2022 Vermont maple syrup production totaled a record high 2.55 million gallons, most ever and (as usual) first in the nation.
Guy Page is the editor and publisher of the Vermont Daily Chronicle.
2022 Vermont maple syrup production totaled a record high 2.55 million gallons, most ever and (as usual) first in the nation.
For years Vermont’s climate change warriors have urged driving up oil and natural gas prices to force consumers to weatherize, and switch to alternatives such as “cold climate heat pumps” and advanced wood pellet furnaces.
Forced to dispense pandemic payment checks, the IRS got behind on its tax returning processing responsibilities.
More than half — 53% — of voters say they believe the Biden administration is intentionally letting gas prices increase to make Americans use less fossil fuels.
A $5000 reward is being offered for information about a car set on fire with a flammmable liquid at 5 AM May 20.
Police believe they have found the body of a missing 38-year-old woman whose empty car was found on a back road in Mt. Holly.
The Vermont Human Rights Commission defamed a state trooper in its decision about a dispute involving police and a landlord related to Francois Clemmons, the police officer on Mr. Rogers.
In his gushing over VTDigger, Walters neglects to mention the most positive media development of the past few years: the inception of conservative media in Vermont.
Over the course of several hours, we learned that some rioters tried to destroy our democracy by entering the Capitol Building and taking selfies and putting their booted Nazi feet upon Nancy Pelosi’s sacred desk.
Pull up a chair, sit on a fence, wave to the marchers and cheer them on.
With plenty of federal money to spend, lawmakers and Gov. Phil Scott had no difficulty finding and funding problems that need fixing.
The feds offered, and the State of Vermont gladly accepted an unprecedented amount of $$ for highway improvements, public transit, and transitioning to electric vehicles.
A bill approving a Burlington City Charter change removing language about prostitution was signed by Gov. Phil Scott.
A capacity for local food production means that when times get tough, Vermont will have affordable nourishing food and will limit hunger in our communities.
“As one who had to run in a state dominated by Democrats – 91% of elected officials in Arkansas were Democrats when I ran – I know that you need to run with innovative ideas and be a different kind of conservative that focuses on solving real problems,” Mike Huckabee said.
Burlington’s gunfire epidemic is caused by local gangs, not out-of-state drug rings, city officials said today.
Today’s headlines from Vermont news media.
Elected prosecutors have a major role to play in holding police accountable for misconduct. That can include pressing criminal charges when police abuse their power and violate civil rights – something prosecutors rarely elect to do.
The ACLU of Vermont is rallying behind progressive prosecutors promoting “criminal law reform and demands for police accountability.”
Problem: students don’t want the milk that comes with subsidized meals, but schools don’t get paid by the feds if the kids refuse it. Solution: give the milk to local food shelves, or feed it to pigs.
Two Chittenden County men caught dealing heroin and other illegal drugs are headed to federal prison for multi-year terms.
The state’s dispatcher shortage is expected to become more acute in the coming months, as call volume typically increases during the summer, and additional staff departures are expected.
Police are looking for a missing person, a 38-year-old Mt. Holly woman whose empty car was found on a back road in Mt. Holly.
Replacing fossil fuels with environmentally-unfriendly biofuels, without clear limits, would have created serious problems.
Now that San Francisco voters have rejected its soft-on-crime district attorney, will Chittenden County voters contemplate the same for no-jail Sarah George?
Opponents of safe injection sites say their effectiveness is unclear and are a ‘foot in the door’ for legalizing possession and sale of hard drugs.
When it’s just plain dangerous to shut down nuclear power plants, baby formula factories, and schools “due to an abundance of caution.”
Everyone is looking – the Burlington School Board, for money to build a new high school; summer and child care employers, for workers; and ferry customers, for a ride across the Lake.
The ongoing post-pandemic employment gap of about 15,000 employed Vermonters, despite the unprecedented demand for workers, has led some Vermonters to wonder why.
“John Klar has the energy and the background to tackle our problems,” former Gov. James Douglas said.
Considering that shootings have also taken place at many locations outside of schools, I wish to encourage law abiding citizens to become proficient with firearms and to carry them whenever possible.
“Discovering a viable population of a federally threatened species unknown in our state for over a century is astounding,” said Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department Botanist Bob Popp.
