At the Monday, November 9 vote, residents rejected the merger 177 to 158, a slightly larger margin than the original September 10 vote, which failed by just 10 votes. The proposal would have dissolved the Village of North Troy’s municipal government and charter, transferring responsibility for several village services, including the fire department, to the town government.
Both men are Burlington High School graduates. Badesi graduated in 2023 and Kerozene in 2024, according to video of the ceremonies.
Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vermont) took to social media last night after the GOP-controlled house failed to approve articles of impeachment against Secretary of War/Defense Pete Hegseth.
Getting around town on public transportation harder for Vermonters as GMT makes more cuts; North Bennington man killed in Arlington crash; New report shows a slight decrease in homelessness in Vermont; Firefighters find two campers and a car engulfed in flames in Williamstown
Governor Phil Scott on Tuesday reminded Vermonters to clean up political signs left behind following last week’s election. The Vermont Agency of Transportation (AOT) will begin removing signs from right-of-way along State highways, which is standard process after elections. The right-of-way covers about 25 feet on each side of the roadway centerline.
Ethical issues abound for society’s most vulnerable.
The Vermont State Police dive team has recovered a body in Kingsland Bay of Lake Champlain, off of Ferrisburgh, that is believed to be a fisherman that fell out of a boat on Saturday.
“These guys were coming back with PTSD, which was not recognized until the 1980’s,” his son J.T. Dodge told VDC today. “My father committed suicide in 1986, five years after holding the shovel representing Vermont at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial groundbreaking in Washington D.C. “
Property taxes on Vermont apartment buildings have grown nearly twice as fast as rents since 2009, according to an FYIVT analysis of Vermont Department of Taxes grand list data and U.S. Census Bureau housing surveys.
Burlington mayor to meet with Gov. Scott on Tuesday to address downtown issues; Troy voters reject North Troy merger proposal; Pickup truck heavily damaged in Williston fire
Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky introduced eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Monday afternoon, setting up a potential impeachment vote by Wednesday.
The Vermont Department of Health today confirmed that a small group of connected individuals in Orleans County has contracted the disease. The hospital began asking visitors about possible measles symptoms over the weekend.
Kate Gorud to serve as Chief of Staff, Kaleigh Calvao as Legislative Director
In a small Vermont town, a medical appointment can begin long before a patient reaches the doctor’s office. It begins with finding a ride, checking the weather, arranging help for someone at home, and wondering what will happen if the appointment runs late. The distance to care is part of the care, though too few public conversations acknowledge it.
A year after Compass looked at nine fixes, Vermont still limits pension relief by income and caps disabled veterans’ property tax break.
Veterans share stories at South Burlington Vets Town Hall; Downtown workers sign letter opposing “Burlington Forward”
Supporters argue that merging the two municipalities would eliminate unnecessary duplication, streamline local government, reduce expenses, and create a more equitable tax structure. Currently, North Troy residents pay both town and village taxes, with the latter supporting village-specific operations and expenses. Several residents have also emphasized the importance of unity between the village and the surrounding town.
While the night seems extraordinary, to the seasoned Vermont political observer, it feels like you’ve seen it before.
The Vermont Promise was reposted repeatedly on social media, circulated within Republican circles, and discussed among those already paying attention to Republican politics. But how many Vermonters outside those circles actually saw it?
Detectives investigated and determined there was probable cause to charge Youngman with making inappropriate physical contact with the juvenile.
Bergeron told the outlet that he wants Ethan Allen to modernize “its approach to sales and marketing, among other changes.”
The Vermont legislature’s most dangerous opponents of parental rights were reelected in the 2026 General Election without any counterinfluence to stop them.
The only reported change in leadership was in the House Republican caucus. Rep. Tom Oliver of Sheldon replaced incumbent Rep. Mark Higley as Assistant Minority Leader, also known as the Minority Whip.
Students who asked about him heard he came from Canada. A poacher killed him, the story went, federal officers seized the hide at the Vermont border, and the government gave him to UVM on “indefinite loan.” A UVM biology professor told it that way in 2012. The university’s own news office repeated it in 2021. That story was wrong.
Democrat Karen Paul still mum on resignation as an accountant while a city council member
More than 1,000 Vermonters with hearing aids are affected by the data breach.
Hortgen cited a coalition-commissioned study estimating that heavier trucks have a 47 percent higher crash rate in a state where trucks weighing up to 91,000 pounds are already permitted.
Five federal agencies say the same weaknesses could hit American grocers, farms, hospitals and food processors. Here’s what to check.
Vermont Governors of both parties have trusted people from the other side. The coming session tests whether the governor and Legislature are ready to govern together.
The body of a man was found inside the residence at 15 Kennedy Drive after the flames were extinguished Saturday morning, Windsor officials said.
In my humble opinion, after November 2024, Vermont’s elected Republicans seemed to forget how and why they picked up seats and acted as if they were more relevant inside the State House than they actually were.
So, the question remains: Why? Why did voters who overwhelmingly elected Republican candidates in 2024 reject so many of them just two years later?
