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The next age band of Vermonters who want the COVID-19 vaccine can begin registering for appointments March 29, days after 60-plus eligibility opened.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

The VA hospital in White River Junction will honor the return of our troops from Vietnam in 1973 by having a vet reading from his book.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

A map shows the area, which includes parts of Bennington, North Bennington and Shaftsbury, where water supply will be reclassified as Class IV, or “nonpotable.” BENNINGTON — A state study reclassifying the water supply in parts of Bennington, North Bennington and Shaftsbury to “nonpotable” — unsuitable for drinking — has raised worries about the cost…

Advertisements like this one for clipper ships to California helped lure more than 11,000 Vermonters to join the gold rush starting in the late 1840s. Vermont’s population at the time was less than half what it is today. Wikimedia Commons A neighbor recently told me she was afraid her son would have to leave Vermont…

Steven Simpson, the supervising pharmacist at Kinney Drugs in Barre, prepares a syringe with a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger To register for a vaccine appointment, visit healthvermont.gov/MyVaccine (preferred) or call 855-722-7878. You will be asked to provide your name, date of birth, address, email (if available), phone number, and health…

You still have some time to enjoy Vermont’s ski season. Check here for projected closing dates around the state.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

The Rice-BFA and Danville-Proctor girls basketball title games will not be played due to COVID-related situations, the VPA said.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Here’s a look at the number of Chittenden County residents that have received the COVID-19 vaccine as of March 20.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Sen. Michael Sirotkin, D-Chittenden, at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger A heated discussion on the virtual Senate floor — over a contentious bill that would increase laid-off worker benefits while delaying an employer tax hike — came to an abrupt end Friday, as bad weather cut off…

Kyle Dodson addresses the press in September 2020 in Burlington’s Roosevelt Park. Mayor Miro Weinberger is in the background. Photo by Grace Elletson/VTDigger Burlington city councilors are criticizing Kyle Dodson, who served as the city’s director of police transformation for the past six months, for producing a final report that was significantly plagiarized.  A Friday…

Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard Greg Knight at Camp Johnson in Colchester on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Gov. Phil Scott called Friday for systemic changes to the way the Vermont National Guard handles misconduct cases, following a report in Seven Days this week about a Guard member who was…

Governor Scott stood by his belief that Vermont should be able to return to normal by July 4.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Stef Smith announces on his Twitter page Friday morning he’s transferring to St. John’s, a Big East program from Queens, New York.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Three major events – two of which are returning after a year off due to COVID-19 – are planned to occur during summer 2021 in downtown Burlington.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Steve Klein, head of the Legislature’s Joint Fiscal Office. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The American Rescue Plan will send $2.7 billion to Vermont, including $1.3 billion in direct aid to state government. But there is no roadmap from the federal government on how best to spend the money.  The Senate has already allocated about $60 million for H.315,…

Rep. Mary Hooper D-Montpelier, chair of the House Appropriations Committee. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger The Vermont House on Thursday approved a nearly $7 billion budget bill that invests a windfall of federal Covid-19 relief dollars to make major investments in infrastructure, economic development and the state’s pandemic response.  Buoyed by the American Rescue Plan…

Rep. Scott Beck, R-St. Johnsbury, speaks to a caucus of House Republicans. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The House Committee on Education decided Wednesday that allowing noncitizens in Winooski to vote on school district matters is constitutional, sending the city’s charter change back to the floor of the Vermont House. The panel’s decision comes after House Republicans…

The No. 2 Bobwhites score three times on the power play to secure a 3-2 win over No. 1 Essex on Wednesday night, seizing the program’s 20th crown.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

The Division I girls hockey title game between Essex and Burlington/Colchester was halted due to a developing COVID situation, the VPA said Wednesday.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

After long winter layoffs during the pandemic, Vermont restaurants are also reopening as nicer spring weather settles in.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Rep. Selene Colburn, P/D-Burlington, left, of the House Judiciary Committee, joined by Sen. Dick Sears, D-Bennington, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, right, in Burlington on February 4, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Vermont’s sexual violence laws could be strengthened under a bill advanced by the House Wednesday evening. The legislation, H.183, would clarify that…

Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility. Photo by Cory Dawson/VTDigger Legislation stemming from a scandal in Vermont’s only prison for women would outlaw sexual contact between Department of Corrections employees and those under the department’s supervision. But other changes to the state’s corrections system will have to wait.   Rep. Sara Coffey, D-Guilford, told colleagues Wednesday that the…