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Norwich University said residential students have returned to modified room quarantine until further notice due to rise of on campus COVID-19 cases.         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Hartford town hall. Residents will be asked to vote on five open Selectboard seats — including the one vacated by Alicia Barrow — at March town meeting. Supplied photo This article by Anna Merriman was first published Jan. 25 in the Valley News. WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Hartford Selectboard member Alicia Barrow has stepped down…

Owners of The Swingin’ Pinwheel, which opened on Center Street in 2014 between The Daily Planet and Revolution Kitchen, plan food truck instead         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Patrick Leahy is expected to preside over Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate. To some, he’s a Vermont senator. To others, he’s a ‘Batman’ actor.         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

St. Michael’s College has put more than half of its riverside natural area off-bounds to farming or development, for perpetuity, it announced Monday.         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Lake Champlain has less ice in January 2021 compared to January during the last two years because of a fairly mild winter so far.         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

House Democrats will carry their article of impeachment against Donald Trump across the Capitol to the Senate Monday. The trial will start Feb. 9.         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Bernie meme-inspired mittens and shirts raise thousands for Vermont charities.         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Members of the Vermont press corps interview Gov. Phil Scott on Election Day 2020. File photo by Paul Heintz/VTDigger Leaders from Vermont’s political, business and nonprofit sectors are calling on members of the state’s press corps to reflect on the way they cover women in politics — and to address gender bias in their journalism. …

by Adelle Macdowell, of Lamoille Union High School, for the Underground Workshop, VTDigger’s platform for student journalism. Editor’s Note: Vermonters cast 112,704 votes for Donald Trump and 248,412 votes for Phil Scott last November. The people behind these numbers often have little in common with each other or with traditional political labels. The interviews in this series explore just…

The University of Vermont athletics announced Sunday its women’s basketball program will not play out the rest of its season due to COVID concerns.         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Several Vermont towns still ban alcohol sales and many say ‘No’ to liquor.         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Some people are frustrated with owners who let their dogs run off-leash in Burlington. Here are places you can let your pup run with abandon.         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

ACLU Vermont staff attorney Lia Ernst co-authored a joint letter contending that towns, not police chiefs, set municipal policies. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger If chiefs were in charge of policy, they wrote, that would be an “egregious” violation of the separation of powers doctrine. A further concern  — echoed in Winooski and Burlington as…

Sen. Anthony Pollina, P/D-Washington, reads through a bill at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Friday, March 22, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger In 2020, Sen. Anthony Pollina, P/D-Washington, introduced legislation that would create a Vermont Green New Deal. The bill would have levied an income tax surcharge to fund energy conservation programs, expansive remodeling and weatherization…