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The governor and a tripartisan group of lawmakers have announced a new bill that, if passed, will expand on the efforts made last session to solve Vermont’s housing shortage.
A report detailing the overall well-being of youth across racial and ethnic groups in the United States illustrated mixed marks and room for growth for Vermont.
MARSHFIELD — Twinfield Union School officials say the common level of appraisal is completely to blame for tax increases that would be seen if the school budget is approved at town meeting in March.
BARRE — May will be the new March this year as flood-related fiscal uncertainty just prompted a skittish Barre City Council to postpone the city’s Town Meeting Day elections.
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NORTHFIELD — The Norwich University board of trustees says former President Mark Anarumo was being investigated for possible violations of the school’s “core guiding values” and “policy” when he resigned.
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PLAINFIELD — About two weeks after he resigned, Riley Carlson has been reappointed to the select board, and the petitions that prompted him to quit have been challenged for their legality.
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A bill has been introduced at the State House that would prohibit a school from being banned from sports activities for forfeiting a game.
WILLIAMSTOWN — The post-ambulance era is underway in Williamstown, where the select board agreed to sell the town’s ambulance to the highest bidder, trade its vital signs monitor for a couple of automated electronic defibrillators and get started on licensing a FAST squad.
Bus and other transit riders throughout Vermont are bracing for a big change come March 6. Green Mountain Transit is set to reinstate fares after a more than three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wade Cochran, director of the enforcement and safety division at the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, has been placed on paid leave pending an unspecified external investigation, according to officials.
MONTPELIER — All politics was postal Monday afternoon as Capital City residents gathered in front of the flood-damaged federal building on State Street yearning for the days when they used to be able to walk inside to send and receive mail.
BARRE — A Granite City man accused of trying to maim his pregnant partner by pouring turpentine on her has been found not competent to stand trial.
A Vermont State trooper, who jumped into a bone-chilling icy pond in Lamoille County to rescue a drowning young girl, is being credited with saving the child’s life.
Montpelier Alive is excited to enter 2024 with many hopes and visions for a brighter year, following a challenging year. We look forward to all our downtown businesses reopening and new ones setting up shop in the empty storefronts. One such new opening is Naive Melody Instrument Exchange at…
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MONTPELIER — Authorities may never know precisely what caused a massive fire that ripped through a Montpelier lumberyard late last year, but a state fire investigator said rk Miles’ insurance company hasn’t given up hope.
A lawmaker from Manchester has introduced a bill that would change how permission to use chemicals in Vermont lakes is granted.
BARRE — In Barre, the school budget now has four “bottom lines.” Two are real numbers, and two that represent dueling opinions expressed by members of a finance committee that just deadlocked over an administrative proposal to spend $58.9 million to run the local school system during the com…
U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch this week named the members of the Vermont Judicial Nomination Advisory Panel, which was formed to help the senators review applications submitted for Vermont’s upcoming judicial vacancy.
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NORTHFIELD — Norwich University has placed President Mark Anarumo on administrative leave.
BARRE — A Georgia, Vermont, man facing home improvement fraud charges in Franklin County has picked up another such charge in Washington County.
If enthusiasm for a job could light a lamp, Kristin Baumann, the new head librarian at the Aldrich Public Library, could light the city.
BURLINGTON — A part-time Vermont resident, who was the mastermind of a coast-to-coast conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine, powder cocaine and crack cocaine and to launder drug money, was sentenced to 12 years in prison during a court hearing in Burlington on Thursday.
Gov. Phil Scott plans to propose a budget reflecting a 3% increase over last year’s spending, he said in his State of the State speech on Thursday.
Gov. Phil Scott plans to propose a budget reflecting a 3% increase over last year’s spending, he said in his State of the State speech on Thursday.
The following is the text of Gov. Phil Scott’s State of the State address, delivered before a joint session on Thursday. It is edited here for length:
MONTPELIER — City Manager Bill Fraser never said a “hard reset” would be easy when it comes to municipal spending. It certainly wasn’t Wednesday night.
PAWLET — Daniel Banyai may have left Vermont with no plan to return, according to court documents filed on Wednesday.
BARRE — A Granite City man accused of robbing multiple stores last fall has admitted to robbing one of them in a plea agreement that would see him released to a rehabilitation facility with the hope of resolving his remaining charges through drug treatment court.
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BARRE TOWN — Local officials have taken a step closer to expanding the town’s ambulance fleet to six vehicles, renewed a dispatching contract for the next three years and approved the purchase of a new firetruck.
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BERLIN — It took three tries, but the select board in Berlin finally blessed the Washington Central School Board’s request to mail the district’s ballots to all active registered voters in its five towns.
ORANGE — Angela Eastman is out of a job and Ginny Raboin has a new one courtesy of a select board that quietly switched town clerks during a special meeting last week.
BARRE — A second Massachusetts man has been sentenced to time served after being found with drugs and a gun at an empty apartment in the Granite City earlier this year.
“There is a lot of water,” Barre City Manager Nicolas Storellicastro said on July 10, after eight inches of rain had fallen on central Vermont, causing near-record flooding that left much of the Twin Cities and its neighboring towns under feet of water.
It looks like housing, flood resilience, and criminal justice will be among the top issues the Legislature grapples with in the 2024 legislative session, which is set to begin Wednesday.
It looks like housing, flood resilience, and criminal justice will be among the top issues the Legislature grapples with in the 2024 legislative session, which is set to begin Wednesday.
BARRE — A Granite City man is accused of choking a child.
PLAINFIELD — This year saw multiple town officials resign from their roles.
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BARRE — A judge has apologized for telling the victim in a child sex abuse case that her abuser loved her “in his crazy way.”
BARRE — This year saw a new state’s attorney take over in Washington County, while the former prosecutor was appointed as a judge.
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BARRE — Despite a devastating flood in July that crippled much of the city for several months, the Granite City weathered other storms in 2023 that revealed a divided school board and City Council. The year was rife with political bickering, and some serious fiscal challenges — some of which…
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Every year, we ask award-winning Times Argus Photojournalist Jeb Wallace-Brodeur to pick a few of his favorite photos of the year. These are his selections for 2023. We hope you enjoy them.
A new report from the state on the use of herbicides in Vermont’s lakes has some environmental advocates feeling underwhelmed, though the lawmaker whose bill got the ball rolling plans to introduce legislation that would shift the focus of the permitting process.
A new report from the state on the use of herbicides in Vermont’s lakes has some environmental advocates feeling underwhelmed, though the lawmaker whose bill got the ball rolling plans to introduce legislation that would shift the focus of the permitting process.
