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By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

A former student, who is Black, has settled a complaint with Twin Valley School District alleging that officials didn’t do enough to address racist bullying she faced at the district’s middle and high school, according to the ACLU of Vermont, which...

By BABETTE STOLK

When Jessica Giacherio went to the Department for Children and Families seeking help for her daughter in 2017, her entire world was turned upside down. “I turned to (the department) because I didn’t know what else to do,” Giacherio said in her...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

In 2021, court rulings gradually opened the door for religious schools to receive money through Vermont’s school tuitioning program, which allows students in districts without a designated public option to attend the school of their choice. Then, a...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

MONTPELIER — Gov. Phil Scott thinks it might be time to wrest some school spending control away from the local level.“That’s not going to be popular. My just saying that probably isn’t popular, but I think it has to be on the table,” Scott said at his...

By HABIB SABET

Ordinarily, Matt Trombley takes his first customers out on the ice around Christmastime. This year, though, he didn’t lead his first Rutland County ice-fishing trip until February.“I had people calling left and right in January,” Trombley said. “I...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

The latest data from the Vermont Agency of Education shows a small decrease in projected education spending and affirms previously anecdotal evidence on the major factors causing a projected increase in education property taxes.Health care costs,...

By TIFFANY TAN

Bennington College has voluntarily recognized a new labor union comprised of the college’s faculty, staff and campus safety workers after a third party confirmed its legitimacy.The American Arbitration Association completed the card-check process and...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

David Briggs, who owns two large buildings that are at the heart of downtown White River Junction, is starting to talk publicly about an “exit plan.” Last week, Briggs presented a mockup to the Hartford Selectboard of his vision for the Coolidge...

By CARLY BERLIN

Nearly two years ago, the town of Putney, Vt., approved a new affordable housing development on Alice Holway Drive. The project would bring 25 energy-efficient apartments to an area the town had earmarked for growth, and was designed to preserve some...

By ETHAN WEINSTEIN

The Defender General’s Office’s investigation into the death of David Mitchell, who died in the Springfield, Vt., prison last April, revealed that medical staff did not recognize the seriousness of his condition in the months before his death and did...

By CARLY BERLIN

A key House panel has voted to give a temporary reprieve to hundreds of Vermonters sheltered in motels and hotels who are set to lose their state-sponsored rooms this spring.On Monday afternoon, the House Committee on Appropriations advanced a...

By SARAH MEARHOFF and SHAUN ROBINSON

In his budget address delivered to the Legislature on Tuesday, Republican Gov. Phil Scott once again implored lawmakers to refrain from increasing state taxes and fees on Vermonters, and keep state spending within current revenues.And similar to his...

By SHAUN ROBINSON

The Vermont Cannabis Control Board is asking lawmakers to eliminate caps on the potency of certain marijuana products from state law — a move officials said could keep more users in the legal market but that faces opposition from some medical...

By ERIN PETENKO

A surge in respiratory illnesses caused increased patient volumes and long wait times at Vermont emergency departments this week, according to a health update from the state Department of Health. The department said that a rise in RSV, or respiratory...

By PATRICK CROWLEY

MONTPELIER — Calling it a “necessary part of the solution” to the opioid crisis, the Vermont House passed legislation Thursday that would establish two overdose prevention centers in the state. Gov. Phil Scott has suggested he would veto the bill if...

By EMMA COTTON

On Sunday, the president of the Vermont Beekeepers Association got a call from a friend, a beekeeper in Pennsylvania, who remarked snarkily, “It looks like Vermont has saved the bees!” The Pennsylvania apiarist had seen a report and accompanying...

By CARLY BERLIN

On April 1, hundreds of Vermonters are set to lose their shelter through the expanded pandemic-era version of the state’s motel housing program. Agency of Human Services officials have begun to flesh out their plans to stand up a host of new emergency...

By BABETTE STOLK

MONTPELIER — Esther Charlestin, a former administrator who spoke out against the racism she faced at a Middlebury middle school, is running for governor of Vermont. Charlestin, co-chair of the Vermont Commission on Women and a former Middlebury...

By ALAN J. KEAYS

A decision by an insurance carrier for the state to not provide coverage for legal claims made by defrauded foreign investors in projects in the Northeast Kingdom will leave taxpayers footing the bill for nearly all of the $16.5 million settlement...

By SARAH MEARHOFF and SHAUN ROBINSON

MONTPELIER — In his annual State of the State address Thursday afternoon, Republican Gov. Phil Scott reinforced to a full House chamber some of his perennial concerns: state demographics, public safety, affordability and housing. And at least...