A convoy of kindness will roll into the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital on December 18, carrying far more than boxes and bags. It will bring smiles, comfort, and a powerful reminder that the community stands shoulder to shoulder with its youngest patients.
Alkaline hydrolysis — a cremation process that dissolves body tissue in water and chemicals — has been introduced to Vermont as a greener afterlife alternative.
Neurologist Dr. Jessica Lowe brings medical expertise and 230,000 followers to national telemedicine company
The program matches financial contributions with donations of heating oil, kerosene, and propane from local energy providers. The delivery ticket or invoice is split 50/50; every $1 donated buys $2 worth of heating fuel. The same split works with local heating contractors who donate labor and equipment.
His story won out over the more than 1,200 submissions in the 2025 competition.
The Community Driver program, coordinated through Go! Vermont and local transit providers, relies on volunteers using their own vehicles to transport neighbors to critical destinations. According to the program, most trips involve medical care — including dialysis, radiation therapy, physical therapy, counseling, and preventive treatment — though drivers may also bring riders to senior centers, food-access sites, and other services.
Governor Phil Scott, Community Action Agencies, Wheels for Warmth volunteers and partners announced the record-breaking year for the annual Wheels for Warmth initiative, which began in 2005.
The stated aim of The Spark is to “curb domestic violence.” As the program expands, a critical question for policymakers and the public will be how to measure its effectiveness.
The lapse in federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known locally as 3SquaresVT, has triggered delays in November benefits for more than 64,000 residents, exacerbating pressures on the state’s food banks.
The family of an Essex Junction Army veteran who took her life due to combat PTSD has started a scholarship to help women veterans receive advanced training in PTSD treatment.
The school’s positive impact on the lives of their students and experiences in the larger Deaf community are important stories that will now be preserved for future generations of scholars – and members of the Deaf community wanting to learn more about their history.
Tamara Mathieu spent 14 years in the Twelve Tribes. Now, the Swanton resident is using TikTok to talk about life inside the group — and life after.
Whether it’s frozen boots or broken tibias, Waterbury Backcountry Rescue Team (WRBT) is prepared to respond to any kind of backcountry crisis.
Arts events bring new life into the former campus
“Everyone likes a big tree,” Arborist and Milton Tree Warden Kris Dulmer said.
Springfield and Windsor, Vermont were considered key targets.
The Bobolink Project pays owners of fields, often farmers, to conduct bird-friendly practices. The birds get time and habitat to nest while the landowners get some compensation for letting them do so.
The Vampire Swim, returning this Halloween, started in Newport as a small cold-water challenge to encourage blood donations in a season when supply often runs low.
Rodney Smith Jr’s goal is to show Vermont kids the profound satisfaction that comes from helping a neighbor, one lawn at a time.
On Sunday, April 6, 2025, while the Nodes family of Barre Town, Vermont, attended church with their nine children, a fire broke out on their farm.
According to Curt Lindberg, chair of the Waitsfield Conservation Commission, the project spans a cumulative 260 worksites across the region.
Why food demand in Vermont remained high post-COVID as funding vanished
The organization brought together some 500 delegates this year for the event.
Ruth Stone House endures as a haven for writers and artists.
Three Rutland area students are headed to Georgia this month to represent the area in the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference.
Amanda Wheeler hopes to show you don’t have to leave home to make an impact.
Yellow buoys mark the wrecks’ locations, and divers can follow their lines down to submerged signage identifying each.
This year’s awardees are Katrina Bennett, RN for Commitment to Quality, Jennnifer Lavelle, RN for Commitment to Professional Growth, Lucy Carpenter, LPN for Commitment to Customer Service, and Bruce Muir, RN for Commitment to Community.
Voters will decide whether to provide $15,000
Farmers say it helps secure their bottom line, and officials in and outside the Legislature say it’s vital to curbing hunger.
Here are four groups across the state that are fighting for a safer, more just Vermont.
Now, she makes their wishes come true
A tragic barn fire offers an opportunity to express farmer support
Silas Loomis has been the Castleton constable since Richard Nixon was in the White House.
Despite the fact that women would not win the right to vote until she was 19, Bailey pursued and succeeded in a career in law and politics.
Guy Crosby collects plastic waste from farms and brings them to a landfill in New Hampshire, where they are compacted into a bale.
According to the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, the medal recognizes people who risk serious injury or death in extraordinary acts to save others.
Fiske’s book/teaching tool “Don’t Burn My House Down,” details Pastor Pete’s life work in prison ministry, his calling to do God’s work.
Vermont has the most birders per capita in the U.S. according to data from a popular birding app.
In June of 2022, Seymour was driving along route 116 in Hinesburg, when a large pickup truck with a fully loaded trailer came around a blind corner in her lane.
“Without him, your picture of the history of Vermont is massively incomplete,” said J. Kevin Graffagnino, author of “Ira Allen: A Biography.”
Kenneth Hart is 104 years old and currently resides in The Pines nursing home in Rutland.
The Hislop family gives posthumous life to their mother’s work.
Potters Angels thanked the efforts of Vermonters Against Animal Cruelty and Abandonment, an organization dedicated to finding loving homes for animals in need.
VT Dog Rescue continues its work after founder’s death.
Based on Trump’s previous record, activists believe significantly fewer immigrants will be allowed into the country.
“Our whole mission is trails that go somewhere,” one org director said. “The whole point is that you could use it to commute.”
Robin Shover founded the Shelburne-based non-profit in 2014 and has since rescued over 3,000 dogs.
