Grismore’s alleged offenses “don’t meet the high bar for impeachment,” but he really should resign anyway, House Speaker Jill Krowinski said.
Grismore’s alleged offenses “don’t meet the high bar for impeachment,” but he really should resign anyway, House Speaker Jill Krowinski said.
Michael J. Clark will be the permanent replacement for Superintendent Layne Millington, who stepped down after a few rocky incidents in recent years.
Charlotte has debated the addition of sidewalks in its West Village for more than a decade.
Lieutenant Delgado was quietly demoted to corporal last year after an internal investigation showed he filed 25 timesheets that were inaccurate or untimely.
Management last year rolled out parking fees, carpooling incentives and bus service improvements — but it may not be doing enough.
If it’s hateful to warn a tiny Vermont town to take a closer look at the source of its sudden social problems and rising incompetence at the local government level then I plead guilty.
Among the many issues connected to the board are complaints from former members of bigotry and racism while townsfolk have complained of incompetence and social justice activism from members violating the stated charter function.
“It was a seating maneuver to put him back on the bench,” Grismore said on the radio Tuesday.
In Arlington, there has been much blame cast about following the issuing of property tax bills with a staggering increase in the town tax rate this past September.
The frustrated co-chair of the House impeachment investigation panel says Franklin County Sheriff John Grismore can’t be impeached under current Vermont law and Constitution.
The county sheriff’s budget hole got deeper when the selectboard of Chelsea, the county seat, contracted for police coverage with nearby Windsor County.
Several Hartford residents chided Selectboard Member Lannie Collins for his statement made regarding Drag Queen Story Hour.
Morristown held its second community Crime and Concerns meeting at the People’s Academy auditorium this past Monday night.
Your local licensed barber has far greater required qualifications.
Key takeaways include that serious incidents such as overdoses are up and the department is engaged in replenishing its staffing levels.
Addressing recent disruptions at City Council meetings, Sullivan praised the respectful majority of attendees and underscored the meetings’ purpose of conducting city business.
Hull worked his way up from patrol officer and earned a college degree in 2020 because it was required for Colchester’s next Chief of Police.
This occurs while online pundits note that the Green Mountain State seems to be following closely California’s costly green energy policies.
The biggest concern appeared to be the state ordering the sheriff’s department to repay the state money that had been put into a private retirement fund approved for Grismore by the previous sheriff.
As already adopted in three of Vermont’s cities, a small rural town is considering allowing non-citizens to vote.
Friendly interest rates in a high-interest loan market will help municipalities rebuild and plan for the next climate event, the state’s Bond Bank chair says.
The situation around Struthers, his weed and his ducks has evolved into yelling matches, lawsuits, letters to legislators and an Essex Junction neighborhood on edge.
The town letter was sparked in part by a large load of crushed stone that was picked up on behalf of Boutin and delivered to her home on Adams Landing Road this summer, records show.
A recent addition to the Waterbury Select Board agenda’s “parking lot” of topics to get to in the future is “leaf peeper traffic.”
One county sheriff has added staff and expanded services. How did Ryan Palmer do it?
The letter, sent on behalf of the full selectboard, centers on a large load of crushed stone that was picked up on behalf of Boutin and delivered to her home on Adams Landing Road this summer.
Voters yesterday rejected a wastewater project in Westford and a $39 million school project in Stowe.
The $14.5 million project, which would see a bridge for cyclists and pedestrians stretch over Interstate 89, has been in development for years now and aims to address one of the riskiest tracts of road in the state.
Candidate also opposes investigation into the misconduct of Tyeastia Green, the city’s first director of Burlington’s Racism, Inclusion, Equity and Belonging (REIB) Department.
The accumulated financial challenges facing the city government and school district, challenges that could potentially increase Montpelier’s already high property taxes.
Our most widely read/viewed news outlets are more concerned with protecting a politically powerful special interest than they are about informing the public.
On Labor Day, a cemetary commissioner arrived at the Moretown Village Cemetery for her morning inspection to discover the normally well-kept space a total disaster.
