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As his first dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 entered his arm, this reporter shrugged off the pinprick of pain — and fought hard against boredom.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Burlington High School students experience their first day of classes on March 4, 2021, in the newly renovated Macy’s building- turned school in downtown Burlington.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Daniel Banyai speaks to a group at Slate Ridge in Pawlet. Facebook photo An environmental court judge has ordered Slate Ridge, a firearms training facility in Pawlet that has caused local strife and garnered national attention, to permanently close.  The court ruled Friday that the facility’s owner, Daniel Banyai, must dismantle all of the buildings…

Sens. Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy are major players in the Senate debate over a Covid-19 relief package. File photos by Kit Norton and Glenn Russell/VTDigger The U.S. Senate’s $1.9 trillion federal Covid-19 relief package, being debated Friday, would provide $1.25 billion for Vermont’s state and local governments— about $400 million more than the plan…

U.S. Judge Peter Hall, left, and Vermont Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Rieber outside the Vermont Statehouse on Jan. 7, 2021. Photo courtesy of Hazel Brewster Vermont’s lone member of the federal appeals court for the region is stepping back from the bench. Judge Peter Hall, 72, of the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals…

Halvorson’s Upstreet Cafe, an anchor of the Church Street Marketplace for more than three decades, sets its reopening date for mid-March        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause uncertainty for those trying to make fairs, concerts, festivals and weddings happen in Vermont this summer.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

There are cultural differences between the two, a resident said, that are difficult to reconcile. His question: “How do you merge competing interests?”        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

House Speaker Jill Krowinski and Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint. Photos by Glenn Russell/VTDigger On the morning of Jan. 6, Rep. Jill Krowinski, D-Burlington, was sworn in as speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives and Sen. Becca Balint, D-Windham, became Senate president pro tempore.  It was an historic moment for the state —…

Syringes of Covid-19 vaccine are prepared for injection at Central Vermont Medical Center on December 16, 2020. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Central Vermont Medical Center wasted 99 Covid-19 doses in February because the Berlin hospital didn’t create a waitlist or find a way to use extra doses, according to chief operating officer Anna Noonan. “We…

The Danville High School logo. School website The Danville School Indians may soon be no more — as townspeople come around to the idea that the school mascot’s time is past. Debates about the mascot have gone on for decades, but in the most recent reckoning with the culturally offensive name, there’s a nearly unanimous call…

In a 1-on-1 with the Burlington Free Press, guitarist for the UVM-born rock band Phish talks about his opiate addiction, sobriety & love of Vermont        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

The Vermont Army National Guard is helping expand the state’s vaccination distribution by holding clinics throughout the state in March.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Vermont DOC officials are reporting 100 new cases of COVID-19 among inmates at Northern State Correctional Facility, and eight new cases among staff.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

A voter casts their ballot in a hallway at the polling place at Mt. Mansfield Union High School in Jericho on Town Meeting Day on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The pandemic has brought upheaval after upheaval to Vermont schools this year. But on Town Meeting Day, schools received some stability from…

Students at the Ripton Elementary School head to the bus at the end of the day on Tuesday, December 1, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Petitions to disband unified school districts had mixed results on Town Meeting Day. Voters favored a break-up at the ballot box Tuesday in the Addison Central, Rochester-Stockbridge, and Windham Northeast…

It came down to just 129 ballots, but Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger prevailed in his “proven leadership” bid for a fourth term in office.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Vermont’s teachers, school staff and child care workers next in line for vaccine due to increase in supply from Johnson & Johnson.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

No longer tied to a cozy family restaurant, Bove expands its Milton factory and places the pasta sauce producer firmly in the big-time.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Bob Farrar, right, and his daughter campaign outside of St. Albans City Hall on Town Meeting Day. Farrar, a former city attorney, successfully challenged incumbent city councilor Kate Laddison for a seat representing Ward 5. Photo by Michelle Monroe/VTDigger. ST. ALBANS – Infrastructure won the day Tuesday, as voters in St. Albans Town approved a…

Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport. Photo courtesy of the Vermont Department of Corrections An outbreak at Newport’s Northern State Correctional Facility has surged to 137 cases, the Department of Corrections disclosed Tuesday evening. State officials first announced late last week that the prison had been placed on lockdown after 22 cases were detected during…

Bennington Town Offices. Photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger Bennington voters elected Jim Carroll, Gary Corey and Tom Haley to join the seven-member selectboard in Bennington.  Carroll, the only incumbent in the race, is also a state representative for Bennington. He took 947 votes, the most of any candidate for the three-year term.  “I was really worried,”…