A 73-year-old New Hampshire man died Tuesday after witnesses said he got out of his truck following a crash on Route 5 and walked off a nearby cliff.
Third person dies from gas explosion at Granville home
Sheila Hammond, 69, the homeowner, died while getting treatment out-of-state for critical injuries received in the propane leak blast on Saturday Sept. 5, police said.
Great-great-grandson says Wilberforce would have fought abortion
Yesterday marked the birthday of William Wilberforce, who, in the waning years of the 18th century, successfully led what seemed to be an utterly quixotic campaign to end the British slave trade.
Students standing up for LIFE on campus
We all know how colleges can indoctrinate students with a leftist agenda. But when it comes to abortion, the consequences aren’t just badly informed citizens or bad politicians winning. It means children being killed and women deeply hurt by a predatory abortion industry.
UVM grad’s death boat salvaging dealt setback
The U.S. Navy has rejected a request to use its assets salvaging a fishing boat that sank with a UVM grad on board. Jada Samitt, 22, was working as a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries observer aboard a dragger that sank in January off Gloucester, Massachusetts.
One year after Medicaid funding cuts, Planned Parenthood affiliates look ahead
Health centers across New England expand services related to menopause care, vasectomy and colposcopy.
He bravely took on Pat Leahy
RIP Nat Frothingham
Community helps family send their drowned children home to Ecuador
Friends and neighbors of a Cambridge family who lost two siblings to drowning last week have raised over $87,000 online to send their bodies home to Ecuador.
UPDATE: Missing Troy woman’s body found
Subsequent investigation has revealed the death is not suspicious and is believed to be the result of an accidental drowning. Independent witness statements indicate Richardson voluntarily went into the river and was quickly overpowered by the swift current.
Chelsea fire fatalities ID’ed
Both victims were residents of the home.
Signs of support spread across Barre following student’s death
The death of a 13-year-old student has prompted an outpouring of grief in Barre, along with broader community conversations about youth mental health, bullying prevention, and support for LGBTQ+ young people.
Former Rutland broadcaster, WBZ’s ‘Batman,’ dead at 94
Donald Batting begin his radio career in Rutland, Vermont, later becoming a legend at WBZ in Boston.
McGuinness: Planned Parenthood’s death cult coloring pages for kids
These coloring pages target the hearts and minds of children that were born less than ten years ago, indicating that PPNNE has no age limit for which it would consider its propaganda to be inappropriate. The subliminal message to these tender young minds is that life has no value, and that it is acceptable to extinguish it for any reason.
Body recovered in Quechee Gorge
Hartford Police received a call at 11:37 a.m. on April 28 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reporting a body in the water south of the Quechee Gorge Bridge. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers remained with the body until relieved by Hartford Police.
A Vermont kid who lived to ski — and died doing it
Bernie Rosow grew up in Williamsville, a small village in Windham County, and his parents put him on skis at age two. He never really got off them.
Woman rescues children strapped into burning car – thanks God
Authorities said that at the time the fire started, two children — ages 4 and 7 — were strapped into child safety seats inside the vehicle.
Father of modern snowboarding craze, whose son is a Vermont corporate ‘Board’ guru, dead at 89
Alden’s son, actually, has been actively involved in Burton Snowboards, a Vermont firm named for Jake Burton, one of the inventors of modern snowboards.
Three fires, three deaths reported over weekend
Three bodies were recovered from three separate fires in Barre, Hinesburg and Bristol over the weekend, according to WCAX reports and local and state officials.
Corrections medical contractor legally under fire for inmate death
Lawsuit claims Wellpath negligence killed Vermont inmate with untreated diabetes
Nathaniel Boone, Montford Pt. Marine: a national and Vermont treasure
Later a distinguished Vermont attorney, in 1946 Nate Boone rode in the back of the bus to a segregrated training area for black Marine boots: Montford Point.
Nation’s fastest-shrinking state: Vermont loses 0.3% of population amid aging crisis and housing stagnation
Vermont has experienced what demographers call “negative natural change”—more deaths than births—every year since 2016, and new housing is blocked by regulations from the days of rotary phones.
Klar: Supreme Court weighs First Amendment rights of pregnancy centers
Planned Parenthood and other abortion service providers have long benefited from public funding of life-ending procedures for pregnant women seeking to terminate their pregnancies. After Roe v Wade was overturned, panic in blue states went into hyperdrive, not just to support abortions but to attack those who offer mothers an alternative. Privately funded pregnancy centers help women who wish to keep their babies by providing diapers, baby bottles, instruction, and moral support.
Funeral home says yes to dissolving the dead
Alkaline hydrolysis — a cremation process that dissolves body tissue in water and chemicals — has been introduced to Vermont as a greener afterlife alternative.
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Student pro-life essay contest deadline Nov. 3
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.
Study praises Canadian organ harvesting from MAiD/assisted suicide corpses
MAiD now fourth leading cause of death in Canada – Quebec leads all provinces.
FDA confirms abortion pill review
This comes in response to 22 state attorneys general who asked the FDA to review the drug. These officials cited concerns over new studies showing much higher rates of adverse events than the studies which were used to justify the drug’s initial approval.
