One of the state’s premier wildlife watching opportunities is taking place in Vermont. The steelhead rainbow trout have started their upstream migration.
One of the state’s premier wildlife watching opportunities is taking place in Vermont. The steelhead rainbow trout have started their upstream migration.
Rep. Lucy Boyden was born almost a quarter century after Sen. Dick Mazza graduated from high school in 1957.
Bad radio communications in an active shooter situation in Middlebury. Unintentional discharge of a weapon during a SWAT training on the Church Street Marketplace. And then there’s what happened in Boston….
I don’t recommend True North Reports as a source for journalistic integrity,” the junior senator from Windham County told a Burlington resident this week.
Could the real existential threat to Vermont maple syrup be very actions taken to prevent climate change?
UVM students protests guns; Border communities support migrants; BFA-Fairfax threat investigated; Suicide in returned military personnel
It makes both fiscal and environmental sense to budget now for the small state share in multi-year federally-funded water quality and roads programs, Sen. Randy Brock says – but House Dems won’t do it.
A school resource officer was a vital link in reporting the latest mass violence threat to a Vermont school.
Twin tribes of Grateful Dead fans will gather for a summer music festival in Cabot.
Government should allow and encourage (not require, not subsidize) more building of less expensive housing including rental units.
It is becoming so clear that the Democratic/Progressives want to control everything: healthcare, wages, vehicles, food, guns, our children, religion, lightbulbs and even straws.
A bill allowing Brattleboro 16-year-olds to vote will face a gubernatorial veto if it passes the Senate.
Anthony Lamb is by far the finest competitor to ever lace up basketball shoes for UVM, and he is enjoying the most expansive post-collegiate success of any Vermont college cager.
The gun range at a popular Waterbury gun shop was the scene of a fatal self-inflicted gunshot Saturday.
None of the State’s findings/reports contain substantial evidence of widespread discrimination in Vermont. They don’t even provide the number of occurring incidents.
Homeless shelter staff take “pause” after co-worker killed; Colchester Fire Dept. confronts Town about staffing shortages; Burlington police patrols, response plan prepared for summer
Turns out the Vermont Climate Council left most of the decision-making analysis about S.5 to a small ‘working’ group that included many renewable power and natural gas industry advocates.
The grandson of a Vermont superior court judge and nephew of a well-known campaign ‘surrogate’ for Bernie Sanders faces charges of threatening terrorism and conspiracy to commit assault.
Rather than simply acknowledge their constitutional right to follow their consciences and exercise their religious liberties the VPA did what principals live to do best – hand out punishments.
It’s almost time for spring turkey hunting in Vermont. Youth and novice turkey hunting weekend is April 29 and 30 this year, and the regular spring turkey season is May 1-31.
Crisis struck. With two whole beach days left, I finished my designated beach book.
Despathy is perhaps Vermont’s most outspoken opponent of the hypocrisy of equity advocates supporting S.5, the climate reduction bill that adversely punishes poor rural Vermonters and rewards a renewable energy industry benefiting from horrific third world mining of essential metals.
Major differences remain.
50% of (birth-registered) males experience complications from gender-assignment surgery – pain, surgical site bleeding, urinary dysfunction, sexual dysfunction. For (birth-registered) females, hysterectomy causes sterility.
Vermont eviction rules’; Swatting at Vermont school; Vt. father pleads not guilty to manslaughter of son; Colchester fire chief says he was pushed out over staffing disagreement with town manager.
Remember when the FBI went after Islamic terrorists and the KKK? Now they’re going after pro-life activists in Christian churches.
Virginia is for part-time legislature lovers – thirty calendar days in odd years and sixty in even years.
With the pool of future accountants already thinning, ESG will add another layer of distracting responsibility. And the fraudsters are waiting.
Banning sales of certain classes of firearms because they can be used in mass shootings – the so-called “assault weapons” ban – was tried for ten years with approximately zero positive results.
