Swanton News

The "Skull-and-Bones Bandit" has struck again. Just after 11 a.m. Friday, a man armed with a knife and wearing a brown hooded sweat shirt with a skull design on the front, robbedthe TD Bank branch on Main Street in Enosburg Falls.

Star Nite, 19, says she doesn't consider herself homeless, but nonetheless, is currently living at Spectrum Youth and Family Services in Burlington and is looking for work.

Three John Deere snow blowers were stolen from Agway on Vermont 2A on Nov. 3, according to police reports.

There's been another bank robbery in Franklin County-- and the suspect matches the description of the bandit in at least one previous stick-up. The robber walked into the TD Bank on Main Street in Enosburgh Village just after 11 a.m. Friday.

I was having a relaxed lunch with my grandmother the other day when the subject of Veterans Day came up.

Just 10 percent of voters cast ballots SWANTON VILLAGE Voters here on Tuesday again rejected an $8.75 million plan to renovate the municipal water system.

Session at Milton School Tuesday night MILTON - Vermont's Public Service Board will hold a second public hearing on the proposed Georgia Mountain Community Wind Project here on Tuesday night.

The interstate checkpoint operated by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol not only returned to the Upper Valley this week, it came back in a double dose: Federal agents were stopping cars yesterday and Thursday along Interstate 91 and Interstate 89.

Ed. subgroup off state's watch list SWANTON Abenaki students at Missisquoi Valley Union High School have reached a turning point in regard to mandated tests.

Police continue to investigate the robbery of two Chittenden Banks Tuesday. Police don't believe the hold-ups in Brattleboro and Swanton are connected, but both may be part of regional crime sprees.

Vermont police are investigating two bank robberies that occurred this morning at opposite ends of the state.

Thursday was the first day on the job for the northern border's newest agents. They just arrived at headquarters in Swanton from training on the Mexican border in Texas.

SWANTON - Two Chittenden Bank branches in opposite corners of the state were robbed Tuesday morning.

DATE OF RELEASE: October 27, 2009 INCIDENT: Armed Bank Robbery CASE #: 09A204967 - Vermont State Police 09SW01126 - Swanton Police Department DATE/TIME OF INCIDENT: October 27, 2009 @ approximately 1039 hours LOCATION: Chittenden Bank located at 15 Canada Street in Swanton Village ACCUSED: Unknown at this time SUMMARY OF INCIDENT: At approximately ...

The Chittenden Bank branch in Swanton was robbed this morning, and police are looking for a male suspect.

A guilty plea in a fatal drug overdose case. Staci Dolan, 35, pleaded no contest to felony sale of narcotics and was order to serve 30 days on a work crew.

Evidence fails to support manslaughter charge ST. ALBANS CITY One of two men charged in the fatal alcohol and drug overdose of a young Swanton man changed his plea in court here Wednesday because the state could not meet its burden of proof on the original manslaughter charge.

A Swanton man with a history of sex crimes was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of attempting to abduct a 25-year-old woman last month in Burlington "with the intent to commit a sexual assault," Chittenden County's top prosecutor said.

Police say a man with a lengthy record-- including sex crimes-- is the person who tried to grab a UVM student off the street last month.

ST. ALBANS -- Nicole Cook, daughter of Norman and Carol Cook of Swanton, and Travis Stetson, son of Rick and Lorry Vantilborgh of Brigham, Quebec, were united in marriage July 18.