The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending COVID-19 vaccines for children 6 months through 5 years of age, paving the way for vaccinating the youngest Vermonters later this month.
This page contains all of the Vermont Community Newspaper Group’s coverage of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Vermont utilities are reminding customers that help is available for those struggling to pay existing and past bills. Vermonters financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic can apply for two grant programs for renters and homeowners to help with overdue utility bills. Customers may be eligible for tens of thousands of dollars through these programs, and should apply now before money runs out:
Sarah Calvo was living in Cambridge, Mass., when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and she decided to change her life.
The Vermont Agency of Education released COVID-19 vaccination information that broadly identified Lamoille County schools as having between half to three-fourths of their students vaccinated.
In a recent incident at the Lamoille Union Middle School, some students became intoxicated after ingesting cannabis edibles.
Wendy was one of several speakers last week at an event at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Stowe who shared stories of homelessness and housing insecurity, stories as diverse as the people telling them.
Hospitals, understaffed and reeling from one long shift that seems to have lasted years, began to fill again. As they reached out for help to fill holes in staffing, the cost to hire a traveling nurse skyrocketed.
The town of Stowe will use its $1.3 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to pay for normal town operations, rather than give it back to taxpayers, donate some for a homeless shelter or save it for a rainy day.
Vermont Everyone Eats, the COVID-19 recovery program that provided Vermonters affected by the pandemic with restaurant-made meals using local ingredients, will continue through July 1.
The state is putting its COVID-19 prevention efforts into the hands of Vermonters.
South Burlington schools are almost back to “normal.” Face masks are officially optional everywhere in the district except while riding the school bus.
The Champlain Valley School District dropped mask mandates for its schools after determining every school in the district had reached the 80 percent vaccination rate per earlier state guidance.
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