In post-pandemic Vermont, the high-end destination wedding industry has ‘exploded’
In a sector driven by visitors, luxury weddings have grown more plentiful. Business leaders say the industry is a powerful economic driver for the state.
West Rutland man killed in hit-and-run, state police say
Investigators have few leads on the driver, whose only known trace is damage to a passenger-side headlight.
Beta Technologies plans to expand campus to 100 acres
The electric aviation company wants to build a Vermont empire.
Driver faces charge of DUI with death resulting in Orleans County crash that killed passenger
Randy Lemieux II pleaded not guilty to the felony count Friday in a Newport courthouse. Police say he was driving a side-by-side vehicle when it rolled over.
Lyme disease is on the rise in Vermont. Here’s how to protect yourself and still enjoy the outdoors
A decades-long rise in tick-borne illnesses is likely the result of suburbanization and climate change.
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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.
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.
Creditors in Vermont Catholic bankruptcy case seek access to an estimated $500M in parish assets
Lawyers for clergy abuse claimants and the state’s largest religious denomination are set for a court fight over whether local properties should be on the table to fund settlements.
Opinion
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Trust in Vermont Fish and Wildlife is eroding
The department reversed its own bear season recommendation with no new science behind it — and still hasn’t explained why.
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.
Zizian member tied to border patrol agent killing in Vermont now charged in the deaths of her own parents
Michelle Zajko, a former resident of the Northeast Kingdom, faces two counts of first-degree murder as well as other criminal offenses, a Pennsylvania prosecutor announced this week.
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.
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.
Obituaries
Death notices and celebrations of life.
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.
