Burlington’s Benchmark Space Systems is growing in leaps and launches

Burlington’s Benchmark Space Systems, which makes propulsion systems for satellites, is expecting to add nearly 200 employees by 2025.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Former Cathedral of Immaculate Conception to be demolished

The former Cathedral of Immaculate Conception in Burlington, an architectural landmark, will be demolished following a decision by a city board.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

PHOTOS: 2023 Michael J. Baker Wrestling Classic at Essex

Photos from Saturday’s finals of the 2023 Michael J. Baker Wrestling Classic at Essex High School.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Resonant Link plans to launch its first remote smartphone charger to the public this year

Resonant Link co-founder Phyo Aung Kyaw in South Burlington on Monday, January 9, 2023. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger SOUTH BURLINGTON — It is 9:30 a.m. at the headquarters of Resonant Link, in an industrial park next to Ben & Jerry’s, and almost every cubicle is still empty for two reasons, explains Rachel Allard, the company’s…

Bill Schubart: Is this a January thaw or an apocalyptic warning?

Today is Friday, Jan. 13. Our lawn is green. Our pond is melted and flowers are coming up. In my 75 years in Vermont, I’ve seen the occasional green Christmas, the inevitable January thaw, and have skied the Nosedive in early spring slush. But I’ve never seen a day like today. Is this the new…

Kate McPhee: Vermont needs a balance for the good of all

This commentary is by Kate McPhee, an artist who lives in East Dorset. She attended Columbia University and the University of Colorado before earning a master of fine arts degree at Bennington College. She has lived in Vermont full-time since 2015. I am writing in response to the Jan. 8 commentary written by Don Keelan:…

Vermont H.S. scores for Jan. 14: See how your favorite team fared

Vermont high school sports scores and results as reported to the Burlington Free Press sports department.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Vermont hockey: How Catamount teams fared Jan. 13-14

Results and schedules for University of Vermont women’s and men’s hockey teams from Jan. 13-14, 2023.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Vermont H.S. scores for Jan. 13: See how your favorite team fared

Vermont high school sports scores and results as reported to the Burlington Free Press sports department.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

The Deeper Dig: Leveling the funding field for small towns

The Canaan town center looking west along Gale Street. Photo by P199 via Wikimedia Commons The Deeper Dig is a weekly podcast from the VTDigger newsroom. Listen below, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify or anywhere you listen to podcasts. As Vermont’s Legislature opened its 2023 session and Republican Gov. Phil Scott was inaugurated to his fourth term,…

Final Reading: Same as it ever was

Newport Mayor Paul Monette in 2019. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Three members of the Vermont Mayors Coalition trekked to the Statehouse on Friday to beg state lawmakers to take action on a number of issues they’ve highlighted as urgent priorities in their respective cities: the housing crisis, a critical shortage of mental health and…

Gun control bills are just in reach for Vermont Democrats, but a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling threatens their advance

Sen. Phil Baruth, D-Chittenden Central, speaks after being elected Senate President Pro Tempore on the first day of the legislative biennium at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Wednesday, Jan. 4. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger As Vermont lawmakers begin to take up a fresh slate of gun control bills this legislative session, the imminent threat…

Burlington blacksmith crafts sculptures, furniture, tools, and more

Burlington blacksmith Michael Harrigan runs Urthona Forge out of a small shed in Charlotte, where he crafts sculptures, furniture, tools, and more.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Essex’s Ray named Vermont’s Gatorade volleyball player of the year

Jocelyn Ray of Essex High School is the 2022-23 Gatorade Vermont Volleyball Player of the Year, Gatorade announced Friday.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Doing dry January? These New England breweries serve non-alcoholic beer.

“People more than anything are thankful that we’re doing it,” said Matt Wilson, Rescue Club Brewing, who sentiments are echoed by many other brewers.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Brattleboro’s math problem: 250 people without shelter, 234 beds

A birdhouse hangs across the street from Brattleboro’s Groundworks Collaborative, a nonprofit agency that targets hunger and people who need homes. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger BRATTLEBORO — It sounds like a proverbial grade-school math problem: How do you accommodate 250 people with only 234 beds? In Brattleboro, it’s a real-life predicament for human service workers…

Allen Gilbert: Vermont fatal police shootings remained above average in 2022

This commentary is by Allen Gilbert, a former journalist, teacher and ACLU-VT executive director. In 2019, he researched fatal police shootings in Vermont over the 50 years from 1970 to 2019. He followed that in 2020 by examining the previous 50 years, from 1920 to 1969. Gilbert lives in Worcester and is the author of…

Dr. Deborah Richter: Yes, we can do something about Vermont’s health care crisis

This commentary is by Dr. Deborah Richter, M.D., a practicing family physician in Cambridge, Vt. She lives in Montpelier. Legislative leaders have already laid out their agenda for this session. Despite the dire state of health care for the almost half of Vermonters under age 65 who are “underinsured,” it is clear that they have…

UVM men’s basketball: UMass Lowell shoots past Catamounts

Host UMass Lowell used a 20-4 run to close the first half to race past the Vermont men’s basketball team 80-65 in America East action Wednesday night.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

UVM men’s basketball: UMass Lowell shoots past Catamounts

Host UMass Lowell used a 20-4 run to close the first half to race past the Vermont men’s basketball team 80-65 in America East action Wednesday night.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

UVM men’s basketball: UMass Lowell shoots past Catamounts

Host UMass Lowell used a 20-4 run to close the first half to race past the Vermont men’s basketball team 80-65 in America East action Wednesday night.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

PHOTOS: Essex hosts Montpelier, BBA in high school gymnastics

Photos from Wednesday’s high school gymnastics meet in Essex against Burr and Burton and Montpelier.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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