When television’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” special took aim at the holiday’s creeping commercialism a half-century ago, it targeted one particularly clanging symbol. So why is the Vermont Country ...

The Orton family has run the business since 1946, and they’re proud to be the ‘purveyors of the practical and hard-to-find.’ WESTON — In this age of TikTok, AI, and cryptocurrency, how refreshing to ...

WESTON — Vermont Country Store, a small, family-owned business that opened 78 years ago in Weston, Vermont, revives fond memories of grandma’s house, grandpa’s aftershave, and childhood adventures in ...

WESTON — The Orton family, proprietors of The Vermont Country Store, announced Monday that they have partnered with Manchester’s Depot 62 Cafe owners Leyla and Alp Basdogan to open a new restaurant ...

Charlie Brown Christmas Trees stand ready in boxes at the Vermont Country Store in Weston. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger WESTON — In the New England state that grows the most Christmas trees, the ...

Opened in 1946 by Vrest and Mildred Ellen Orton, The Vermont Country Store is a general store in Weston, Vermont, that sounds pretty much exactly like its name — quaint, old time-y, and very New ...

Mildred Ellen Orton, co-founder of The Vermont Country Store, author and an active participant in the Weston community, died at her home Thursday. She was 99. Orton and her husband, Vrest, founded The ...

After a seven-year run as head of The Vermont Country Store, Bill Shouldice will step down at the end of the year as president and CEO and turn the reins over to the Orton family. Shouldice announced ...

Vermonters love to track their visits to landmarks around the state: all 252 towns, every covered bridge, that tall filing cabinet in Burlington’s South End. But Marcie Gallagher and Betsy McGavisk ...