The fabled Cochran family is sending yet another generation to the Olympics in pursuit of skiing gold.

Vermont will be well-represented in the winter Olympics in China.

Some state officials would convert an old, empty prison into the new home for Vermont’s most difficult children. Locals don’t think much of the idea.

That big dump of powder means happy snow machine riders on Vermont’s VAST trails.

The Vermont House ignored all recommendations and amendments to move to single-member House districts. Business as usual.

Vermont’s venerable daily newspaper will no longer print every day. How the mighty have fallen.

Our neighbors to the north will impose financial penalties on the unvaccinated.

A worker shortage means fuel truck drivers will need to work longer hours.

If you think it’s cold in Burlington in January……just try running in Antarctica.

No Vermonters were arrested in the Jan. 6 incident at the Capitol building. Police seeking missing teen. State looking, again, for options for housing troubled youth. These headlines and others from Vermont’s media.

Vax ‘resisters’ seeking treatments should have to go to a field hospital, a Mountain Times letter writer says.

There’s a new candidate for Vermont lieutenant governor – a centrist Democrat little known outside the State House but well-regarded inside it.

Lyndon’s tired of drivers crashing into its covered bridges.

As bad as 2020-21 were, the four years on the home front of WWII were worse, its veterans recall.

The Vermont Legislature will meet remotely for the first two weeks – at least.

Covid treatments (as opposed to vaccines) are hard to come by in Vermont, Commissioner Mark Levine explains.

Vermont’s most famous current Olympic skier has tested positive for Covid-19.

Another First in the Nation Ban proposed in the Vermont Legislature.

I didn’t do it, says the ex-CNN producer with the Ludlow ski chalet facing heinous child sex charges.

Today’s media headlines…..

No voters explain for themselves why they voted against a huge Washington County school bond.

Burlington’s cleaver killer won’t get the new psych eval he wants, a judge decides – this headline and others from Vermont media.

Fewer readers and advertisers. And now, no printing presses in Vermont and darn few elsewhere. Tough times for the newspaper industry.

A Franklin County coach and teacher is up on charges for a lengthy relationship with a minor.

Burlington schools to get LBTTQ+ task force.

The numbers of homeless people are growing at the ‘closed’ camp in Burlington.

Hartford will hold a cannabis Town Hall. And what’s next for Memorial Auditorium in Burlington? Headlines from VT media.

Vermont schools – including students – will be pushing hard to get holdout students vaccinated. The motivation is money.

A machete-wielding assailant is under investigation in Burlington. More turnover at Castleton University.

A respected Vermont pundit and former chair of the Vermont Journalism Trust – owner of VT Digger – says hate speech is out of control and must be made illegal.

Burlington school principals on leave in wake of inappropriate restraint charge. Where’s my unemployment check? And, a surgeon’s worst nightmare – the patient’s, too.

Once again, Burlington news dominates the state’s headlines.

When we call 911, will there be enough emergency workers to respond? This story and others from Vermont media across the state.

Former Vermont lawmaker on the left of the political spectrum wonders what the Rittenhouse decision will mean for the future of self-defense.

The state of abortion instruction at UVM’s medical school.

A Vermont lawmaker is accused in a lawsuit of voter fraud.

Vermont media headlines

There are now even fewer beds available to help Vermont inmates transition back into society.

Joe Biden’s solution to high gas prices: more charging stations for electric cars!

An Amtrak train hit an SUV in S. Royalton, killing the driver.

People are cheating on online drivers’ tests.

A former official of an Abenaki non-profit has pleaded guilty to embezzlement.

Foliage season is over, winter is coming – time to welcome the homeless back into Vermont’s hotels.

Today’s Vermont media headlines.

Alec Baldwin wants cops on the sets of movies where guns are used.

Firewood sellers are doing brisk business. High oil and gas prices, maybe?

The man charged with second degree murder for shooting Robert Chaplin of Hardwick is now out on bail.

A soccer playoff game was played before empty stands, per Winooski school district decision. Sorry, parents.

UPDATE: Gov. Phil Scott today said the media WILL be allowed to cover the Enosburg-Winooski soccer game, following VT Principal Association reports that both spectators and media would be banned. Apparently some First Amendment enthusiasts among the state press corps objected, and the VPA amended its decision today.

The creator of Sherlock Holmes was a ‘spiritualist’ who became enthralled with some Vermont psychics.

Please DON’T pass any new laws, school officials told the Legislature. They’ve got plenty to do deal with right now.

WCAX asks if Vermonters can be trusted to use personal responsibility, as Gov. Phil Scott requested.

A New York man faces a firearms charge in the Rutland drug and human trafficking case in which women were padlocked into residences.

Solution to Baldwin movie killing: give the guns to computers.

Today’s headlines from Vermont media.

As school principals crack down on sexist and racist comments at high school games, a black Winooski soccer player is looking at possible assault charges for head-butting an Enosburg player. It’s all in today’s Water Cooler.

The Scott administration’s decision to extend homeless hotel funding through Dec. 31 isn’t good enough for some advocates.

