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“Voting should be based on the character, integrity, and capabilities of the nominees, and the integrity and independence of our judicial branch, rather than the chaotic time we happen to be living in,” Gov. Scott said.
Should Vermont tax dollars be used to quell civil unrest in Burlington? During discussion of the Senate Committee on Appropriations on Tuesday, Senate Pro Tempore, Philip Baruth (D/P-Chittenden Central) proposed policy language to expand H.790 to allow the allocation of up to around $39 million of taxpayer funds to reimburse anticipated public safety costs in some of Vermont’s most populous municipalities in the event of increased federal immigration enforcement operations.
“I’m certainly open to any kind of property tax freeze,” Rodgers said.
Prosecutors said the quick resolution was driven by concerns that Dudas, because of his age, could have sought youthful offender status, potentially moving the case to family court.
Nine current or former students from the University of Vermont are set to compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics, which will take place in Northern Italy with competition starting Thursday, February 5 and running through February 22.
Supreme Court rejects Town appeal
Adams was found unresponsive inside the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Vermont State Police and multiple partner agencies established an incident command post at the beach and launched a coordinated ice rescue operation.
As America’s 250th anniversary approaches, the Declaration of Independence will take center stage with celebrations all over the country. Many Americans still recognize parts of the document, such as All men are Created Equal, and Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. However, what about the first paragraph? Can the same be said about the terms “one People” and “the Laws of Nature and of Natures God?”
Bills of note in committees this week, ranging from taxes to Legislative health benefits.
Several Democrat senators said the Trump administration’s immigration policy is so harmful that Vermont should signal its opposition by rejecting the nomination of the prosecutor who argued the DOJ position in last year’s civil detention lawsuits of two anti-Israel activists.
Murder suspect gets 10 years for Vermont drug operation; Calais, Worcester residents will vote next week on whether to close their small elementary schools; Vermont woman appears in court after leading police on high-speed chase; Northeast Kingdom snowmobile club decries trail vandalism; Anonymous $1 million donation will go to financial aid at St. Michael’s; Amid outcry, Montpelier council scraps proposal to gain veto power over citizen petitions
Don’t Undermine Memphremagog’s Purity Inc., known as DUMP, had requested the Jurisdictional Opinion, which the commission coordinator agreed with, stating that NEWSVT’s leachate pretreatment system would require an amended permit if the company sought to convert the experimental system to a permanent installation.
The bill targets the Global Warming Solutions Act, the Clean Heat Standard, the Renewable Energy Standard, Act 59 (the 30×30 and 50×50 conservation goals), and Act 181 (the Land Use Review Board and future land use mapping overhaul). If passed, all five would be frozen in place for eight years while a comprehensive study evaluates their cumulative impacts on housing, energy costs, and property rights.
The bill proposes to exempt from the homestead property tax long-term residents who are 65 years of age or older. It would phase in the exemption over a four-year period, with eligible persons fully exempt from the homestead property tax beginning fiscal year 2030.
Mountain safety often exists in a grey area where speed, visibility, and spatial awareness intersect.
Jada Samitt, 22, was working as a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries observer aboard a dragger that sank off Gloucester, Massachusetts on Friday.
Plans to run for Vermont Senate
The Council’s deliberations occurred against a backdrop of deteriorating roadway safety conditions as speed-related fatalities increased 50% between 2023 and 2024.
“I started the chapter in December of last year,” Fewer said. “I was always a fan of watching Charlie Kirk debating people. I knew Vermont was one of — if not the most — liberal states in the U.S., and there really wasn’t anything like TPUSA around.”
About two hours later, the host contacted police again to report that the renter had returned to reclaim property. Officers responded and took the woman into custody.
Recent UVM grad on board missing fishing vessel; Vermont woman shares her father’s work desegregating Boston schools; Partial government shutdown over immigration underway. How long will it last?
A new book from J. Kevin Graffagnino, coming in February
Senator’s proposal would transform one-time purchase surcharge into yearly assessment
Two domestic violence cases and multiple DUI cases from around Vermont this weekend.
Such was Bernie’s devotion to Reich that he even built his own orgone orgasm device, a five-foot-long prayer mat made of copper wire with spikes on it that he slept on to channel the “energy”into his body, Chiasson claims.
To grow or not to grow, that is the question that the Senate Agriculture Committee is taking on with its newest bill that challenges a ruling of the Vermont Supreme Court that opened the door to allow towns to regulate agriculture, even gardens and backyard chickens.
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The 2024 Vermont Senate rushed a proposed amendment to the Vermont Constitution guaranteeing equal protection for ‘race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or national origin,” a parents’ rights advocate told a Senate committee Thursday.
Federal authorities say they are investigating a report about a bogus letter purportedly written by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to at least one Vermont gun store claiming the U.S. Government was temporarily suspending the Second Amendment right to have guns.
Be sure to send the message you intend to send with your vote.
