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Big barges help install cable for New York power project in Lake Champlain
09-27-2024 10:01 AM

By EMMA COTTON

From afar, three barges in the middle of Lake Champlain may look like a floating amusement park, but in fact, they are part of a project to install a cable that is expected to provide New York City with 20% of its power.The project, called the...


The state wants to build a new women’s prison. What do those held there think?
09-25-2024 3:01 PM

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

SOUTH BURLINGTON— The political debate about plans to replace Vermont’s only women’s prison, Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility, is marked by calls for reform, fiscal responsibility and abolitionism.But for those who are incarcerated at or work...


New graduate school would bring dozens of dentists-in-training to Vermont by 2027
09-24-2024 5:04 PM

By SARAH MEARHOFF

A new dental school and clinic is slated to bring dozens of dental students to Vermont by 2027, thanks in part to an anticipated multi-million dollar earmark from Congress. Over the ensuing two years, the students would finish their training and begin...


After losing their motel room, a family of four prepares to pitch a tent
09-22-2024 8:31 PM

By CARLY BERLIN

James and Teala Ouimette began their day at the Harbor Place hotel in Shelburne getting their two daughters off to school. The two girls, ages four and five, both have autism; the younger is nonverbal. Just like each morning, a shuttle picked the...


Judge finds Vermont dairy farmers in contempt of court, orders fines barring major changes to farm
09-21-2024 6:00 PM

By EMMA COTTON

A judge has found a family of Panton, Vt., dairy farmers in contempt of court after they failed to stop water from coming out of a drainage system on their farm, washing over their neighbors’ property and flowing into Lake Champlain.Brothers Gerard...


Support staff at Porter Medical Center approve first union contract
09-21-2024 2:00 PM

By AUDITI GUHA

Roughly 300 workers at Porter Medical Center ratified their first union contract late Saturday after three months of negotiations.Support staff, licensed practical nurses and technical professionals voted overwhelmingly to join the Vermont chapter of...


USPS announces plan to keep some local mail processing in Burlington
09-20-2024 10:00 AM

By CATHERINE HURLEY

The United States Postal Service now plans to keep some local mail processing operations at its facility in Burlington, the organization announced on Wednesday.The development, part of a USPS operational strategy proposal, comes four months after the...


In heated meeting, lawmakers hear about working conditions at Vermont’s prisons
09-20-2024 9:30 AM

By SARAH MEARHOFF

Emotions ran high at a legislative hearing Wednesday morning, where lawmakers heard from Vermont’s Department of Corrections, as well as the state employees’ union and correctional officers, themselves, about working conditions in Vermont’s...


Consultant says 4 hospitals need ‘major restructuring,’ recommends consolidating health care services across Vermont
09-19-2024 7:00 PM

By PETER D’AURIA

A consultant is urging the state to make dramatic changes to its health care system, including repurposing inpatient units at four hospitals, consolidating services at others and reforming how and how much facilities are paid for care.If fully...


After dustup, Orange County sheriff lost the county courthouse security contract
09-18-2024 4:04 PM

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department no longer guards the doors of the Orange County Courthouse in Chelsea. That responsibility now belongs to the Windsor County Sheriff’s Department.And while state judicial officials have been mum on why, emails...


Citing fall of Roe, Republicans ask for Claremont school funding decisions to be overturned
09-18-2024 3:00 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT

In 2022’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court erased nearly 50 years of precedent by finding Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and overturning it.This year, a group of Republican lawmakers are hoping the state Supreme...


Vermont teacher charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly drawing on student’s throat
09-17-2024 3:30 PM

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

A teacher at Twinfield Union School is facing a charge of aggravated disorderly conduct for allegedly using a permanent marker to draw around a student’s throat, according to Vermont State Police.Kathleen Wheelock, 48, of Montpelier, allegedly drew on...


Former Department for Children and Families social worker charged with sexually assaulting youth
09-17-2024 3:00 PM

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A former state Department for Children and Families employee has been charged with sexually assaulting a youth she was working with when she was employed by the department several years ago.Sonja Herman, 31, of Swanton, pleaded not guilty Thursday in...


State police investigating 3 ‘suspicious deaths’ at Vermont residence
09-17-2024 1:06 PM

By DIANE DERBY

Vermont State Police investigating a report of a “suspicious person” early Sunday morning discovered the bodies of three “deceased victims” at a home on Route 133 in Pawlet, Vt., according to a state police press release on Sunday. Police said they...


Plans for long-distance mountain bike route in Vermont take step forward with 1st piece of ‘Velomont’ trail
09-16-2024 5:01 PM

By K. FIEGENBAUM

A new multiday mountain bike trail opened this summer in central Vermont — the culmination of almost a decade of work by myriad organizations and volunteers.The ‘Heart of the Greens’ loop runs up to Chittenden Brook Hut in the Green Mountain National...


Vermont’s Roman Catholic Diocese faces another wave of lawsuits for past abuse
09-11-2024 4:22 PM

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

Vermont’s Roman Catholic Diocese, having spent more than $30 million to settle some 40 priest misconduct lawsuits dating as far back as 1950, faces another wave of court cases alleging more past child sexual abuse. The state’s largest religious...


Pro-Palestinian student group sues UVM over suspension during spring protests
09-10-2024 2:51 PM

By PETER D’AURIA

In May, amid pro-Palestinian protests on the University of Vermont’s campus, university administrators suspended a student activist group on what was supposed to be a temporary basis.Four months later, the temporary suspension of the group, UVM’s...


Royalton police officer faces assault allegation
09-09-2024 8:01 PM

By ALAN KEAYS

CHELSEA — A Royalton police officer is facing criminal charges of domestic violence and has been placed on paid administrative leave from his job. Jakob Oliver, 31, of Woodstock, entered not guilty pleas Monday afternoon in Orange County Superior...


EEE has come to Vermont. Here’s what you need to know about this mosquito-based virus.
09-08-2024 4:01 PM

By ERIN PETENKO

A blood-sucking creature that comes at dusk is frightening Vermonters this summer. No, it’s not a vampire. It’s Culiseta melanura — one mosquito species responsible for spreading the eastern equine encephalitis virus, a rare and sometimes fatal...


University of Vermont announces plans for startup incubator space in Colchester
09-07-2024 5:31 PM

By AUDITI GUHA

Burlington Bio is a startup that uses biotechnology to turn agricultural byproducts into food ingredients – such as material for lab grown meat or protein powder.When Rachael Floreani, a faculty member at the University of Vermont for 13 years,...

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