VARS seeing progress in 2024

Leaders of the communities the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad serves, and of the nonprofit ambulance and emergency medical service itself, agree VARS has made major progress in the past year.

The Vergennes City Council is looking for an “honest and responsible” effort from the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad to meet the city’s medical first response needs; in exchange the city would pay the higher per-capita fee that the ambulance service is askin … (read more)

One reason for the higher proposed municipal spending that Vergennes-area towns will consider this Town Meeting Day is an increase in the funding requests to those communities from the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad, or VARS.

VERGENNES/BRISTOL — A tragic accident this past summer has inspired a fundraising effort on behalf of the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad. On Friday, Oct. 30, community members presented VARS with a new LUCAS 3 CPR apparatus, funds for which were raised in me … (read more)

VERGENNES — On Saturday, May 10, 1969, Vergennes resident Jim McEvilla responded to a ringing phone, raced to city hall, fired up a Chevrolet station wagon parked in the rear garage and drove off to a nearby medical emergency. That was the first of 94 cal … (read more)