Write an essay admitting your misdeeds, Randolph high school freshman Blake Allen was told by school officials after she complained about a transgender student watching her in the locker room. Well, she wrote an essay…. and now you can read every word on the Fox News website.
Top headlines from Vermont media today.
Shawn Santoro was arguing over drug territory in Hartford, CT when he shot a man on October 4, court records say.
Two Republicans and a Democrat want recounts for House elections in which they narrowly trail the next top vote-getter.
A new federal gay marriage law could wipe out the protections for Vermont churches and others opposed by conscience to gay marriage.
Faux solutions will not offer real Vermont emissions reduction, nor will it make water and air cleaner or reduce ubiquitous microplastics.
A digital, global vaccine passport will help nations prepare for the next pandemic, an health official tells the G20.
If the VTGOP is to survive and thrive, we’d best be moving on.
I-89 in Georgia was once again the scene of triple-digit speeding, police say.
Now THAT would be atonement.
Dangerous to the entrenched bureaucracy or toxic leader? Readers weigh in – and so can you.
Our senators say federal workers in Orange and Windsor counties deserve “locality pay,” a little-known pay bump for federal employees living in high-cost areas.
The treasurer of the Townshend School PTO embezzled more than $2,000, state police say.
A child passenger died after a Chevy Suburban drifted off the passing lane shoulder into rock ledges.
Investigators found the body of a dead man in the burnt debris of a Newfane home.
With all the issues and challenges facing America, good is not good enough. The Republican Party needs change at the very top, Vermont’s national committeeman says.
Two Republicans and a Democrat are seeking recounts in close House races, VTDigger reports.
A masks-requested (but not required) hate-free forum sponsored by two government agencies and the NAACP has been postponed due to illness.
Vermont, the “Reproductive Surgery” State.
In addition to emergency housing for the homeless and higher food stamp benefits, the State of Vermont has added $20 million to the emergency heating fund.
“Repealing the pre-emption law is absolutely on the GunSense legislative agenda,” Casey told VDC.
Returns for ‘down ballot’ statewide office races show less than 100,000 reliably Republican Vermont voters.
One Stamford man is in critical condition and another is in police custody following an early morning stabbing.
The pandemic is (mostly) over, but the increased state benefits for temporary housing and food stamps remain.
With a heavy emphasis on housing low-income and homeless Vermonters, a state housing board has allocated $32 million in government funds.
Concerned about a young man carrying swords at the mall, local police discovered he’s just a customer who bought samurai swords and a BB gun.
An alleged cocaine and fentanyl distribution ring has been interrupted by a federal grand jury indictment.
The team created a watchlist of 55 of the state’s most imperiled species based on their restricted ranges, changes in abundance, and the threats they face.
The Massachusetts school district insists it supports the right of free speech BUT……
The #4 finisher in the race for Congress offers grateful reflections.
Beginning December 15, Vermont’s homeless will (as during the pandemic) have a warm bed in a ‘homeless hotel.’
Young children who as infants weren’t exposed to RSV due to social distancing and masking are more vulnerable to it now.
Ukraine’s to blame for big rate hike request, one rural Vermont co-op says.
Not since Teddy Roosevelt was president of the United States has the purple crowberry been seen in Vermont. Until now.
Collapsed cryptocurrency empire and Becca Balint major donor FTX set up a crypto donation site for the Ukrainian government, the Blaze reports.
An Albany man has been released on conditions after pleading innocent to burning a girl with a butane torch.
The Martin family left Massachusetts because of the Salem witch trials and relocated to New Hampshire and then to Vermont.
Milton legislator and longtime public servant John Palasik announced this May he would not seek re-election, wishing instead to spend more time with his family – and especially his grandson.
VTDigger’s coverage of the 2022 race for Congress was not a Watergate moment.
Plenty of election, health, and economic news in Vermont media headlines today.
The mayor of Burlington wants to make homelessness rare and brief. It’s neither now.
The collapse of a $32 billion crypto empire raises big questions for campaign contribution recipient Becca Balint – and the rest of the world.
Community members – with or without masks – are encouraged to join a conversation on understanding and addressing bias, discrimination, and hate crimes in Vermont.
A police dog sniffed out the drugs in the erratically-driven car, then two-legged cops found ‘materials consistent with distribution,’ state police say.
Native wild turkeys disappeared with Vermont forest in the late 1800’s. The birds we see everywhere today are descended from 31 wild turkeys restocked 52 years ago.
One byte of information Google would prefer you don’t know: they’re tracking the locations of Vermont’s Android phone users.
Multi-member districts make for appallingly issue-free elections.
State trooper, school board member, selectman, soccer coach, husband, dad. Uncommon service indeed.
Hyper-partisan political parties are driving Americans further and further apart – and seem to get the most attention from the media.
