Two more school districts in Chittenden County report positive COVID-19 cases

Three Chittenden County K-12 schools reported positive COVID-19 cases early this week.         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Berlin police officer shoots woman, then kills himself

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Morgan Coutts Irons: Did Poe foresee Trump and the pandemic?

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Morgan Coutts Irons, of Calais, who is a native Vermonter and actor and previously the children’s librarian at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier, a scholar for the Vermont Humanities Council, and a teacher in Vermont’s correctional facilities. “The ‘Red Death’ had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever…

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Brian Ricca: With a positive Covid in our school, procedures worked

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Brian G. Ricca, who is superintendent of schools in St. Johnsbury. On Sunday, Sept. 27, I got a phone call from one of my principals. On my personal cellphone. On the weekend. Often those calls are not good news. This one wasn’t.  A member of our St. Johnsbury School…

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Vermont DMV expands language, translation services for residents

“By providing expanded language access for DMV services and forms, Vermont is making the state more accessible to current and prospective members of our communities,” said Xusana Davis, Vermont’s racial equity executive director.         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Williston school reports positive COVID-19 case, remains open

The coronavirus case is the first in the Champlain Valley School District this school year.         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Want to celebrate Halloween during COVID? Here are nine creepy Vermont spots you can visit

COVID has probably interfered with some of your plans. That doesn’t have to be the case for Halloween. Here are creepy spots to visit around the state.         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Elayne Clift: Surviving the fire within

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Elayne Clift, who writes from Saxtons River.  Some of us have heartburn. Others feel nauseous or sick to their stomach. A few experience a chronic pain in the neck, while sleep escapes us and night terrors abound. We are irritable and angry, sad and scared, quietly terrified, and decidedly…

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Kathleen Kesson: Whose story gets told?

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Kathleen Kesson, professor emerita at LIU-Brooklyn who is the former director of the John Dewey Project on Progressive Education at the University of Vermont and director of education at Goddard College. She has written extensively about education and democracy. In 1980, historian Howard Zinn released “A People’s History of…

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Then Again: Ira Allen dreamed of wealth and power; he ended with neither

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Vermont sports scores for Saturday, October 10: See how your favorite team fared

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

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Burlington to celebrate reopening of City Hall Park with weekend of entertainment

Space along Main, St. Paul and College streets that has been closed for renovation for more than a year will reopen with music, films and tours         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Most water utilities left out of aid program to help consumers with late bills

Rep. Timothy Briglin, D-Thetford, chair of the House Committee on Energy and Technology, says leaving most water utilities out of the Covid-19 aid program looks like an oversight, and it may not be too late to steer money to them. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger An aid program to help Vermonters pay their utility bills during…

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The staff chose the art for a UVM Fleming Museum exhibit that reflects on 2020

“Reckonings,” an exhibit at the Fleming Museum in Burlington, displays items from the museum’s collection that were selected by staff members. Every item on display features a reflection from that member about the year 2020. Seen on Friday, Oct. 9, 2020, is a detail of “The Fugitive’s Story,” a sculpture by John Rogers. It was…

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Covid curbs efforts by churches, nonprofit groups to rake in fall green

A past Newfane Heritage Festival draws an Indigenous Peoples’ weekend crowd to the town’s common. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger Such sentiments are echoed in Newfane, where some 200 Heritage Festival volunteers annually raise money for a historic building that houses everything from after-school programs to Al-Anon meetings to senior meals and blood pressure checks. “We…

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What’s going up at SoBu’s busy intersection at Tilley Drive and Hinesburg Road?

Finishing touches on a barn-like (and barn-colored) deli and market at the entrance to Tilley Drive in South Burlington are underway.         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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How a state aid program aims to clear overdue rent for tenants during COVID-19 pandemic

“We really want to encourage people to talk with their landlords and apply to the program,” said Jean Murray, an attorney with Vermont Legal Aid.         Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Vermont sports scores for Friday, October 9: See how your favorite team fared

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

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Ben Edgerly Walsh: Governor fails to lead on climate action

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Ben Edgerly Walsh, the climate and energy program director for the Vermont Public Interest Research Group. Late last month, the Vermont Senate cleared the final hurdle to ensuring the Global Warming Solutions Act becomes law with the upper chamber’s 22-8 override of Gov. Phil Scott’s veto. I am thrilled…

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Lynda Ulrich: Fighting back against online panic messaging

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Dr. Lynda M. Ulrich, of Fairfield, who is the founder of Ever Widening Circles and author of  “Happiness Is an Option.” Terror is an emotion used to gain power and influence, mostly because it often works. It triggers our most primitive impulses: anger, scarcity, panic, apathy, and suspicion of…

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Eight Air National Guard members test positive for Covid-19

Airmen stand at attention during a formal ceremony commemorating the arrival of the F-35 Lightning II aircraft to the 158th Fighter Wing at the Vermont Air National Guard base in South Burlington in October 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Eight members of the Vermont Air National Guard have tested positive for Covid-19, causing the Guard…

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