Central Vermont Career Center bond passes; Vt. congressional delegation prepares for expanded influence following Democratic sweep; 16-year-old serves on Essex Junction City Planning Commission; Wall Street, AI stocks tumble
“Elton Dom: The Young Elton Experience,” starring 21-year-old musical prodigy Dominick Fulco, will play two shows at 150 Main St. — at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, and 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15. Tickets are on sale at EltonDomLive.com.
Eight years of committee records show the same lawmakers chairing the same committees, most of them from three of Vermont’s higher-income counties. Voters had their say Tuesday. The next election happens inside the State House.
“I know that 8 votes is close enough, and a lot of folks were talking to me about it, but I’m just really OK not pursuing it,” Grant said.
A staff member for an advocacy organization said. “It’s just, kind of this cycle. There’s no solution to it. It’s just, you have to move, and then you move somewhere else, and then it’s the same thing.”
The bins, located in the Walmart parking lot, are intended for clothing and shoes only. However, police say people have been using them to dispose of household trash, broken dishes, knives and other hazardous materials.
Homeland Security, for its part, says its work has taken killers off the streets – and would remove more violent criminals from American society if ‘sanctuary states’ like New York would hand over violent criminals with ICE detainers.
Dropping the frame, known as the “chassis,” could take $5,000 to $10,000 off the price of a new manufactured home.
Customers are paying up front so the company can make more. A Marvell deal calls for expanding production at Vermont’s former IBM plant.
For Vermont, the bigger news is in the company’s quarterly report to the Securities and Exchange Commission: BETA is spending heavily to get its factory ready to build planes.
We are disappointed that Vermonters did not choose more balance in the Legislature, and instead decided to return to a super majority.
Peter Booth, 58, of Jericho, Henry Prensky, 80, of Burlington, and Sherri Wormser, 57, of Colchester are charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Burlington for blocking the doors at 426 Industrial Avenue.
Chronicle Conversations today Thursday, November 5 features an interview with a Trump ‘TDS’ expert psychologist on whether Americans move forward post-election — or carry their anger toward Trump into the next political fight – and maybe even over Thanksgiving dinner.
Homeland Security says they’re saving lives by catching dangerous criminals
Battery Park bandstand will be site of announcement about possible challenge to Burlington’s Progressive mayor.
Crews contain “out-of-control, unpermitted” fire in Ferrisburgh; Dump truck carrying large rocks overturns in Lowell; Despite $928 Million Spent, Lake Champlain Cleanup Is Falling Behind
Blue Alert 2-3 pm today.
The rural healthcare initiative is funded under the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Our above-average temperatures this autumn are certainly keeping the scourge of the outdoors around. Don’t despair. There’s room for hope.
Williston voters approved a bond for the library renovation and expansion by a vote of 3,177 to 2,877, with construction targeted for spring 2028. The selectboard also moved ahead on a roughly $18,000 design phase to reconfigure town hall’s downstairs office and lobby space and directed consultants to study wastewater, library and recreation impact fees estimated at $15,000 to $19,000 combined.
Three Newport residents have been charged with assault and robbery after surveillance footage revealed an attack on a 26-year-old man in the parklet just outside the Newport Police station.
As election results continue to trickle in across the country, Tuesday’s results are becoming clearer at the state level. Democrats have gained control of a majority of governor’s offices and state legislative chambers, and flipped control of key offices — secretary of state and attorney general — in a handful of states.
Ten counties, two Paramount nights, and one Hitchcock corpse. Stick season is no excuse to stay home, so get out there.
Others aren’t so optimistic.
About half of the Republican House Red Wave Class of 2024 lost their bids for re-election yesterday, November 3.
Rutland Regional Medical Center proposes pediatric redesign; Route 4 closed in Quechee after crash
Gray received 190,908 votes, a 61.37% share of all votes cast. Rodgers received 112,688, 36.22% of all votes, according to the Vermont Secretary of State’s election results as of 9:51 AM today, with all 247 voting districts reporting.
Vermonters on Tuesday once again elected Republican Gov. Phil Scott to lead the state for what will be a historic sixth term, but as votes were reported, it was clear that it would be his closest race in years. As of 5:44 a.m., Associated Press reported Scott’s margin of victory at 7 points, far less than the 51.6 point margin he enjoyed in 2024.
Names withheld until ID’d through autopsies
Police said he was not wearing a seat belt.
Phil Scott keeps the governor’s office. The Legislature that can override him is back. Unofficial results as of the state’s 2:01 a.m. update, with 244 of 247 towns reporting.
Along the way Goodge raised funds for Stand Up To Cancer in honor of his late mother, Amanda “Mandy” Goodge.
The Republicans currently hold 13 seats. If they lose three, they will be down to 10 seats and will not be able to sustain a veto by Gov. Phil Scott if the other 20 senators vote to override.
Instead of jumping overboard to save his own life, he returned to the torpedo room to the rescue of a shipmate whom he knew was trapped in the boat, closing the torpedo room hatch on himself.
Two die in fiery crash Monday night.
Trespasser arrested on St. Michael’s College campus; UVM announces pick for next provost
Tonight, VDC will be reporting election results on Facebook Live. We’ll be popping in and out with the latest on who’s leading who and who the winners are. And for the first time, we will be collaborating with FYIVT.com to deliver you upd-to-date results of statewide and local races.
