South Burlington resident Esther Charlestin says she wants to use the office to bring Vermonters together, arguing that the lieutenant governor’s greatest strength is the ability to bring people together across political and geographic divides to address the state’s challenges.
The rejection comes one day after Vermont News FIrst broke the story about the only licensed lawyer left in the Addison County office is departing next Friday.
In response to an inquiry from the Vermont Daily Chronicle, Wesley Dunn of the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office said the issue was limited to the sample ballot posted online and did not affect the official absentee ballots sent to voters.
Heavy rain compromises Vt. apartment building roof, a dozen displaced; Vermont health officials confirm five cyclosporiasis cases, say none linked to recalled lettuce; Residents in a Washington County school district to vote on new school closure procedure; 18th Festival of Fools along Church St. this weekend
White House strikes a sour note with Green Mountain State performer
This situation highlights examples of Vermont’s dilemma with unelected bodies and the State’s ongoing efforts to centralize and control. As decades of poor policy have compounded, it is imperative to evaluate the current situation and assess potential solutions. The same bodies created to address our problems have exacerbated Vermont’s affordability challenges.
Police responded at about 7:07 PM on July 30 to Domino’s Pizza at 250 Railroad St. for a report of an armed robbery. Investigators said the suspect, later identified as Jennifer T. Ricker, 34, of St. Johnsbury, displayed a firearm before taking money from the cash register and fleeing the scene.
Rutland City Police arrested Victor J. Contreras, 26, on charges of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl after he stashed the backpack near the Rutland Regional Medical Center, federal court records show.
Also, the danger Trump poses to continued Republican success at the polls.
Alcohol still most consumed overall
At last February’s legislative breakfast held at the municipal offices in Stowe, Rep. Dave Yacovone (D-Lamoille) put forth the bold proposal—as his solution to a question (which I don’t remember now) someone in the audience asked—to levy a tax on everyone in Vermont who makes over $500K a year.
Other cities reversed course. The magazine casts Burlington as the holdout. Six days before it published, the council’s Democratic majority moved to change that.
Police said a total of $18,002.46 was transferred into an account controlled by Smith.
Two proposed amendments to the Vermont Constitution that many Vermonters know little about on Tuesday, July 28 were formally approved to appear on the November general election ballot.
Whale researchers on the St. Lawrence River in Canada spotted something unusual: hundreds of barrels floating downstream.
Zucker saw the unleashed pit bull run towards him and called to the owners to leash their dog.
Vermont Republicans Wednesday unveiled Vermont Promise, a comprehensive legislative agenda focused on making Vermont more affordable, strengthening the economy, and reforming bail laws, Sen. Scott Beck said in a statement.
Possible sinkhole forms in Wilmington, Vermont due to rising water levels; Vermont Republicans hope to make legislative gains as Democrats seek to stay in the majority; Burlington beaches closed until Thursday after sewer overflow; Search & Rescue teams monitoring conditions in VT, NY
New Planet Hank video recalls local opposition to a Connecticut River big box store.
On June 25, President Trump issued an executive order broadly supporting regenerative agriculture. It’s a meaningful step in the right direction.
The future owner of the former Green Mountain College campus in Poultney is holding an open house this week, reports Seven Days. Tommie Zito plans to use it for a global evangelical school called Z University.
Incumbent Sen. Steven Heffernan, who won his seat in the Senate in 2024 after defeating longtime Democratic Sen. Chris Bray, is seeking a second term.
A man with multiple violations of the state’s sex offender registry was caught after pursuit by five law enforcement agencies.
Without buyers for the wood forest management generates, good forest management activities become economically difficult, or impossible, to carry out. And without sustainable management, we believe Vermont will lose the forest benefits we care about, and — worst case — significant acreages of forest.
Without certified inverters, fully built solar farms will sit dark and unable to feed electricity to the grid.
At the Essex Fairgrounds, summit celebrates and informs people in recovery. Flash mob singers needed!
