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Vol. 2 No. 7
February 17, 2010
Community News, Sports, Arts, Entertainment and Food for Southern VT and NH
A Ver mont Institution
Chester Enjoys Winter Carnival — Pg.14
Exploring Sherwin Art Glass — Pg. 15
Chieftains Edge Arlington — Pg. 16
PAGE LISTING Ludlow . . . . . . . . . .2-6
Rockingham . . . .12-13
Brattleboro . . . . . . . .6
Chester . . . . . . . . . .14
Okemo Resort. . . . . . .7
A&E . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Springfield . . . . . . .8-9
Sports . . . . . . . . . . .16
Londonderry . . . . . .10
Puzzle Page . . . . . . . 17
Food . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Classifieds . . . . . .18-20
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Text and Photo by Robert F. Smith – editor Brothers Gardener, Cabot and Eliot Orton, from left, and Eliot’s year-old son Leo, surround their grandmother, Mildred Ellen Orton, at her 99th birthday party last week on Feb. 9. Ellen and her husband Vrest printed the first catalog offering high quality, practical mail order products in 1945, and the Orton’s founded The Vermont Country Store in Weston in 1946. Vrest’s father had operated a general store in North Calais, and Ellen grew up on the Wilcox dairy farm in Manchester. Ellen’s grandsons and great grandson are 8th and 9th generation Vermonters, as well as 4th – and potentially 5th – generation store owners, operating The Vermont Country Store, with an international mail order business and stores in Weston and Rockingham, along with their father Lyman Orton.
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