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For the first time in a long time, Gov. Phil Scott and his administration had good news to report Tuesday on the COVID front, with case counts steadily dropping in recent days and hospitalizations leveling off after setting records.
BRATTLEBORO — A co-owner of Long Falls Paperboard has filed a whistleblower complaint with the Vermont Attorney General’s Office, alleging ano…
BRATTLEBORO — A section of Canal Street was closed Monday as crews removed an excavator that rolled off a flatbed truck when it hit the Inters…
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BELLOWS FALLS — The Rockingham Select Board approved a $6.3 million town budget last week th…
WILMINGTON — After approving financing last year to construct the Public Safety Facility, vo…
BRATTLEBORO — Peter Elwell was named the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce’s Person of th…
For the first time in a long time, Gov. Phil Scott and his administration had good news to r…
WESTMINSTER — Former Gov. Peter Shumlin has received approval to subdivide a former dairy fa…
BRATTLEBORO — Time is running out to purchase dinner raffle tickets from members of the Brattleboro Sunrise Rotary Club.
BRATTLEBORO — Beginning Feb. 3 and continuing through April 15, AARP Foundation is providing tax assistance and preparation through its Tax-Ai…
BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Elks club donates thousands of dollars each month to the community. This month’s donation will benefit local veterans.
Is there hope for subject-verb agreement when it comes to “there is” and “there are”? I’m not sure. I wouldn’t dare correct someone in public, but I wouldn’t hesitate to privately let him know after the fact.
All persons named in the Police Log are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. If you’ve appeared in the Police Log, and the charges …
WILLIAMSVILLE — Beginning this Tuesday, Gentle Yoga will be offered by certified yoga instructor Deborah Luskin at the Williamsville Hall ever…
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Children practice going off the 18-meter ski jump at Living Memorial Park, in Brattleboro, Vt., on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022.
Brattleboro hosted Hartford during a girls hockey match on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022.
Crews battle a two-alarm fire at 12 Someday Road in Dover, Vt., on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022.
A section of Canal Street, in Brattleboro, Vt., was closed as a crew from A’s Auto & Truck Repair use a crane to lift an excavator that rolled off a flatbed when it hit the Interstate 91 overpass near Exit 1 on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022.
PUTNEY — A show in which Walter Parks, longtime guitarist sideman to Woodstock legend Richie Havens, joins accordionist Rob Curto has been postponed to curb the spread of COVID.
Heavy demand for free at-home rapid COVID-19 tests on Wednesday temporarily crashed the website for ordering the kits, with more than 150,000 hits to the Vermont Department of Health-hosted site in less than an hour after it opened. By day’s end, however, 350,000 tests had been ordered throu…
MONTPELIER — State officials didn’t mince words Tuesday when addressing the recent spike in COVID-19 cases: It’s a post-Thanksgiving surge, largely driven by unvaccinated people.
MONTPELIER — Gov. Phil Scott on Thursday came out in favor of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Winter Action Plan.
Health officials on Tuesday encouraged Vermonters to get COVID-19 booster shots right up through Wednesday to protect themselves and others as they travel and visit friends and family for the Thanksgiving holiday. Testing for the virus is also recommended, Health Commissioner Mark Levine sai…
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont homeowners who suffered pandemic-related financial hardships can apply for grants of up to $30,000 to pay overdue mortgage payments and other housing bills, Gov. Phil Scott has announced.
Vermont legislators are again taking up a proposed constitutional amendment to make it clear that slavery and indentured servitude are prohibited, as some other states have done.
ELMORE, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont community is asking the U.S. Postal Service to renew a contract with a local store to retain an outpost where people can collect their packages and mail.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Gov. Phil Scott has signed a bill into law allowing municipal governments to pass budgets with pre-printed ballots for their annual town meetings this year and to hold informational meetings about budgets remotely as COVID-19 continues to spread in the state.
Northeast organic dairy companies are trying to recruit consumers to help strengthen the industry after news that 135 farms in Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and New York will lose their milk contracts.