There are many findings that refute the claims in the training however they aren’t important because the goal is not protecting certain groups from injustice but creating new sources of privilege.
“If we keep saying no” to these projects and developments, said one leaseholder, “we’re going to become known for that” as a town.
What you hear is the sound of Franz Kafka rolling over in his grave muttering “I tried to warn you”.
Rather than foster a less hostile environment and reduce conflict, this document looks like a recipe for creating hostile, harassing and conflict laden work places.
The Shelburne Equity & Diversity Committee has received a $10,000 grant that was originally intended as COVID response funds according to a shelburnevt.org post shared as a news tip recently with the VDC.
Residents of Thetford will hold a public forum tomorrow night to discuss hiring a town social worker.
You are very welcome to visit Canaan – but not to loiter on public property.
If the organization has been physically abusing children and defrauding the taxpayers I can see where they might be in fear of someone shining a light on their improprieties.
In the midst of an impeachment investigation, Franklin County State’s Attorney John Lavoie has resigned.
We have the expertise and the determination to do this. Now we must face ourselves in the mirror and recognize that we must innovate our way out of this or slowly wither away.
A former Philadelphia detective who helped put the Philadelphia district attorney in federal prison for 5 years for bribery in 2017 has been named Northfield’s new police chief.
“One of the biggest selling points for me is the fact that teenagers do work and they do pay taxes,” said Daims. “And we are a country built on the foundation of ‘no taxation without representation.’”
By a narrow vote, the Orange County town of Fairlee (population 988) has approved retail cannabis sales.
Drug-plagued Brattleboro doesn’t have enough cops to provide adequate public safety. Efforts to hire private security ran have become SNAFU.
The majority of selectboard members chose not to hear discussion, nor raise the issue publicly other than to make it the meeting’s last agenda item.
The unhappy 75-day tenure of Newport’s mayor came to an end Monday night.
The proposed Brattleboro charter change explicitly gives teenagers the right to do on behalf of the Town something state law otherwise prohibits them: the right to enter into contracts.
One of the lawmakers charged with making an unbiased investigation of Franklin County Sheriff John Grismore’s alleged offenses had previously urged him to drop out of the race.
No more “oligarchy of older Vermonters,” one senator announced as the Senate voted 16-8 to allow teens to vote in local elections and hold local office in Brattleboro.
The Town of Hartford Select Board has adopted a new committee to assess the town for its racial and marginalized persons scorecard.
The House announces beginning of impeachment proceedings against two Franklin County elected officials.
The debate was sparked during discussions of S.115, a miscellaneous agriculture bill that began in the Senate before moving to the House.
“All I do out back is knock it down and prevent the water from flooding everybody’s property,” Lyman said. However, the Town of Hinesburg has taken action.
If the provision passes, legal non-citizens would be able to vote in municipal elections.
State and local Bennington leaders will gather for a first-of-a-kind public safety and health summit Monday, March 20.
Pros and cons of giving everyone two hours of paid time off on Town Meeting Day and primary and general elections.
Two longtime elected Rutland City officials were shown the door by voters yesterday.
After City Meeting elections next week, the Onion City will have Vermont’s first-ever all LGBTQ+ city council.
A split power line led to the release of partially-treated wastewater.
Winooski officials say they need more antiracism and diversity training before putting someone new in the position.
Lamoille County side judge Joel Page hung up his robe February 1,marking 41 years of working day in and day out at the county courthouse in Hyde Park village.
It’s an audacious idea – give very small towns with limited staff and no Town Planner the money they need to go after the big federal bucks themselves. But will they get it, and will it work?
The traditional Vermont Town Meeting may be falling victim to legislative Long Covid.
State and local government have excluded citizen participation in public spaces based on race, ideology and other reasons.
56% of Vermont residents live in towns and cities (listed) that have signed a Declaration of Inclusion.
As a candidate and citizen who has irritated a powerful school and a municipal government, I wanted to tread carefully and deliberately.
