In divided decision, Senate committee votes to recommend Zoie Saunders as education secretary
The entire Senate is expected to vote on Saunders’ confirmation next week.
Lawsuit accuses Norwich University, former president of creating hostile environment, sex-based discrimination
A complaint filed Monday by a former top Norwich administrator alleges that former president Mark Anarumo and other administrators engaged in years of inappropriate, sexist and demeaning behavior toward women.
For Kevin Jones ‘everything was geared toward helping other people succeed’
“The second he walked in the room, you could see that he had something special that could be put to use,” one colleague said.
Vermont Conversation: Surviving and escaping the Twelve Tribes cult
“Your personal freedom and your ability to make decisions for you and your family is really a priceless thing,” said Tamara Mathieu.
Final Reading: House panel taking up major labor reforms passed last year in Senate
Too often, “the upper hand is with the employer,” one House leader said.
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Amid empty storefronts, Brattleboro asks a statewide question: What’s the future of downtown?
“It does seem like we’re in a bit of a trough,” one developer says, “but I see good signs in terms of coming out of it.”
Ahead of this summer’s Olympics, a Vermonter prepares to defy the odds one more time
Often the underdog, Norwich’s Billy Bender has been reflecting on his astronomical rise to the top of U.S rowing.
Senate panel advances Act 250 reform bill, while Phil Scott signals potential veto
Multiple bills aimed at modernizing Vermont’s signature land-use law have circulated around the Statehouse this year, drawing intense debate. Now, those bills have become one.
Torn apart by chaos in Afghanistan, a refugee family is reunited in Bennington
As Musa and Zakia Muslim Yar and their three sons made their way to the Kabul airport to fly to the U.S. in 2021, the couple got separated from their two boys amid the crush of people trying to flee the country.
Incarcerated man dies in palliative care at New Hampshire facility
Roy Patten, 73, had been taken from Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield to the Springfield Hospital emergency department “after exhibiting signs of medical distress” earlier this month, corrections officials said.
Mitch Wertlieb to take over as host of ‘Vermont This Week’
Vermont Public’s weekly television news show has been helmed by guest hosts, including Wertlieb, since longtime moderator Stewart Ledbetter stepped down in May 2023.
Kurn Hattin Homes for Children fined for water system violations
Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources said the organization has not completed a mandatory testing of its water filter vessels since 2022, and the system’s operation and maintenance manual was outdated.
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Jonathan Elwell: A new prison is nothing new
The new prison that DOC is trying to build is not a way out of the trauma and systemic violence of incarceration — it’s actually how we got to this…
Jessica Barquist: Overdose prevention centers would provide options when people need them the most
Simply put, overdose deaths are preventable and overdose prevention centers have been statistically proven to save lives.
Jean Waltz: To guarantee equitable education in Vermont, we must protect Act 127
It’s tragic that Act 127 is under scrutiny just as it’s poised to be implemented in the coming school year.
Joanna Lidback: Banning neonicotinoids will put our farms and nature out of balance
Neonicotinoids have been a game changer for farmers in Vermont and the rest of America.
Judge denies delay of Montpelier-Roxbury school budget revote
The new budget, revised after the first version was shot down on Town Meeting Day, would close the Roxbury Village School.
Citing devastation in Gaza, Sanders and Welch oppose aid package for Ukraine and Israel
After a monthslong journey, the bill cleared the Senate by a vote of 79 to 18. The two Vermonters were among only three progressives to oppose it.
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Final Reading: Vermont lawmakers respond to ‘ghost guns’ case addition to SCOTUS docket
Of concern to some is not just whether a Supreme Court decision would impact a proposed state Senate bill. “That’s going to take them ultimately to the question of serialization itself,” Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Baruth hypothesized. “And if they overturn that, all bets are off.”