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A Vermonter uses the Mountain Rain or Snow app. Photo courtesy of Keith Jennings When the temperature drops to 32 degrees Fahrenheit, one can expect that precipitation will fall in the form of snow. But sometimes, due to a variety of specific weather conditions, it doesn’t.  Leaders of a project called “Mountain Rain or Snow”…

Cabot was awarded best cheddar title at a national cheese competition in Las Vegas, winning 15 awards in total.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Reese Perry of Windsor basketball and Patrick Cooley of Rutland hockey were voted Vermont’s Varsity Insider Athletes of the Week.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Ten newly completed buildings in Vermont were honored for excellence by the American Institute of Architects.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Leonard Forte’s booking photograph following his arrest in LaBelle, Florida, on Monday, Oct. 18, 2021. Photo courtesy of Hendry County Sheriff’s Office Updated at 5:30 p.m. A Florida man who for nearly 35 years dodged allegations of child sexual assault, Leonard Forte, is dead, according to the Vermont State Police. He was 80 years old. …

The Southeast State Correctional Facility in Windsor. The original dormitory was built in 1916 by warden Ralph Walker who started a farm run by inmates. Photo by James M. Patterson/Valley News Editor’s Note: This story by John P. Gregg first appeared in the Valley News on Dec. 22. A study committee established to assess the…

Vermont’s 2021 Christmas tree was lit on Wednesday, Dec. 8. Lawmakers still are deciding whether to hold the 2022 legislative session in person at the Statehouse. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Covid-19, Town Meeting Day, housing, pensions, labor shortages and a constitutional amendment. These are the top priorities Vermont’s legislative leaders say they want to…

Toxic chemicals beneath the Pine Street Barge Canal in Burlington have mostly remained in place, according to a study released this month by the EPA.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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

Williston Police Department has an adorable, snuggly new member: K9 Duke. He joined the department in 2020        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Christine Soychak, who works at the local high school, performs a rapid antigen Covid-19 test on student Aiden Pothier, age 10, at the Enosburgh Public Safety Building on Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. The testing is part of the state of Vermont’s “Test to Stay” program, where rapid antigen tests are given to unvaccinated students and…

Guilford great-great-grandmother Shirley Squires displays one of the 1,500 Christmas crèches at her house and, pictured here, her converted garage. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger Shirley Squires is a 91-year-old great-great-grandmother who has found a place in her heart — if not enough space in her Guilford home — for her collection of more than 1,500…

Mailboxes on Elmwood Avenue in Burlington on Aug. 17, 2020. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger As residents complain of achingly slow and sporadic mail delivery across the state, Vermont’s congressional delegation is pointing their fingers at the U.S. Postal Service’s top man in charge to answer for the state’s postal woes. And with at-home Covid-19…

Vermont’s only law enforcement comfort K9 handler recounts impacts and challenges from the program’s first year and a half.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

The Federal Emergency Management Agency sent 20 first responders to UVM Medical Center to help with record numbers of patients.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Bench player Aaron Deloney scores career-high 18 points as UVM pulls away from Colgate 78-68 in its nonconference finale at Patrick Gym on Wednesday.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Jake Merrill, from left, Michael Jolley and Butch Spear head back to their truck after their hounds treed a bear cub in Peacham on Sept. 17. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger 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. Opponents of hound…

Darren Pronto of Pownal. Police photo. In January, a Pownal man was charged with first-degree murder in the slashing death of a 26-year-old woman in downtown Bennington. The defendant, Darren Pronto, 33, pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail. The relationship between Pronto and the victim, Emily Hamann, remains unclear as well as…

Burlington’s Immaculate Conception Church may be deconsecrated and demolished as it failed to sell after three years on the market.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Between farms and resorts, Vermont still offers several places to be pulled in a horse-drawn sleigh.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service