Beers made by Burlington brewery Zero Gravity start nonalcoholic beer movement in Vermont, while Middlebury College grad takes concept nationally Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service
How’s this for a big fish story: Nearly extinct Vermont species making quite a comeback
Vermont anglers may want to cast a line this fall as the once nearly extinct Atlantic salmon is seeing a resurgence. Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service
Scott Thompson: When war must be fought out
This commentary is by Scott Thompson, who served in the U.S. Foreign Service from 1980 to 2007 and now observes the world from a safe distance in Calais. Anti-establishment voices, chiefly but not solely on the Republican side, made a midterm campaign issue over the cost of U.S. military aid to Ukraine. This amounts to…
Jennifer Lovett: Purple Paint Law should replace the annual posting of private property
This commentary is by Jennifer Lovett, a resident of Starksboro. The Purple Paint Law allows landowners to “post” their property with stripes of purple paint applied according to specific instructions on trees or fence posts. Most states stipulate the stripes must be vertical and not less than 8 inches long and not less than 1…
Galina Chernaya: Numerous problems with the proposed Silver Lake hut
This commentary is by Galina Chernaya, a resident of Goshen. The submission window for formal public comments regarding the Moosalamoo Association and Vermont Huts Association proposal to construct and operate, under a special use permit, a year-round, propane-powered overnight hut for 10 people by Silver Lake closed on July 11. More than 400 comments were…
After mayor’s opposition, Burlington reconsiders zoning aimed at reducing car use
An ordinance that would eliminate parking minimums for developers city-wide is now back to the drawing board. Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service
CVU football holds off Middlebury on dramatic final play to claim historic title
No. 1 Champlain Valley denies No. 3 Middlebury on the last play of the Division I championship for a 24-19 triumph at Rutland High School. Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service
PHOTOS: 2022 Division I high school football championship game
Photos from Saturday night’s D-I high school football championship game between Middlebury at Champlain Valley. Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service
Richmond company makes a bike bottle that uses no plastic
Bivo Water bottles are made of stainless steel and have a nozzle with a high flow rater. Seen in Richmond on Monday, November 7, 2022. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger When Carina Hamel was ready to place her daughter in day care, she was trying to teach her to drink out of bottles. Hamel tried all…
Then Again: A terrified boy’s walk toward home spelled doom for wolves
Wolves were crowded and hunted out of Vermont at some unknown point in the 1800s. Gray wolf photo courtesy of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service The wolves of Vermont were probably doomed from the moment Europeans began settling here. Wolves — like Vermont’s more celebrated large predator, the catamount — probably inhabited the state’s forests…
Bob Stannard: What happened to America?
This commentary is by Bob Stannard of Manchester, an author, musician and former state legislator and lobbyist. He was singing bye-bye, Miss American PieDrove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dryThem good old boys were drinking whiskey and ryeAnd singing, “This’ll be the day that I die”This will be the day that…
Vermont H.S. football: Live updates, scores, stats for championship tripleheader
Live updates, scores and stats from the three high school football championships at Rutland High School. Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service
Rosters announced for 2022 North-South H.S. football senior all-star game
Rosters for the 2022 North-South high school football all-star game scheduled for Nov. 20 at Norwich University’s Sabine Field. Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service
UVM men’s basketball: St. Mary’s overwhelms Catamounts
Coming off its season-opening win over Brown, the Catamounts open a three-game stretch in California on Thursday night at St. Mary’s. Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service
Road rage: After losing its road crew, Chelsea may lose its Selectboard
The Chelsea Public Library is seen in 2009. Simmering disagreements between Chelsea Selectboard members and 29-year road commissioner Rick Ackerman boiled over this week, with resignations on both sides and a public meeting devolving into a “shouting match.” Photo by Michael Calore via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0) Residents are furious that Chelsea is out of…
Vermont restaurants may be packed, but Covid still affects staffing
Chef and co-owner Cara Tobin stands in Honey Road restaurant, which is now open five days a week. File photo by Lana Cohen/VTDigger Walk along the streets of Burlington, and it seems as if the pandemic is over. Restaurants are packed. Customers wait for tables, seemingly unconcerned. But behind the scenes, restaurant owners in the…
Court rejects BlackRock’s appeal to dismiss in Wheeler Park development case
The corner of Park Road and Dorset Street in South Burlington seen on Thursday, June 30, 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger A new court ruling spells hope for a group of neighbors opposed to a proposed housing project on a corner of the Wheeler Nature Park in South Burlington. The environmental division of the…
Vermont hockey, basketball: How Catamount teams fared Nov. 11-12
Results and schedules for University of Vermont men’s and women’s hockey and women’s basketball for the weekend of Nov. 11 and 12, 2022. Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service
Darn Tough sock sale cancelled again ‘in an abundance of caution’
The sock company said it wants to protect its workers and customers this winter. Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service
Seeing spots? Here’s what’s up with the orange ladybug-like critters invading VT homes.
Are vast numbers of insects resembling ladybugs congregating in your house? Why the Asian lady beetle may be bugging you more this year. Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service
Dan Smith: Vermont needs a better path to build its future
This commentary is by Dan Smith, president and CEO of the Vermont Community Foundation. Wednesday, Nov. 9, was “the day after” for all of us. As I’m writing this before the polls closed on Nov. 8, I won’t hazard a guess about the landscape we all saw on Wednesday morning. Nor do I subscribe to…
Patrick Flood: An affordable health care system for a healthier Vermont
This commentary is by Patrick Flood, former commissioner of the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living, and former deputy secretary of the Agency of Human Services. He is now retired and lives in Woodbury. This is one of three commentaries about health care; one was published Nov. 4…