The apathy rate of Burlington voters is high, just like the city’s crime rate.
“It creates a situation where the very people telling us to drive less are also making it more expensive to have things brought to our doors,” Dodge said.
Jackson was traveling north on the trail when she failed to negotiate a left-hand turn, went off the right side of the trail and struck a group of trees.
Drescher’s judgment—the ability to confront hard facts, resist political pressure, and act deliberately—is precisely what we should seek in a justice on Vermont’s highest court.
The Public Utility Commission ultimately concluded the CHS is theoretically workable but not well suited to Vermont.
During the pursuit in New Hampshire, the fleeing suspect intentionally struck police, causing a collision involving two New Hampshire State Police cruisers and a Littleton Police Department cruiser.
Winners of taxpayer-funded awards to Vermont news outlets will be announced.
The prosecutor who represented the Trump administration in immigration cases receives No vote from key Senate committee.
Woman sentenced in fatal shooting outside downtown Burlington bar; Ex-prosecutor not recommended for Vermont’s high court; Human Rights Commission calls for new civil rights laws in Vermont
Senator says we need to be discussing return on investment, and YEAH!
Vermont has experienced what demographers call “negative natural change”—more deaths than births—every year since 2016, and new housing is blocked by regulations from the days of rotary phones.
I have very high property taxes. I don’t like to pay property taxes, but I can afford them. And I know that many owners are income sensitized. So, I would like to dig into that premise a little bit more because we throw it around a lot.”
The buses can’t be stored inside due to battery fire risk. Left outside, they won’t start in recent frigid weather.
“The theory behind the bill is pretty simple, rather brutally simple, which is to give each side what it most wants, regardless of the fact that the other side really doesn’t want what the other side wants,” Mihaly said.
According to a sentiment analysis of more than 10 million geotagged social media discussions posted over the first four weeks of January, 37% of posts about financial savings use stressed language in Vermont, which is considerably higher than the US national average of 25%.
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Hard facts and market dynamics suggest that increasing hardship for owners can drive independent landlords out of business, ultimately reducing housing availability, flexibility, and affordability—exacerbating the very housing crisis Griffin seeks to address.
“Instead of throwing more money at the problem, we need to address the root causes and fix the system,” Governor Scott stated during the briefing.
Wesley MacIntyre, a Vermont State University – Lyndon junior, is leading the nation in scoring, according to a January 28 Caledonian-Record news report by reporter Kevin Doyon.
VTDigger’s challenges reflect broader pressures on Vermont journalism. In August 2025, Vermont Public eliminated 15 positions. Vermont has lost 75% of its newsroom workforce since 2000.
“The value of a great corn crop on a good year would net a farmer $400 an acre. I’ve heard values on solar rent paid to the farmer up to $2,000 per acre,” Nelson said.
A nation without borders is not a nation, and a democracy without clear voter eligibility rules is not a democracy.
Concerns about have been increasing as the unseasonably and unreasonably non-climate changey cold winter saw ice terrorizing the streets of Minneapolis.
How digital platforms and trade tensions are reshaping the State’s commercial landscape
Vermont State Police say each teenager targeted the other with harassing and threatening behavior.
She tried to make a left turn and struck the passenger-side door of the cruiser.
11 AM press conference and rally.
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Palmer, a Democrat, upset longtime Windsor County Sheriff D. Michael Chamberlain, a Republican, during the General Election in November 2022 and was sworn in Feb. 1, 2023.
Can the state of Vermont impose residency requirements for its welfare programs? This was the topic of debate last week in the House Committee on Human Services when Representative Brenda Steady (R-Milton) asked if fraud could result from the “return home” provisions in H.594.
Québec takes care of its own people first
Balint said the Democrat caucus of the U.S. House was shaken to the core with the murder (her words) of Alex Pretti by federal agents.
A pair of bills sponsored by the chairs of energy committees in both House and Senate would further regulate and tax the sale of fossil fuels in Vermont.
The University of Vermont and Middlebury College each have a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), while Dartmouth College lists two similar but separate programs: Palestine Solidarity Coalition of Dartmouth Students (PSC) and Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine. But where are their organizations to protest and advertise the occupation and subjugation of other unrecognized peoples?
Police described the woman as being in her 50s, with dyed orange hair pulled back into a bun, and wearing blue clothing.
Palmer is charged with two counts each of lewd and lascivious conduct, solicitation of prostitution, aggravated stalking with a weapon, obstruction of justice, inciting a felony, and accessory before the fact.
Burlington City Council turns back another anti-Israel boycott. And a GOP House members talks about how to CUT sp*nding and t*xes.
