Vt. ranked No. 1 for healthy older adults

What makes Vermont the healthiest state for older adults? Vermont receives high marks for social and economic factors impacting health as well as for healthy behaviors.

Addison County Riverwatch has released the latest numbers from its E. coli Monitoring Results in the New Haven and Middlebury Rivers.

In an otherwise quiet first week in July, Vermont State Police dealt with a bad motorcycle crash.

Officers in the Addison County Sheriff’s Department on July 3 began investigating two suspicious fires in Weybridge. One burned a wooden post at the trail-head parking on Morgan Horse Farm Road and the other was at the recycling center behind the Weybridg … (read more)

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 fe … (read more)

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)

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.

Guardians ad litem are volunteers who are appointed by judges in juvenile court cases to advocate for the best interest of children involved in those cases.

In separate cases, Vermont State Police this week cited two Addison County men — one from Middlebury and one from Orwell — for sexual misconduct involving children.

The Addison County Sheriff’s Department joined with other law enforcement agencies on April 14 for a high visibility enforcement of laws forbidding drivers from using cell phones. Deputies issued 7 tickets for illegal cell phone use.

During the proceedings, Judge John Pacht said Newton was charged with intentionally engaging in behavior that was “open and gross” as well as “lewd and lascivious.”

“I, and many in my community, feel a lot of fear around the new president that’s been elected,” said Cristian, who came to the United States from Mexico. “Lots of people in the community are thinking about ways to isolate themselves, and some people are a … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY — A Bridport man faces charges for allegedly threatening a neighbor with a gun early this week. Vermont State Police were called to a Crown Point Road address in Bridport on Dec. 16 at around a quarter after 6 p.m. on a report of an alterca … (read more)

The agency that promotes affordable housing in Addison County presents pieces that represent what “home” means to each of the 26 contributing artists.