If they ban hunting, people will be less likely to find the bodies.
MacDonald: Is Vermont becoming the Land of Suspicious Deaths?
Timothy Page
Burlington Progressive mayoral candidate Mulvaney-Stanak attacks police chief in interview
Mulvaney-Stanak would not say whether she would have voted for defunding of police.
Postal assault trial ruling not guilty
Frizzell’s legal problems are not fully over. He has pleaded not guilty in Vermont Superior Court in Guildhall to felony charges of assault and robbery and aggravated assault for the same incident.
Orleans County search linked to Caledonia County homicide
Vermont State Police have conducted a court-ordered search in Brownington in connection with the fatal shooting of a Vermont National Guard member at his home on Vermont 16 in Wheelock two weeks ago.
CLG: U.S. strikes Syria in ‘self-defense’ – Pentagon
October 7 testimonies reveal Israel’s military ‘shelling’ Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles; U.S. strikes Repeat COVID vax worsens immune response, international research suggests; Dozens of Ukrainian drones target Crimea – Russian military
Roper: VT Energy Policy: Saving the Planet, or Feathering Nests?
Renewable Energy Standard committee keeps the truth to themselves about favoring special interests, despite concerns and the impacts of their legislation.
VT Headlines: VT authorities stretched thin with back-to-back homicide investigations
Burlington City Council President Karen Paul announces candidacy for mayor; Amid ongoing jackhammering, a South Burlington neighborhood urges city officials to intervene
Vermont’s evolving relationship with Daylight Saving Time
Vermont’s vacillating policies with regard to Daylight Saving Time, and with the Federal Government in general, are as ingrained in the State’s character as much as dairy and maple syrup.
Klar: Problems with Underground Carbon Storage
What incentive do companies have to keep the carbon sequestered or monitored? What is to prevent companies from discharging toxic waste as effluent?
VT Headlines: Fight leads to South Burlington stabbing
UVM Health Network front-line workers discuss horrors stories of workplace violence; Civil rights advocates question task force at NH’s northern border; State pilot program returns unclaimed cash
Sanders: Israel suffered a terrible attack, but…
Vermont’s senior senator opposes – or at least questions – more $$ for Israel if it invades and occupies Gaza.
670 “Gotaways” in Swanton sector last month sets record
Gotaways entering the U.S. in the Swanton sector in September more than doubled the average month for the previous year.
Fernandez: Hamas and Islamo-Propaganda are the problem, not Israel
Murdering and decapitating 1400 innocent Israelis is not resistance, but a war crime against a tribe that the world has historically treated abysmally.
Bananas: The Tesla that drove me
Not five minutes into our trip, it’s clear there are more bugs than the ones splattered on the windshield.
Klar: Biden joins globalists to undermine farmers
There is a pattern to the destruction of independent farms and food production. Federal and state rules coupled with subsidies that favor large enterprises farming monocultures have worn down small farms.
VT Headlines: VT Supreme Court, Pavillion reopen following flood repairs
Gov. Scott presents Barre flood redesign plan; State leaders work to combat White-Nose Syndrome; UVM cancels in-person event with Palestinian poet
Charleston resident receives 10-Year prison sentence for child pornography possession
Daniel Blow, a 41-year-old man from Charleston, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to possession of child sexual abuse material, commonly known as child pornography.
CLG: Drone attacks on American bases injured two dozen U.S. military personnel
Hamas releases American hostages, calls Biden regime “fascist”; Arrest Made in Central California Bio-Lab Investigation; Supreme Court Says Biden Admin Can Contact Big Tech Amid Censorship Allegations
Fentanyl bust in Barre highlights tenant, landlord role in catching drug dealers
“For too long, landlords have turned a blind eye to what is happening in their rental units,” said Bennington County State’s Attorney Erica Marthage.
VT Headlines: Burlington City Council approves Vermont Air National Guard’s 25-year airport lease extension
Burlington High School principal on administrative leave; Vermont hospitals curb nursing shortage by training other hospital employees; Upgrades coming to North Hero thanks to State support
Banned writer accuses Front Porch Forum of “desperate fear of the truth”
“What a gross double standard you operate by!,” Green tells FPF. “You’ll gladly publish postings which you agree with, but you somehow almost always find reasons to censor mine.”
Trial for postal assault case begins
Trevor Frizzell, 24, has pleaded not guilty to a Federal charge of assaulting substitute postal worker Paul Burch, 66, as he made his rounds in Brunswick, afternoon of Oct. 25, 2022.
Brides of Dracula: The first bite
Do we despise or envy the vampire nobleman – the one with three beautiful, devoted, ever-young wives?
Meiselman: Jews today, Christians tomorrow
It’s vitally important to understand what’s really going on in the Middle East because what we see there today will be here tomorrow.
