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The first clinics are set in Burlington and Brattleboro, with future clinics set in those areas as well as other parts of the state.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Vermont students were keen to let Sen. Bernie Sanders know how the pandemic has disrupted their lives. The town hall event drew large attendance.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

A voter approaches the polling place at the Winooski Senior Center on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Charter talk. On the House floor Tuesday, lawmakers expressed concern about whether it’s constitutional to allow noncitizens in Winooski to vote on school district matters potentially affecting the state’s education fund. The legislation in question, H.227, would approve…

Vermont Public Radio reporter John Dillon. Courtesy of VPR. After four decades in journalism, Vermont Public Radio reporter John Dillon is preparing to turn off the tape recorder. The 66-year-old Middlesex resident says he plans to retire in May.  “It’s just been a real privilege to have a ringside seat to it all,” he said. …

The Johnson campus of Northern Vermont University on Monday, April 20, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger House Speaker Jill Krowinski, D-Burlington, announced an $84 million higher education package late Tuesday. Funded in large part using a flood of new federal cash flowing into the state, the plan would send Vermont’s ailing public college system $66.5…

VT Rep. Emilie Kornheiser, D-Brattleboro, says if you operate a short-term rental like a business, then it should be regulated like a hotel or B&B.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

How a pandemic upended the business of death        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Storylines and predictions for Vermont high school boys basketball tournaments in Division I, II, III and IV.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Windsor High School. VTDigger file photo. This article by John P. Gregg was first published March 15 by the Valley News. RUTLAND — A federal judge on Monday ruled that the Mount Ascutney School District Board terminated Windsor School Principal Tiffany Riley in June 2020, boosting her underlying lawsuit that she was unjustly fired for…

Joan Carson R.N. administers a dose of Covid-19 vaccine at a Vermont Department of Health clinic in Winooski on Tuesday, February 2, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger With growing numbers of people becoming eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine, employers are wondering more and more: Can I require my workers to become immunized? And should I?…

Farmers Chris Gray, left, and Laura Brown in one of the empty cow barns at the Norwich Farm Creamery in Norwich on Monday, March 15, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger NORWICH — About 100 people are pledging money to buy a dairy farm here before Vermont Technical College sells it to the highest bidder.  The…

Nominees with Vermont connections included Grace Potter, Anais Mitchell of Bonny Light Horseman, Morgan Page and Erin Bentlage of vocal group säje        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

A new housing development proposed near Dorset and Swift streets in South Burlington would add 32 residential units.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Many scam attempts targeting people who have filed for unemployment insurance are occurring through social media, according to Vermont’s Labor Dept.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

A lawsuit alleges a troubled inmate hanged himself at Northern State Correctional Facility after prison officials failed to pass along critical information. Courtesy photo The estate of Joshua Bittner — who hanged himself in prison — is suing Centurion Managed Care, the state’s contracted health care provider at the time, as well as several workers…

Editor’s note: Profiles in Resilience is an invitational series from the Underground Workshop, VTDigger’s platform for student journalism. We are seeking stories from our school communities about the ways Vermont’s students, teachers and staff have adapted, innovated or simply endured through the challenges of the past year. Read more about this opportunity here. To submit…

Power lines converge at switching stations for Green Mountain Power and VELCO in Williston. Seen on Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Vermont’s largest electric utility is turning to hydropower to meet company renewable energy targets that would eliminate fossil fuels by 2025 and nuclear energy from its portfolio by 2030. On March…

Burr and Burton, competing as a team for the first time in school history this winter, won the high school gymnastics state crown on Saturday.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Vermont high school and college sports scores and results as reported to the Burlington Free Press sports department.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Catamounts begin their six-game regular season Sunday, March 14, at Albany.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

A group of children in Montpelier. File photo by Jasper Craven/VTDigger Bill Schubart is a retired businessman and active fiction writer, and was a former chair of the Vermont Journalism Trust, the parent organization for VTDigger. The most extreme authority Vermonters have accorded their government is the taking of a human life. This ended in…

Students line up for Covid tests on the University of Vermont campus in February. Photo by Kate Vanni/Vermont Cynic On the afternoon of Feb. 25, the University of Vermont announced that — effective immediately — all Covid policy violations would warrant a suspension. Later that evening, seven university freshmen gathered in a single dorm room…