Authorities provide more info on quad-fatal Ferrisburgh plane crash.

Burlington residents sound off over public safety.

Good weather is good news for Vermont agriculture. Researchers battle EEE mosquito disease. Eastern VT historic meeting house gets grant.

Hospital staff votes to unionize. 80-year-old man works long days AND wins demo derby. State college enrollment up.

Host Rocket visits Vermont’s most prominent gun shop for a taste of the culture.

Homeless children return to school. Connecticut River cleanup. Federal $$ for new charging stations for Burlington EVs.

State releases 5 year housing needs assessment. GOP candidates hold forth at Manchester forum.

Blind musician sterilized by State of Vermont – podcast tells the story from a century ago.

Bus routes cut. Legislators form flood resilience caucus. Making Addison County college town dementia-friendly.

Cop, community worker team up to help homeless. SoBu Council to expand? NH youth detention center abuse. Emergency blood shortage.

Extreme weather is slowing progress towards meeting state and the feds goals for Lake Champlain water quality – not to mention trails and bridges and the viability of where many Vermonters have lived for generations.

Killington/Pico bought. Hospital employees can’t afford health insurance. Catch-and-release investigated.

He spoke about how the Democratic establishment really did make a strong effort to stop him, twice.

World Soccer Festival. Caledonia fair donates receipts to flood relief. Small-town transportation solutions.

Flood relief documentary. VT delegates at DNC. Dreaded bus route cancellations.

What’s up with those exploding gas tanker trucks in Ferrisburgh?

Vermonters and visitors react to Smoky air. Olympian Ilona Maher blows back into town. News about bar, Beansies and Battle of Bennington.

Springfield police seek help finding two teen runaways/ Burlington mayor proposes expanding emergency shelter capacity

Demonstrators to protest Essex women’s prison proposal/ Police investigate shooting at Burlington skatepark/ Large fire burns down Marshfield Grassroots Center

Judge rules Vermont’s lawsuit against Monsanto can move forward/ Essex residents speak out about prison plans at raucous hearing

Morristown teen missing in Lamoille River/ Man injured in officer-involved shooting extradited to Vermont/ Vermonter Elle St. Pierre in 1500M semifinals Thurs.

Barton Village residents ordered to limit water usage/ Rabies vaccine bait drop begins in Vermont/ Shelburne man arrested for alleged aggravated assault

Treatment Associates avoids closure as substance abuse recovery services dwindle in Washington County/ VT Olympian Elle St. Pierre advances to semifinals

Author, legislator, journalist, runner, Burlingtonian.

Welch urges Congress to pass disaster aid package/ New border policy for dogs goes into effect on Thursday/ Route 100 reopens, road work continues

Donations from around the world pour into Peacham for flood repairs/ Pedestrian hit by car in Essex Junction/ Farmers seek out new flood mitigation strategies

Wanted man turns himself in after hiding from police in S. Burlington/ Vermont athletes prepare for Paris Summer Olympics

Mistrial declared in assault case against Vt. sheriff/ Morristown police investigating suspicious death/ Boil-water order issued in Burlington’s South End

Former State House reporter turned hospital spox Neal Goswami returns from the Dark Side as editor at VTDigger.

NEK high school may not open due to PCBs.

Rotarians step up to clean up and organizer volunteers/ 1 woman dead after rollover car crash in Highgate/ Police searching for missing St. Johnsbury woman

Vt. lawsuit accuses pharmacy benefit managers of driving up prescription prices/ Police: wrong-way driver had 5 kids in the car/ Missing Enosburgh woman

Advocates say St. Albans woman was wrongfully deported to Honduras; Man hospitalized after being shot by a pellet gun in Brattleboro

Burlington’s aging sewer pipes and waterlines have caused numerous sinkholes in City Streets in recent months.

Stefanik passed over for VEEP. Making city capital trees greener. Burlington to vote on police oversight.

3-year-old dead after being found unconscious in pool; Officials urge people out of work due to flooding to file for unemployment; Vermont Flooding Resources

Flooded fields, helpful neighbors and a sense of deja vu.

Won Jang, 20, of Middletown, Delaware, had been reported missing late Sunday afternoon after the gathering Saturday night, a Dartmouth official said. State and local emergency responders searched the river and found his body Sunday evening.

The Zenbarn has started a small business fund aimed at helping people of color open their own cannabis businesses.

Vermont Olympian Ilona Maher featured in latest ad for Secret Deodorant; Amidst a housing crisis, Greensboro proposes putting apartments in its town hall

Woman and dog attacked by pitbulls. Vermonters re-enact Revolutionary War battle. Bennington armed carjacking. Hospital gets new CMO.

See the annual Peacham tractor parade.

Scott running virtually unopposed. Queen, capital cities gear up for fireworks of the celebratory kind. VT in health care ‘reform’ pilot.

More affordable housing in Shelburne. Suicide prevention. State recreation plan.

Wrightsville, Waterbury and East Barre flood control dams will face new scrutiny after some ‘close calls’ during the Flood last year.

Police want to know how and why the teen died beneath a car.

A native American who identifies as ‘two spirit’ has been invited to the White House.