The Burlington City Council has – at last – recognized that defunding police seems to lead to more crime. Imagine that. The city’s businesses have known this all along…..

Halftime at the BHS homecoming game featured young men and women dressed in clothing of the opposite sex.

As federal vax-or-else date approaches, 40% of the TSA is unvaccinated. Expect a flight delay.

Violence and fear are disrupting classes in a Vermont elementary school.

A drag queen ball has been scheduled at a Burlington High School football game. And other headlines from Vermont media.

OD in parking garage. Crossbow used in car chase. These and more headlines from a busy weekend.

“I live on Whipple Hollow. Grandpa’s Knob is right behind me, so I will have all of your ill-effects, and I do say, ill-effects,” said Pam Sokol.

Big shortage in addiction counselors. Hunting the Wild Fungal Chicken. Mall shooter to be tried as adult.

Vermont convicts held in a Mississippi ‘contract’ prison had best settle in for the duration. The contract has been extended. That headline and others from Vermont media yesterday and today.

The marijuana industry consumes huge amounts of electricity. Plattsburgh, New York is looking pretty good right now.

TPUSA’s Charlie Kirk’s Critical Race Theory Tour speech planned for Burlington October 18 is taking flack from local activists. That may be a headline – but it’s not exactly news.

Slate Ridge owner Daniel Banyai has appealed to VT Supreme Court. The Village of Essex Junction will vote AGAIN to leave Essex Town. And wellfunded foundations are giving millions for BIPOC Vermonters to take up farming. 40 acres and a tractor – better late than never!

Leftist Goddard College staff push back against vax mandate. Go figure!

Headline from VT media today – Those retention bonuses using federal $$ aren’t enough to make Burlington cops stick around. Good job, Burlington City Council! Whoyagonnacall?

The free food program will end this week. A Stowe cop is accused of sex assault. And hospital officials worry about looming staffing shortages due to Covid-19 vax deadlines. These headlines and more from VT media today.

While Vermont healthcare groups vaccinate migrant workers statewide, the Biden Administration is admitting thousands of unvaccinated Haitians. And why was a UVM dorm told to ‘shelter in place’?

A Stowe worker died in a zipline accident.

Vermont media today report: noted Calvin Coolidge historian to speak; Fletcher library resists BHS merger; /vt state colleges ponder ‘university’ name

Which nightclubs require vaccination? What really caused the SBHS lockdown? What happened in the cyberattack on Vermont radio stations? Vermont media report today.

Burlington’s leaf blower ban. A Democrat lawmaker remembers when Donald Trump campaigned at the Flynn in Vermont January 7, 2016. These and more headlines from Vermont media.

Burlington tries to manage a homeless camp that will need to be moved when a new highway goes through it, anyway. If you build it, they will come.

Almost as much as nurses and doctors, the hospital cleaning staff keep people alive. The much-traveled Louis Porter adds yet another gig to his impressive resume. And will Slate Ridge become a non-profit?

The Liberty Union Party does NOT want to be confused with lag-waving patriotic zealots. So it’s changing its name. That story and others in the Vermont media today.

Vermont’s libertarians say no to vaccine mandates. And more headlines from Vermont media.

9/11, vaccines, a huge ‘ask’ by the biggest hospital network in Vermont, and racial ‘equity’ were in the news this weekend. And Beansie’s drove off for the last time in 2021. Vermont […]

The Barre City Council won’t let the big US flag fly over Main Street on Saturday, 9/11.

The Mountain Times covers Rutland’s willingness to accept Rutland refugees. WCAX reports on the conversion of a quaint motel to homeless housing. And NBC5 provides resources for veterans struggling with mental health challenges. All this and more in Vermont media coverage. Sick goats, too.

When a CVU student gave the single-digit salute to some anti-mask protesters, it went viral. This headline and others from VT media today.

It’s mostly the same people involved in all the recent Burlington shootings, prosecutor Sarah George tells the media. Sure, they’re gang members. But it’s more complicated than that, she insists ‘criptically.’

Burlington’s mayor wants the city to borrow $20 million to “address climate emergency.”

There’s help for homeowners upset about Maquam Bay muck.

Afghan refugees will be welcome at Goddard College. Masks are now required in Vermont prisons. And the Burlington airport director tells Mayor Miro Weinberger to take a flying leap after being asked to resign.

It’s been 10 years since Irene devastated Vermont.

Parents get testy with a pediatrician over school mask policy. Gov. Scott says VT is already doing plenty to control the virus. In Coventry, mold has closed a school.

Lower College Street in Burlington will be closed to traffic while Union Station repairs are underway.

Good news – 250 new tech jobs are scheduled to come to Waterbury. But where will they live? And what if they don’t want to be vaccinated?

Mask mandates are coming back on some federal and local levels. And schools prep for another pandemic return to the school year.

A White River Junction publisher is ‘pushing Covid-19 conspiracy theories,” according to a VT news source. And cops took a man and his guns into custody after raiding his home.