A Chittenden County resident was cheated out of a large sum of money through a jury duty scam, according to the Chittenden County Sheriff’s Department.
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Mar. 5 at 12:08 p.m., police investigated suspicious activity on Ballard’s Corner Road.
The Charlotte village master plan project, a two-year comprehensive deep dive into the future of the town’s East and West villages, has been in full swing since January, and the team spearheading the efforts is holding the first official design workshop on Saturday, March 16.
For most of the 2023-2024 girls’ basketball season, Champlain Valley played zone defense.
Champlain Valley had quite the two-day performance on the hill at Burke Mountain for the Vermont alpine state championships.
A Vermont Environmental Court Judge last month denied an appeal from Hinesburg residents to operate a commercial woodcutting operation on a residential road, saying the operation was prohibited under current zoning regulations.
School board members with the Champlain Valley School District last week voted to keep a budget vote on the March 5 ballot, declining to take advantage of a new state law allowing districts to push the vote back to rework their budgets amid the current state education chaos.
Perhaps no issue has caused as much turbulence in the brief history of the consolidated Champlain Valley School District as the current budget dilemma facing the school board and administration.
The Community Sailing Center kick-offs its Access for All Virtual Regatta, a three-month campaign to raise the final funds for a new construction project.
The Burlington Elks Lodge St. Patrick’s dinner will be held Friday, March 15, 5:30-7 p.m., at the
The 2024 Vermont Francophonie Celebration will be held Thursday, March 28, in the performing arts center of the Winooski School District, 60 Normand St. The official ceremony will be held from 1-2 pm.
The Delta Hotel in South Burlington is the site for the 2024 Burlington Aquarium Fish, Coral Frag and Reptile Expo, Saturday, March 23, 1117 Williston Road, noon-3 p.m.
“Our Songs Remember” is a combination lecture and performance focusing on the ways in which the Abenaki oral traditions of storytelling and music play a part in the preservation of Indigenous ways.
Non-native invasive plant species have long threatened the health of ecosystems, wildlife habitat and populations of native plants in the Lewis Creek watershed. Management can be difficult because they are easily spread via seeds, roots, fragments, animals and humans.
Open government mattered to all of us during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Government played an outsized role in our day-to-day lives then. Schools closed, storefronts shuttered and the officials making decisions about quarantines, mask mandates and vaccines often met in secret or exclusively online.
My body feels as though I’ve volunteered for a scientific study; becoming a proving ground of sorts, evaluating various pieces of adaptive equipment as I put my own durability to the test, slipping, sliding, slogging and crunching over back roads whose fluctuating consistency becomes more unpredictable with each passing winter.
Our state is facing multiple crises, mostly self-inflicted, the result of policies enacted by a Democratic supermajority made up of activists who are either out of touch with the real needs of Vermonters or too wrapped up in their own ideology to care. But we all need to get real about putting positive solutions in place — now — or we are doomed as citizens, individually and collectively as a state.
I would like to thank Hinesburg’s voters for their confidence and support as I begin another term on the selectboard.
Many of our conversations in the Statehouse this year have focused on public safety. That isn’t surprising — our communities are struggling. We all know it, and we can all feel it.
Has anyone not heard about drug addiction problems in Vermont? About substance use in municipalities and neighborhoods? Residents have found used needles near local schools and friends and families are severely affected by the loss of loved ones from addiction or death.
When I first played Old Maid as a child, I thought the old maid in question was an elderly housekeeper. That’s understandable, though it didn’t make the title of the card game any less offensive.
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