Ellis: RFK Jr. and the changing nature of our politics
Bobby Kennedy Jr. is not mad. He is scarred and traumatized and wounded. But he is right on a lot of issues. American politics best pay attention to what he says.
McClaughry: Are we done with costly CO2 emissions reductions?
August 25 Speaker Krowinski made it clear that she and her House supermajority want little to do with driving up energy prices paid by Vermonters to defeat climate change.
Evslin: Green Mountain power’s very good idea
Green Mountain Power, Vermont’s largest utility recently announced its “Zero Outages Initiative”
Postal assault trial begins in federal court
Impatient with tardy delivery of a package a customer went postal on the mailman, court records say. But the mailman has some history too, the records claim.
VT Headlines: Celebrating the Vermont state vegetable in Wardsboro
State Senators meet to discuss flood resiliency in Vermont; Friends and family celebrate life of Castleton woman murdered on rail trail; New mural in Montpelier celebrates Abenaki culture
Despathy: Digital dystopia on the rise
EdTech Surveillance is driven by profit, not student safety. States must act to protect their students while they still can.
Keelan: Could it be time to buy a gun?
The public looks to law enforcement for its safety. Well, that safety net has been torn apart. What is worse is that no one has the courage to fix it.
Klar: Synthetic chicken will never fly
Even if Upside Foods and other meat-dreamers could manufacture steaks and burgers better than God has done in cows, their factory technology would still require chemicals and fossil fuels that degrade the soil and water.
Shepard: A nation without a conscience
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Video: The Vermont Witch-Trial of the Widow Krieger
The Vermont Witch-Trial of the Widow Krieger
Fear, fervor, and whisperings of diabolic activities abound in this recounting of the only witch trial on the records in Vermont’s storied history.
Middlebury College finds solutions to campus housing shortage
The new building is being touted as a “dorm for the 21st century student” and will be “truly inclusive,” vice president of student affairs Smita Ruzicka said in a July 4th article.
Burlington Technical Center is preparing the next generation of nurses
Program seeks to combat the staffing shortages plaguing VT health care through hands-on experience.
Letters: Vax freedom Student Declaration this Sunday in Bridgewater
The Bridgewater Barn will meet this weekend in support of the Student Declaration.
VT Headlines: FCC votes in favor of Wi-Fi in school buses, despite safety concerns
Police respond to rash of car break-ins in Colchester; Vermont considered forerunner in artificial intelligence oversight; Controversy Brewing at Citizen Cider; Mental health urgent care takes root
Klar: States eye rejecting federal education $$
For some states, no amount of federal dollars is worth denying parental rights.
Meet Sue Wear, Chittenden County’s pet sleuth extraordinaire
For the last decade Wear and several pals have worked to reunite families with their furry friends.
Burlington rabbi: “I stand with the people of Palestine, but against Hamas”
“Arrogance is the opposite of humility. From humility comes gratitude and with gratitude we can begin to see each other differently and start the process of reconciliation.”
Burlington mayoral candidate Mulvaney-Stanak supports gender-altering drugs for minors and safe injection sites
Candidate also opposes investigation into the misconduct of Tyeastia Green, the city’s first director of Burlington’s Racism, Inclusion, Equity and Belonging (REIB) Department.
VT Headlines: Security increased at Jewish community center in Burlington
Texts Reveal Why Crypto Exec Backed Balint Over Gray in U.S. House Race; Family of slain Vt. National Guardsman searches for answers; Vermont DOH is offering Narcan by mail
Roper: Why can’t Vermont kids read? Left Wing ideology trumped evidence
It’s just one example in a broad pattern of public policy failures driven by the ‘philosophical entrenchment of wrongheaded thinking’ on behalf of Leftists policy makers
Klar: When Vermonters do the job their police won’t do
If the law isn’t going to protect people, then people are going to protect themselves, a former Vermont police chief warns.
A local youngster wins a round in her bout with cancer
Treatment against rare form of cancer proves a “game changer” for young Vermont girl.
CLG: Navy presence off Israel grows as USS Mount Whitney deploys to region
2,000 U.S. Troops Ordered to Prepare for Deployment; Biden seeks $100 billion in Israel and Ukraine aid – report; Hundreds arrested after Pro-Palestinian demonstrators flood Cannon Rotunda
Vermont students work to ensure “Covid-19 mandates are not repeated again”
Vermont college students have helped to start the Student Declaration 2023 which is to ensure that overzealous COVID-19-related mandates are never repeated again on their school campuses.
McClaughry: ACLU defends its own above all others
It’s sad that the once principled ACLU has come to this state, but if you want to defend the WHOLE Bill or Rights you’re going to have to keep looking for a home.