“What they [Richmond selectboard] seem to be for is an absolute position of making a ton of forest a protected wilderness designation and not allow townspeople recreational opportunities,” a resident says.
To preserve forests, proposed town zoning regs would increase minimum building lot size from three to five acres.
After two-plus years, Montpelier’s police chief is taking a job in Kansas, to be closer to his midwestern roots.
Vermont’s largest not-for-profit donor has given a $10,000 grant to a town equity committee in the Northeast Kingdom.
A state court sides with the State of Vermont in its effort to locate a secure juvenile detention facility in a rural Orange County town.
Being a rescue worker is in Sandy Korda’s blood.
“We know that the council refuses to help us or put any resources at our disposal to reconcile the obvious rift in our community,” Barre Diversity & Equity Committee chair Joelen Mulvaney said.
“I am concerned about the otherization that is going on,” Toborg said. “There are forces here that want to divide us. There are forces that want us to express hatred against each other.”
Barre – a city built by Roman Catholic immigrants – has become a focal point of possible public service exclusion of a town official for his Roman Catholic views on abortion.
“It is unequitable, it is not fair for women to not be allowed to control their own bodies,” Joelen Mulvaney told William Toborg.
Over a half-century of caring for Shelburne roads recently earned Paul Goodrich a party from grateful neighbors – but it wasn’t a retirement party.
The Springfield Library will air “The Hate You Give,” a PG-13 movie in which police are portrayed as racist killers of a young black man.
The what, when, where and why of this photo are left to the imagination.
A pro-life member of Barre’s “Diversity & Equity” committee will be muted if he attempts to speak at future meetings due to what the chair calls his “misogynistic perspective.”
An outspoken Vermont chief of police has announced his retirement. George Merkel isn’t happy with how he and the Vergennes Police Department have been treated.
The Montpelier City Council may vote Wednesday night on the proposed repeal of its anti-prostitution ordinance.
With help from federal recovery funds, small towns like Shelburne are offering big bucks for the dwindling supply of police officers.
A Hartford selectboard member named Rocket wants to recall the Town Manager.
After a lengthy string of Montpelier residents spoke against repealing the city’s anti-prostitution ordinance, the City Council voted to advance the repeal anyway.
Legalizing prostitution leaves trafficked people little recourse than to continue working the streets or running classified ads, a critic of Montpelier’s proposed repeal of its prostitution ordinance says.
Similarly encumbered by cost of living and housing availability, coupled with the mentally ill and addiction addled finding succor among the good people of the Upper Valley, the Twin Pines housing group sees the Houston model as hopeful.
Like many Vermont communities, Hartford – AKA White River Junction – has a growing and highly visible problem with homelessness.
Keith Longmore is – or rather, was – a black member of the St. Albans advisory committee formed to help citizens “understand the experience of historically marginalized groups.”
Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George has strong ties to a George Soros-funded organization promoting progressive prosecutors nationwide.
The City of Montpelier in June is tentatively scheduled to revisit a conversation begun last year about legalizing prostitution.
No more honoring Old Glory for the Springfield Planning Commission – with one member dissenting.
A volunteer police chaplain with extensive experience in dealing with mental illness and substance abuse crises was let go by Montpelier PD after three days. There’s no official reason why – but public comments take aim at his fulltime job as a Baptist pastor.
A lack of police manpower kept the Grand Isle County Courthouse closed at least one day a week during the pandemic. It’s full-staffed now thanks to help from private contractors and sheriffs from nearby counties.
In Germany, Las Vegas, and other legal prostitution locales, the sex trade explodes, vulnerable people are lured into the business, and the number of men buying sex increases.
The Vermont League of Cities and Towns provides overview of Town Meeting ballots all across Vermont.
Do you live in one of the 41 communities voting on retail pot at Town meeting? The State of Vermont will hoover up almost all of the tax revenue from retail marijuana stores – except in communities that already have a ‘local option’ tax.