MONTPELIER — City Clerk John Odum is underwhelmed, mildly concerned and more than a little surprised the city’s state-subsidized shift to universal mail-in voting hasn’t generated the response he was hoping for in the run-up to Town Meeting Day.
In 1973, former state trooper Paul D. Lawrence was hired by St. Albans to clean up the drug and “hippie problem” at Taylor Park and along Main Street. He proved he was the right man for the job. Within a year, he had made more than 100 arrests.
As I write this, we are about to celebrate the anniversary of COVID storming into our lives. Much like an uninvited distant relation who overstays his welcome, we are all looking forward to the days when the pandemic finally gets up from hogging our couch, watching TV shows we don’t like and…
WATERBURY — A Burlington woman was unhurt but police cited her for Driving Under the Influence early Saturday morning after she crashed her vehicle into the Old Center Cemetery along Vermont Route 100 in Waterbury Center, damaging the cemetery fence and a number of gravestones.
Folks who are deaf or hard of hearing should have an easier time at their local Department of Motor Vehicles office after the state’s purchase of 11 new communications devices.
On the Town Meeting Day ballot, Waterbury and Duxbury voters will decide whether or not to allow the sale and production of cannabis within their towns.Currently, it is legal in Vermont for adults over the age of 21 to possess small amounts of cannabis, to give cannabis flower and other prod…
BURLINGTON — Friday’s UVM Lane Series concert, titled “Mary Bonhag & Friends: Out of Darkness/Into the Light,” proved a rich and rewarding showcase of some of northern Vermont’s finest musicians.
Montpelier continues to draw exciting new businesses, in spite of the pandemic. Montpelier Alive had the chance to connect with Justin Dain, chef and owner at Oakes & Evelyn, which recently opened at 52 State St. in the former Kismet location in downtown Montpelier (Kismet has relocated …
WATERBURY — The Harwood Union School Board has voted unanimously to support renaming Thatcher Brook Primary School and setting up a community-centered process to identify a new name.
Snowmobile sales and trail use across Vermont are strong despite both the pandemic and minimal snowfall in December.
At 12:15 a.m., on Feb. 2, Katy Knuth, of Stannard, discovered her home was on fire.
At a time when school resource officers are coming under fire nationwide, and right here in central Vermont, Jason Fleury is as close to Kevlar as you can get.
MONTPELIER — City officials acknowledge the district heat system has been a “mixed bag” since it went online in 2014, thanks to lower-than-projected oil prices, but the customers that use it say they are happy with the service.
Stefano Coppola has lived the American dream.
Closed since March 2020 as a consequence of COVID-19, the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Café at Waterbury’s train station will not reopen and its staff has been officially laid off, a spokeswoman at Keurig Dr. Pepper said Thursday.
PITTSFIELD — While Town Hall will be ready for Town Meeting Day, the day itself won’t be ready for the hall.
Goats stand by the skeletal remains of a Christmas tree Thursday at the Bragg Farm Sugarhouse in East Montpelier. Christmas trees are a tasty treat for goats.
Jason Neimark, of Calais, uses a fire hose to flood a hockey rink Thursday on Curtis Pond in Maple Corner as his pandemic rescue dog Yogi looks on. After a stretch of challenging conditions, the ice on the pond should be usable again this weekend.
Jason Neimark, of Calais, uses a fire hose to flood a hockey rink Thursday on Curtis Pond in Maple Corner as his pandemic rescue dog Yogi looks on. After a stretch of challenging conditions, the ice on the pond should be usable again this weekend.
Winter recreation is popular in Waterbury but a recent search for something beyond the ever-popular skiing, ice skating and sledding led to Little River State Park to see a niche sport that’s centuries old. This is the sport of dog sledding, otherwise known as mushing.
STOWE — Investigators are working to determine the cause of yet another pair of fires in Stowe just as the man who has admitted to setting eight fires in that community has now been charged in federal court.
Investigators are working to determine the cause of yet another pair of fires in Stowe just as the man who has admitted to setting eight fires in that community has now been charged in federal court.
