Essex Junction News

For Jane Lustgarten, who runs an Addison County bed-and-breakfast with her husband, the key to hosting people in her home is found in two words: Guest mode.

You rarely meet a chef whose culinary goal is to perfect the chicken finger or make the best kids' cheese pizza ever, but those are the staples on children's menus at many American restaurants.

ST. ALBANS -- Federal workers in Vermont who recently won back pay from private contractors who paid them under order of the U.S Department of Labor Saturday thanked two of the government officials and Sen.

FoodScience Corp. presented a check for $21,581 to the United Way of Chittenden County.

Two men damaged 24 vehicles around Burlington on Sunday, police said. Joshua Francis, 26, of Essex Junction and Issac L. Hanlon, 31, of Westford were cited with unlawful mischief.

Two men were arrested in Burlington last night in connection with a vandalism spree.

The 32nd annual Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Northern Vermont's Better Homes Award Banquet was held at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference in Burlington.

An Essex Junction woman accused of stabbing her 16-year-old niece to death last week likely would represent a threat to the community and any person she might live with while facing murder charges, and she is a risk to flee the state, a Chittenden County judge wrote today in ordering the suspect held without bail.

An Essex Junction woman accused of murdering her niece will not get out on bail.

ESSEX -- The superintendent of the Essex Town School District will resign at the end of the school year.

Latonia Congress, 30, of Essex appears in Vermont District Court in Burlington on Friday morning, October 16, 2009, after being arrested for the stabbing death of her 16-year-old niece, Shatavia Alford of Essex Junction, in an alleged dispute over laundry.

The state's chief medical examiner says an Essex Junction teenager died last week of stab wound and not from a knife being thrown at her as police had originally thought.

Dick and Mary Mitchell of Essex Junction recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with family and friends at a surprise party given by their children at the Holiday Inn in South Burlington.

ESSEX JUNCTION - An Essex family struggled Friday to cope with a nightmare that unfolded at dinnertime Thursday - that an aunt who had cared for her niece for the past eight years was now charged with stabbing the 16-year-old girl to death.

World class competitors from the equine circuit are in Vermont this weekend. The Eastern Draft Horse Association is holding its annual 2009 Championship Round Up competition at the fairgrounds in Essex Junction.

ESSEX JUNCTION -- In an effort to revitalize their downtown, Essex Junction residents are considering cashing in on the village's history as a railway hub.

Police are investigating the death of 16 year-old Shatavia Alford in Essex Junction.

The company is looking to hire between 30 and 35 people to take calls in its call center.

Tom Cimonetti worked as a civil engineer in construction for 26 years. When he was laid off last spring, Cimonetti, 48, of Essex Junction started attending weekly 'job club' meetings in Burlington.

SOUTH BURLINGTON - From the day the Rockwell family moved next door to the Edgertons, Buddy Edgerton and his sisters called the Rockwell parents by their first names, Norman and Mary.