What began as a small collection has grown into a sprawling display of nearly 200 pieces, including houses, figurines, and festive scenes, assembled with painstaking attention to detail.
The Greater Randolph Senior Center delivers about 45 meals per day to homebound people 60 and older, as well as adults with disabilities.
This comes after Vermont courts ruled schools can vaccinate kids against parents’ wishes.
September Long Trail Day fundraiser aims to power ongoing trail work.
“It’s deeply personal,” said Jim Kisch, the President of Passumpsic Savings Bank. He added, “Our employees are impacted.”
Farmers in Vermont and in Latin America face many of the same challenges, and events like the picnic help make that connection for people here, organizer said.
The Vermont State Society Daughters of the American Revolution and Vermont Division for Historic Preservation host the American Revolution Experience.
The public will get a chance to learn more about the project at an August public meeting.
The mission is to reduce the distance pollinators like bees and butterflies must go to get nectar and pollen. The gardens, in effect, form a highway.
Barely a month after workers cut a tree off a bridge from last year’s floods, two more logs are jammed into the structure.
The NEK org’s $1 million fundraising goal from last summer has gone up to $2.5 million.
“We’re trying to start small and tackle this issue,” said a junior involved in the effort. “It’s hard to see the world destructing and not take action.”
Activists try to strike a balance between being passionate and getting burned out.
“We want to bring to bear for good, but we also want to do that in a very humble and a servant style.”
Andrea Murray of Weathersfield (R),,July 9 officially launched her campaign for the Vermont State Senate representing Windsor County.
The Father’s House Board donates to Teen Challenge Vermont
The funds will assist 30 local organizations meeting an array of interconnected needs in our community.
John has decades experience working in VT Government, protecting the environment and Vermonters, and then watching it fall into greed and “Green” corruption.
Green Up Day — an annual litter pick-up event held in over 250 towns in Vermont since 1970 — has so far eradicated over 24 million pounds of litter and 450,000 tires from the streets.
AWARE, the Hardwick group helping survivors of domestic and sexual violence, now pivoting, focusing on diversity.
Immigrant entrepreneur helps New Americans access the foods of their homelands and honor their heritage.
About a dozen interns regularly assist about 30 people at three Cathedral Square locations.
The products, the Wisemans say, can boost immune systems, improve memory and energy and spur a range of other healthy body functions.
Flags will be flown at half mast in Vermont this Thursday, the day of his funeral at Holy Cross Church in Colchester.
The couple formed the sanctuary in 2017, first in the town of Washington, then in 2019 they moved their setup to Tunbridge.
She began focusing on public awareness of differing speech patterns after a patient who stuttered died by suicide at age 12 in 2020.
He has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $5,000 for equipment costs, locations rental, and wages for the cast and crew.
Heroine of Thompson’s Green Mountain Boys
“I am helping to organize these events to represent working class, Vermonters and the working poor, who have been forgotten by the majority of our state legislature,” the former state senator said.
“As more and more Vermonters are finding themselves left out of the political process, diverse groups are gathering together to be heard and make change,” a spokesperson for the coalition-based Downstream Vermonters rally said.
The diverse group chose the cafeteria to voice their concerns recognizing that the politicians could not get away with eating Vermonters’ lunch without at least having to look them in the eye.
His father commanded a WWII submarine that sank in 1942 with all hands. As a boy he suffered osteomyelitis, requiring surgeries and years of walking on crutches.
UVM’s new ‘Shark Tank’-style competition rewards high school entrepreneurs making a difference in their communities.
Five VTSU Castleton students, professor have created a documentary following the controversial, and now rescinded, decision to get rid of all VTSU libraries.
The brothers’ art-filled upbringings have taken them from auditoriums in Randolph to arenas and stages worldwide.
The festival was on pause during the Covid-19 pandemic, and reviving it was no small feat.
He can’t fly or shoot lasers out his eyes, but he can do what many dread and few understand: taxes.
The Vermont Mother of the Year may not be able to attend the national convention because she needs to care for an elderly relative. “Family first,” she said.
Through her work with the Turning Point Center in Rutland, executive director Tracie Hauck hopes to support those in recovery from substance abuse.
Andrew Breting graduated from Castleton University in 2017, but his love of the Castleton community inspired him to open multiple restaurants in the area.
VT clothing brand Thicket Adventure recently hit its Kickstarter goal of $30,000 after only four days.
Floyd Van Alstyne bought his home just after he was discharged from World War II, and he still resides there today.
“It’s urgent, she needs a kidney now,” said family friend Jen Soderberg Straub. “They told her there was around four months [to find a kidney] back in October.”
One of Vermont’s claims to fame is James Wilson- a Bradford resident who produced the first globe in the Americas in 1802.
What is less likely to make news are act of kindness, generosity, good Samaritans, people stepping in to help those who have suffered misfortunes.
Michelle Archer took off her gun belt and dove into frigid water.
John McClaughry would be deemed a national treasure if Vermont had not claimed him first.
I take leave of the Ethan Allen Institute, and of my 30 years of biweekly efforts to defend and advance the principles that over the years have made our little state strong, proud and free.
More people aren’t getting the help they need for basic services, which has meant the library is asked to fill that gap.
$20,000 goal to receive a 2:1 matching grant through DHCD’s Better Places program.
Rain-soaked streets came alive this past Friday as community members joined Art Walk to turn the city into a tapestry of renewal.
The firefighters and the construction workers already there worked together to save the man.