VT Headlines: Burlington homeless encampment further heightening safety concerns
Champlain Valley School District approves new transgender, nonbinary policy; Burlington Police looking for driver in hit-and-run; Lab-grown meat in Burlington
LaMarche: Miro for Governor, Shannon for Mayor, say websites
Miro’s campaign machinery is gearing up to rally around Shannon’s bid. As for Miro’s own site, his bid for Governor: “We’re under construction. Please check back for an update soon.”
Meiselman: It’s about America
If Israel is out of the picture, the full attention of their enemies, our enemies, will become laser focused on attacking America. To think otherwise is naive.
Anti-trapping, hunting groups seek last minute changes in proposed regs
Thursday a 3rd public hearing on new rules for trapping, coyote hunting will take place, 34+ speakers weighing in. A proponent of trapping says opponents want “death by a thousand cuts” for trapping.
Halloween Festival & Jack-O’-Lantern Hike
Kids will learn about the creepy, crawly critters that reside in Vermont and have a chance to get decked out in their costumes before the traditional trick-or-treat night.
Klar: Hunting rights in the crosshairs?
Two bills are under consideration by Vermont’s Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules (LCAR) that will have a substantial impact on Vermonters’ hunting and trapping liberties.
VT Headlines: Emma Mulvaney-Stanak announces run for Burlington mayor
Norwich cadets honored for rescuing girl at Tunbridge World’s Fair; Pawlet asks judge to extend arrest warrant for Slate Ridge owner; Bennington Police investigate multiple cases of vandalism
Sanders blasted for wading into New Jersey labor dispute
Sanders accused of using the chairman’s gavel to “manipulate federal labor proceedings and send a signal of political support for one side in an ongoing labor strike.”
After VTGOP attention, Sen. Vyhovsky breaks silence, defending the terrorist attacks
On Friday Sen. Vyhovsky finally took to Twitter, not to clarify her position on the DSA statements, but instead to simply retweet a video from a rally in New York city which repeated Hamas talking points
Roper: Former rep tries to hoodwink Vermonters
Former Rep. Dave Sharpe (D-Bristol) just penned a truly execrable op-ed blaming private schools, lack of funding for public schools, and 60s era “white-flight” for the growing school performance gap
Letters: VT school districts flying BLM flag support pro-Hamas hate group
The leaders of ‘Black Lives Matter’ apparently believe that other lives don’t.
Front Porch Forum promotes pro-Palestine forum, rejects faith forum news
In yet another potential double standard, the popular local social media company Front Porch Forum is choosing favorites when running ads for political forums.
LaMarche: As Walgreens leaves, Burlington City Council “gets tough on drugs”
Perhaps the council will now act proactively and appropriately. Or maybe it’s too late and this has all become terminal.
VT Headlines: Sterling Market won’t return to Johnson, may be replaced
Old Burlington YMCA building demolition coming soon; Shelburne Museum: Successful season despite summer floods; Bobcats on the hunt in Shelburne
Despathy: Welch’s school bus WI-Fi puts kids at risk
It’s doubtful children riding on Wi-Fi equipped buses will work on homework. It’s certain that pediatricians are concerned about exposure to increased wireless radiation.
659 known, suspected terrorists captured in fiscal 2023, most in recorded history
Border Patrol agents work between ports of entry, patrolling the border to apprehend foreign nationals who’ve already illegally entered the U.S.
Flood tests new owners at Craft Beer Cellar
Flood are especially unwelcome for a business with the word ‘Cellar’ in it.
Doctor busted for ivory smuggling
Dr. Pedro Huertas, 69, now of Pasadena, Calif. is due for arraignment in U.S. District Court in Burlington this week, officials said.
Marroquin: Menstrual products in girls’ school bathrooms would reduce period poverty
No-one should miss more than five minutes of class to quickly, privately access a tampon.
VT Headlines: Vermont’s largest hospital now protects patient info 3 years after ransomware attack
Vt. human services leaders join Rutland mayor on tour of homeless hotels; Environmental groups allege Casella violated leachate plan at Coventry landfill
Israeli airstrike destroys Planned Parenthood abortion center
The Planned Parenthood abortion business has sent out an emergency alert to its supporters asking for donations and complaining that women who can’t get abortions would be “forced to give birth.”
Montpelier facing numerous financial challenges and choices
The accumulated financial challenges facing the city government and school district, challenges that could potentially increase Montpelier’s already high property taxes.
Baker: Lawmaker says ‘God-given right’ statement lacked context
“I do not believe in restricting people’s right to drive wherever, whenever, or however they please,” a Brattleboro lawmaker told a VDC reader.
VT Headlines: DOE announces funding for Vermont hydropower facilities
Scott says fixing Burlington problems will be a joint effort; Middlebury College hosts vigil for victims of Hamas attacks; Pro-Palestinian group continues Burlington petition following Hamas attack
Roper: Survey says! Vermonters really don’t support state energy policy
DPS poll/focus groups will be spun the other way, but this is what people said.