Body of missing kayaker recovered from Lake Memphremagog
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.
Body pulled from river was ‘dancing flagger,’ musician, transient
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.”
Left abandoned in a Dumpster, by 25 he had created 80 software programs
At 15, he launched Figgers Computers.
At 19, he sold one invention for $2.2 million.
Beerworth: Aborting Planned Parenthood’s funding is long overdue
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.
14-year-old drowning victim remembered
The Fairfax youth died July 2 in a drowning accident in Windsor.
Green: Grateful for progress seen in Dobbs, removal of Iran nuclear threat
The darkness and chilling long winter of the pro-death culture is retreating.
Pro-lifers rally to defund Planned Parenthood Saturday morning
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.
Lawsuit withdrawn after state amends law targeting pregnancy centers
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.
McGuinness: S.28 legalizes modern-day equivalent of coat hanger abortions
Vermonters were told passage of Article 22 would keep abortion rare, safe, and legal, yet this new law opens the floodgates to unsupervised chemical abortions, making them common and dangerous, yet still legal.
After Legislature shields abortion pill prescribers, study cites high complication rate
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.
Another Planned Parenthood clinic closes
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
Soulia: Full reimbursements for Planned Parenthood, service cuts for hospitals
While hospitals cut services to stay afloat, Planned Parenthood benefits from a 90-10 Medicaid match, private donations, and millions in political spending.
Sheriff dies from rare cancer
Hemond had been with the department for more than 19 years. He earlier served as a patrol officer with both St. Johnsbury and Lyndonville Police Departments.
MacDonald: Vermont at war with its own ‘reproductive freedom’ rights
Reproductive freedom has nothing to do with reproduction, but it could.
Right to Life announces essay contest winners
“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.”
Bill seeks to further restrict advertising by resource pregnancy centers
The new bill states that in some scenarios, a nurse or doctor associated with the center could be disciplined or lose his/her license.
BREAKING: Norwich University student dies while training
The student was identified as cadet Daniel Bermudez by Norwich President John J. Broadmeadow in an email to the community on Thursday.
Soulia: Should Vermont consider a Stand Your Ground law?
In much of the world, and many states across the U.S., self-defense is seen as a fundamental right. In Vermont it’s…complicated.
As euthanasia booms in Canada, Vermont elections have weeded out assisted suicide proponents
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.
New pregnancy resource center says thanks to supporters
Despite the chaos in the world and in their lives, one thing never changes: God’s love for these parents and their children.
Planned Parenthood wants more Vermont taxpayer funding
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.
Shepard: Presidential Medal of Freedom given to abortion advocate
Better a medal like this goes to Vermont’s Mary Beerworth.
FYIVT: Examining ethical standards in abortion and euthanasia
Animals in the womb get better pain management than fetuses undergoing abortion.
Clark: On the unnatural, unlawful, Constitutional right to murder our sons & daughters
Can a state really confer a right on its citizens that so clearly contradicts the Law of Nature?
Don Turner Jr. dies after long career
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.
Joe Biden gives ex Planned Parenthood CEO Medal of Freedom in secret ceremony
Biden presented the nation’s highest civilian award to Cecile Richards, who ran the Planned Parenthood abortion giant for years.
Mom slams Kamala for putting her in prison for protesting abortion
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.
A Little Parable
In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other, “Do you believe in life after delivery?”The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
Planned Parenthood in red ink, seeks VT taxpayer bailout
Projecting a three-year deficit of $8.6 million, Northern New England’s largest abortion provider wants Vermont taxpayers to bail it out.
One-year-old died of overheating after being left in parked car
he weeks long investigation revealed that the child’s mother forgot to drop him off at daycare on her way to work and he was subsequently left inside of a parked vehicle during her workday.
Planned Parenthood calls J.D. Vance an “anti-abortion extremist”
Trump has Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as his VP running mate, touching off rounds of praise, occasional statements of condemnation from the pro-life community.
Creemee Cast: Vermonters react to assassination attempt on Donald Trump
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.
Judge blocks Biden’s plan to force employers to fund abortions
It is a shame that the Biden Administration is shortchanging the needs of working women in its single-minded drive to undo the Dobbs opinion.” -MS AG Lynn Fitch
New data shows abortion migration trend
People are travelling to abortion-on-demand states like Vermont to circumvent state abortion bans.
Baby born roadside in Fairlee
Last week, one local couple had to improvise when the birth of their second child arrived while they were en route to the hospital.
Ex-State Sen. Dick Mazza has died
Flags will be flown at half mast in Vermont this Thursday, the day of his funeral at Holy Cross Church in Colchester.
New laws shield abortion/transgender care providers from lawsuits
The law forbids police, courts, and other public institutions from cooperating with litigation against abortion/transgender services providers in some circumstances.
Kansas City Chiefs owner Tavia Hunt supports Harrison Butker
“Defending Motherhood is not bigoted”
Judge challenges State lawyer on pregnancy center law
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.”
Pregnancy resource centers challenge Vermont law in court today
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.
