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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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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