristol Road home of Tom Cousino in Monkton.

According to Monkton Volunteer Fire Department Chief David Layn, the call was made by firefighter Robert Howard, who noticed the house was on fire on his way to work, around 6:45 a.m.

Cousino was asleep in the house at the time, but awoke coughing from the smoke. He climbed out of his bedroom window and slid down the shed roof, according to Layn.

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