Guy Page is the editor and publisher of the Vermont Daily Chronicle.
“If someone heard you talking about them, would they feel respected and understood?” The state coordinator of Braver Angels describes how red can talk with blue, and vice-versa.
Krowinski blamed the governor for the coming train wreck of unaffordability, because – wait for it – Gov. Scott Didn’t Attend The Meeting In Person.
“This is about community support and making sure people like me who are women, and a mom of young kids are able to serve,” Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak said.
UVM seeks to double graduate school enrollment.
59-year-old William Hewlett and another man were found stabbed at Melrose Avenue in Brockton. Hewlett later died at the hospital.
Witnesses at the scene reported that Goddard was attempting to swim across the river with his young daughter on his back when he began to struggle.
A struggle occurred between the man and the trooper while the trooper was attempting to secure the shotgun from within the man’s vehicle.
Krowinski dismissed Scott’s proposed $124 million in savings as “nothing more than election year politics” because the governor didn’t deliver them in person.
Activists and a legislator to speak at rally Saturday about veto session Monday.
“While we’re unsure of how the bear got stuck in the can and why it was drawn to it, this story serves as an important reminder of how curious and food-driven bears are,” Fish & Wildlife said.
The Vermont Democratic Party has decided not to send established figures like Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Instead, they are sending a group of very young delegates that includes a host of next-generation political activists.
Vermont Law and Graduate School Professor Jared Carter said this case is a test, questioning just how far the protections of the First Amendment really go.
The attack was made with a facility-issued tablet computing device and a lock that had been placed inside a sock, according to VSP Detective Trooper Vienna Gildea.
Our Geoengineering Age is a website dedicated to Geoengineering, practice that involves deliberate activities to change any of Earth’s biogeochemical systems, preeminently the climate, either through manipulation of the atmosphere’s chemical composition or through heating the upper atmosphere with electromagnetic technologies.
Free meals for the busy young couple earning $250K between them, bestowed by what the meal-train organizer refers to as the mayor’s ‘entourage.’
Drug crime – trafficking and drug use itself, dealers’ violence, desperate customers committing property crimes – is up. Police hiring is still down.
State keeping track of wildlife crossings.
“These cuts represent the seventh reduction to net metering compensation since 2017, a period that has seen a 32% drop in net metering installations,” Peter Sterling of industry trade group Renewable Energy Vermont said June 5.
In just over four years, all 30 abuse substantiations appeals were overturned or dismissed. The incentive for DCF workers to take children into custody relates back to a case in 2014 when a child was killed.
With iSun filing for bankruptcy, one might wonder if legislators will think twice about overriding the Governor’s veto of H.289.
McLane would order vehicle suspension lift kits valued at $2,300 to $2,900 each and then steal them by selling them on Facebook at substantially discounted prices, the criminal charge notes.
“Vermonters cannot afford a double-digit property tax increase. Especially while facing a historic eight-percent property tax increase last year, a 20% increase in DMV fees, a new payroll tax taking effect July 1, increased fuel costs to heat homes and businesses from the Clean Heat Standard, and increased electric costs if my veto of the Renewable Energy Standard is not sustained,” Scott said.
A faithful Trump supporter in Congress, Elise Stefanik could become the first Republican woman vice-president.
The gun’s owner was trying to comply with the federal no-carry policy.
The State of Vermont needs $8.6 billion to do the people’s business? What is it spending the money on, and what can be done?
A Burlington Police officer – one of 3 off-duty city employees caught going upwards to 100 miles per hour on motorcycles in a 35-mph zone in St. Albans last fall – pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of negligent operation.
A classmate of the plaintiff who is the daughter of the school co-principal had her name submitted as the top student to UVM.
An abused child’s best friend. Mixed results on Lake Champlain cleanup. Loans for migrant farm housing.
The name of a state senator who died after the candidate filing deadline passed will remain on the August 13 primary ballot.
Part Three in a series on races for the Vermont House. List of every House candidate, thus far.
The charges against Ettouzar stem from an investigation into the Malletts Bay shooting that took place on May 26.
Each school district had already rejected school budgets at least twice this year in the face of estimated double-digit property tax increases.
