The Chronicle is a weekly newspaper published in Barton, Vermont.
[2][3] The Chronicle was founded in 1974 by Chris and Ellen Braithwaite, and their partner, Edward Cowan, a Washington reporter with the New York Times.
[4][3] The Barton Chronicle was initially published out of the Braithwaites' farmhouse, which at the time relied exclusively on wood heat and had no running water.
[citation needed] The paper moved to rented quarters on Upper Main Street in Barton in the spring of 1974, then into a farmhouse in West Glover the Braithwaites purchased in 1975 from the paper's star columnist, Loudon Young, for $10,000.
[citation needed] The paper gradually added staff and readers, and gradually became "The Weekly Journal of Orleans County," which has a population of about 27,000 in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.