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A checkout counter sign at Manchester’s Northshire Bookstore encourages shoppers to buy local. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger Arts and culture are not exempt from the continuing concentration of great, if not excessive, wealth among fewer and fewer people while the number of poor only grows.  Orchestra seats at the Metropolitan Opera are about $650 each.…

The 2023 coaches’ all-state high school baseball teams as reported to the Burlington Free Press.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

What a report found to be the main issues with VT’s child abuse registry. This is one story in a four-part series on the child protection registry.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Parents who had their child abuse substantiation expunged detail what it cost them. Part of a four-part series on VT’s child protection registry.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

From left to right: Owen Foster, David Murman and Robin Lunge were appointed to the Green Mountain Care Board by Gov. Phil Scott in September. Courtesy photos The Green Mountain Care Board approved an amended 2023 budget for OneCare Vermont this week, alongside two parallel orders that put increased pressure on the state’s only “all-payer”…

Toussaint St. Negritude reads poetry. Courtesy photo The state’s three-person congressional delegation issued a statement Friday afternoon denouncing a recent incident at an LGBTQ+ poetry event in which a queer person of color was harassed by protesters. “Hate should have no place in Vermont,” U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and…

Vergennes Union High School. Photo via Google Maps Updated at 7:58 p.m. On June 20, conservative activist Walt Heyer, who previously identified as a trans woman and now advocates against gender-affirming care practices, will speak in Vergennes.  At an evening seminar — titled “Transgender ‘Care’/Helpful or Harmful?” — Heyer will outline his criticisms of gender-affirming…

The hotel would be four stories tall and have 115 rooms.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Colchester senior Henry Bacon has been named Vermont’s high school boys soccer player of the year for the 2022 season, Gatorade announced Friday.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Vermont will have the opportunity to grow its agricultural industry and improve food security if New England grows its regional food supply chain.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and do not represent VTDigger’s views. To submit a commentary, follow the instructions here. This commentary is by Richard Rawson, Ph.D, a research professor at the…

Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and do not represent VTDigger’s views. To submit a commentary, follow the instructions here. This commentary is by a group of people who have formed Resilient…

Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and do not represent VTDigger’s views. To submit a commentary, follow the instructions here. This commentary is by Jon Leibowitz of Middlesex, executive director of the…

“American Pickers,” the popular History Channel show that scours the nation for antiques, is returning to Vermont in August to film an episode.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

The 2023 Vermont Twin State baseball roster was announced by the Vermont Baseball Coaches Association on Thursday.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Carman, from Vernon, Vt., was accused of murdering his mother on a boat off Block Island.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and do not represent VTDigger’s views. To submit a commentary, follow the instructions here. This commentary is by Shawn Kerivan of Morrisville, who operated a bed-and-breakfast…

Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and do not represent VTDigger’s views. To submit a commentary, follow the instructions here. This commentary is by John Bossange of South Burlington, a retired middle…

Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and do not represent VTDigger’s views. To submit a commentary, follow the instructions here. This commentary is by Mike Pieciak, Vermont’s state treasurer. Saving for retirement…

Vermont predictably did well on a national ranking of child wellbeing, however, there were areas needing improvement. One area VT fared the worst.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

The annual senior all-star game between Vermont and New Hampshire is set for a doubleheader on Saturday, July 1 at Gutterson Fieldhouse.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

What to know about swimming this summer: will lifeguard shortages be as bad in Vermont and other helpful info.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service