“Although the Wuotis and Gantts have adopted five children between them, the Department has determined they are unfit to foster or adopt any child solely due to their religiously inspired and widely held belief that girls cannot become boys or vice versa,” the filing states.
Power outages, an earthquake, the Abenaki dispute, and $$ for mobile home water infrastructure.
“Local law enforcement should not be in the business of enforcing federal immigration law, and Vermont sheriffs need to be held accountable,” the ACLU says.
Elizabeth Brown of Waterbury is running as a Democrat against two Democrat incumbents, both committee chairs: Theresa Wood (Human Services) and Thomas Stevens (General).
Incumbents’ departures have prompted candidates from both parties to square off in primaries in August.
“A person shall not knowingly possess a firearm at a polling place or on the walks leading to a building in which a polling place is located on an election day,” the new law says.
Two crash survivors were charged with cocaine distribution.
We’ll have propane “as long as we have elastics in our underwear,” Anderson laughed. “So we should use it.”
Building enough solar generation to meet the state’s energy goals will result in deforestation and loss of farmland, Bill Huff and Mike Tagliavia said during a co-production of two popular Vermont media.
Townshend centenarian says he accepted the honor for his unit, the “Sons of Bitche.” (Named for the town they liberated.)
Swazye was uninjured but was inside the cockpit hanging from a tree approximately 20 feet from the ground.
An airplane punched and left a hole in the clouds Sunday morning, the National Weather Service explained. See photo slideshow.
Two school districts have now reconsidered their school budget Yes vote.
The incident began in Burlington when five men were involved in the theft of a 2024 Ford Expedition; at least one of the men brandished a firearm during the incident.
Man with outstanding warrant and criminal history arrested for trying to stab a bartender after a dispute over a mixed drink.
This ‘first in the nation’ bill prevents police and other authorities from enforcing drug laws at centers where drug addicts could get high.
Wheeler: “Our judicial system has been politicized and it will take significant purging to restore its intended nature.” Welch: remember January 6.
Progressive Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak says equipping waterfront homeless encampments are ‘short-term’ and ‘strategic.’
Drug counseling clinic owner indicted. Don’t bother the (river) lamprey.
About 20 school districts still have no approved school budget, including one that said yes at Town Meeting and then reconsidered.
“We’ve had people from New York City and Massachusetts living in there with the woman for months, gang members, all these people. So many drugs. It’s not any secret,” a neighbor of Gras said.
Harder than it looks to turn Burlington YMCA into housing.
“I think what these legislators think is they’re helping the poor, but they’re not, they’re just making it worse,” Tatro said.
Just as the Sheriff of Nottingham could stiff the toll collector to ride his horse across a bridge, electrical vehicle drivers don’t have to pay for the upkeep of Vermont highways.
“Factoring in all the other taxes, fees and higher costs the Legislature has passed over the last two years, I simply cannot allow this bill to go into law,” Scott said.
Police credit a local group of anti-litter investigators with solving the ongoing case of littering at a scenic pull-off.
Baseball’s back at Centennial Field. Our honored dead remembered in parades, at cleaned-up cemeteries. Tourist town starts rental registry.
Flags will be flown at half mast in Vermont this Thursday, the day of his funeral at Holy Cross Church in Colchester.
Northfield, 1982. A one-day old baby is found dead in a garbage bag on the side of a road.
The bear euthanized this morning in Underhill was attracted into an area resident’s yard by recycling left outside the front door this morning.
Yes, that IS a sweet El Camino in the first al fresco episode of Friday at Four. It pays state highway taxes so EVs don’t have to. We discuss.
The guv’s path to 100% carbon free electricity is cheaper and quicker. The Legislature wants to take the longer, more expensive road, paved with solar farms and wind turbines.
Just stay home and save your vote for the November election, the robocaller told Democrat voters.
As one town ambulance service receives a national honor, another struggles to find EMTs.
If the courts won’t jail violent repeat offenders, can we at least know what they look like?
Heading south? New flight will get you there on the cheap. Black restaurant owner honored with statue in Rutland. GOP optimistic.
Lanthier, a public defender for more than 20 years, oversees a handful of lawyers who represent indigent defendants in Rutland County.
