This year’s awards will include three first-place prizes of $500, one for each grade group: 6–8, 9–10, and 11–12. Each category will also have five runners-up, who will receive $100.

Chief Travis Bingham of the Newport Police Department said the Vermont State Police Dive Team located the remains of Charles Arnold, 70, at about 12:20 p.m. Monday. His body will be taken to the Vermont State Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington to determine the cause and manner of death.

On social media, Stone was recognized by many friends as a musician and “a kind and funny son and brother known for his love of music and his sense of humor.”

PP of VT worked to pass legislation that forces our schools to provide condoms to middle school students as young as 12. When those condoms fail, kids can head to Planned Parenthood clinics without involving parents.

The Fairfax youth died July 2 in a drowning accident in Windsor.

The demonstration follows a landmark ruling this week by the U.S. Supreme Court that upholds South Carolina’s decision to exclude abortion providers from its Medicaid program.

The Alliance Defending Freedom has filed for dismissal of its 2023 lawsuit against the State of Vermont after the 2025 Legislature amended a law targeting pregnancy resource centers’ free speech rights.

The Legislature has willfully overlooked the severe health consequences of mifepristone, despite testimony about its hazards, Vermont Right to Life executive director Mary Beerworth said.

Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday that it will permanently close its St. Johnsbury health center on June 3, citing ongoing financial challenges and low patient demand

“My brother’s life means much to me in another, entirely different way – he has been hospitalized for the serious mental illness of schizophrenia since June. To some people this may suggest that his life would be better left unlived. However, it has only encouraged my appreciation for Mathew’s life all the more.”

Vermont’s “End of Life Choices” law means that doctors may prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients if that’s what they choose.

Despite the chaos in the world and in their lives, one thing never changes: God’s love for these parents and their children.

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. 

The administration’s charges against Williams stemmed from an incident when she was preaching outside of an abortion facility in Manhattan, New York, and allegedly blocked the entrance and injured the hand of one of the abortion workers.

Projecting a three-year deficit of $8.6 million, Northern New England’s largest abortion provider wants Vermont taxpayers to bail it out.

VDC-TV went live minutes after the president was shot. Latest update: The former president is being treated at a local hospital and is in good spirits and “is never gonna stop,” son Don Jr. told reporters.

Last week, one local couple had to improvise when the birth of their second child arrived while they were en route to the hospital.  

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.”

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.

Lamoille Valley Pregnancy Resource Center (LVPRC) is located at 65 Portland Street in Morrisville, where it fulfills its pro-love, pro-grace, and pro-abundant life mission.

Brochu was serving a life without parole sentence for the aggravated murder of 18-year-old Tara Stratton, in Barre in January of 2003.

Cancer patient Lynda Bluestein became the first person from out of state to die via “assisted suicide” in Vermont.

Vermont possibly to become a “suicide tourism” destination.

The water tank entrance was supposed to be clearly marked with danger signs and have a secure cover held shut with metal bolts. Smuggs failed on both fronts, a state report says.

Recent news about two Vermont suicides by hanging highlight the ongoing challenges of depression in the wintery state which ranks third nationally for rates of depression.

Vermont’s 2021 abortion statistics were published online as part of the state’s full vital statistics report in September 2023. The report is available on the website of the Vermont Department of Health.

As it turned out, Vermont has NOT become a post-Dobbs haven for abortions.

PPNNE has closed clinics and can’t seem to find a new CEO to replace the two that left within the last two-and-a-half years.

Health and Human Services has filed an as-yet unpublished regulatory proposal that would eliminate the words “mother,” “father,” “paternity,” and “his” and “her” from childcare-related laws.

Whatever the reason – worker shortage, the Dobbs decision, and/or a highly visible prayer vigil – the Barre Planned Parenthood clinic no longer performs abortions.

The body was recovered early in the evening on Tuesday and is set to be examined by the Vermont Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington.

A Boston man who died of a drug overdose July 7 at the Vermont version of the Burning Man Festival has been identified, and so has the drug that killed him.

The first African-American director of a Vermont pregnancy resource center was once a scared, pregnant victim of human trafficking.

The assisted suicide lobby knows that many states will not legalize assisted suicide, so they are forcing states that have legalized assisted suicide to provide death to every American seeking one.

It is believed that other pro-abortion states, including Connecticut, New Jersey, and Oregon will introduce bills to protect kangaroos from being harvested to make soccer cleats.

The FDA will now allow retail pharmacies to dispense mifepristone to people who obtain a prescription for it. As a result, Walgreens and CVS are seeking FDA approval to dispense the drug.

“It’s just a reminder to them that, well, you’ve already been born,” the young Barre resident said.

A young Student for Life will talk about being a pro-life activist in the post-Roe generation at the final Rally for Life Saturday.

A Newport man and his family hope to find compassionate stranger willing to provide a gift of love.

Coming to St. Paul Street in Burlington: PP (pro-life prayer).

An early investor in Beta Technologies and legal advocate for transgender legislation, Martine Rothblatt also has created a socially-interactive android copy of a loved one.

A pro-life priest with a national following and a history of speaking out on Vermont abortion initiatives has been irreversibly removed from the priesthood by the Vatican.

Jared Cushing “seemed to always have a big smile and a bounce to his walk. But clearly inside he was struggling,” the Hazen Union school principal said.

It takes persistence to maintain a vigil outside of an abortion clinic. The Barre 40 Days for Life organizer offers the encouraging words of President Calvin Coolidge.

The pro-life activist whose home was raided by a squad of FBI agents and who was taken away in shackles had already promised to appear voluntarily in court if charged.

A case dismissed by the courts provided the legal basis for the early morning raid by a large squad of FBI agents on the home of a pro-life activist.

The Central Vermont Democratic Socialist America/ Socialist Feminist Working Group will be picketing a Barre pregnancy resource clinic next Friday.