Man facing charges in connection to Dorset Street ICE protest enters plea in court; Vermont’s revenue remain steady, state economist cites AI as major risk; Plea deal in the works for man accused in 2022 Burlington City Hall Park shooting; Driver injured after hydroplaning crash on I-89 in Middlesex
Journal Opinion Editor Alex Nuti De Biasi will discuss these stories and changes in the Vermont community newspaper industry on today’s edition of Chronicle Conversations at 12:30 PM on WVMT AM 620, FM 101.3, and livestreaming/podcast at Wvmtradio.com.
The additional patrols are expected to begin today and continue to cover the city’s hosting next month of the Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers (NEG/ECP) – and perhaps beyond.
Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said he will invoke his Fifth Amendment right to protect against self-incrimination in a hearing about his role as a public health official during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A 2026 Girl Scout report reveals the challenges of girlhood and what can be done about it.
“Many incidents now follow a pattern: the suspect arrives with a shopping list, sometimes written, sometimes on a phone, of specific household items, food or groceries requested by a local ‘plug’ (drug dealer). The person takes those items in exchange for drugs or to resell for cash,” Berlin Police say.
Brown has sustained 27 years of drug trafficking involvements, a federal prosecutor said in court papers.
Investigators determined that John-Henry and Kristin Hubert had enabled Piersiak to consume alcohol before the crash.
The pitch is appealing: more democracy, more equality, none of the gulags or secret police. But socialists themselves have been making that exact claim for more than a century—about societies we now recognize as textbook authoritarian disasters.
Pollster Nate Silver breaks down who makes up the DSA.
2 face charges after gun drawn in McDonald’s parking lot; Flash flood threat today for parts of New York, Vermont; Audit reveals Brattleboro hospital’s multiyear budget deficit has risen to at least $30 million; Vermont business leaders call for the ‘abundance agenda’
The July 25 event, sponsored by the Vermont Society Sons of the American Revolution, included visits to the Ethan Allen Tower, the Ethan Allen Homestead, and Allen’s burial monument in Greenmount Cemetery.
Republican primaries are rare in Vermont. But in Addison County, three candidates – Andrea Treadway, Andrew Klein, and incumbent Steve Heffernan- are competing for the GOP nomination for the two Senate seats.
Within weeks of campaigning alongside his Vermont booster, Platner withdrew from the Senate campaign amid a slew of accusations highlighting alleged inappropriate behavior with women.
The present cohort of Vermont volunteers/trustees is aging, and the pool of volunteers/trustees behind them is not growing; contemporaneously, the number of nonprofits keeps proliferating.
The recent story about a church returning a camp to the Abenaki lands directly on top of one of the more bitter and unresolved disputes in contemporary Native American politics: whether the people receiving that land — Vermont’s four state-recognized Abenaki tribes — are who they say they are
Four people were in a 2024 Subaru Crosstrek headed northbound on Park Street when it crashed into another vehicle after the driver was apparently wounded and may have lost consciousness.
Vermont will spend more than $2.5 billion this year on public education, even though student enrollment has fallen by roughly 30% since the late 1990s. Per-pupil spending now exceeds $30,000 each year, placing Vermont among the highest-spending states in the nation. But this unprecedented level of investment has not translated into improved student outcomes.
Miles and Sears lured the victim onto St. Paul Street from College Street with the intent to rob him, police say.
Council also says safe injection site would require changing city bylaws
Out-of-state shelter pets could carry screwworm to Vermont, officials worry; A Department of Corrections policy is quietly reshaping how long people are incarcerated in Vermont; New Vermont State University president talks enrollment challenges, future growth
Foundation for Government Accountability Data and Analytics Director Hayden Dublois is scheduled to discuss his WSJ column at 12:20 pm today, July 27,on Chronicle Conversations on WVMT AM 620 and wvmtradio.com.
As of this morning, there is a search bar at the top of FYIVT, and it does something Google does not: It searches only Vermont, including public information the major search engines cannot see.
Ten jobs employ more Vermonters than any others. Here’s what each one leaves under your nails by dinnertime — including the one that leaves nothing you can see.
Lane caught more than 20 pounds each day of the Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit event for a three-day total of 65 pounds, 7 ounces.
