TopFeatured.com

Young Vermont kids are getting COVID at twice the rate of older ones, showing a hard line between the vaccinated and unvaccinated.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

The Department of Taxes’ headquarters in Montpelier. File photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDigger More than 22,000 Vermonters who filed for unemployment last year could get a tax refund, according to the state Department of Taxes.  The department announced Tuesday that it has begun sending checks to people who collected unemployment in 2020 and filed their taxes…

University of Vermont President Suresh Garimella announces a proposed tuition freeze for the fourth year in a row in Burlington on Wednesday, September 15, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger For a fourth consecutive year, University of Vermont president Suresh Garimella has recommended that the institution freeze tuition for all students. The proposal, which requires approval…

Centered on North Street, tour covers historic markets run by Italian, Lebanese immigrants; also visits current Vietnamese, Nepali shops        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Three-story apartments might rise from the tarp-covered foundations of a 1910 church in Burlington that was destroyed by fire six years ago.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Middlebury makes the jump to the No. 1 spot in the Vermont Varsity Insider power rankings for high school football.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

The closure of Burlington High School is an extreme case, but PCBs have also been found in South Burlington, Charlotte and Hinesburg schools.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

The Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington on March 24, 2019. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger A reentry facility for incarcerated women in Maine could be a model for replacing the troubled Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington, officials told state legislators Tuesday. At a hearing of the Joint Justice Oversight Committee, several…

Mike Smith, secretary of the Vermont Agency of Human Services, speaks during a press conference on Aug. 10. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger State regulators expect to wrap up their investigation into specialist visit wait times in time for the next legislative session, Mike Smith, secretary of the Vermont Agency of Human Services, said on Tuesday.…

Leaflets for Vermont’s Liberty Union Party sits alongside those noting its new name, the Green Mountain Peace and Justice Party. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger Since its start in 1970, Vermont’s Liberty Union Party has sought to offer voters an alternative to the status quo. “We have to explore topics the Democratic and Republican parties, the…

After 10 seasons at the University of Vermont, his alma mater, Kyle Cieplicki has moved on, to take job on Jeff Capel’s staff at Pittsburgh.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Tour follows 30-mile route through Champlain Valley, with participants stopping at farms to sample sushi, tomatoes, baked goods, wine and more        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

After hours of debate, Burlington City Council voted to withdraw a resolution that would endorse the boycotting of Israel for Palestinian rights.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Isle La Motte Elementary School, which has not held classes in more than a year. Several local residents have proposed opening up the school’s kitchen for community use. Photo courtesy of Grand Isle Supervisory Union The Grand Isle Supervisory Union is considering a new use for part of the Isle La Motte Elementary School, which…

Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger looks on as the City Council debates a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions resolution on Monday, September 13. The council dropped a proposal to become the first city in the country to boycott the state of Israel. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Burlington City Council on Monday dropped a proposal to become…

Just weeks into the school year, several have already revised their lunchtime protocols — many after sending classes home to quarantine. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung When Tim O’Leary’s two elementary-aged daughters returned from their first days at Ripton Elementary this fall, they described lunchtime “like it was February of 2020,” O’Leary said. “They had…

The Post Mills Airport, from which a fatal hot air balloon flight took off on July 15, 2021. Photo by Alan Keays/VTDigger Two months after the fatal death of a well-known balloonist, a hot air balloon manned by two people crashed into trees in Ryegate on Sunday morning. No one was injured, but the crash…

‘The Flight Attendant,’ ‘Oslo’ and ‘Shameless’ all have ties to Vermont, providing rooting interest in Sunday’s broadcast for the state’s residents        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

‘The Flight Attendant,’ ‘Oslo’ and ‘Shameless’ all have ties to Vermont, providing rooting interest in Sunday’s broadcast for the state’s residents        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service