Satire: Harvard Student leaves lecture on microaggressions to attend ‘Kill The Jews’ rally
The University happily hosted the rally for mass murder and rape after being assured that no one would be misgendered.
CLG: Israeli lawmaker calls for using ‘doomsday weapons’
Apple blocks presidential candidate’s newsletter, Libs of TikTok banned from email marketing; Israel knew of Hamas attack in advance – U.S. lawmaker; 22 Americans confirmed dead in Israel
Tesla thief gets 4 years
Michael A. Gonzalez, 34, fraudulently obtained the five Teslas valued at about $607,000 from car dealerships in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Florida.
Forcing use of pronouns is compelled speech, lawyer tells Faith summit
In South Burlington on Tuesday, several leading national voices supporting individual rights, liberties, and religious principles gathered for a series of speeches and forums.
Sanders urges protections of “innocent people on both sides” in Israel and Gaza
Hamas’ terrorist assault on Israel will have horrific short- and long-term consequences.
VT Headlines: Burlington declares substance use a public health crisis
Local Jewish organizations taking extra safety precautions as war wages on in Israel; Barre City Council votes on removing planning commissioner after podcast comments
Brighton man charged following series of suspicious fires and explosions
Avery Buchman, 64, of Brighton, is accused of possession of destructive devices, possession and use of explosives, burglary, possession of stolen property, and unlawful mischief.
New Vermont bullying advocacy campaign seeks to tell stories
The project will allow those affected by bullying and harassment in Vermont schools to share their stories either through a confidential form, an interview or a small group discussion.
Most Vermont farms are still waiting for state flood relief, data shows
Of 41 approved applications, only 28 agricultural businesses had gotten paid as of Oct. 4, according to data from the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets.
Keelan: If hypocrisy were a gas, it would…!
There is a path to deal with what is happening in the world regarding the climate. It should be addressed without hypocrisy. We can start here in Vermont.
Klar: Brattleboro-led hate group attacks autistic woman artist
Even after an autistic artist said she would kill herself, transgender activists continued social media attacks.
Vermonters’ rate affordability over emissions reduction, State survey shows
The Vermont Department of Public Service (PSD) has released a new report that presents insights into the public opinion on renewable electricity in Vermont.
Vermont mammologist recognized for endangered species conservation
The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) announced this year’s Sally Laughlin Award recipient, Dr. C. William “Bill” Kilpatrick.
Police investigation continues into Castleton shooting
Fleming was found deceased at 4:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon, the Chief Medical Examiner later determined the cause of her death was gunshot wound to the head, and the manner of death homicide.
802 Ed: Lawyers make out like bandits in mascot controversy/ Multimillion dollar toothache/ Student mental health screenings
As attorney fees in Chieftain appeal approach $10,000, Green Mountain school board votes to stop paying.
VT Headlines: Jenna’s Promise Roasting Company to serve at VT info centers
Welch brings in an FCC representative for broadband talks; River Restoration efforts in Winooski River Basin begin; Mount Philo State Park honored by the ‘Leave No Trace’ organization
Fernandez: Hamas attacks Israel
The sheer scale of terror and violence of this unprovoked attack against the Jewish state’s populace far outweighs the repeated rounds of internecine fighting between Hamas and the IDF.
WCAX began 99 years ago this week as UVM radio station
The first radio broadcast from a Vermont location originated at the University of Vermont’s station WCAX on October 10, 1924.
Klar: NASA’s climate change metrics need fixing
Loving your lawn comes with an expensive but unseen cost.
The fall of Sunflower Support
The fervor that once surrounded the Russo-Ukrainian War is growing stale and going out of style.
Roper: VT Renewable Energy Standard: A “shell game” of “picking winners & losers”
Winners: major donors to the Democrat and Progressive parties and their candidates. Losers: those who may supply better, cheaper, more reliable electricity but don’t support those politicians.
Brook: Climate science is changing: it can never be “settled”
I question the whole ‘climate change’ narrative. That makes me subject to name calling…
Vt Headlines: Abenaki Tribe of Missisquoi expanding HQ with $500,000 grant
Welch speaks in favor of CHIPS and Science Act; How Indigenous Peoples’ Day came about and why it matters today; Wireless company sues Vermont regulators after officials ground plans for new tower
Woman defrauded pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program of $86,058
An Addison County woman now twice found guilty of defrauding federal programs filed a secret motion to delay her imprisonment. Vermont News First protested.
5 things to know about Israel’s 9/11 and the war against Hamas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war against Hamas Saturday after the terrorist group launched missile strikes and an incursion, killing hundreds and taking hostages.
