Search Results

By Credit search: VtDigger

By YARDAIN AMRON

The two victims of a house fire in Sandgate, Vt., on New Year’s Day have been identified as a young mother and her newborn son, Vermont State Police said in a press release Friday. Following autopsies at the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in...

By KEVIN O’CONNOR

Facing a more than 20% municipal tax hike this coming fiscal year, town leaders in Brattleboro have suggested lowering expenses through everything from curbing office-supply purchases to closing the public pool.City government counterparts in...

By COREY MCDONALD

A federal court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the University of Vermont by the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter. That lawsuit, filed in September 2024, challenged the legality of the group’s suspension following...

By CARLY BERLIN

As the number of people experiencing homelessness in Vermont continues to rise to record levels, the Green Mountain State’s per-capita rate of homelessness remains among the highest in the nation.That’s according to a new analysis of the 2024...

By AUDITI GUHA

A couple found dead in a tent last month in Wolcott, Vt., both died due to accidental drug overdoses, according to death certificates released Friday by the Vermont Department of Health.Tammy Menard, 53, died due to a fentanyl overdose and Lucas...

By KRISTEN FOUNTAIN

For likely the last time, state health care regulators at the Green Mountain Care Board recently approved the annual budget for OneCare Vermont, the accountable care organization that has been the linchpin of Vermont’s “all-payer” health care payment...

By KLARA BAUTERS

FAIRFIELD, Vt. — Nestled in a grove of sugar maples, the Branon Family’s sugar house buzzed with early activity Friday as sap boiled down to maple syrup. Inside an evaporator, golden liquid bubbled, releasing the warm aroma of syrup in the...

By ERIN PETENKO

Last Tuesday, the National Weather Service issued a flood watch that set off a cascade of preparations across Vermont. On that same day, Vermont Department of Mental Health announced that it had received an extension of funding for its Starting Over...

By EMMA COTTON

Last week, at the University of Vermont dairy farm in South Burlington, Jess Waterman climbed up to an opening in a large storage tank, inserted a long metal dipper, and pulled out a test tubes’ worth of raw milk. Gathered around Waterman — a dairy...

By PETER D’AURIA

For the second year in a row, University of Vermont Health Network hospitals reported bringing in more money than they were supposed to.During hospitals’ 2024 fiscal year, which ended September 30, the University of Vermont Medical Center and Central...

In the end, Scott Mason didn’t make it very far. The suspect in the Friday shooting of a St. Johnsbury police officer was arrested early Sunday morning in the house next door to where the crime took place, according to Vermont State Police. After...

By EMMA COTTON

Two Vermont agencies submitted a proposal this week to the federal Environmental Protection Agency to change the way they regulate farms that discharge wastewater into state waterways.The state Agency of Natural Resources and Agency of Agriculture...

By KLARA BAUTERS

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing in two Vermont cooperatives, awarding an $11.2 million loan to Washington Electric Cooperative and a $2 million grant to Windy Hollow Mobile Home Cooperative Inc.Washington Electric, a nonprofit electric...

By AUDITI GUHA

The Vermont Human Rights Commission has not been able to keep pace with a record number of discrimination complaints this year. It is pushing for nearly $900,000 in new state funding — which would nearly double its annual budget — to add staff and...

By PETER D’AURIA

Earlier this year, a consultant issued a report recommending sweeping changes to the state’s health care system — proposals that ranged from building more housing to cutting certain services at specific hospitals. At a meeting of lawmakers and state...

By KRISTEN FOUNTAIN

Vermont’s senior U.S. senator shared new insight this week into how long he may be willing to represent the Green Mountain State in the nation’s capital. In an interview published by Politico Tuesday night, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said he was...

By EMMA COTTON

Impacts from Wednesday’s storm appeared minor on Thursday morning, according to the National Weather Service and Vermont Emergency Management. The weather service had issued a flood watch for most of the state on Wednesday but downgraded expected...

By CARLY BERLIN

When 10 apartments at the new Armory House building just outside of downtown Vergennes opened in June, they all had tenants within two weeks. To developer Peter Kahn, the building’s developer, watching the new apartments fill up so quickly — most...

By AUDITI GUHA

Gary Scott has lived in many states but his move to Vermont was the hardest.Scott, a Black man, moved from Texas in October 2020 for a new job at the University of Vermont Medical Center and felt immediately isolated. He didn’t know anyone in this...

By ERIN PETENKO

The National Weather Service has expanded a flood watch for almost the entire state of Vermont for Wednesday, meteorologist Eric Myskowski said on Tuesday. Early Tuesday morning, the weather service issued a flood watch starting Wednesday afternoon...