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Vermont officials confirm 2nd death caused by July flooding
08-02-2023 9:03 AM

By MAGGIE CASSIDY

State officials on Tuesday morning confirmed a second death related to July’s catastrophic flooding in Vermont.“We have had our second flood-related death confirmed,” Public Safety Commissioner Jennifer Morrison said during a regular press conference...


For a Johnson sculptor, known for his Statehouse statue, the flood losses are piling up
07-31-2023 4:31 PM

By SHAUN ROBINSON

JOHNSON, Vt. — “You can look right through to the back of the house,” Jerry Williams said, sitting in his garage next to piles of clothing and construction debris at the top of a long driveway near the tattered banks of the Gihon River. Two weeks ago,...


Vermont extends tax deadlines as FEMA ramps up aid payouts
07-20-2023 5:36 PM

By PETER D’AURIA

Vermonters affected by flooding will have more time to file and pay some state taxes, officials said Wednesday. The due date for state sales, rooms and meals taxes will be extended, Gov. Phil Scott said at a press conference in Berlin, adding that the...


Legislature passes bottle bill update, but Gov. Phil Scott opposes it. What’s next?
06-25-2023 10:24 PM

By EMMA COTTON

Lawmakers in the Vermont House passed an updated version of the bottle bill Tuesday during a summer session otherwise generally reserved for taking action on bills Gov. Phil Scott had already vetoed. The bottle bill, H.158, was an exception: It had...


Offer made to buy Burke Mountain ski resort; auction may follow
06-17-2023 10:03 PM

By ALAN J. KEAYS

Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver in charge of overseeing Burke Mountain ski resort for more than seven years, has an offer to buy the scandal-plagued ski resort in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.News of the bid came from a recent court...


State regulators stand their ground on hospital budgets
06-01-2023 6:09 PM

VtDiggerRegulators voted Wednesday not to change their expectations for the revenue side of the states’ hospital budgets for fiscal year 2024, despite sustained and ongoing cost increases that led to big reported operating losses in 2022. The five...


Woodstock will pay landlords in nearby towns to house its workers
05-18-2023 12:33 PM

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

WOODSTOCK — The town’s economic development commission has expanded its housing incentives, allowing landlords in bordering towns to receive funding to house Woodstock workers in newly created, unused, or formerly short-term rentals. Woodstock’s...


UVM Medical Center patient survives a six-story fall
05-18-2023 10:10 AM

By KRISTEN FOUNTAIN

A patient at the UVM Medical Center building is in stable critical condition at the Burlington hospital after falling six stories there late Monday afternoon.University of Vermont Health Network officials said that the patient apparently opened and...


10,000 Vermonters will begin receiving checks from a Turbotax settlement
05-11-2023 12:22 PM

By KATE O’FARRELL

Starting this week, more than 10,000 Vermonters can expect settlement checks in their mailboxes. The Vermont Attorney General’s Office announced Tuesday that some customers who used Turbotax for their federal tax returns between 2016 and 2018 will be...


Vt. lawmakers seek to be a ‘beacon of hope’ for trans patients
05-07-2023 8:11 PM

By SARAH MEARHOFF and OLIVIA Q. PINTAIR

There are many ways one can describe Westley Pitcher: An 18-year-old senior at Essex High School. A snowboarder in the winter and track runner come spring. A cat-lover. A server and a cook at a local restaurant.“I’m just a regular kid, really,” he...


Windsor County man with string of pending charges back in court after police say they found him with stolen car, loaded gun
04-05-2023 11:52 AM

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

A Windsor County man previously accused of stealing a Dartmouth-Hitchcock shuttle bus was arraigned in a new case on Tuesday after state police said they discovered him in possession of another stolen truck and a loaded handgun.Mitchell Horton, 35,...


House passes bill that would give tax department control of property appraisals
03-30-2023 5:35 PM

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

A bill that would give the Vermont Department of Taxes control of property appraisals passed the House on Wednesday.H.480 would require property reappraisals to take place at least every six years and would move the responsibility for those...


Vermont House advances stricter regulations on private schools taking public tuition
03-30-2023 5:32 PM

By PETER D’AURIA

Vermont House lawmakers advanced legislation to tighten regulations on private schools that educate students paid for with public money, including a provision that would limit those schools’ ability to turn away publicly-funded students. The House...


New Vermont child tax credit offers financial support to families with young children
03-28-2023 5:59 PM

By OLIVIA Q. PINTAIR

As the end of the 2023 tax season approaches, state officials are calling attention to a new tax credit that offers financial support to families with children under the age of 6.In May 2022, Gov. Phil Scott signed the child tax credit, H.510, into...


Vermont’s 2022 opioid deaths set a record for the 3rd straight year
03-27-2023 3:40 PM

By TIFFANY TAN

State officials recently flagged the presence of an anti-seizure medication in some opioid deaths in 2022, a year when a record-breaking 237 Vermonters died from accidental opioid overdoses.Thirty-one of the fatalities, or 13% of the total, had taken...


COVID levels ‘low’ as state retires datasets
03-10-2023 11:23 PM

By ERIN PETENKO

Vermont had “low” COVID community levels over the past week, the state Department of Health reported Wednesday.The number of people admitted to the hospital for COVID ticked up slightly, from 37 to 43 in the past week, according to the department. But...


As baby goats died in Charlotte, residents seeking help hit roadblocks
02-06-2023 5:00 PM

By DOMINIC MINADEO

The neighbors reported witnessing baby goats dying on a farm in the center of Charlotte last summer. The kids’ screams were heard next door, and neighbors said they could see carcasses from their property. Yet while the animals’ plight was in full...


As property values soar, Vermont needs appraisers
01-24-2023 4:54 PM

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Two-thirds of Vermont’s 254 municipalities can expect a reappraisal order this year, according to the state’s Department of Taxes. And with so many townwide reappraisals in order, the state faces another issue: a lack of resources to handle the...


Lawmakers mull religious schools
01-02-2023 8:08 PM

By PETER D’AURIA

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in a case called Carson v. Makin, finding the state of Maine could not withhold public money from private religious schools simply because those schools might use the money for religious purposes. In...


Vermont bill would allow composting of human remains
02-01-2022 3:28 PM

By RILEY ROBINSON

A bill in the Vermont House would allow for a new alternative to cremation or burial — converting human remains into compost.Rep. Carolyn Partridge, D-Windham, who is co-sponsoring the bill, said experiences on her farm sparked her interest. She and...

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