Investigators are working to determine the cause of yet another pair of fires in Stowe just as the man who has admitted to setting eight fires in that community has now been charged in federal court.
WATERBURY — A community forum last month to discuss the history of Waterbury’s school’s namesake has started momentum toward considering changing the name of Thatcher Brook Primary School.
MONTPELIER — The weather may have been too much to bear, or they listened to the pleas of state officials, but either way, there was relief Sunday after a feared armed protest at the State House failed to materialize.
To the people who know her well, the fact that Ginny Sassaman’s first published book is about happiness probably isn’t a surprise. Sassaman, of Calais, co-founder of Gross National Happiness USA, has spent most of her life tying to figure out what makes people happy. Her new book, “Preaching…
MONTPELIER – The weather may have been too much to bear or they listened to the pleas of state officials, but either way there was a sigh of relief Sunday after a feared armed protest at the State House failed to materialize.
For the Waterbury Area Senior Citizens Association, operational and financial challenges brought on by the coronavirus pandemic have only compounded growing worries about its management.
MONTPELIER — Three of the businesses hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic have been movie theaters, hotels and restaurants. The Bashara family owns all three.
Kind, passionate, and trying to make a difference in the world; these three qualities are what makes incredible things happen and finding all three in one person is rare — but Laura Morse is among the amazing group of people that possess these wonderful qualities and she uses all three whole…
BURLINGTON — Dogged team work by detectives allowed South Burlington Police to track down the driver of a hit-and-run car involved in a fatal pedestrian crash that killed a Washington County man.
BARRE — If you’re looking for a feel-good story heading into the holiday season, consider the tale of the Christmas tradition even COVID-19 couldn’t kill.
PITTSFIELD — There’s a mystery sitting atop one of the mountains overlooking town.
Tom Smith's recently published second novel, “Your House Is on Fire” has been in various stages of drafts and rewrites for the last 10 years, but it’s actually been 80 years in the making.
A Mount Tabor woman was sentenced Wednesday to time served for the shooting death of her husband at their home on Dec. 11, 2016. The deal that was supported by her husband’s son, mother and siblings.
Almost 2,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Vermont on Monday, according to state officials.
It’s been a roller coaster of a year for Vermont’s dairy industry.
Photos By Hannah Dicton
William Walsh, of Barre Town, (also known as Santa) wants all of the children in Central Vermont to know that even though Santa has not been seen at shopping malls, libraries, Nelson Ace Hardware or anywhere else this holiday season, he is coming to town Christmas Eve to deliver toys to all …
Your neighbor’s sleek new solar array isn’t just benefiting their energy bill, it’s lowering yours — and the rest of Vermont’s, too.
WATERBURY — The “Tip of the Iceberg” mural from inside the former Arvad’s Grill & Pub has a new home at the Vermont History Center in Barre but — you guessed it — no one can go visit the restored boisterous, historical bar scene yet because the center is closed because of COVID-19.
This March will mark the 50th anniversary of an unusual and barely remembered event in recent Vermont history: a plot to kidnap then-governor Deane Davis.
Many Vermonters, the governor included, are hoping displays of holiday lights will cheer people up a bit as they finish off a year of pandemic and political turmoil.
Photos by Hannah Dicton
CONCORD — Many of life’s miseries are derived from the persistent belief in things that are not true.
BERLIN — Just when you thought you’d seen it all, here comes virtual Santa Claus.
In a year of one bit of bad news after another, we’ll take a win wherever we can get it. For Ellen Ross, of Duxbury, one of those wins came on last week’s episode of “Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!” National Public Radio’s weekly news quiz show.
Hi there. It’s me, the Flannel Fairy. If we haven’t met yet, you should know that I’m a mythical sprite who comes alive once a year on the day after Thanksgiving to show people how Montpelier does holiday shopping a different way. We skip out on Black Friday and celebrate Flannel Friday inst…
Vermont and national broadcasting legend Ken Squier is among the latest people in the Green Mountain State to test positive for the COVID-19 virus.
BARRE – Democrats once again busted out the brooms on Tuesday, sweeping their three Republican rivals, along with an Independent, out of the race for Washington County’s three seats in the Vermont Senate.
