Vermont utilizes food shelves to provide children with free meals during summer break
Families can receive summer meals for their kids and teenagers across the state through child nutrition programs that deliver and serve food at meal sites.
Housing Authority seeks Hartford-area land donations
The corporation has identified “job centers,” including Hartford, Rutland, Brattleboro and Montpelier, where it would like to place single-family homes.
Seeking technical education, schools may be looking inward
Demand for technical education is growing in Vermont at a pace that local career and technical centers can’t yet match.
Vermont Attorney General will not prosecute state trooper who fatally shot unarmed Putney man
Police killed Scott Garvey in his Putney home where he was experiencing a mental health crisis. “Is the state going to hold anyone accountable at all? Or is this just a free ride, a free pass?” his brother said.
Candidates backed by Vermont’s Bernie Sanders sweep House primaries in New York City
“The American people — in New York and all across this country — are sick and tired of status quo politics,” the independent U.S. senator said Wednesday.
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Which 50 of the Vermont Historical Society’s 30,000 artifacts best sum up the state?
“We want them all to speak to big ideas,” says a curator of a new “50 for 250” U.S. semiquincentennial exhibit set to open in Montpelier.
State and employees’ union butt heads over telework in Vermont’s highest court
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments over whether Gov. Phil Scott had the right to order state employees back to the office without union bargaining.
3 years after flooding, Vermont Studio Center receives federal recovery funding, supporting an economic driver in Johnson
The slow movement of the requested Federal Emergency Management Agency money was in part due to shifts within the federal government.
Vermont Conversation: ‘Going to where the silence is.’ Journalist Amy Goodman on 30 years of speaking truth to power
A new documentary film traces her career as the co-creator and host of “Democracy Now!” and its growth from a fledgling radio news program to an award-winning independent media source.
‘A ray of hope’: A Franklin County dairy facility to reopen this fall amid a spate of shutdowns
The reopening is a promising sign for the local community and dairy industry after the loss of at least three dairy production plants in recent months.
Vermont Conversation: Cartoonist Tillie Walden celebrates early American queer love in Vermont in new book
The graphic novel reconstructs the lives of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, a lesbian couple living in 1810s Weybridge, and the parallels with small town life in modern Vermont.
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Don’t let Donald Sinex anywhere near Burlington’s downtown
Converting the old Macy’s into an Amazon warehouse would worsen traffic and hand the city over to a company built on exploitation.
Vermont passed its education law. Now comes the hard part.
Vermont’s new education law settles questions of governance and structure. Now comes the harder task: building a long-term vision centered on students, not district maps.
Patriotism is not a dirty word
Inflation, unrest, distrust in government — 1976 had all of it too, and Americans still found reasons for pride.
Vermont’s classrooms are a Big Tech sales pitch
The groups Vermont schools trust to vet the safety of educational technology are funded by the companies they’re supposed to be checking.
A federal judge orders an ICE detainee with mental illness released, finding her six-month detention unconstitutional
The ruling followed a hearing that exposed a sharp divide over how a Vermont prison’s mental health providers, a corrections officer and outside clinicians assessed the woman’s mental illness, a dispute the judge did not resolve.
Drunken driving case may linger for Addison state’s attorney due to new disciplinary action
Expunging Eva Vekos’ record, the prosecution argued, could mean losing evidence that lawyers want to use in a new disciplinary complaint brought before the Vermont Supreme Court.
National Weather Service classifies West Woodstock storm as EF1 tornado
Meteorologists made the EF1 determination after conducting a field survey the morning after the storm.
Court says it might dismiss Vermont Catholic diocese bankruptcy case if progress isn’t made soon
The state’s largest religious denomination, racking up $2 million in legal bills and counting, is selling its South Burlington headquarters as it nears the second anniversary of filing for Chapter 11 protection.
Obituaries
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Across Vermont, networks of volunteers push back on Trump’s immigration enforcement
From verifying ICE sightings to keeping track of detainees, activists across the state are responding to ICE actions amid a climate of fear.
