The familiar anxieties surrounding Vermont’s summer storms are more intense this year with recent federal funding cuts casting uncertainty over the future of disaster relief programs that have helped Vermont in the past.
New federal funding is available to cover public expenses prompted by flooding this August 3 and 4 in Addison County.
Local towns may get federal money to pay for more than a million dollars in cleanup and repair from Aug. 3-4 rainstorms in Addison County if a disaster declaration is delcared.
For the first time since 1985, Addison County’s official federal flood maps are being updated. This comes toward the end of statewide FEMA flood map reevaluations.
MIDDLEBURY — FEMA has announced $7.8 million in direct assistance grants to 340 fire departments nationwide, including the Middlebury Fire Department. The grants are part of the agency’s FY2020 Assistance to Firefighters Grant COVID-19 Supplemental progr … (read more)
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