An 81-year-old Newport Center man has been charged with negligent operation in a fatal October 3 accident.
Editor’s first person account of his town’s hand-count audit of a statewide race counted by a Dominion vote tabulator.
Barre cops say there have been sightings of a mid-forties white man driving a blue Ford pickup truck stalking groups of children.
Democrats are already discussing huge unfunded mandates, “environmental” legislation which will drive up energy costs and hurt the environment, and schemes which will make housing more expensive and less available.
As a candidate and citizen who has irritated a powerful school and a municipal government, I wanted to tread carefully and deliberately.
How to reel in the millions by reeling in the minions.
Ranked Choice Voting, darling of the Progressives, is far less popular with most Democrats – who now control the Vermont State House more than ever.
New England could run out of natural gas during a cold snap. A federal agency and the U.S. shipbuilding industry are partly to blame.
Joe Stalin said what matters isn’t who votes, but who counts the votes.
African children are forced to dig up cobalt, essential for EV batteries, with their bare hands.
The Vermont Republican Party has now put many other important rights – parental rights (including school choice), gun ownership rights, religious freedom, freedom of speech, medical choice – in grave peril.
Community members are encouraged to join a conversation on understanding and addressing bias, discrimination, and hate crimes in Vermont.
Okay, so it’s not $2.04 billion – but still, $100K Powerball ticket is worth driving to the Vermont Lottery office in Berlin. So far, no-one has.
“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.
Permanent Maine residents 65 or older who have owned a home for at least 10 years may apply through their towns to have their property taxes frozen at their current level.
For the second time in less than two months, the Vermont Criminal Justice Council has banned a cop from ever working again for a Vermont law enforcement agency.
A.St. Albans man recalls when he parachuted into the occupied Netherlands with the 101st Airborne and fought in the Battle of the Bulge.
The rules are being written to enforce a trapping restriction law passed this year. Two other hunting/trapping restriction laws passed this year are already in effect.
We absolutely need news outlets through which we can communicate and unwrap the truth like free men and women.
It seemed to be widely believed in 2020 that the best approach to pandemics was to institute massive human coercion.
Ranked choice voting, a favorite of the Progressives, will be considered by the 2023 Vermont Legislature.
Another deep-blue state now requires new gun owners to undergo training and pass stringent background checks. What will Vermont do?
Renewable Energy Vermont, a renewable energy industry trade organization, wants all of Vermont’s energy produced by renewable power.
Eating disorders among youth were already on the rise before the pandemic. Then (like so much else), it got worse.
Bills vetoed by Gov. Scott this year won’t face the same threat next year.
Customers should pray for a string of warm winters and more nuclear power, starting now.
A Burlington man was cited for sexual assault Wednesday.
I met so many great people on the campaign trail. The joy this brings me far outweighs any sadness.
Passage of the Article 22 amendment now permanently shields Planned Parenthood’s abortion business from any oversight or state limitations at any time throughout all nine months of pregnancy.
They weren’t elected, but they were still successful.
A 19-year-old from Massachusetts is being treated for non-life-threatening gunshot and assault injuries.
Life is full of disappointments and the result of this election is one of them. But the journey continues….
News analysis of what happened to Vermont Republican candidates yesterday.
A targeted shooting killed a New York man in Rutland Monday.
Arizona elections once again are in the national eye.
A candidate who finished third in a two-seat district offers thoughts about renewable power, Article 22, and good government.
Yesterday’s election left the number of 2023 House Republicans at below 40, and senators at 7. Those numbers make it almost impossible to sustain a gubernatorial veto of progressive legislation.
Constitutional amendments and Gov. Phil Scott won big in Vermont’s November 8 general election.
A stiff, cold wind blew from the north as Election Day 2022 dawned this morning.
The asteroid might just nail the Democratic/Progressive supermajority in the Vermont House of Representatives.
To preserve forests, proposed town zoning regs would increase minimum building lot size from three to five acres.
Police say Outlaw is behind bars.
The Vermont Secretary of State’s live Election Night Results website page is the best way to follow election returns statewide.
What does it mean when parents tell school officials they can’t question their child about possibly criminal activities? In Randolph, not much
The on-paper deficit reduction in the Inflation Reduction Act is totally wiped out by the administration’s decision to cancel vast swaths of student loan debt.
After reports of a crash and gunfire, police found a dead man in a crashed car in Rutland. More info to follow, police say.
Woodstoves and their ashes can be fire hazards.
Democrats have lost control of the narrative, a Democrat and former lobbyist and newspaper reporter says.
There’s more than just political campaigning happening in Vermont.
A leading advocate for the anti-slavery Constitutional amendment compares modern-day imprisonment with slavery.
Liam Madden responds to Ericka Redic’s call that he quit the race.
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