Guy Page is the editor and publisher of the Vermont Daily Chronicle.
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.
With a Community Service Initiative called “Green for Good,” Seery plans to advocate for sustainable practices.
SUPER TUESDAY – how voters decide on seven school budgets today could affect educational funding reform coming out of the State House.
Faced with an 86% shrinkage in homes for sale, the Legislature is looking at Act 250 reforms and increasing temporary housing funding.
BIPOC Vermonters are getting a hand up in first-time homeowning.
Concepcion is wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of store clerk Daryus “Swaggy” Clarke at a smoke-shop known as “The Plug” in the Richmond Hills section of Queens, N.Y. in March 2023.
A hunting ‘reform’ bill that passed with tepid support in the Senate will be discussed in a House committee this week.
Should the right to collective bargaining be enshrined in the Constitution?
The Public Utilities Commission shouldn’t have given Vermont Gas a pass on post-permit changes to its pipeline construction, the Vermont Supreme Court says.
Voters in the only interstate school district rejected their school budget Saturday. So did Essex/Westford voters last Tuesday. Revised budgets in six school districts will go before voters on Tuesday.
Annual spectacle of steelhead trout at Willoughby Falls. 100th anniversary of Burlington Country Club. Rescue horses looking for new home. Federal Farm Bill review.
Five months after the brain matter of a Middlebury highway flagger splattered her clothing, the plaintiff was diagnosed with PTSD.
Police seeking the driver of the pickup truck from which a youth was thrown.
Fun, fuel-efficient….and potentially fatal.
The executive committees in Colchester and Grand Isle counties both moved quickly and quietly to begin the process of picking a new state senator.
First it was the shooting of three Palestinians. Then someone set Bernie Sanders’ outer office on fire. What do the suspects have in common?
Concepcion allegedly shot a man during robbery of a NYC marijuana dispensary. He’s also a person of interest in two Burlington slayings.
On today’s Friday at Four, we look at – Crazy, white, gun-totin’ liberals / Don’t look now, the Taxpayer Revolt continues/ Getting it Wrong with Hydro/ The eclipse and EV Fragility. Your real-time, online comments welcome!
What is almost certain about the ‘foundational funding’ bill is the non-homestead rate will be increased to 18.57% while the homestead yield is 15.54%.
Yesterday, a Rutland-Addison school district became the latest to see its second-try school budget go down in flames.
Even more concerning for Vermont is the research showing the negative relationship between income tax rates and gross domestic product.
So what’s really going on here? Why is the State of Vermont willing to flick away a source of affordable, carbon free power that promotes tourism, created a beautiful state park, and even protects loons?
The 1,000 current Tesla drivers in Vermont now have an instate service center.
For reasons unknown, the TT left its lane and struck the Subaru head-on.
Eww….Someone must have been pretty mad to do that.
Bernie wants a billion every year for Long Covid. Asbestos claims another public building, for a few months. Family Research Council comes to Waterbury. And ‘young Tom’ Salmon offers his problem-solving skills for conflict resolution of all kinds.
The philosophy behind the broad-based transaction tax appears to be “many hands make light work.”
A new federal clean water rule could require more spending to reduce PFAs in Vermont drinking water.
School voters in the Northeast Kingdom joined voters in South Burlington and Georgia voting no, for a second time, on proposed school budgets.
When stopped by police last year, Soghomonian had an AK-47 with two loaded magazines, 12 ounces of cannabis, and a book advocating sabotage as a form of climate activism.
f a candidate receives more than half of the first choices, that candidate wins, just like in any other election. However, if there is no majority winner after counting the first choices, the race is decided by an instant runoff.
Better buy a few rolls of those Forever stamps soon.
Bills with legs usually have a dozen or so legislators proudly standing in support at press conferences. Then, there’s S.258.
Grismore’s alleged offenses “don’t meet the high bar for impeachment,” but he really should resign anyway, House Speaker Jill Krowinski said.
Records show Soghomonian, 35, formerly of Northridge, CA, had lived for much of February and March at an inn on Williston Road in South Burlington.
Do Vermont police need a code of conduct?
Bennington County Sheriff, James Gulley, Jr., who has headed up this competition for the past two years, as well as representatives of the Vermont Sheriff’s Association and Vermont State Police will be on hand to judge the competitions.
Redhawks win another title on the Gray Matter Gridiron. And….something about an eclipse?
“The Conscience of the Senate” has stepped down.
The House will consider this week a Senate-backed bill to create a Superfund to make oil companies pay for expensive renewable power and efficiency upgrades in Vermont.
Over the objections of the ACLU and a Progressive senator, religion WILL be included in a proposed Equal Rights Amendment, a Senate committee decided Friday.
Where will you be?
Soghomonian was arrested just before he was scheduled to check out of the the Quality Inn on Shelburne Road in Shelburne.
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ office in the massive 1897 Masonic Temple at the Church & Pearl intersection in Burlington was set on fire Friday morning.
Tune in today to hear a breaking news exclusive on VDC TV ‘Friday at Four’ weekly news program.
Did a popular columnist misquote a Burlington legislator? Or are some lawmakers getting touchy about their taxation voting record? You decide.
The police investigation indicates this was an isolated incident that arose from a drug-related dispute.
The Pawlet town constable’s video shows some of the scuffle that ensued when he arrested former Slate Ridge owner Daniel Banyai.
Phelps was charged with illegal possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of a controlled substance.
Mail sorted in White River Junction could soon be sorted in Connecticut.
We believe the people of Vermont will see what we saw, which is a smart, authentic, thoughtful leader who is genuinely excited about helping Vermont kids – our kids, and her own – get the best possible education.