A Bennington man is facing multiple criminal charges, including attempted murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and illegal possession of a firearm, following a shooting and subsequent four-vehicle crash in Bennington, officials said.
Cliffs clear to hike and climb again
Organizers forgo exchange rates to draw visitors from across the border.
A reader wrote in with a sharp, three-part question about Efficiency Vermont: Has the utility ever stated how much less electricity the state uses because of its work? Would that number hold up if you normalized for businesses that have left Vermont? And doesn’t cutting electricity use actually push rates up, since the grid’s fixed costs don’t go away when sales fall?
To obtain the two loans, Staley submitted fraudulent tax returns to TD Bank, the indictment said.
Possible unapproved transfer of taxpayer funds from the Town of Woodstock to the Village of Woodstock to help pay for legal fees surrounding the demotion of former Police Chief Joe Swanson.
Ellie loved Jesus, life, learning, meeting new people and sharing those things with others.
At least three of the suspects had been arrested before for occupying the same office building in Williston.
Announcing the transfer on the New England Conference website, church officials said the transfer is the first land restitution project undertaken by the New England Conference since adopting a 2023 policy directing leaders to consider land restitution when disposing of church property.
They’re bumblebee yellow, about the size of a ride-on mower, and since May they’ve been humming up and down crop rows on farms in northern Vermont with nobody driving them.
Man accused of vandalizing Maxie’s Deli in Rutland turns self in; Vermont governor concerned for logging industry after paper mill drops pulp production; Ex-Rutland City officer faces allegations of violating anti-bias policy, falsifying report
Court papers note that while she has strong support from a U.S. Congressman in Georgia, Ghasemi has provided false information, including a bogus date of birth, to both the U.S. Border Patrol and the U.S. Probation Office.
Vermont’s Bolton Valley ski resort has named a new CEO from outside the founding DesLauriers family in the latest management retooling.
Gov. Phil Scott has signed an executive order directing Vermont state agencies and departments to prioritize local newspapers, radio and television stations when purchasing advertising, in an effort to help local media inform Vermonters about what’s happening under the Golden Dome.
The 39th annual Kirkin’ of the Tartan will be held Sunday, July 26 at 11 a.m. at the Walter Harvey Meeting House in Barnet. The event honors the area’s Scottish and Reformed Presbyterian heritages.
High summer is doing its thing, and the calendar is loaded from the Champlain Islands clear down to the Shires. This weekend leans local in the best way: farm parties, a teenage cast tackling the founding fathers, blueberries by the bucket, and a whole afternoon set aside for fairies and gnomes.
“The parishes had no authority over the pastors and priests who were assigned by the Dioceses to the parishes,” the lawsuit trying to fend off more lawsuits related to sexual abuse by Vermont Roman Catholic Church priests a half-century ago argues.
This decline in approval comes as Scott prepares to seek a sixth term as governor and is running unopposed for the Republican nomination. If reelected, he would become the longest-serving governor in Vermont history, beating out Howard Dean who served from August 1991 to January 2003. Scott won reelection in 2024 with 73% of the vote.
Trump’s Iran nightmare deepens as poll reveals Americans’ brutal verdict with war nearing five months and U.S. death toll rising.
It’s worth looking back to see how a free people dealt with their health problems before government intervention accelerated in the 1930s.
An Enosburg man is facing charges of obstruction of justice, criminal threatening and disorderly conduct by electronic device after he reportedly made threats to several members of the Vermont State Police assigned to the St. Albans barracks, officials said Tuesday.
Supervisor took cash from vault, a few grand at a time, police say.
Iranian-born surgeon detained at Vermont border appears in federal court; Nine people, a cat displaced after Burlington house fire; Driver hits utility pole, lands on top of parked car in Ferrisburgh
Becca Balint and Charity Clark have hypocritically indicted themselves. Hank Poitras will win his challenge, preserving the political liberties that Americans have long enjoyed despite persistent Democratic efforts to punish “misinformation” while spewing it endlessly themselves.
These costs are pushing many Vermonters — especially our seniors/ elderly, low-income and fixed-income households — into fuel poverty.