Ukrainian leaders: Stay calm, Russian invasion not imminent
An appeals judge temporarily restored New York’s mask mandate Tuesday, a day after a judge in a lower court ruled that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration lacked the constitutional authority to order people to wear face coverings.
Another volatile bout of trading on Wall Street ended with a broad pullback for stocks Tuesday, as investors grapple with economic red flags and uncertainty over how aggressive the Federal Reserve will be in fighting rising inflation.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Prosecutors at the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights played videos Tuesday that showed the Black man gasping for air as bystanders warned that fellow Officer Derek Chauvin was killing him.
NEW YORK (AP) — The COVID-19 booster drive in the U.S. is losing steam, worrying health experts who have pleaded with Americans to get an extra shot to shore up their protection against the highly contagious omicron variant.
PUTNEY — Putney Public Library Writers Salon will run the first Thursday evening of each month through March from 7 to 8 p.m. and will feature writers of fiction and poetry from Vermont and other parts of the United States.
KEENE, N.H. — When Terri Trespicio was in her 20s, unsure what she wanted to do with her life and paralyzed by the fear she would make the wrong choice, her mother, Jeanne, gave her some advice.
BRATTLEBORO — A curated group exhibit of 11 gallery artists opens at Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts this month.
BRATTLEBORO — Regional chapters of the National Independent Venue Association are sprouting up, and who better than Robin Johnson to lead the one for New England?
SWANZEY, N.H. — Northlands, an outdoor concert venue formerly known as Drive-In Live, plans to reopen for a weekend-long music and arts festival June 24 to 25.
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COLCHESTER — The Saint Michael’s College women’s basketball team lost a pair of Northeast-10 Conference road contests against regionally-ranke…
With COVID-19 cases reaching all-time highs in the state, the impact is being felt within high school athletics.
BRATTLEBORO — There is really only one emoji that you can use to describe Jenna Dolloph’s play on the pitch so far this fall.
FAIR HAVEN — The Bellows Falls varsity football team trumped Fair Haven 56-0 on Friday night.
BRATTLEBORO — Peter-Owen Hayward of Brattleboro recently joined the rest of his Syracuse University 2020 graduating class in celebrating the granting of their degrees ceremony, which had been postponed for a year and a half due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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CASTLETON — This year’s Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl football game between the top graduated seniors from Vermont and New Hampshire is being held on Saturday, Aug. 7, with a 12:30 p.m. kickoff at Castleton University’s Dave Wolk Stadium.
BRATTLEBORO -- Effective November 14 at 10 p.m. the Brattleboro Recreation and Parks Department will be suspending all recreational sports programs, including organized and/or informal recreational youth and adult league sports, practices, games, and the opening of the Nelson Withington Skat…
BRATTLEBORO — Fast. Dangerous. Accurate. Clutch. Consistent.Those might be the best ways to describe each of the Brattleboro Reformer's five athlete of the week nominees, which include one …
BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro varsity football team's 13-game winning streak came to a sudden end on Friday night.The defending state champion Colonels, who ran the table last season and were …
THETFORD — Bellows Falls junior Abby Broadley won the girls 5k cross-country race at Thetford in a time of 20:00 on Thursday.Stephanie Ager (3rd), Lily Ware (5th) Molly Hodsden (7th) and …
Over the last seven months, I spent a day per week in a different county in our state listening to the needs of Vermonters. I visited more than 29 communities, meeting with hundreds of Vermonters from more than 60 different organizations, businesses and nonprofits. I heard hundreds of storie…
One way to make America great again is to create green jobs for all kinds of Americans, including new immigrants. Except for Native Americans, we are a nation of immigrants and their children, after all. America can be great again if we unite with native people for free and fair elections. C…
HB 584 was just introduced in the legislature. As Vermont high school students who worked closely on creating and developing this bill, we hope it will move swiftly through the legislature and be passed into law.
Before the new year, the Vermont Climate Council hastily approved its Initial Climate Action Plan. There is undoubtedly a sense of relief that Act 153 — the Global Warming Solutions Act — is being taken seriously. The urgency is highlighted by a University of Vermont report naming last summe…
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