Citing financial stability issues, Valley Vista to leave Vergennes

Valley Vista, the state’s largest substance use disorder treatment provider, will shut its Vergennes women’s facility by the end of the month and consolidate all patients at its Bradford location. The closure will result in the loss of 20 jobs.

A Department for Children and Families official said that a planned Vergennes residential youth facility will not include space for older teens, backtracking on earlier plans to expand the campus.

During the proceedings, Judge John Pacht said Newton was charged with intentionally engaging in behavior that was “open and gross” as well as “lewd and lascivious.”

State officials unveiled the broad strokes of Gov. Phil Scott’s education proposal that includes sweeping changes like consolidating Vermont’s 52 school districts to just 5 and a new funding formula.

When Vermont Democrats lacked a gubernatorial candidate the afternoon of the primary deadline in August 1972, Rockingham lawyer Tom Salmon, in the most last-minute of Hail Mary passes, threw his hat in the ring.

A plea deal is in the works for the former Addison County sheriff accused in 2022 of sexually assaulting and unlawfully restraining a woman. Under the agreement, Peter Newton would plead guilty to reduced charges and avoid jail time.

Democratic leaders in the Statehouse appear open to changing or abandoning some of the climate and environmental policies they’ve championed in recent years following their party’s major losses in the recent election. 

For two years, the only spots in Brandon with a parking meter racking up fees were the electric vehicle charging spaces. That seemed “fundamentally unfair” to Tim Guiles, a town selectboard member and EV owner.

The cuts — which drew a swift and furious outcry — included closing an inpatient psychiatric unit at Central Vermont Medical Center, ending kidney transplants at the University of Vermont Medical Center, and shuttering a primary care clinic in Waitsfield. … (read more)

Highly pathogenic avian flu was detected in a backyard flock of birds in Franklin County in late December, state officials announced on Dec. 26.

Late last week, at the University of Vermont dairy farm in South Burlington, Jess Waterman climbed up to an opening in a large storage tank, inserted a long metal dipper, and pulled out a test tubes’ worth of raw milk. 

In April, Vermont enacted long-debated, statewide restrictions on wake boats, designed to create large wakes for recreation with a goal of preventing environmental harms. The new rule only allows wake boats in 30 of the state’s inland lakes.

John Rodgers, a Republican from Glover, was elected lieutenant governor of Vermont Tuesday, unseating Progressive/Democrat Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman in a rare ouster of a statewide incumbent. The dramatic conclusion came at the end of a highly competitive … (read more)

The University of Vermont Medical Center will appeal orders from the Green Mountain Care Board limiting its revenue and prices for the next 12 months, the hospital announced Tuesday.

A Vermont Superior Court judge decided on Oct. 4 that Middlebury Chapel at Middlebury College can keep its name, dealing a blow to a lawsuit brought by former Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas that sought to restore the building’s original moniker, Mead Memorial C … (read more)