In early April, driving home from a shift as a physician’s assistant in the emergency room at the University of Vermont Medical Center, Than Moore had an idea.
Vermont was less than four weeks into the local appearance of the coronavirus pandemic.
In the past, high school graduations were noisy, celebratory affairs, with music and cheering and lots of hugs. Not this year.
South Burlington plans to keep 43 city employees on furlough until at least July 3.
According to the Vermont Department of Public Service, more than 1,200 Lamoille County properties don’t have access to the internet.
Stowe Police Chief Don Hull spent more time away from the office last month than he’d originally bargained for. A vacation in Montana for a couple of weeks forced him to self-quarantine for another two weeks when he got back to Vermont.
They say that one person’s trash is another’s treasure. But sometimes, one person’s trash can be another’s Personal Protective Equipment.
Classes this fall in the Lamoille South school district may be a hybrid — both traditional in-building teaching and remote education.
Gov. Phil Scott is running for re-election. But he won’t be campaigning “until the state of emergency is over,” he wrote in an announcement Thursday morning.
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A forum for Democratic lieutenant governor candidates was “Zoom bombed” with swastikas Wednesday evening, April 29, leading candidate Brenda Siegel to call for enhanced security at these forums.
Sen. Bernie Sanders ended his 2020 presidential campaign on Wednesday, after a series of primary election losses to former Vice President Joe Biden.
Vermont State Police are investigating the apparent murder of 39-year-old Michael Haines at his home in Cambridge early Tuesday morning.
For most Vermonters, neighboring New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary brings the challenge of enduring seemingly endless campaign commercials. For Greg and Amy Tatro, it offered something more: The chance to take a selfie with a potential future commander in chief.
House lawmakers passed a series of changes last Friday in Vermont’s decades-old land use law after two days of contentious floor debate and last-minute bill amendments.
The Vermont House voted Tuesday to override Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of a bill to raise the minimum wage from $10.96 to $12.55 by 2022.
Vermont Gas has filed to raise rates by 2.9%, citing rising natural gas costs and investments in safety and climate change measures.
Nearly a dozen communities and counting have approved a nonbinding Gun Owners of Vermont resolution declaring themselves a “sanctuary” from further government restrictions on firearms.
Gov. Phil Scott vetoed legislation Monday that would raise Vermont’s minimum wage to $12.55 by 2022.
Gov. Phil Scott has vetoed a plan for a statewide paid family leave program, dealing a major setback to Democrats who have made the policy a priority in recent years.
In 2019, Vermonters filed 5,447 scam reports with the Attorney General’s Consumer Assistance Program (CAP). Scam reports total more than 40 percent of all contacts CAP had with consumers last year. The report shows that though old scams persisted, new scams emerged.
The Vermont House voted 93-54 Friday to raise the state’s minimum wage from $10.96 to $12.55 per hour by 2022.
The House voted 89-58 to pass a paid family leave bill, H.107, which is a compromise with the Senate.
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