Guy Page is the editor and publisher of the Vermont Daily Chronicle.
Thanks to Vermont’s large, hard-working, decentralized network of heating oil fuel dealers, and the renewable-preferring state government’s opposition to extending natural gas lines, heating fuels like oil, propane and kerosene provide about 59% of the Green Mountain State’s heat. More populous southern New England is far less energy-diverse.
Moffitt has been linked to a very dangerous gang known as The Bloods, and with a one of its chapters known as “Murda, Money and Sex in Jersey City, N.J.”
The Colchester Fire Department, along with assistance from multiple neighboring fire departments, battled the intense flames and heavy smoke to extinguish the fire.
Latkes, sufganiyot, and games of dreidel will be available in the State House while the Governor reads a Hanukkah story to children in his State House Office.
At 1 AM on Christmas Eve, ambulance workers approached the car, full of people, on the side of the road.
After offering a reward leading to arrest, the selectboard learned the FBI recommends offering rewards leading to the conviction of the apprehended suspect.
Holiday lights, trees, and traditions.
If VDC is the warts-and-all mirror in which state policy makers can see how they appear to many Vermonters, then our Sustaining Subscribers are the people who raise the mirror to their faces.
After a few weeks, the purchases are disputed by the actual card owner and the transaction is cancelled by the credit card company.
Violent behavior, insistent and repeated trespassing, and mental health incidents are a recurring theme.
The Impala was headed south on Route 22A when it veered out of its lane for reason unknown, collided with a telephone pole, and flipped over.
Bakersfield family receives car for Christmas.
It’s what brothers do.Multiple Vermont municipal police departments, county sheriffs, and the Department of Motor Vehicles have agreed to send law enforcement personnel to Caledonia County this week to cover many of the work shifts for beleaguered St. Johnsbury officers.
Transient man with three warrants cited, released.
Supporters say a declared State of Emergency would reduce regulatory barriers, such as bypassing zoning requirements, which will allowed for a quicker ability to use state, city and privately owned property to open and maintain shelters.
Shiffrin tumble a learning experience for other skiers. Boiling maple sap! Vermont helps rebuild Notre Dame.
VDC and many other news organizations, advocacy groups, and interested citizens now have a clear, searchable, timely transcript of legislative committee meetings, courtesy of One of Vermont’s most accomplished high tech wizards.
The raid was the culmination of a months’ long investigation into the distribution of fentanyl and cocaine base in the Chittenden County area.
The suspect was a customer of snowplow operator who, short-staffed, was not able to plow his driveway.
The Legislature passed the buck to the Commission to come up with solutions, and the commission, having wasted half a year, passed the buck right back. (Sad trombone slide.)
Funding will support flood control, water infrastructure, and the Town of Vernon.
“We will also move to remove the private right to sue Vermont in Act 153 if it falls short of carbon reduction goals,” Beck and McCoy said.
When turned on, the new HVAC system released plumes of dust into the indoor air.
The Legislature is already facing 20% increases in health care insurance premiums, nursing and manpower shortages, an unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis, increasing property taxes, a multi-billion $$ bill for replacing aging school buildings, child care payroll taxes, proposed carbon reduction and flood mitigation expenditures, and demands by ‘social justice’ state offices like the Vermont Human Rights Commission and the Vermont Truth and Reconciliation Commission for increased staff and funding.
Drag Christmas party. Charitable casino. Life in the ‘lower class. And good news about St. J police captain.
Rutland hospital named to Best Maternity Ward list. Pot dealers sue for free speech. Soccer Cats return #1 in nation.
Welch also would restrict deporting Palestinians, impose Supreme Court term limits, and shut down offshore oil and gas rigs
Threatening with a gun. Cracking the town office safe. Smashing into a storefront with a truck.
We at VDC tried hard in 2024 to make that hope for balanced, responsive state government a reality. We will continue the work in 2025.
Once again, Covid will be making Gov. Phil Scott work from home.
Higley speculated “the reason House Republicans might want to introduce a bill to repeal Act 18 is to ensure they are out ahead of the curve and that they can point to that directly opposed to the CHS.”
This year, Donald Trump picked up his highest percentage of Vermont votes yet. it was still less than a third of the total votes cast.
It was apparent that two worldviews are butting heads.
The Catamounts saved it for late once again winning in overtime after tying the game deep in regulation.
The video provided was taken during broad daylight, in the open, in the occupied Bradford Park parking lot open to the general public.
The suspect made a small purchase and waited for the cashier to open the cash drawer before forcibly taking the money.
A female victim who reported that two men robbed her at gunpoint, threatened to shoot her and stole her purse which contained her phone, wallet and a gun.
The draft report recommends legislation to approve just cause eviction, rent control (AKA ‘stablization), a rental registry, tenant right to counsel, and more funding for housing supports.
The owner shut off all utilities and left him to die, cold and alone.
State police made no mention in its press release today about anybody else at the residence, but Vermont News First has learned that a half dozen people were also found inside. All denied that Mason was there, but police found otherwise.
Monday Night Football, move over! UVM defeated #3 Denver on Friday on penalty kicks to advance to the College Cup Final.
The winner got $17 – a significant choice for the cash award.
“Currently, Federal Aviation Administration regulations limit state and local governments to disable or neutralize drones that pose eminent danger to the communities we represent,” a state senator wrote to Whitaker.
“This year, many Vermonters will be eligible for better coverage plans at lower premium costs due to increased federal subsidies,” the Health Department stated in an email presser sent out Monday.
‘Alex Cross’ offer James Patterson gives bonus to Vermont booksellers.
When growing in-migration and substance abuse collides with decades of elite-driven anti-housing policies, the poorest and the most needy suffer.
McMahon and Brissette were walking across the crosswalk on I 189 from Route 7.