Bruce Erdmann was sentenced for a 2021 cocaine deal which resulted in a non-fatal overdose.
Setting up a rental registry proved so costly that House leaders have dropped implementation in favor of a study.
The House will vote this week on allowing 16-year-olds to vote in local Brattleboro elections.
A big legislative pay hike and hefty benefits package are on tomorrow’s Senate agenda.
A high school principal goes on TikTok to tell students to stop ordering pizza and Starbucks deliveries during the school day – or else.
Rescue workers pulled a two-year-old boy from a brook in Clarksburg, MA after his Readsboro, VT father dropped him while leaving the scene of an early Saturday morning crash.
J.B. McKinley never, ever showed off his vast understanding of the world and the English language. He just lived it and loved it.
Windham, Orange and Caledonia counties ranked 1-2-3 in effective property tax rates. Chittenden and Lamoille were near or at the bottom.
A bill prohibiting biologically-male transgender students from playing school sports designated for girls or women has been introduced into the Vermont Legislature – and immediately labeled as “hate” by transgender activists.
The problem is that independent pharmacies are getting paid less than what it costs to fill the prescription for the patient.
Rep. Brian Smith asked Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark if she could defeat a Global Warming Solutions Act lawsuit brought by an environmental group.
I became a self-avowed atheist. Not just a happy-go-lucky atheist. A radical atheist – one that reveled in the oratorical brilliance of Hitchens as he verbally dismantled cohorts of Christian apologists.
At what point do dump fees become so high that people leave their household trash and old couch on the side of the road? Especially if they are feeding their children, or feeding an addiction.
VT students address substance abuse; Burl. PD threatens to arrest doc treating gunshot; Standardized testing changes
The Vermont House of Representatives voted to give $16 million of state funds to the new BHS demolition and construction project and rejected a lawmaker’s request for a refund if Burlington wins its suit against Monsanto.
A retailer with 39 Vermont stores continues to overcharge customers nationwide, a recent report claims.
John Sandvil lost his battle to PTSD after a distinguished military career, including combat in Iraq. On May 12, friends and loved ones will honor him with a motorcycle ride to his resting place in Randolph.
“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.
The enviros are sometimes willing to allow more more housing in urban areas – but never, ever out in the countryside.
Burning biofuels and biomass emits as much CO2 as fossil fuels and should not be exempted from S.5, the proposed carbon reduction law, Stop VT Biomass says.
Conceived in Liberty and born to immigrant parents in 1776, America died today after a brief illness. For many, it is hard to believe that she is gone.
As followers of Jesus Christ celebrate Holy Week, Vermonters more sympathetic to other gods are showing support for legal abortion and prostitution.
“Rules for thee and not for we” seems the motto of the day.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. files paperwork to challenge Biden in 2024; South Burlington police to hire bike-riding patrollers; Robert F. Kennedy Jr. files paperwork to challenge Biden in 2024
A 38-year-old resident of a Brattleboro homeless shelter axed the facility director to death Monday, police say.
Police found drugs, cash and guns at a Barre Town home yesterday morning.
The bill sets goals for conserving 30 percent of Vermont’s total land area and waters by 2030 and 50 percent by 2050. This would include all state, federal, municipal and private lands.
Holocaust Remembrance Day will be celebrated in Stowe April 16.
No way should the Legislature make Vermonters pay for Burlington’s new high school.
A college student was arrested in Springfield with the help of the Springfield Police Dept. for allegedly threatening to kill a member of congress.
The indictment against former President Donald Trump was unsealed Tuesday with 34 criminal charges related to falsifying business records.
Farm seeks to sell renewable natural gas; Winooski School District unveils renovations; Burlington High School Project behind schedule; Lincoln schools ask for budget as independent district
There are so many reasons for compassionate, conservation-minded people to oppose S.5 – pick at least one and tell your House representative, Alison Despathy advises.