The Nature Conservancy’s biodiversity fund is its response to the State of Vermont goals for protecting 30% of the state by 2030 and 50% by 2050.
It would write into the Vermont Constitution a permanent ban on any future right-to-work laws for public or private sector employees, meaning future legislatures would be constitutionally barred from passing legislation banning union-membership-as-a-condition-of-employment agreements.
The researchers say the disease poses no known risk to people. Vermont has never issued an advisory specific to this lake or this fish — and the only public guidance is a biologist’s personal answer.
Held without bail.
VSP: missing man last seen in Duxbury; Judge denies bid by suspect’s lawyers in border patrol agent killing to change records screening process; Vermont manufacturers react to President Trump announcing new tariffs on Canadian goods; Vermont is not educating students with disabilities up to federal standards
The video depicts police leading away a Main Street, Brattleboro resident on July 18, with Predator Poachers president Alex Rosen describing how the group posed as an 11-year-old open to a sexual encounter.
The festival offers something for everyone, from exploring Vermont’s granite history at the Vermont Granite Museum to enjoying live performances and local flavors in the heart of the city.
Mahdawi still free, but now must argue case in immigration courts.
Balint, who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s Ending Corporate Greed Task Force, joined with New York Democrat Rep. Nydia Velázquez and several other Democratic lawmakers to introduce what they call the Online Sellers’ Bill of Rights Act of 2026.
The changes proposed by the Fish and Wildlife Board would eliminate the consecutive “early” and “late” seasons to create one bear season extending from September 1 through the last day of the regulated deer seasons.
Your website declares you want to get rid of the Presidency, the U.S. Senate, Homeland Security and ICE, State and local Law Enforcement, private businesses, prisons, our United States Constitution. What world will we live in with your ideas?
The funding approved included $3.6 million to the state of Vermont to reimburse the Town of Lyndon to repair one bridge on Red Village Road and replace another washed away by the late July 2024 flooding.
As Vermont’s health care insurance rates climbed higher than neighboring states, the Vermont Legislature this year tried to crack down on what some Vermonters of faith consider a more preferable, more cost-effective alternative: the health care sharing ministry (HCSM).
In an interview with Jewish Insider at the Aspen Security Forum, Joel Rubin didn’t mince words, claiming that the Jewish senior Vermont U.S. senator and his movement are harming American Jews by boosting “anti-Israel, antisemitic candidates.”
Governor Phil Scott also announces 144 appointments to State boards and commissions
Pilot rescued by residents after small plane crash in Morgan; Tractor-trailer crash closes Route 22A in Benson for hours; Youth-centered space prepares to open in Montpelier; Gas prices increase in Vermont once again
Prosecutors argued that Said, who faces a homicide charge in the death of Christina Chatlos, 38, should not receive any additional leniency. Caledonia State’s Attorney Claire Burns told the court that the state had originally sought to hold Said without bail and remains concerned about public safety and the possibility that he could flee while living in Massachusetts.
The 12th annual Brewfest will take place July 25 from 3 to 9 p.m. at The Barn at the Top of the World, located at 1073 Upper Quarry Road in Newport. The venue is operated by Hilarie and Todd Wright, who donate its use for the charity.
It’s campaign season. You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a candidate looking for your vote. Here are a few questions to ask.
$991,000 of the $1.1. million contribution to the LGBTQ Victory Fund was spent on behalf of Balint’s primary campaign, helping her defeat Molly Gray. Balint won easily in the general election.
During the struggle, Healy reached toward an officer’s duty belt, grabbed the officer’s holstered firearm and attempted to remove it from the holster, police say.
Benjamin and Simon make no bones about their anti-Israel viewpoint in their article, accusing the Jewish state of “genocide in Gaza.”
According to the commission, tissues collected during its public and private truth-telling sessions — symbolizing the tears shed as Vermonters shared their experiences — will be offered in a ceremonial fire as a gesture of healing.
Memorial grows for teen killed in Burlington e-bike crash; VSP: Gun discharged accidentally into Highgate apartment; Vermont Green women finish inaugural season as national runners up; Vermont Green FC Men’s Soccer advances to USL2 Eastern Conference Finals
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