Some of Vermont’s top elected officials converged on Middlebury Saturday to spread a united message during these tumultuous early days of the Trump Administration: The Green Mountain State will safeguard its citizens from the growing threats of reduced federal funding, as well as any assaults on free speech, voting procedures and immigrants’ rights.
Porter Medical Center has accumulated more than its fair share of compelling stories during its first century as Addison County’s cradle-to-grave health care hub. Thousands of births spanning multiple generations, and patients vanquishing life- threatenin … (read more)
Vermont farmers are trying to figure out their next steps as they reel from changes to federal agriculture policies in the past three months that were capped this week when U.S. border agents arrested migrant farm workers at a dairy farm in Franklin Count … (read more)
Wayne Johnson is gearing up to take his culinary talents on the road by launching Don’t Panic Catering, a self-sufficient, mobile catering business that will travel around the country providing high-quality catering services and use surplus revenue to off … (read more)
At some point in the not-too-distant future, the Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Department could change from being an independent nonprofit entity to a department operating under the town of Ferrisburgh’s municipal umbrella.
Green Up Day across Vermont is still more than a week off, but Vermonters who are moved by signs of spring don’t need to wait to pitch in — Start Greening Up now.
Starksboro voters next month will be asked whether to bond for up to $1.1 million to support the Jerusalem Community Center and Fire Station Project.
While state government has an information pipeline to D.C. to help it account for cfederal cuts to programs like Medicaid, what about the hundreds of nonprofit organizations in Vermont that rely on federal money that doesn’t filter through state agencies? … (read more)
Middlebury Indivisible and other Indivisible groups from around the state have organized an Indivisible VT car caravan support rally to show solidarity with our Canada neighbors and for Canadian Sovereignty on Saturday, April 26.
The Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Department had to wait a long time for a short fire truck, and Chief Bill Wager said its arrival earlier this month was much better late than never.
The Leicester Historical Society is sponsoring Prize Bingo on Sat., May 10, at 1 p.m., at the Senior Center at the Four Corners. Refreshments served and all are welcome.
“The underwater cultural heritage on the bottom of our waters is ‘a new archive’ to be managed, preserved and learned from.”
On Sunday, May 18, at 2 p.m., Chief Don Stevens, Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk – Abenaki Nation will talk about the Abenaki culture and beliefs, what peoples were in this area, how the area was used.
Fourteen Addison Northwest School District students in grades 7-12 competed — and five individuals and one team won awards — in the Vermont Historical Society’s annual Vermont History Day Contest.
In Vermont, painted curtains graced stages in town and grange halls, opera houses, and community theaters between 180 and World War II. Learn more at May 1 talk in Starksboro.