Then, a not-so-positive change is taking place in Vermont that is invisible on a daily basis: the repudiation of America’s long-reliable ally in the Middle East, Israel.
Seven fifth graders from across Vermont have made it onto the final ballot for the upcoming election for Vermont’s 2027 Kid Governor as the program enters its second year.
Proposal 4, if passed by the voters in November, would provide the legal framework to defend Vermont’s existing discriminatory laws and bureaucracy in state courts. Proposal 4 would also provide the legal framework to implement even more DEI discriminatory laws and bureaucracy, all at taxpayer expense.
The governor’s debate remark sparked controversy. But Winooski’s own records, Burlington’s linguistic diversity, and Vermont’s school funding formula reveal a much bigger story.
Do we really want to pour gasoline on the unaffordability crisis by ushering in another wave of higher taxes, more complicated regulations, and less accountability?
Volunteers repair Barre hockey rink.
Janoo’s lead marks a shift from September, when she held a 49%-43% advantage over Scott.
A letter in support of an Orange County Democrat sent ripples over the weekend within the Vermont Republican Party.
One party lost 25 seats in November ’24 because, Senate candidate Irene Wrenner says, voters heard just one side of the story. What’s the whole story?
Then throws down race card for good measure.
Gov. Phil Scott and Amanda Janoo both hope that their messages about affordability can attract younger voters.
A Morgan man who allegedly spent an entire day threatening, following and holding a woman and her child at gunpoint, at one point telling them they were all going to die, has been ordered held without bail on felony domestic assault charges.
The target keeps moving. First it was billionaires—but Vermont has exactly one. Then millionaires—but fewer than 1,500 Vermont filers reported $1 million or more in 2024. The line was $500,000, which hits just over 3,000 taxpayers in the $500,000 – $999,999 bracket. Now Janoo’s thinks wealth starts at $250,000. When will $100,000 be the new wealthy? Soon!
Winooski school officials put heads in sand over academic failure, pretend the Vermont governor is their problem.
The conventional wisdom says wait as long as possible. Others insist you should collect every dollar you can, as early as you can. Who’s right? The answer depends on some surprisingly straightforward mathematics — and a few complications most people overlook.
While McRae says he would prioritize rebuilding staff, increasing transparency and strengthening relationships with local communities, Held says he would focus on expanding patrol services, improving communication and conducting budget reviews to better meet residents’ needs.
A 20-year-old Burlington man was arrested Friday afternoon after police received multiple reports of a man carrying a shotgun through City Hall Park and the Church Street Marketplace, allegedly threatening a group of people.
Manford Susman, who also goes by his middle name Ben, was 18 years old in 1997 and living in the now demolished Buckham Hall on campus when UVM police issued him a citation for disorderly conduct to appear in criminal court for the incident.
The two electric buses remain in storage because disposing of them would require the agency to repay the federal grant that funded most of their purchase.
The statement attributed to the Winooski School Board said Scott suggested the Winooski School District offers 17 language classes. The board said that was incorrect.
American Airlines flight from Charlotte lands in Burlington after mechanical issue; Multi-vehicle crash on I-89 southbound causes traffic delays; Essex man arrested after crashing car into front porch, leaving scene; 2 arrested on animal cruelty charges in Brattleboro
GM will pay $220 million over claims it sold driving records that reached insurers. It may have logged hard stops, fast starts, driving above a set speed and late-night trips.
The consequences of Janoo being elected would be the rise of Democratic Socialism that has now taken over the Democrat Party in America.
When the last of the Holocaust survivors are gone, the world will still need witnesses. Vermont must ensure that future generations are prepared to carry the responsibility forward.
It all comes together at the iconic Little Fenway, where a weekend of hope, fun and connection has become something much bigger than a game.
Vermont News First has learned that Orange County Deputy Sheriff Jacob Held of Washington is the focus of complaints filed with the Vermont Criminal Justice Council, Vermont State Police and the Vermont Attorney General.
Pope Leo XIV has requested a mail-in ballot for the November 3 midterm elections in Illinois, which could be the first time in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church that a sitting pope has voted in a secular election. Leo, the first American-born pope, has maintained his voter registration in Will County, Illinois, since becoming pontiff in May 2025.
Nielsen, who is running against Haylon for the open Rutland-9 House seat, is a friend of Collamore’s and has campaigned alongside him. She said she was shocked when the postcard arrived in her mailbox and called Collamore, who told her he knew nothing about it.
The Democratic candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general are all graduates of a Democrat-run ‘boot camp’ for candidates – as are many other candidates and incumbents in Vermont’s elected government.
Whether the identifiers can connect a completed ballot to its voter remains unproven. Their presence, alongside another code on the mailing envelope, raises questions that deserve documented answers.
The three-year agreement calls for Vermont and the Canadian province to investigate expanded electricity transmission connections, including a possible new or upgraded Highgate Converter facility in northern Vermont that could help deliver offshore wind-generated electricity to the New England power grid.
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