Vermont eyes South Burlington for new youth facility. A state advocate calls it a ‘detention center.’
The state plans to build a 14-bed facility for youth in state custody that it says will provide treatment services.
Affordable housing complex opens in downtown Waterbury
Three of the 26 new apartments are reserved for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, and five are set aside for people exiting homelessness.
Ex-sheriff’s deputy banned from police work over ‘trading cards’ of suspects
The Vermont Criminal Justice Council also issued a written warning in the separate case of a Rutland City Police corporal accused of violating the state’s required Fair and Impartial Policing Policy.
At Burlington Jazz Festival, curator Jason Moran turns spotlight to youth musicians
“To play a style of music that is not even remotely in style — that takes a level of bravery,” said the jazz trailblazer who learned piano at age 6.
Vermont Conversation: Celebrating and defending protest, America’s founding principle
Annie Leonard and André Carothers are co-authors of “Protest: Respect It, Defend It, Use It.” The activists have each spent over a decade with Greenpeace USA and on June 6 will offer a nonviolent resistance training in Vermont.
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Vermont House Speaker Jill Krowinski won’t run for reelection
The Burlington Democrat’s decision comes as a surprise.
Vermont enacts the country’s first ban on herbicide linked with Parkinson’s disease
The law gives apple and other fruit farmers, who account for most of the herbicide’s use in the state, until the end of 2030 to fully phase it out.
Vermont Conversation: ‘Action is the antidote to despair.’ Ben Cohen fights to save the soul of Ben & Jerry’s.
The Vermont ice cream company co-founder reflects on what’s become of his company’s social mission and the socially responsible business movement that he spearheaded, how he and Jerry Greenfield are trying to take back their company, and his activism.
Ex-Lamoille County Sheriff’s Department deputy accused of making ‘trading cards’ of suspects
James Griffin faces an upcoming hearing before the Vermont Criminal Justice Council where he faces up to a permanent ban from police work.
Hundreds of housing units in the works at closely-watched project in Burlington’s South End
With more than 200 units, the project is the beginning of “a new neighborhood being born out of a big parking lot,” said Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak.
International trade organization adds to pressure on Hannaford to join Milk With Dignity
Vermont activist group Migrant Justice has protested Hannaford for years, asking it to commit to the program for workplace protections. Now an assessment from an international trade organization is telling the company to come to the table.
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Vermont’s governing class is destroying the state it claims to serve
Working Vermonters are paying for an ideology the ruling class will never have to live with.
Vermont’s proposed school mergers aren’t really voluntary
Vermont’s new education law keeps the language of local control, but the financial penalties make the outcome all but predetermined.
The moral purpose of education
We measure educational success in test scores and workforce readiness. We’ve forgotten that schools were built to form free people.
Don’t buy the nuclear sales pitch
Before embracing “new and improved” nuclear energy, Vermont should resolve the waste left behind from Vermont Yankee.
‘A critical moment’: US Supreme Court lets Vermont continue suit claiming Meta hid harms to youth
“It would be contrary to our system of justice if people who were operating in the online marketplace were judgment proof,” said Vermont’s attorney general.
US Education Secretary Linda McMahon tours Essex tech center, prompting protest
Dozens of students and adults protested the controversial leader’s visit to the tech center Tuesday, railing against her dismantling of the federal Education Department.
As Vermont is a key link in global species movement, state and partners build out conservation networks and wildlife passages
“These linkage areas are incredibly important for allowing for wildlife movement in response to climate change,” a state biologist said.
Former Rutland County school superintendent, husband deny underage drinking charges in teen’s death
The couple pleaded not guilty Monday to single felony counts each of enabling underage drinking with death resulting. The charges stem from a 2024 fatal crash in Shrewsbury.
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Peacham preemptively transferring ownership of its school building to town
“If we didn’t have an elementary school, this would become a town just consigned to second-home owners and retirees,” said resident Morgan Gold in a video recapping the issue.
