New Orwell ATV law challenged

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.

Jonathan Hescock has served Shoreham as a planner, library trustee and historical society member. Last week he began a one-year term as town moderator. And if things go his way at the polls this November, Hescock next year will begin a two-year term in th … (read more)

Boards governing the county’s shire town and Middlebury-area schools both elected new leaders this week without competition or controversy.

The selectboard won’t request a revote on the fiscal year 2027 Hannaford Career Center budget following a “missing ballots” mystery that prevented Salisbury residents from voting on the $6,271,915 spending plan.

Less than two weeks after residents in seven Addison County towns urged the Legislature to support universal access to primary care, a new statewide coalition has formed to lobby for a new publicly financed health care system for the state of Vermont.

OVUU and SVUSD leaders will spend the next three weeks crunching numbers in hopes of getting fiscal year 2027 spending plans approved by their respective residents, who on March 3 defeated both districts’ original budget asks.

A proposed 74-unit middle-income housing development in Vergennes, a major broadband expansion effort, and a keenly anticipated skatepark project in Middlebury are among 10 initiatives that have earned a place on the ACEDC 2026 Regional Priority Project l … (read more)

Pat Stevenson has always been fond of nature — in its purest form. Originally hailing from urban Connecticut, she knew that pastureland, once paved, is gone forever.

Residents of Addison County’s largest and smallest school districts approved their fiscal year 2027 public education budgets on Tuesday. But two school budgets on the southern end of the country did not pass.