Plans to send Vermont immigration staff to Minnesota rolled back; Burlington’s mayor to convene emergency meeting as ICE tension heats up; Enosburg home destroyed by fire
H. 276, State Wildlands, is scheduled for testimony in the House Environment Committee on Wednesday afternoon at the Vermont Statehouse. Sponsored by committee chair Rep. Amy Sheldon, the bill would create a new Wildlands designation within Vermont’s Ecological Reserves, permanently protecting certain lands from conversion, promoting natural processes and old-growth forest conditions, and permanently designating many state parks as Wildlands.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Leonora Dodge (D – Chittenden-23), proposes creating a new Legal Representation in Federal Immigration Proceedings Program within Vermont’s Office of Defender General. As written, the legislation declares it to be the public policy of the State of Vermont that covered individuals “should have the right to ongoing legal representation” in federal immigration cases.
The initial proposal would apply only to electric vehicles, swapping the current flat EV fee of $89 with a per-mile charge using odometer readings. While officials say broader expansion is not on the immediate horizon, decisions made in the next few months could shape whether MBUF becomes Vermont’s long-term transportation funding model.
A bill that would ban the sale of car and truck tires in Vermont unless the manufacturer has an approved plan to dispose of waste tires will get a hearing in House Environment at 9 AM Thursday morning.
Sanders demands the Trump administration remove ICE, CBP and other federal immigration forces from Minnesota and Maine.
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Delinquent property taxes are becoming a significant problem in some communities already grappling with tight budgets, rising costs, and uncertainty over future education finance reforms.
Fixing the roads is a core government responsibility, DEI is not.
Following fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, protesters rally in Essex Junction; Deadly fire investigation underway in Sharon after man dies in camper; Butler Family Auto in Barton destroyed by fire; Facing housing crunch, Stowe considers strict restrictions on short-term rentals
One widely shared account suggests that during the struggle, one or more ICE officers shouted “gun,” prompting another officer to draw a weapon. According to this version, Pretti’s sidearm was removed by an officer who then walked away, but the weapon discharged negligently. Some commentators point to the Sig Sauer P320 handgun, which has been the subject of lawsuits and controversy over unintentional discharges, typically when dropped. The theory suggests the discharge may have led other agents to believe Pretti was firing, resulting in what they perceived as a justified use of deadly force. “If this is what happened, it’s an incredibly unfortunate accident,” one commenter wrote.
At present, selectboards have option of voting on local pot stores – or not
A 26-year-old Glover man was arrested early Sunday morning following a series of alleged vehicle-related crimes that began at a nursing home parking lot and ended with his capture at a nearby residence, according to Vermont State Police.
ECVB marketed itself as specializing in converting Ford Transit vans and Mercedes Sprinter vans into “reliable, self-sufficient adventure homes.”
Dead are: Kendall Lemay, 38, of Cadyville, N.Y., a driver, and Jacob Rivers, 41, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., a front seat passenger, police said.
Like King, Charlie Kirk spoke out against restrictions on the freedom of the individual, and despite many contesting his views, did not turn to violence or retaliation to further his beliefs.
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The winning time ranked as the fifth-fastest performance ever by an American woman indoors.
An open letter to the Vermont Legislature
This past Tuesday Governor Phil Scott delivered his 2026 Budget Address to Vermonters and the General Assembly saying the time for structural reform is now. With federal stimulus dollars winding down and revenue forecasts downgraded, Vermont faces a pivotal moment that demands discipline, innovation, and collaboration.
The former Prime Minister of Turkey, Ahmet Davutoglu, once said, “The Mid-East needs a success story.” And here in Vermont, that is precisely what we need in 2026.
The woman’s car crossed the center line and struck an oncoming vehicle.
The dog had no food available. Its water bowl was completely frozen. The beagle was shivering and cold to the touch.
The town manager reportedly stole $180,000 from the Vershire Fire Department. A forensic audit of the town’s books would cost up to $250K, and wouldn’t guarantee any stolen money would be returned.
Senator Bernie Sanders in Burlington to talk health care;; Vermont school district voices support for education reform amid controversy; Burlington Chief of Staff Erin Jacobsen to resign; Vermont lineworkers headed down to Virginia ahead of ice storm
The club currently has more than 50 active members and meets on the second Tuesday of each month in Rutland
The teachers’ retirement system now has 10,772 retired members and beneficiaries drawing pensions, compared to just 10,526 active teachers contributing to the fund.
Pushes left-wing narrative despite evidence.
Sextortion is a form of electronic blackmail where someone threatens to distribute nude or otherwise explicit images or videos in exchange for money or other favors.
Wells River man dead in reported single-car crash; Thousands report Microsoft 365 outages, including Outlook and Teams; Vergennes warns residents that the city is low on salt ahead of weekend snowstorm; Downtown Burlington bar closing ‘effective immediately’
Hussien’s supporters on Reddit are asking the public to support his family: “Hussien Noor Hussien has been living in the US for 22 years. He used a false name to escape Somalia, which hurt no one, and served his time for that fraud after he was caught. A few weeks ago, ICE abducted him from his cab at the Burlington airport and imprisoned him at the NW correctional facility in St Albans.”
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