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Former U-32 High School ace Owen Kellington signs with the Pittsburgh Pirates for a reported $600,000 bonus, acccording to media reports on Saturday.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Some Vermont corn mazes start opening in July. Start planning with this list of six mazes.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

As peregrine falcon nesting season draws to a close, Vermont’s climbers can feel good about returning to the cliffs, beginning Aug. 1.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

French explorer and cartographer Samuel de Champlain ignored the existing Indian names for the large lake he visited in 1609 and instead gave it his own name, the only geographical feature he ever named for himself. This image is a monochromatic painting by Winckworth Allan Gay, created circa 1865. Wikimedia Commons Before Samuel de Champlain…

Steve Klein of the Legislature’s Joint Fiscal Office listens during a meeting of the Emergency Board at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Friday, July 30, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Unprecedented levels of federal stimulus spending approved in the wake of the pandemic continue to bring sunny economic news to Vermont. The state’s economists now…

Vermont reported 55 new Covid-19 cases Friday, up from just three new cases June 25. The spike is almost entirely due to the highly contagious Delta variant, the data from the state Department of Health shows.  Of more than 50 coronavirus specimens collected from infected people in Vermont from June 20 to July 30, all…

The 10- and 12-year-old Essex Town all-stars hold off Addison County 2-1 to seal the Vermont Little League baseball championship on Saturday.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Tyler Gibbs of Winooski says she was racially harassed in a road rage incident in which the driver followed her home. Seen on Friday, July 30, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger On June 29, Winooski resident Tyler Gibbs was driving down Main Street when a white pickup truck pulled up next to her.  “He rolled…

Heavy rain flooded streets in Bellows Falls. Photo courtesy of Bellows Falls Fire Department A storm brought about 5 inches of rain in 24 hours to parts of southern Vermont overnight Thursday, punctuating whipsaw changes in the region’s weather within the past month. In Manchester, rain that fell from Thursday through Friday morning washed out…

Although the pandemic disrupted family life across the U.S., some parents are grateful for one consequence: homeschooling their children.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Jerry Normandin. Photo via Chittenden Unit for Special Investigations A Milton man is accused of sexually assaulting a child more than a decade ago at his home and another child more recently on a school bus he drove for the South Burlington School District. Jerry Normandin, 62, pleaded not guilty Friday in Chittenden County Superior…

Green Mountain Power will replace two of its gas-burning trucks with two all-electric trucks including a fully outfitted bucket truck for line crews.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Vermont native Ilona Maher and the U.S. women’s rugby sevens national went 3-0 in pool play before settling for sixth in the Tokyo Olympics.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Security video showed 2 males and 2 females climbing and jumping on the chair, and the moment the joints gave way, apparently injuring one of them.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Vermonter Brooke Mooney and Team USA finished in fourth place of the women’s eight rowing competition.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Alakazam juggles while balancing on a pole 20 feet in the air during the Festival of Fools on Church Street in Burlington on Friday, July 30, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Festival of Fools has emerged on Church Street in Burlington once again. From juggling to singing to unicycling, the performers are doing it…

Gov. Phil Scott listens to a briefing during a meeting of the Emergency Board at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Friday, July 30, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger President Joe Biden on Thursday urged state and local governments to offer $100 cash payments to those who agree to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. The recommendation —…

Sen. Patrick Leahy, Rep. Peter Welch, and Sen. Bernie Sanders at a Statehouse ceremony in 2017. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger After months of deliberation, the U.S. Treasury Department will allow federal Covid-19 relief money appropriated for county governments to go directly to Vermont’s cities and towns, the state’s congressional delegation announced Friday.  That means…

The Vermont Lake Monsters, who sit atop the Futures Collegiate Baseball League standings, will be on NESN on Saturday, July 31.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Most arts and entertainment events are happening outside this season, which means you get to enjoy Vermont music and theater with fresh air.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Vermont is one of two states in the country where the CDC’s newly reinstated masking guidance is not applicable in any counties.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service