A 61-year-old Johnson man with a drug crime record allegedly shot a 26-year-old man in the neck during a dispute on Railroad Street in Johnson.
The death of Justin Gilliam, 38, is the latest in a series of shootings in Springfield, a once-prosperous mill town now experiencing heavy drug crime activity and a shortage of police officers.
The electricity rates are going up in Burlington, and the new high school’s price tag exceeds the city’s borrowing capacity.
I got to thinking, the level of Lake Champlain varies by six feet over the course of each year, and that’s been going on since Champlain first visited here in 1609.
Vermont is more lenient about ballot harvesting and drop box depositing and requires less video surveillance than some states seen in 2000 Mules.
An Arizona woman has pleaded guilty to using her position in the Democratic Party to illegally harvest ballots in a “sophisticated” ballot abuse scheme.
Democrats act as if the solution to school shootings is to either take some guns away from all people, or take all guns away from some people.
DEF is an emissions control liquid required by the EPA in diesel engines manufactured after 2010 as an “aftertreatment technology” to reduce vehicle emissions.
Connecticut River sea lamprey aren’t invasive like their Lake Champlain cousins.
A day after a former Burlington city councilor was struck in the head by gunfire shrapnel in his own backyard, Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger demanded the City Council and other authorities help stop the shooting spree in the state’s largest city.
On the beaches of Normandy, June 6 1944, German gunfire took a terrific gouge out of a Norwich, Vermont man’s Army helmet – but he survived to write to his parents: “don’t worry.”
Voting your religious conscience on abortion-related legislation may have consequences, if you’re a Vermont Democratic legislator.
The kid from Glover wins another Emmy. And now you, too, can adopt a storm drain. These headlines and others from Vermont media today.
Body armor is like a radar detector because it gives crooks an unfair advantage over cops, Sen. Phil Baruth says.
Rather than paying to dispose of the boat properly, Bailey devised a plan to set the junk boat adrift in the Missisquoi River – but he didn’t have a tow hitch.
A search of a bag Moffitt hurriedly threw in the trash revealed more than 3,000 bags of suspected fentanyl, and distribution quantities of powder and crack cocaine.
Ryan Goodrich, 37, of of the Windham County town of Athens was arraigned Wednesday, June 1 on an indictment that alleges on March 3, Goodrich unlawfully possessed an unregistered short-barrel shotgun, unlawfully possessed multiple shotguns and an AR-style rifle due to Goodrich’s prior felony convictions, and unlawfully possessed heroin.
Although advocates of Proposal 5 often cite respect for Roe v. Wade as a rallying cry, what they are calling for is, instead, a radical departure from that Supreme Court precedent.
I am writing to seek help with my dog who has been revealing himself to be a bigoted, racist, transphobic, bully, and I don’t know what to do.
The two bills seek to address Vermont’s acute housing shortage with two popular tools of Vermont state government: shekels and shackles.
A construction worker allegedly set fire to a White River Junction building.
The State of Vermont has allocated $6 million in the last three years to enhance school safety – is it enough?
No time like the present to build back the Burlington Police Department from 66 officers to the target roster of 85.
J&Js provided Winooski residents with more than just tobacco and food – it cultivated community.
Anyone who meets J.J. Poljacik quickly realizes his vision is superseded only by his energy to make it happen.
Drop boxes, universal mailed ballots, and ballot harvesting – all crucial to the electoral fraud in six battleground states in the 2020 presidential election – are permitted under Vermont’s pandemic election law passed by the Legislature in 2020.
Two harrowing tractor-trailer accidents yesterday resulted in two fatalities on Vermont roads.
A barn that housed tens of thousands of chickens on Forsman Farm in Howard Lake, Minnesota, one of the nation’s largest egg producers, was set aflame late Saturday night.
School Resource Officers and other preventive steps are vital to preventing a school shooting in Vermont, candidates say.
Why was Sen. Patrick Leahy at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos last month?
A former Vermont Secretary of Agriculture says farm-raised Molly Gray is the best pick for Congress.
The bill, sponsored by House Natural Resources Chair Amy Sheldon (D-Middlebury), cites United Nations-sourced information that a million plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, humans globally are are squeezing wildlife into ever smaller areas, and that changes in land and sea use are the #1 driver of these problems.
It’s easy to advocate for things that prove you’re on the “right side,” even when what we should be doing is telling more complex stories.
