New festival puts ‘family’ in theater

Town Hall Theater will host family theatre festival.

The process could take multiple years but pay big dividends on accommodating new housing and businesses.

Vermont House Education Committee proposes Cooperative Education Services Areas, which would provide services across seven regions in order to cut costs without forced mergers.

“Everyone deserves safe, stable, affordable housing and they should not have to move out of state to get it.” — Ariel Bolles

Orwell selectboard chair enters Senate race, highlighting affordability, healthcare and education reform priorities.

The Addison Central School District board has endorsed a new, two-year contract with ACSD support staff that will grant them 5.5% raises in each of the next two academic years.

“We are seizing this opportunity because it comes at a fraction of that cost, will be ready in just a few months, and allows us to quickly increase our capacity by almost a third.” — Heidi Lacey

Middlebury police Chief Jason Covey shared ICE-related thoughts with the town selectboard on Tuesday evening, as municipal officials throughout the state continue to process the fallout from a March 11 ICE operation

A citizen’s petition triggers a chance to toss the new law at a special town meeting Saturday, April 18, 2026, at 10 a.m. at the Orwell Firehouse.

The 69-year-old is held without bail; a lengthy Vergennes Police investigation looked into allegations that he’d pressured multiple women into sex in exchange for drugs.

Voters in four southern Addison County communities will soon head to the polls to field trimmed-down versions of fiscal year 2027 public school budgets that failed on Town Meeting Day.

Lawmakers are heading into the stretch run of the 2026 legislative session with a to-do list that includes major reform of the state’s education system.

Vermont Gas Systems is back in front of the Vermont Public Utilities Commission to address a series of five violations of the certificate of public good it received in 2013 to proceed with the pipeline.

Birong, who chairs the House Committee on Government Operations & Military Affairs, said during a recent phone interview that he’s found service in the Legislature rewarding, but is now — at age 48 — planning the next phase of his professional and public … (read more)

Middlebury’s James Douglas spent eight years managing the general health of the Green Mountain State as its 80th governor. He’s now leading a group advocating for the physical health of Vermonters.