Vt. police investigating after person found dead in car; Colchester man accused of murder, assault takes plea deal on minor offenses

Led by a $5 million grant from the Knight journalism foundation, UVM’s squad of student journalists is about to take a big step forward.

Vermont’s running phenom sets record at Olympic trials.

Fire began on the porch and consumed the entire home.

Recalling the police raid on the Kingdom Community Church/ Vermont Declaration of Inclusion initiative reaches new milestone

Cornwall man cited after gunfire incident on Route 30; Newport woman charged with assaulting nurse, harassing patients; Man hospitalized after fiery crash

Man arrested after allegedly waving gun, holding up I-89 traffic; Vermont native Ilona Maher to compete in Paris Olympic Games

More homeless than ever. Burlington moving bus depot to discourage tent camps there.

The parents of Jenna Tatro, who died of a drug overdose, will hand over the reins of Jenna’s House to former Rep. Kitty Toll and county sheriff Roger Marcoux.

Another of the schools that voted against the school budget at Town Meeting votes yes on reconsideration of a revised budget.

UVM seeks to double graduate school enrollment.

Vermont Law and Graduate School Professor Jared Carter said this case is a test, questioning just how far the protections of the First Amendment really go.

State keeping track of wildlife crossings.

In just over four years, all 30 abuse substantiations appeals were overturned or dismissed. The incentive for DCF workers to take children into custody relates back to a case in 2014 when a child was killed.

A faithful Trump supporter in Congress, Elise Stefanik could become the first Republican woman vice-president.

An abused child’s best friend. Mixed results on Lake Champlain cleanup. Loans for migrant farm housing.

Power outages, an earthquake, the Abenaki dispute, and $$ for mobile home water infrastructure.

Townshend centenarian says he accepted the honor for his unit, the “Sons of Bitche.” (Named for the town they liberated.)

Progressive Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak says equipping waterfront homeless encampments are ‘short-term’ and ‘strategic.’

Drug counseling clinic owner indicted. Don’t bother the (river) lamprey.

Harder than it looks to turn Burlington YMCA into housing.

Baseball’s back at Centennial Field. Our honored dead remembered in parades, at cleaned-up cemeteries. Tourist town starts rental registry.

Heading south? New flight will get you there on the cheap. Black restaurant owner honored with statue in Rutland. GOP optimistic.

UVM can’t afford to build new housing it proposed last year, due to unexpectedly high costs. That, and the City of Burlington has yet to follow through with necessary zoning changes.

The crash that led to the death of a responding state trooper and eventually to the resignation of the local fire chief now also means a three-year wait for a new fire truck.

Days after Notch opens, truck escapes stuckage. 8 new invasive species. Welch all about Rural Prosperity. VT goes to Drone Championships.

When will the first big rig get stuck in Smugglers Notch? Health care rates to climb by double digits. Thom Lauzon is BACK in the Barre mayor’s seat.

Burlington copes with $13 million deficit. Balint in Barre for mental health help for flood victims. Barre picking new mayor

Rural blight fight: knotweed-eating goats. Urban blight fight: limiting the junk left at curbside by departing college students.

The spectacular Northern Lights may make an appearance in Vermont, thanks to a ‘severe’ solar storm coming our way. Photo by shutterbug extraordinare Adam Silverman.

It’ll be nice when it’s done, the dust clears, and the traffic starts flowing. Meanwhile…..

Middlebury puts money on the table to renovate library. Volunteers needed for lakes and ponds. Hospital backs food bank services.

Return of the Bird Bikes. Late-night cookie chain comes to Burlington. Missing children found safe.

Students walk out in support of school budget. Wanted: Teeth cleaners. Runner’s 100th half-marathon.

One less reason to keep spare change in the car. Marxist support for Hamas spreads to Dartmouth. Vergennes the home (again) for new Juvy Hall.

Another lethal consequence of Vermont’s craving for fentanyl and other illegal injected drugs.

Just like CVU, students earlier this month, students at Mt. Abe are protesting likely RIFs of teachers in the wake of a rejected school budget.

And…. Howard Dean mulling guv run. Local college students cheerleaders for Hamas.

Turmoil at the top at Norwich. VTrans hopes barriers will cut down on Notch stuckage. Roxbury school vote suit denied.

Another truck driver thought he/she could just squeak under one of Vermont’s iconic covered bridges.

Vermont’s small urban downtowns have been struggling for decades. Now the proliferation of empty storefronts in Brattleboro have town leaders asking, what’s the solution?

Flower lovers looking forward to Growing Season flocked to the Bloom Flower and Home Market in Burlington.

Because of the failed Montpelier/Roxbury school budget, the tiny town of Roxbury could lose its local school. Now they’re fighting back.

The Vermont publisher of Dr. Joseph Mercola’s ‘The Truth About Covid-19’ is scheduled to be sold.

In October, families of four earning $179,000 will be eligible for state child care assistance.

BIPOC Vermonters are getting a hand up in first-time homeowning.

Fun, fuel-efficient….and potentially fatal.

The 1,000 current Tesla drivers in Vermont now have an instate service center.

A new federal clean water rule could require more spending to reduce PFAs in Vermont drinking water.

Better buy a few rolls of those Forever stamps soon.

Redhawks win another title on the Gray Matter Gridiron. And….something about an eclipse?