“Sometimes the Legislature focuses so much on their goals they don’t consider the unintended consequences. And the reality is, there are almost always some negative consequences as the result of new policies,” Scott said.
A million barrels of gasoline set aside for emergency use in the next disaster will be sold to reduce prices at the pump this summer.
This new benefit provides $120 per child, which families can use to purchase fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, and fish, dairy products; breads and cereals, and other foods such as snack foods and non-alcoholic beverages.
UVM can’t afford to build new housing it proposed last year, due to unexpectedly high costs. That, and the City of Burlington has yet to follow through with necessary zoning changes.
Agreeing that “pollinators are essential,” Gov. Scott said “the same is true of farmers” and that the bill is “more anti-farmer than it is pro-pollinator.”
Last Friday’s episode unveils disturbing truth about human trafficking victims who do NOT have freedom of choice about abortions. This Friday we discuss “Taxes for Thee, But Not For Me.”
The crash that led to the death of a responding state trooper and eventually to the resignation of the local fire chief now also means a three-year wait for a new fire truck.
Turnover at top of the Scott administration. Sanders applauds international arrest warrants for Israel, Hamas. Sportsmen flag animal welfare bill.
The Wealth Tax passed the House but not the Senate this year. One tax hike that went through with little notice: landline and postpaid wireless phone use taxes will be assessed differently and collect $3 million more new revenue.
Ledbetter said, “We need a lot more housing that working people can afford or we risk losing a generation of young Vermonters now spending almost all of their paychecks on rent.”
The ribbon isn’t “his,” it’s “theirs.”
“Gov. Scott’s a popular governor. My polling shows that the most important issue for Vermonters is taxation. And the governor has talked a lot about this,” Dean told reporters.
Protesting drag queen story hour at library. EV forklifts. Support after miscarriage. BIPOC professionals survey. UVM graduation, bass, bus fares.
In layman’s terms, the Fed is going to keep the financial heroin in the system.
Make America Great Again!, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum urged the state GOP convention as Trump foe and fellow Gov. Phil Scott watched.
Judge Sessions rejoined, “They may very well be saying things that you perceive to be false. Say, about the consequences of abortion….I wonder if that would be a reasonable concern for them.”
The new site on state-owned land will have more than double the capacity of the now-abandonred planned facility in Newbury.
Charbonneau allegedly initiated contact online via Kik messenger with a Hartford investigator posing as a 14-year-old minor and engaged in sexual conversations, attempting to arrange a meeting for sexual acts.
Days after Notch opens, truck escapes stuckage. 8 new invasive species. Welch all about Rural Prosperity. VT goes to Drone Championships.
Vermont’s law impedes women’s ability to receive critical services during a difficult time in their lives and suppresses the free-speech rights of faith-based pregnancy centers, ADF lawyers argue.
Aeration “resulted in much higher surface water total phosphorus and stronger, more protracted cyanobacteria blooms.”
As Judge William Sessions put it, he had “earned his freedom” by leaving the business of drug trafficking entirely and working hard to alter the direction of his life.
The 12-year-old suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Scott wonders how many legislators actually read, much less understood, the 60 bills passed in the final week.
When will the first big rig get stuck in Smugglers Notch? Health care rates to climb by double digits. Thom Lauzon is BACK in the Barre mayor’s seat.
Created with federal pandemic funding as a response to the purported public health emergency of systemic racism, the city’s DEI office is a victim of the $13 million budget shortfall.
Judge Michael Kainen released a repeat convicted felon to be treated for an eye injury after he pleaded innocent Monday to misdemeanor assault on a protected professional.
Tier 3 consists of “critical resource areas” where any activity within will more than likely trigger Act 250 jurisdiction and would, by some estimates, cover about 18% of the state’s land mass.
A Massachusetts-based group plans to come to Lyndonville to support local resistance to a drag queen story hour currently scheduled at the library for this Saturday.
As a well-funded, big-name headliner, Howard Dean will force Phil Scott to campaign. For real.
Secret testimony allowed in $1.1 million state government body, because “the politics are sensitive.” Plus, the bill’s veto-proof.