Ms. Jankowicz is a voluble and sharp tongued 33 year old social media activist from the nether regions of the Democratic Party, eager to wield the hammer of the Biden Ministry of Truth.
Alleged Jeffersonville road-rage shooter Jermaine Morris, 41, turned himself in to troopers at the Williston Barracks and was taken into custody without incident.
Headlines from today’s media.
“The attacks will continue as long as they serve the agenda of some, empower the perpetually angry, feed the social media frenzy, and bring clicks to websites,” Robert Nied said in his letter of resignation.
Phil Baruth, the Legislature’s acknowledged leader in gun control legislation, admits that Phil Scott has the final say.
The only thing using the wrong tool of the Clean Heat Standard would accomplish would be to drive a substantial portion of our population into financial distress.
Drawing on research provided by the election integrity group True the Vote, “2000 Mules” offers two types of evidence: geotracking and video.
Vermont State Police on Wednesday, June 1 arrested a suspect in the 2019 homicide of a woman whose remains were found in a shallow grave in Searsburg
For the benefit of the institution of a citizen legislature, please accept the temporary financial discomfort, serve your time honorably, and then go back to gainful employment as thousands of legislators past and present have done.
Gov. Phil Scott vetoed 13 bills during the 2021-22 session. Nine stuck.
Headlines from Vermont media.
Police were contacted by school staff who informed them they received a report of an alleged threat made to the school by a student.
Many of the modern pharmaceutical drugs used to treat these specific conditions carry warnings that people taking them may experience suicidal or homicidal thoughts.
Justice Alito noted especially, among the cases overturned, the notorious Plessy v. Ferguson decision (1896) that upheld racial segregation on railroad coaches.
In the Vermont House, 78 Republicans have stepped forward in an effort to wrest control from the Democratic-Progressive supermajority.
Framers of the universal school meals law say it will remove stigma, promote student performance, and help the local food economy; critics say it soaks the poor to subsidize the rich.
An outspoken pro-2A, pro-cannabis native Vermonter from Bennington is running for governor as an independent.
Could fascism be stealth – hidden in plain sight, sold to the people by offering protection, security, services, justice and aid?
The WEF meeting began to fill with the A-list of the super-rich, so elite you won’t find their numbers in the Yellow Pages because they exchange them in their little black books on Epstein Island.
The endorsement signals Victory Fund’s confidence that Pieciak is well-positioned to win the Treasurer’s race and will be a strong voice for equality once elected.
A beautiful Memorial Day weekend brought out motorcycle rides, marathon runners, parade viewers, and Vermonters honoring the fallen at the veterans’ cemetery.
Kevin Divney, a finance expert and fund manager, emailed Vermont Daily Chronicle shortly after 11 AM this morning: “I have removed my name from the Ballot for Office of Treasurer this morning. I will have no further comments.”
The many organizers behind the Clean Heat Standard are intelligent, committed to the doctrine of climate change, and have substantial in-state and out-of-state financial resources.
Kelly is also taking aim at the “super-majority” in the Legislature that has resulted in ill-advised legislation.
As far as the chances of dying in a mass public shooting, the US stacks up favorably vs. most European countries. Our rate still falls in the bottom half.
A bank burglary, a fatal car crash, an almost-disastrous wreck involving five teenagers, and a drunk driving through a state campground at night in pursuit of a family he threatened to kill – just another holiday weekend for Vermont’s Thin Blue Line.
Leaving Vermont woodlands untouched will mean less healthy trees because ‘unmanaged’ forests often result in disease and pest proliferation.
Banning assault weapons won’t do much more than tick off conservatives.
Washington pols have taken Big Pharma blood money, and look out for the Biden Blackout!
A Springfield, MA man was charged with selling drugs out of the home of a Williamstown man.
A man claiming to be a U-Haul employee took a truck from a Burlington location – but he wasn’t.
With governmental violence what it is, arming up is the very wisest thing the people can do.
Vermont’s political left has chosen sides in the race for Congress – against front-runner Molly Gray.
Just one Republican has declared for one of the newly redistricted Chittenden County Senate seats: Rep. Leland Morgan, a Milton/Grand Isle representative seeking the newly created Chittenden North seat.
Divney has managed investment funds with assets over $12 billion, which is roughly 50% larger than the entire budget for the State of Vermont.