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The original building of Kurn Hattin Homes for Children in Westminster. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger Members of the State Board of Education sharply questioned Secretary of Education Dan French on Wednesday about his agency’s handling of a recent investigation into Kurn Hattin Homes for Children.  They expressed concern about what the state’s treatment of the…

About 200 people gathered on the Statehouse lawn to celebrate Juneteenth in 2020. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Silent vigils and anti-racism protests marked most of June 2020. This June, Vermont has Juneteenth celebrations scheduled for Saturday in Burlington, Bethel, Charlotte, Essex, Montpelier, White River Junction and Winooski.  June 19 also marks Vermont’s first weekend free…

This week marks the 50th anniversary of Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the Pentagon Papers. Photo by Christopher Michel (CC BY-SA 4.0) The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues with politicians, activists, artists, changemakers and citizens who are making a difference. Listen below, and subscribe…

Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans. Photo by Sawyer Loftus/VTDigger While Gov. Phil Scott lifted statewide Covid-19 restrictions in Vermont this week, the state Department of Corrections is taking a slower approach. Scott announced Monday he was lifting the restrictions because 80% of eligible Vermonters had been vaccinated.  The corrections department is also easing…

Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint, left, and her chief of staff Carolyn Wesley walk through the Statehouse in May. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Though they adjourned last month, Vermont lawmakers are preparing to log back on to Zoom once again next week.  Legislators will return June 23 for a remote veto session, during which…

Burlington will soon be searching for its next chief of police after more than a year of delays. The stakes will be high for whoever is hired.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Soldiers from the Vermont National Guard filled syringes at a folding table inside the Spaulding High School gym during a vaccine clinic in Barre on May 19, 2021. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger “I’m so proud to be a Vermonter,” my friend said to me, as we were walking along a tree-lined dirt road shortly after…

Celebration for Vermonter said to be first African American college graduate marks year in which Twilight film debuts, portrait planned for Statehouse        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

The Brattleboro Selectboard, that has been meeting virtually since the state of emergency declared last March, will return to its Municipal Center meeting room while offering the public the ability to join through Zoom and community access television. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger BRATTLEBORO — When the Brattleboro Selectboard decided to hold an online meeting Tuesday…

As fentanyl and opioid-related overdose deaths are on the rise, stay in the know about prevention and intervention resources and strategies.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Indoors or outdoors, if there’s a wall in Chittenden County that’s ripe for brightening,— a group of artists would love to get some paint on it.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

A new equity policy will change the way history is taught in Essex and Westford schools and is aimed at making schools anti-racist and inclusive.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

UVM has reserved slots for up to 50 children of its employees at Trinity Children’s Center after recently closing their own child care program.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

A Vermont Electric Cooperative crew works on broadband installation. Photo courtesy of Vermont Electric Co-op Alburgh plans to offer fiber broadband internet to nearly all homes in town through a partnership with New Jersey-based Matrix Design Group. Voters authorized the town selectboard to sign a memorandum of understanding with the company in May, and the…

Montpelier’s Langdon Street. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Like many of Vermont’s municipalities, the City of Montpelier’s coffers were strained by the Covid-19 pandemic.  With local businesses bringing in fewer sales tax dollars, fewer people parking in town and less revenue from city fees, Montpelier lost more than $1.5 million since March 2020. To avoid running…

First grade teacher Kate Seitz works with her students on the first day of school at the Sustainability Academy in Burlington on Tuesday, September 8, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Schools in Vermont can no longer require students or staff — whether vaccinated or not — to wear masks. The news on Tuesday took several…

Vermont became the first state in the U.S. to vaccinate more than 80% of its eligible population against COVID-19. How does it compare to New England?        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

The latest legal actions the development in downtown Burlington threaten to scuttle the project, says CityPlace developer Don Sinex.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Queen City officials have rejected neighboring municipalities’ calls for regional control of Burlington International Airport.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Donald Sinex, one of the key developers behind the long-stalled CityPlace project, speaks at an event in Burlington in 2017. Photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDigger The Burlington City Council on Monday night unanimously denied an appeal by CityPlace developers to waive a more than $71,000 fee. Don Sinex, one of the key developers behind the long-stalled…