“When I go home, a lot of times what I’m doing is studying Scripture, getting into the Word of God, trying to understand it better. And I feel like God’s been preparing me for an opportunity,” Kittell said.
The bill pays for selected housing improvements by raising the income tax 34% to 11.75% for incomes $500K or more and raising the property transfer tax on properties of $750K or more.
Accidents and tragedy.
Missing court dates, kicking cops, running from the law, stealing vape pens with a stolen van. And stealing a pride flag.
The manager who led the Lake Monsters to three league championships has died from glioblastoma.
“People lose faith in government when policies have these inconsistencies,” Scott said.
By a 105-37 roll call vote, the House made the pandemic-era state emergency housing program (sometimes known as the ‘homeless hotel’ program) permanent in statute, and expanded its services.
How did your House representative vote on the $8.8 billion proposed budget?
Protests against the war in Gaza. Addison County legislators want Vekos to resign. Life at a Brattleboro shelter a year after an axe murder.
50 years ago Vermont reintroduced turkeys to the Vermont wild. Now Fish & Wildlife is seeing early success at reintroducing another large bird – this one with ancestors from Vermont’s Pleistocene era.
Berlin City, here we come…..
The House will consider bills to clamp down on fossil fuel investment while waiving the permit process for large-ish battery storage systems.
A bill to guarantee increased wetlands under state management will cost at least $1 million next year, if it passes.
It’s not just the hotels and motels that are cashing in on the three-day gold rush. Air B’n’Bs that once charged $50/night are now charging $500 – and getting it.
What if the kids are reading every book in the library about school shootings?
“By requiring federal agencies to use AI in proactive ways, such as boosting grid resiliency and improving weather forecasts, this bill will allow us to better predict and respond to extreme weather events and mitigate their impacts,” Welch said.
“We’re being told that we still don’t have enough money. Clearly we do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem,” Rep. Scott Beck (R-St. Johnsbury) said.
A federal judge has agreed to hold a hearing on a claim by a New York skier that he had accepted a multi-million dollar out-of-court settlement minutes before a jury last month rejected all the legal claims he made about an accident that left him paralyzed at Okemo Mountain.
Nine subjects of the United Kingdom tried to plow through a landowner’s fence at the Canadian border in Highgate.
What will happen to EV batteries when they stop working?
Touted as ‘pro-housing,’ the Act 250 reform bill gives a mid-2026 start date for Act 250 review-free housing, limits them to small areas of the state, and imposes a tight review process.
“I don’t think we should be voting on a budget that pretends a certain amount of spending,” Donahue said. “Transparency to our constituents is one of our most important obligations.”
Burlington’s current mayor and Mayor-elect will raise a Burlington Trans flag sewn by a community member.
Police say Perry held people at gunpoint before fleeing the scene in a dark blue Dodge truck. He was nabbed after a high-risk chase.
Kick or push? Jury being picked to decide the assault case against Franklin County Sheriff John Grismore.
Daily edition emailed Monday-Saturday, on track to reach 1.6 million views.
“That is essentially like me having my job working five days a week, 9-to-5, whatever else, and my drunk uncle Joe having my checkbook,” Scheuermann said.
Lieutenant Delgado was quietly demoted to corporal last year after an internal investigation showed he filed 25 timesheets that were inaccurate or untimely.
Like all renewable energy, hydropower is at the mercy of Mother Nature.
Eclipse hopes and fears. Car catches fire after striking deer. And Spelling Bee contestants prepare for words like ‘Chanticleer.’
“We don’t want to sit at home. We don’t want to collect from the system,” said the woman who overcame severe dyslexia and ADHD to found a growing leather products business now threatened by high taxes.
A state’s attorney has been suspended for failing to answer questions about her DUI charge.
A confrontation ensued between Suggs and the occupants, leading to Suggs being overpowered and detained until law enforcement arrived.
Octegenarian couple produces an original musical in Rochester. Vermont.
The Senate passed an amended bill that, although less restrictive than the original version, could be “the end of hunting as we know it in Vermont,” one senator said. The Senate retained the ban on baiting coyotes and hunting them with dogs.
The $130 million won’t provide property tax relief, but would pay for new and expanded programs.
AG will run again. Milton strikes the BLM flag. Huge gift stabilizes tuition at Dartmouth.
With the influx of federal $$ gone, Vermont’s public transit system is looking at cutting some service in order to meet budget.
Plugging teens’ legal access cannabis concentrate. Housing slow-down bill. Why won’t State Government do what the Legislature tells it to do?!
The temporary shelters for a few cost more per night than the homeless hotels for the many – but that’s not the whole story, state officials say.
Anti-Israel graffiti. A voyeur at Jay Peak. Catalytic converter suspect dies before trial. Police Welfare check on chronic suicide threatener goes bad for checkers and checkee.
Girl Scouts have been selling cookies since 1917. More than a century later, they’re not homemade anymore, but they’re still a delicious, popular fundraiser.
Behind The Lines columnist Rob Roper comes out from behind the keyboard to expose an anti-fossil fuel lobbyist’s hypocrisy.
Some things never change.
The Senate passed an amended bill that, although less restrictive than the original version, could be “the end of hunting as we know it in Vermont,” one senator said. The Senate retained the ban on baiting coyotes and hunting them with dogs.
Changes to S.258 on Senate floor now.
Vermont’s new Secretary of Education comes from Broward County, Florida.
The Senate banned flavored tobacco, approved a flood safety bill, and adjusted youth criminal justice laws.
