Raise ein stein at these Vermont Oktoberfest celebrations

If you can’t get to the big party in Munich, consider these beer-based bashes in Stowe, Burlington and elsewhere in Vermont        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Then Again: How a president’s vacation briefly transformed Plymouth

A newspaper clipping shows a security fence erected to separate the crowd of people waiting to meet President Coolidge and his wife, Grace, from the family homestead. Photo via Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum/Forbes Library, Northampton, Massachusetts For three and a half hours on the morning of Aug. 16, 1924, the president of the United…

YWP: Nurture the world, for it is all we have left

Young Writers Project, an independent nonprofit based in Burlington, engages young people to write and use digital media to express themselves with clarity and power, and to gain confidence and skills for school, the workplace and life. Check out the most recent issue of The Voice, Young Writers Project’s monthly digital magazine. Click here. Each…

Amid confusion, Vermont education officials say that masks can be required in certain school situations

A student works on their writing skills in Melisa Peterson’s kindergarten class at Flynn Elementary School in Burlington on the first day of classes, Wednesday, August 31, 2022. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Late last month, at an event for parents at Burlington’s Flynn Elementary School, a parent distributed copies of a note asking others to…

Why some Burlington children’s gravestones are getting new life

Why the Howard Center is helping restore children’s gravestones that are more than a century old.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Vermont H.S. scores for Sept. 10: See how your favorite team fared

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

Champlain Housing Trust to manage Burlington ‘pod’ shelters: Here’s how it will work.

The shelter is expected to open before the winter holidays.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Former Rutland police commander returns as civilian community liaison

Matt Prouty, community support specialist for the Rutland City Police Department, heads out to the street on Thursday, Sept. 1. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger RUTLAND CITY — One sunny morning last week, Matt Prouty was driving down Main Street when a police dispatcher’s voice came over the car’s police radio, transmitting a report of an…

One small White River Valley town; 26,500 empty square feet

The former Rochester High School ceased regular operations in 2018. Photo by Jerry LeBlond This summer and beyond, residents of the town of Rochester are trying to figure out what to do with an empty high school building — four years after its last class graduated. Following the district mergers and school consolidations that resulted…

Champlain Housing Trust to manage Burlington pods for people experiencing homelessness

A rendering provided to the Development Review Board of what a pod would look like. Image courtesy of the Burlington Community and Economic Development Office After months of searching for an organization willing to manage the site, Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger announced on Friday that Champlain Housing Trust will oversee the Elmwood Emergency Shelter Community,…

Queen Elizabeth leaves behind a ‘swan song’ in Vermont

Sixty years ago, Queen Elizabeth made a royal gift to the town of Swanton. It endures today and ensures her memory will glide majestically along.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Bread & Puppet’s political theater going strong for 59 years

Bread & Puppet was founded in the hippie activist age of the 60’s, making it one of the longest running theater companies in U.S. history.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Vermont high school football: Live updates, scores, results from Week 2

Vermont high school football Week 2 scores, details for Friday, September 9 and Saturday, September 10.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Dear Reader, Vermont news happens everywhere. Our regional reporters get outside the State House hallways and into communities to bring you hidden stories with statewide impact. Reporting like this takes resources. And while our news is free to consume, it’s not free to produce. Our goal is to raise $50,000 toward more regional coverage for…

Paul Manganiello: The abortion debate has everything to do with religious freedom

This commentary was written by Paul Manganiello MD, MPH. Manganiello is an emeritus professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College and the co-medical director of the Good Neighbor Health Clinic in White River Junction. I was born into a loving Roman Catholic family, which fortunately for me, was…

Don Keelan: The importance of our Washington conduits

This commentary is by Don Keelan of Arlington, a retired certified public accountant. Vermont has a collection of candidates seeking to represent the state in Washington next January. Today, they are campaigning in each corner of the state, presenting their position on dozens of issues.  It is disappointing that the candidates are not addressing the…

UVM is building housing for students, employees in South Burlington. Here’s where.

UVM and developer Snyder-Braverman plan to build “Catamount Run” in South Burlington on the corner of Market and Garden Streets.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Vermont H.S. scores for Sept. 8: See how your favorite team fared

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

Feds sue Elderwood at Burlington over harassment of Black staff by white patients

Black nurses and nursing assistants at Elderwood were subjected to racial abuse by white patients and managers failed to intervene, according to EEOC.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

2 men arrested after fatal shooting in Burlington’s City Hall Park

City Hall Park in Burlington is seen in October 2020. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Two people have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a man last weekend in City Hall Park in Burlington, according to a press release issued early Thursday morning by the Burlington Police Department. Police allege Christopher Crawford,…

Stephen Leffler: Academic medicine is essential to care in our state

This commentary is written by Dr. Stephen Leffler, president and COO of the University of Vermont Medical Center. Vermont’s largest insurer, BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont, recently submitted a letter to the Green Mountain Care Board questioning the value of the University of Vermont Medical Center, Vermont’s only academic medical center. BCBSVT said that the care…

Alis Headlam: What does equity mean?

This commentary is by Alis Headlam, Ed.D., of Rutland. Headlam retired as a professional educator training teachers to teach literacy in institutions in the United States, Africa and Jamaica; is the former creator and member of the Multiracial Alliance of the Rutland Area; and is currently a member of Project VISION and serves on the…

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