Isle La Motte News

ISLE LA MOTTE -- The fifth time's a charm in Isle La Motte, where voters Tuesday approved a school budget they rejected four times.

A Montreal woman who drowned her 8-year-old son in Lake Champlain three years ago was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday after a judge rejected calls for leniency from dozens of her supports.

It took five tries, but the school budget was finally passed in Isle La Motte. The $1.1 million spending plan is the exact budget voters first rejected on Town Meeting Day back in March.

Shall we go to the beach today? If you can't afford Bermuda or sunny Florida, perhaps we can visit some former beaches closer to home.

Louise Desnoyers trembled and wept Thursday as a prosecutor described how the Montreal woman lured her 8-year-old son, Nicholas, into Lake Champlain late one night in August 2006, then shoved him underwater until he drowned and lashed his body to a submerged anchor.

A plea deal for a Montreal woman who drowned her son in Lake Champlain. Louise Desnoyers was brought to the courthouse under heavy security to change her plea for killing her son.

A Montreal mother who killed her young son in Vermont has struck a plea deal just days before her murder trial was to begin.

March 4, 2009-- Linda Fitch of the Isle La Motte Preservation Trust scans for fossils in October 2005 at the Chazy Fossil Reef, a 450-million-year-old site that runs through two counties in Vermont and New York ...

Mark your calendars for Sunday, March 1, 3:30 to 5 p.m., and enjoy a presentation by William Tortolano, Ph.D., called "A Vermont Music Sampler," at Studio Place Arts, 201 N. Main St.

A fossilized coral reef in Lake Champlain in Vermont and New York is being recognized by the federal government as a National Natural Landmark.

ST. ALBANS _ A Montreal woman accused of killing her 8-year-old son in Isle LaMotte in 2006 returned to court today for the first time since a judge declared her mentally fit for trail.

Karen Caffrey and Kevin Pellon were married Aug. 23, 2008, in a double-ring ceremony performed by Brian Cummings at St.

The former Isle La Motte town clerk is pleading not guilty to five felony charges that she took about $100,000 in town money.

Former Isle La Motte Town Clerk Suzanne LaBombard pleaded not guilty Monday to one felony count of embezzlement and four felony counts of false claims.

Suzanne LaBombard, 50, declined comment as she entered the courthouse to be charged with embezzling at least $100,000 from Isle La Motte as the village treasurer.

Former Isle La Motte town clerk and treasurer Suzanne LaBombard will be arraigned Monday on five felony counts, including embezzlement, Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell said Thursday.

A two-year investigation into missing money in Isle La Motte is complete and the town's former clerk and treasurer is facing embezzlement charges.