Wakeboard sports ban meeting today.
A Church St. apartment building panned as a frequent crime scene but praised as very affordable housing has a new owner.
The Democrat House leadership promise to keep property taxes low raises at least three big questions.
A study shows Vermont will have the highest rate increase and highest average health care premium.
Carmen Beaudoin Bombardier has been making batches of her mother-in-law’s tourtière recipe to sell since the early 1980s, starting with the holiday bazaar at Christ the King School in Burlington. A share of the proceeds go to the school.
A procedural vote to restrict caucus leadership positions to Democrats only passed by a decidedly non-unanimous 60-18 vote.
As with many of Vermont’s urban centers, Montpelier is struggling with problems caused by street people.
Construction company housed workers in unsafe quarters, town officials say.
Claiming to be a fire inspector, he reportedly accessed restricted areas of the store.
Generally, folks are upset but not surprised. Some are ready to take this media to the City Council.
A controversial clause gives the self-perceived victim of the graffiti – whether an individual or a group of people – the right to sue for damages in court.
Better reporting and enforcement of graffiti AND a controversial provision to sue for ‘hate speech’ are on the City Council agenda tonight.
The two men would dry-fire their handguns at each other.
“That is a dynamic shift in power to take an unelected board and give it the authority over the mayor who is an elected person,” Neri said.
Sanders outraged over pending disposal of Montpelier federal building.
Hallelujah for Seven Days’ feature story on a Barre church ministering directly to drug addicts.
The criminal charges against Lindsay E. Johnson, 32, stem from an alleged “Shaken Baby Syndrome” with a 6-week-old boy while she was serving as his night nanny for a couple.
Despite their injuries, they were able to provide immediate live-saving care and medical evacuation for a critically injured soldier.
‘We are now working to rebuild, but unfortunately the progress we achieved in 2023 has not extended into 2024.”
Court records show that Manning continued to fraudulently collect her brother’s SSA benefits by withdrawing money from his accounts until February 2024.
Parting shot from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas; laying off immigration workers.
Reduced hours harm local economies, public safety, and cross-border workers in towns like Alburgh, Canaan, Derby Line, North Troy, and West Berkshire, Vermont’s three members of Congress said.
Not gonna happen.
The three horses died after being struck by a pickup truck, whose operator fled the scene.
Just like its namesake hero of the Battle of Bennington, the General Stark bridge crosses the Connecticut River for the benefit of both states.
The committee hasn’t decided – yet – to recommend extending the state minimum wage to illegal immigrant farm workers as well.
With this projected increase, Vermonters will have seen a 33% increase in education property taxes in the last three years,” Scott said.
Fresh from performing on Dancing With The Stars, the BHS standout athlete has signed to play professional rugby in England.
Sunday morning fatal crash in Dummerston. Also, a NH man was cited for going double the Interstate 91 speed limit in Vermont’s ‘state car.’
Two new hires at BPD.
“This unmet need underscores our call for robust funding to support critical projects in this region,” Welch and other senators wrote.
He was honored when the town of Milton named its new $6.5 million public works garage after him when it was unveiled in October. He helped the town save $3 million on the project.
The iconic Elmore Store has new owners and a new life.
If this sounds like a conspiratorial claim, I invite listeners to learn what Mel and I have been digging up from the WEF, UN, and WHO — their own documents tell us what they plan to do to “save” humanity from itself by controlling all food, land, water, and money.
This fall, One Day In July surpassed $1 billion in assets under management. In May, One Day In July was ranked among the top 30 firms in the nation.
Several weeks after the battle of Gettysburg on July 1st of 1863, in which more than 7,500 Americans died and scores more were wounded, Abraham Lincoln set forth a Thanksgiving Day proclamation.
One frequent VDC letter writer and former legislator says what he’s thankful for today. How about you?
Don’t eat raccoon.
Burlington police arrested a frequent arrestee on a fugitive from justice charge.
The same day she was voted down, Scott made her interim Secretary of Education. The action prompted a lawsuit by two State Senators, but a court dropped the case in September.
A homeless man broke into the home and stabbed a young man to death before he was shot to death.
Some state workers ordered back to the office. The union’s not happy.
Miller’s reputation was still lingering in the halls of U-32 as students and teachers who knew his work spoke admiringly of him for years to follow.
Williams told Vermont News First on Tuesday it was a simple mishap with his paperwork.
“And, because of our country’s long history of racist and exploitative laws and policies, many of which continue today, Black Vermonters are unhoused at a staggering rate compared to white Vermonters,” the report states.
Safe burglary in Richford. String of burglaries in Addison County.
“Had you been across the river in New Hampshire, if you keep committing crime, allegedly, after you’re out on conditions of release, they can just revoke bail, even on misdemeanors,” Kainen reportedly said. “Here, we don’t have the ability to do that, and so we keep letting you go.”
Our Legislature’s leaders in recent years have bragged incessantly about “doing the work” when really they’re just been leading endless virtue parades.
This isn’t Welch’s first attempt at such legislation. A similar version introduced in 2021 failed to gain traction in Congress.
The assault is believed to have taken place over several minutes, with many potential witnesses passing by on foot and by vehicle in the area between South Winooski Avenue and South Union Street.
“The history is inaccurate and has generated numerous counter-observances over the years to honor the Indigenous people who were the ancestral stewards in the North American land before European contact and the genocide that resulted from it,” the state-funded VORE says.
When her high heels clicked down the marble-tiled administration building hall at Castleton College, a vision in a belted and buttoned cotton shirtwaist halting just above amazing ankles, they stopped one of the older students, an Air Force veteran and Rutland Herald reporter. He stared. He was enchanted.
Police say the relationship lasted for nearly two years where Stevens allegedly sexually assaulted and was cruel to the child.
