A former teacher at Founders School in Essex has been charged with years of unlawful sexual contact with a girl who was 10 years old when it began.

WCAX reports that a Washington County town has negotiated a deal with a homeless hotel that is frequent user of its emergency services.

An ordinance that would make evictions tougher for landlords was rejected by Town Meeting voters of one of Vermont’s most ‘progressive’ towns.

The Vermont taxpayer is paying top dollar to house the homeless in hotels around the state.

Chittenden County communities said yes to just about everything on the Town Meeting ballot (except community police oversight in Burlington).

Vermonters will go to Town Meeting today (some went last night) to decide – by ballot or from the floor – on important municipal issues.

The Vermont media has discovered the story of David Mid-Vermont Christian School protesting against playing a basketball team with a 6’4″ transgender player. And in two communities, Indian-sounding team names are okay, after all.

Homeless hotels will still be open after May 31, but rules for who stays there will be tightened. Also, a senator wants to make GPS firms accountable for those annoying stuckages in Smugglers Notch.

A manhole covered knocked askew by a snowplow resulted in a 15 foot plunge at midnight by a St. Albans woman.

Peter Welch wants home energy report accessibility (yawn). Becca Balint joins gun safety task force (no surprise). HEY – what’s Bernie doing in a TikTok dance video?!

President Biden’s porous border policies are to blame for the alarming spike in illegal crossings of the northern border, the congresswoman for Plattsburgh and much of northern New York says.

An 18-year-old stabbed his victim several times at the Montpelier bus station last night, police say.

On some days, Vermont public schools don’t have enough school bus drivers and cafeteria workers to transport and feed students.

The Queen City continues its new look: less parking, more biking.

Ever since the Woodside facility in Essex closed, the State of Vermont has sought without success for somewhere, anywhere to safely and securely hold juvenile delinquents. Next stop, St. Albans.

The Vermont Climate Council is frowning on burning ‘biomass’ – what will this mean for Burlington’s plan to heat UVM, the hospital and other buildings with waste heat from McNeil?

Now that the CDC has added a Covid-19 vax to the ‘routine vaccination’ schedule, will it be required for students?

VTDigger reports that parents may now use X as a placeholder on their child’s initial birth certificate – no more binary requirement.

First the Oasis Diner went out of business, now Henry’s Diner is up for sale. Just one more sign of the Queen City Apocalypse.

NBC 5 reports that state officials are striking back against Vermont’s growing mental health crisis.

Swimming in Lake Champlain in January – crazy. Swimming in Lake Champlain during a polar vortex – beyond crazy and just plain dangerous.

VT Digger reports that someone in the Vermont Democratic Party thought it would be a great idea to charge $50 – $1000 for entry into a gin-drinking party with Vermont state senators. Proceeds would hire staff members for the senators.

The financial dealings and staffing woes of Vermont’s county sheriffs are getting close scrutiny by media and authorities.

Critics say a Burlington Progressive policing plan takes the ‘safety’ out of ‘public safety.’

Rocks that provided vital traction during the horrific Mud Season of 2022 are now causing flat tires during the Mild Winter of 2023.

Some in the Legislature want to go all Marshall Plan on the child care shortage problem. Pricetag: $645 million.

The ACLU has filed suit against Newport for not allowing a former employee to enter city parks. It’s part of a trend of government kicking Vermonters out of the village – or at least out of village-owned property and meetings.

A white CVU girls basketball team member used the ‘N word’ in a social media video she shot with a BIPOC family member.

Should the state buy breakfast and lunch for all students, or just those in need?

Ezra Miller, the disturbed actor who plays the Flash in the movies, will change his plea to stay out of jail arising from a burglary in Stamford, VT.

A Vermont public school that vaccinated a child without parental permission is legally immune from lawsuits because of the pandemic ‘federal emergency,’ a judge has ruled.

PUT DOWN THE PHONE! Highway deaths are up in Vermont, and distracted driving is the main reason.

Another relic of the pandemic – free bus fares – is on its way out, WCAX reports.

There’s no proof the Rolex a state trooper brought to a jeweler and the Rolex stolen from a state police barracks evidence locker are the same watch, says the lawyer for the suspended trooper.

A church built in the 1890’s was already seeing declining membership. Then the pandemic hit.

Sugar houses across Vermont were making the first maple syrup of 2023 during the cool nights and warm days of the new year.

Free speech, public safety, and answering the question ‘what is a woman?’ all proved problematic for local, state and federal officials in 2022.

Sure, it’ll be more expensive to stay warm in 2023. But at least we won’t be able to buy some types of fluorescent light bulbs!

VT Digger reports census data showing wealthy Vermonters got wealthier. Jury’s still out on improvement at the lower end of the income scale.