City to hold hearing on zoning change

The Vergennes City Council will hold a public hearing on a zoning change that could pave the way for 130-unit workforce housing development.

After rejecting two budget proposals, Vergennes-area residents on Tuesday will again make a decision on proposed school spending for the 2024-2025 school year.

Brothers Jens and Uwe Kruger were raised in a family in Switzerland where music was an important part of life. The Kruger Brothers now are a fixture within the world of acoustic music with their unique ability to infuse classical music into folk music.

Vergennes police are looking into the Sunday afternoon theft of a Buick Encore from Champlain Farms. They have a photo of the suspect.

A two-vehicle crash on Route 22A just north of Town Line Road in Addison on April 15 netted a drugged driving charge for a Vergennes driver.

Vermont officials are considering putting a secure juvenile detention facility on state-owned land in Vergennes, but City Manager Ron Redmond said it is not a done deal. 

The Vergennes City Council recently took two actions intended to help developer Peter Kahn build workforce housing in the city.

The newest Vergennes city clerk not only brings extensive office and accounting experience, she should also be a familiar and friendly face to many city residents.

A $1.64 million effort to upgrade accessibility to the Vergennes Opera House and to Vergennes city offices originally scheduled to start this May will instead likely break ground during the spring of 2025, according to Gerianne Smart, the president of the … (read more)

According to court records, police arrested Santiago on Jan. 5, 2022, after he had set fire to a vehicle at 40 Booth Woods in Vergennes at around 5 that morning.

To celebrate the upcoming solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, the Friends of the Vergennes Opera House have planned two events, one Friday evening and one Sunday afternoon.

About five dozen Vergennes residents and officials who came in person or by Zoom to the Vergennes Opera House to attend Monday’s citywide Housing Conversation agreed on a basic premise: Their community needs more housing.

For the second time this month, residents of the five communities on Tuesday rejected a spending plan — this time by 18 votes.

On March 12, its first meeting since Town Meeting Day, the Vergennes City Council accomplished a number of tasks that both looked backward and moved forward.

After a discussion at the Vergennes City Council’s March 12 meeting on the topic of how much public comment should be allowed at council meetings, including advice from the city’s attorney, Mayor Chris Bearor later last week confirmed he would impose a li … (read more)