Did you know that 12-year-olds can keep insurance information confidential from parents? The Vermont House Health Care Committee didn’t, until yesterday.
A human/canine search and rescue team yesterday found the body of Rebecca Ball in a wooded area in Weybridge.
Link provided to Alvin Bragg’s 16-page indictment of former Pres. Donald Trump.
Four House bills introduced on April 4 would make numerous changes to Burlington’s voting regulations.
The Senate bill allowing more housing density in cities but not in rural areas gets its first look in the House this afternoon.
Threats at Neshobe Elementary; Missing autistic teen: Soaring egg prices; BTV to be named for Leahy; Financial literacy in education
Sandra Dragon was a force of nature.
Beta Technologies, Vermont’s emerging electric air transport manufacturer, will get a visit from First Lady Jill Biden tomorrow.
America’s rising, out-of-control crime wave claims a growing number of Postal Service workers as victims of robberies, beatings and even murder.
House committee clarifies it’s a (very limited) “throttle down.”
And so, the buffalos are running off the cliff. The House has passed three terrible bills this week…
UVM’s announcement of a ‘voluntary resolution’ of a federal investigation into campus anti-semitism contains no admission of wrong-doing, no apology, and no specific plans to address anti-semitism.
Middlebury College quietly removed Mead’s name from the marble building on the morning of Sept. 27, 2021, for what it said was his role “in promoting eugenics policies in the state that led to the involuntary sterilization of an estimated 250,” the lawsuit filed by former Gov. James Douglas stated.
You, like me, may not even bother to look out the windows on a daily basis to lament the sad goings on in our world.
S. 5 would negatively impact the price of heating fuel or bring collateral damage to Vermonters, small businesses and our economy as a whole.
These anti-hunting activists have decided their fellow citizens merit no regard, including even the simple courtesy of a civil debate as is evidenced by elitist, segregationist statements.
Gone are the days of Martin Luther King Jr.’s colorblind society.
Whereas progressive European countries are pursuing science-based policies, the VPA is listening only to wildly biased, unscientific opinions of ideological activists.
Authentic Vermont embodies agriculture, self-sufficiency and independence, a strong work ethic, healthy communities and families, faith and honorable values and fiscal responsibility.
The Hammond Cove Shooting Range in Hartland, Vermont will open on April 1, at 10:00 a.m. The range operates under rules set by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department.
The Sunk Cost Fallacy is the notion that once an entity invests in something, it becomes harder to walk away from it.
Two rookie state troopers submitted their resignations and publicly apologized for using inappropriate language while playing a video game off-duty.
Vermont legislators are set to expand Article 22, “personal reproductive liberty”, without voter approval or a day in court.
After participating in a post-game brawl that shocked the state and made national news, an Alburgh man suffered a fatal heart attack in his car.
A Hartford CT man is dead in what police say was a targeted shooting.
Sen. Ram Hinsdale urges readiness to house massive numbers of climate refugees.
In the comment letter, the coalition urges the federal government to continue to explore commonsense solutions to protect access to asylum.
The University of Irasburg is set to return this April after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.
The World Economic Forum is now the self-designated world-saver — not only from climate change, but also from global starvation.
A former congressman who almost became NY governor last year will speak at a GOP dinner in South Burlington.
A Senate bill introduced on March 15 would eliminate at-will termination, and protect employees’ voting rights and free speech.
Search underway for missing Middlebury teenager; Vermont State Police conducts recovery operation for missing Waitsfield woman
A Manhattan grand jury has reportedly voted to indict former President Donald Trump over his alleged role in a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
How does the plan compare to New Hampshire?
Three bills would protect Vermont State College’s physical libraries from being reduced or eliminated.
The Democratic leadership in the Vermont legislature is not going far enough in protecting our school children.
Extended EBT benefits end; House approves ranked voting for primary elections
If the provision passes, legal non-citizens would be able to vote in municipal elections.
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