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By JUAN VEGA DE SOTO

The long drama of Goddard College’s dissolution might have reached its final scene. On Thursday morning, a community group named the Greatwood Project announced that its bid for the Plainfield, Vt., campus had been accepted by the school’s board of...

By COREY MCDONALD

The Vermont Supreme Court recently affirmed a lower court decision that the state and the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union were immune from legal challenges brought by the parents of a student who received a COVID-19 vaccine against their...

By PETER D’AURIA

The ACLU of Vermont has filed suit against Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine, alleging that the state’s top health official illegally altered a document of recommendations about how to spend money from settlements with drug manufacturers and...

By CHLOE JAD

The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets has launched a 2024 Flood Loss and Damage Survey and is urging farmers to fill out the online form by August 31.The purpose of the survey is to gather data “as thoroughly as possible” regarding the...

By PETER D’AURIA

Just over a week after the remnants of Tropical Storm Beryl caused flooding across central and northern Vermont, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials are on the ground assessing damage in the state, Gov. Phil Scott said Friday. FEMA officials...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

In a motion filed Wednesday, Gov. Phil Scott’s administration fired back at the two Vermont senators suing the governor and Interim Education Secretary Zoie Saunders, asking the court to dismiss the case. The motion, penned by two lawyers in the...

By EMMA COTTON and CHLOE JAD

Zach Mangione, owner of Cross Farm in Barnet, watched this week’s storm warily as it approached Vermont but thought he would be able to manage an expected 2 to 4 inches of rain. A friend, who was pumping water from his own basement the night of July...

By CHLOE JAD

Volunteer and fundraising systems established in the wake of the July 2023 floods are being revived after flooding once again tore through central and northern Vermont earlier this month. “More help is always needed,” Jennifer Morrison, the state’s...

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

When John McDermott was ordained as a priest 35 years ago, both the new cleric and the nearly two-century-old Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese — the state’s largest religious denomination — were awash in historic highs.Standing before then-Bishop John...

By SARAH MEARHOFF

Nearly a week since yet another bout of destructive flooding hit Vermont, the full picture of the storm’s damage began to come into focus Tuesday.At a morning press conference in the state’s flood response center in Berlin, Deputy Commissioner of...

By GRAMHAM KREWINGHAUS

Passenger and freight rail across central and northern Vermont was disrupted by last week’s flooding, but almost all lines were back in service Monday, according to the state Agency of Transportation. Freight rail service between Montpelier and Barre...

By JUAN VEGA DE SOTO

On July 10 last year, heavy rains that had begun the night before unleashed catastrophic floods across Vermont. This Wednesday, exactly a year later, torrential downpours may once again threaten the state with flooding, according to a forecast issued...

By PETER D’AURIA

Federal officials have selected Vermont as one of three states to participate in the AHEAD program, a new health care reform initiative, the state announced Tuesday. It’s not exactly clear what the initiative would entail for Vermont, as the state and...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

On Tuesday, Vermont joined a small list of states approved to bill Medicaid for some prison health care coverage. “We were expecting this, but it’s definitely very exciting,” said Isaac Dayno, chief of staff for the Vermont Department of Corrections....

By ALAN J. KEAYS

Addison County State’s Attorney Eva Vekos has dropped her challenge against having her driver’s license suspended for six months following her arrest for driving under the influence earlier this year. But she could be back behind the wheel of her...

By PETER D’AURIA

More Vermonters should have access to free or discounted health care at hospitals and other large health care facilities under a law that went into effect Monday.Because they are nonprofit entities, Vermont’s hospitals have long been required by...

By SHAUN ROBINSON

Vermont runner Elle St. Pierre is heading back to the Olympics.The Montgomery dairy farmer finished third in the women’s 1,500-meter race and won the women’s 5,000-meter race at this year’s U.S. Olympic track and field trials, which concluded Sunday...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

The Vermont State Employees’ Association has filed a workplace safety complaint after four staff members at the Springfield prison experienced heat stroke-like symptoms during the warm start to this summer. Some of the workers at Southern State...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

Last week, two state senators announced they were suing Gov. Phil Scott over his appointment of Interim Education Secretary Zoie Saunders. In a Friday press conference, Sens. Tanya Vyhovsky, P/D-Chittenden Central, and Dick McCormack, D-Windsor, said...

By COREY MCDONALD

Holger Hoock admits his most recent job change was a “slightly unusual” move. Leaving the University of Pittsburgh, a school with the highest level of research classification and a member of the American Association of Universities, he joined the...