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A plane takes off from the Franklin County State Airport in Highgate on Tuesday, August 3, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Two projects planned in Highgate could bring new jobs to the town and spur economic growth across Franklin County, officials said. The Franklin County State Airport is slated to receive more than $2 million…

Shelburne Museum has acquired a ‘major work’ by contemporary painter Stephen Hannock depicting the Champlain Valley.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Middlebury will celebrate the end of the four-year-long Bridge and Rail Project with music, street performers and circus artists on Saturday, Aug. 21.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Jenna’s House holds a grand opening Saturday in Johnson and will offer services for mothers in recovery and others recovering from addiction        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

The Post Mills Airport, from which a fatal hot-air-balloon flight took off on July 15. Photo by Alan Keays/VTDigger Editor’s Note: This article by the Valley News was published Aug. 3. PIERMONT — A hot-air balloon traveled over a mile with the pilot trapped below the basket before his fatal fall last month, according to…

Jadah Bearden of Winooski, left, speaks against increasing the number of police officers during a meeting of the Burlington City Council at City Hall in Burlington on Monday, August 9, 2021. Supporters of increasing that number are seen at the right. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Burlington City Council has once again rejected raising the…

Photo by Arthur Chapman via Flikr A horde of bloodsuckers has descended upon the Lemon River Area, feasting on the inhabitants of Cornwall, Weybridge and Bridport. Vampires? Not here. It’s a late-season surge of mosquitoes — and experts say this year’s weather patterns have created prime conditions for the irritating buzzers to abound. “They’re relentless.…

Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger is recommending masks in indoor public spaces, and wants city employees to be vaccinated by September.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Canada is allowing vaccinated Americans to cross the land border as of Aug. 9, 2021, for non-essential travel. What to know about the return journey.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Some entertainment spaces to require proof of vaccine from customers as virus count climbs in Vermont and across the nation        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

A Hardwick police cruiser. Photo courtesy of Hardwick Police Department In a statement to Vermont media, Acting U.S. Attorney for Vermont Jonathan A. Ophardt has voiced deep concern over the increase in violent crime and the decrease in law enforcement capacity in the state.  Instances of violent crime in Vermont have risen in the past…

Former president of Green Mountain Power, Mary Powell is now the CEO of Sunrun Inc. Photo by John Herrick/VTDigger Former Green Mountain Power President Mary Powell is now the chief executive officer of Sunrun Inc, the largest residential-solar company in the U.S. Powell stepped down from Green Mountain Power, Vermont’s largest utility provider, in 2019…

I-89 as seen from the Williston Road overpass August 6, 2021. Photo by Riley Robinson/VTDigger Jay Diggen is worried about drunken driving, but the traffic safety specialist with the Vermont State Police said it’s not the number of arrests he’s concerned about. It’s when they’re happening.  Vermont State Police report that this summer more arrests…

Canadian businesses are facing staffing shortages and supply chain issues as they prepare for the border to reopen to vaccinated Americans.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

New Hampshire scores three second-half touchdowns to blank Vermont 21-0 in the 68th Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl at Castleton University on Saturday.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Schools around Vermont will host vaccination clinics in advance of students returning to schools. The clinics are open to all community members.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

An etching from 1858 shows the breakwater in Burlington’s waterfront and the buildings of the town rising up the hill to the University of Vermont, at right. Silver Special Collections Library, University of Vermont Burlington is a bit different from the rest of Vermont. OK, it’s a lot different. But the differences we see today…

Courtesy photo Burlington Police Department A known Bloods gang member with a long history of violence has been identified as a suspect involved in a July 31 shootout. Walter Hamiid Jones, 25, has a warrant on charges of aggravated assault, according to a Burlington Police news release. The gun battle occurred around 3:15 a.m. that…

Sadie Chamberlain, 19, center, rehearses a scene for the musical “Listen Up!” on Aug. 3, 2021, at Northern Vermont University. The production will tour in five towns across Vermont, ending at the State House lawn Aug. 15. Photo by Riley Robinson/VTDigger The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on…

Folks can bring their love of Bob Ross along to the slopes with The Joy of Skiing skis from Vermont company J Skis.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

“Vaccination is how we control the spread and hopefully end this pandemic,” UVM Health Network CEO John Brumsted said in announcing the mandate.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

A disease that is killing birds in the Middle Atlantic states could spread north, Vermont biologists warn — and taking down birdfeeders might help.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service