An ethics complaint filed in February against Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale citing her husband’s work in real estate was dismissed by a five-member committee last week.
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Scenes from Chittenden County during the 2024 Solar Eclipse.
After a two-year wait, the Hinesburg Fire Department took delivery of its new engine truck. The mini pumper replaces former Engine 3, which was permanently taken out of service 18 months ago due to mechanical failure.
April 9 at 1:08 p.m., police investigated illegal burning on Route 116.
A stir over tree planting at recent Charlotte Selectboard meetings has left the town without a tree warden and two deputy tree wardens as all three resigned last week from their positions.
Last season, the boys' lacrosse team saw their nine-year D-I title run come to an end in the semifinals but the Redhawks return 15 seniors from that squad as they look to return to the top. CVU also welcomes new coach Brian Loughlin to steer the program back to the final.
An Act 250 commission denied a major housing project in Hinesburg over flooding concerns.
On Saturday, March 30, nine students in grades six to eight represented Mater Christi School in Burlington at the 2024 Vermont Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fair at Norwich University.
Charlotte and Hinesburg solar eclipse scenes.
As warmer weather approaches, it is a great time to consider how you use the outdoor spaces in your life. Whether you rent or own, use public land or private, there are things that you can think about to help make these outdoor spaces work better for you.
Champlain Valley Quilters holds its annual quilt show, “Seams like Spring,” with featured artist Karen Abrahamovich, Friday to Sunday, April 26-28. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and noon-4 p.m. on Sunday.
Vermont has 16 new bear ambassadors thanks to Vermont Coverts: Woodlands for Wildlife, a conservation organization that educates landowners and others about sound forest management and wildlife stewardship.
Howard Center’s Spring Community Education Series presents a free panel discussion, “Substance Use and Our Community,” with moderator Beth Holden, the center’s chief client services officer in the auditorium of dealer.com, 1 Howard St., Burlington, on Monday, May 2, 6:30-8 p.m.
Masonry has always been a presence in the Green Mountain State. From the first settlers to the present, Vermont Masons have made a difference in their communities.
The Burlington Garden Club welcomes speaker Polly Ericksen, inaugural director of the University of Vermont Food Systems Research Center to its next monthly meeting, Tuesday, April 23, 1 p.m., Faith United Methodist Church, 899 Dorset St., South Burlington.
On Feb. 13, 14 Vermonters filed a conflict-of-interest complaint with the Vermont Senate Ethics Committee accusing Sen. Ram Hinsdale, chair of the Senate Committee on Economic Development, Housing, and General Affairs, of advancing and promoting the financial interest of her family’s vast real estate holdings by helping craft and approve language in a bill she sponsored that will benefit her family’s fortune.
Recent town meeting votes against school budget proposals were not a just a wakeup call about property taxes. It was a reminder that the school funding system needs major repair.
Vermont stands as a beacon of community values. Yet, beneath this facade, the education system has harbored inequities for decades that undermine these very principles.
Under political pressure from animal rights groups, in coordination with a national organization, Senate bill S.258 was passed and is now in the Vermont House.
On April 10 I resigned my position as the volunteer town tree warden for the town of Charlotte. Deputy tree wardens Susan Smith and Alexa Lewis also tendered their resignations. I took this step with resolve, but also with sadness because I enjoyed many aspects of the job.
A quick look at the Internet provides ample evidence a lot of people in Vermont and around the country don’t have a place to live or enough food to eat. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reports about 653,000 Americans experienced homelessness in January 2023. That’s a 12.1 percent increase from the same report in 2022.
On April 9, the Charlotte Selectboard killed the tree planting event scheduled for Saturday, April 13, as part of the town’s Earth Month celebration. Their decision came two days before the 50 trees were delivered by truck, and four days prior to the event. As a result, 40 volunteers were told not to come, and the tree warden and two deputy tree wardens resigned.
In his recent guest perspective Dorset Rep. Michael Rice lays bare the essential fault of current legislation by supermajority. Money.
I am the new chair of the Champlain Valley School Board. I have two children in CVSD schools — a sophomore at Champlain Valley Union and a sixth grader at Charlotte Central School — and I am in the unenviable position of being a new board chair without a passed budget.
During the two years I’ve served in the Legislature, Vermont’s housing crisis has been constantly top of mind. I’ve heard heart-wrenching stories of Vermonters with disabilities facing homelessness, seen tears in the eyes of constituents on the brink of losing their long-term rental home and unsure of where they would find a new place and learned time and time again about the teachers, nurses, child care workers and others who wanted to move to my community to accept a job, but didn’t, b…
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