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Top 10: Local school districts struggle to pass budgets
Like school districts around the state, most of the learning communities that serve Addison County students struggled to get spending plans approved by voters this spring.
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Top 10: Building projects change the county
The face of Addison County communities is changing — literally. Big building projects started in Middlebury, Vergennes and elsewhere will result in some major change in the appearances…
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Top 10: County sees changing faces in leadership
The year just ended saw the departure of many local leaders serving in top positions in some of Addison County’s largest institutions and towns.
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Top 10: GOP sees gains in November election
Politically, Addison County has been solidly blue for the past 20 years. In 2022, Democrats accomplished something they’d never done before: They won every one of Addison County’s…
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Top 10: Local efforts target housing crisis
Housing remained out of reach for many in 2024, as the cost of building and buying homes has skyrocketed. Though, local organizations and municipalities saw some progress this…
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Top 10: Towns seek compassionate but effective solution to growing encampments
The charitable organization Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects, or HOPE, this fall was asked to help a growing number of houseless folks who’ve temporarily settled in the shire town,…
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Top 10: Panton rejects solar array; state has final say
There are a handful of certainties about the 50-megawatt solar array proposed to be installed on a 220-acre tract of Panton land.
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Top 10: City residents wary of proposed juvenile facility
News first surfaced in April of a proposal to build a 20,000-square-foot, 14-bed, locked facility in Vergennes. It would house what state officials called “justice-involved” youth on a…
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Top 10: Once-in-a-lifetime eclipse wows county
The vast majority of our top 10 stories typically involve issues with a weeks-long buildup and/or fallout. Number 9 on this year’s list keys on an event that…
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Top 10: Sports teams excel, earning many titles
We play sports and offer them in our schools for any number of reasons — fitness, the lessons of teamwork and striving for common goals, the idea that…
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Top 10: The stories that had us scrolling
This past year, the stories that got the most clicks on our website included the accidental fire that destroyed the home of the Mount Abraham Union High School…
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Top 10: And that’s not all
When we choose the top 10 stories of the preceding year, we always produce a longer list than just 10. Here are a couple of important stories that…
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Top Ten 2023: The year of the deluge
Many Addison County residents will remember 2023 as the year during which they never left home without an umbrella.
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Top Ten 2023: Once again, housing is scarce
A lack of available housing created a lot of problems in 2023, not only for folks trying to settle in Addison County, but for various businesses and institutions…
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Top Ten 2023: Big building projects begin
2023 was a year during which some major building projects got off the ground — or at least off the drawing board.
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Top Ten 2023: Shootings claim lives in & around county
Acts of gun violence shook the community on several occasions in 2023, as shootings claimed the lives of four in and around Addison County.