Ertelt: Lauren Handy thrown in prison for 57 months for protesting abortion
The Biden administration used the FACE Act to prosecute her for supposedly blocking access to abortion.
Lamoille Valley Resource Pregnancy Center
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.
Life without parole ends for Newport murderer
Brochu was serving a life without parole sentence for the aggravated murder of 18-year-old Tara Stratton, in Barre in January of 2003.
Pro-Life lobby day today
Pro-lifers will be coming to the State House to advocate for passage of: An act relating to crimes against an unborn child. (H.779 & S. 276)
Did Boston Globe writer nudge woman to take her life under VT aide-in-dying law?
Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen signed a form, required under Vermont law, that Lynda Bluestein of Connecticut was in a clear state of mind when she made the decision to end her life.
First out-of-stater dies by assisted suicide
Cancer patient Lynda Bluestein became the first person from out of state to die via “assisted suicide” in Vermont.
End-of-life assisted suicide up since 2021; policy may undermine neighboring states
Vermont possibly to become a “suicide tourism” destination.
Resort faces safety violations after toddler’s July, 2023 water tank drowning
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.
McGuinness: How much will Article 22 cost Vermonters?
Under Article 22 of the Vermont Constitution, Vermonters may be required to pay for medical procedures related to reproductive choice through increases in health insurance premiums.
Fetal homicide bill to be introduced
There should be justice for expecting mothers who lose their unborn children to drunk drivers, a Northeast Kingdom lawmaker says.
MacDonald: Slippery, meet Slope
Canada represents the cutting edge of progressive thinking where socialized health care meets socialized mass murder under the guise of your having asked for it.
Vermont Attorney General signs letter calling crisis pregnancy centers “deceptive and unethical”
This flies in the face of public sentiment, but a deeper truth remains: To Planned Parenthood, CPCs are unwanted competition.
‘Appalling’: Abortion advocacy groups received nearly $2B in taxpayer money
The Government Accountability Office, a federal agency, conducted the report at lawmakers’ request, showing that Planned Parenthood received the lion’s share, taking in $1.78 billion in 2019-2021.
Two recent suicides by hanging highlight Vermont’s suicide problem
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 abortions reached historic low in 2021
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.
Israeli airstrike destroys Planned Parenthood abortion center
The Planned Parenthood abortion business has sent out an emergency alert to its supporters asking for donations and complaining that women who can’t get abortions would be “forced to give birth.”
End of surgical abortion in Barre reported nationwide
As it turned out, Vermont has NOT become a post-Dobbs haven for abortions.
Planned Parenthood in VT, NH has lost clinics, still has no CEO
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.
Joe Biden’s Health Department wants to erase “father” and “mother” from childcare law
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.
Woman dies due to abortion at Planned Parenthood
The purpose of an abortion is to kill an unborn child, but sometimes mothers die, too. Abortion activists often down-play the risks and claim abortions are extremely safe when they are legal.
Klar: Killing cows to save the climate?
PETA and animal activists speculate about the mystery of the rights and consciousness of dolphins, cows, and coyotes. Rational beings would ask how killing in the name of being humane is humane.
Barre Planned Parenthood no longer performs abortions
Whatever the reason – worker shortage, the Dobbs decision, and/or a highly visible prayer vigil – the Barre Planned Parenthood clinic no longer performs abortions.
Ertelt: New Mexico guv bans guns that might kill people, not abortions that always do
Grisham has it backwards. She thinks taking guns away is upholding rights but banning abortions takes away rights.
Body of missing Westmore resident found near her home
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.
Bilger: Vermont abortions decline as more babies are being saved
The decline happened despite pro-abortion legislation. In November, the state added a constitutional amendment that creates a “right” to abort unborn babies for basically any reason up to birth.
Overdose of psychedelic ‘love drug’ killed man at festival at VT legislator’s farm
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.
Brattleboro woman and trafficking victim says pregnancy center saved her life
The first African-American director of a Vermont pregnancy resource center was once a scared, pregnant victim of human trafficking.
State of Vermont sued for threat to silence pregnancy centers
S37 censors pregnancy centers’ ability to advertise their services.
Bilger: United Church of Christ passes resolution claiming killing babies in abortions is health care
A Protestant denomination that claims to follow Christ passed a pro-abortion resolution this week that describes aborting unborn babies as “health care” and pro-life laws as “sexual violence.”
Bill to remove residency requirement for aid-in-dying drugs goes to governor
“There shouldn’t be anything unique about this care,” a VT Health Dept. advisor said. “It’s simply the last decision made between a patient and a doctor through the lifetime of the patient.”
Abortion/transgender shield bill passes House
S.37 passed overwhelmingly in the Vermont House.
Senate passes one pro-abortion bill, House poised to pass another
In Vermont, the ‘peculiar institution’ of abortion is enjoying a good week in the Legislature.
Prescribing abortion reversal drug ‘unprofessional misconduct’ under S.37
S.37, which goes to the House floor today, would allow an abortion-inducing drug mifeprestone but would prohibit prescribing an abortion reversal drug.










