Vermont Independent Media buys Deerfield Valley News

BRATTLEBORO — Vermont Independent Media (VIM), publisher of The Commons, has purchased The Deerfield Valley News, a weekly newspaper that has been serving the Deerfield Valley for almost six decades. VIM becomes the fifth entity to steward the...

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Upper Valley representatives on Vermont school redistricting task force look for sensible solutions

Two Upper Valley educators with experience in reorganizing school districts are members of the task force charged with drawing a new school district map for Vermont. State Rep. Rebecca Holcombe, a Norwich Democrat, served as Vermont education...

Border Crossings Decline at Vermont Port of Entry

DERBY LINE- Crossings from Canada into the United States have fallen to their lowest level since 2023, according to recent data from US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). The Boston Field Office for the US CBP tracks inbound travelers crossing the...

Vermont congressional delegation calls for release of senior service funds

WASHINGTON — Vermont's congressional delegation -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I), Sen. Peter Welch (D) and Rep. Becca Balint (AL) -- sent a letter Thursday to Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, urging her to release more than $300 million in...

Vermont Women's Fund announces 2025 grants; PAVE among awardees

The Vermont Women’s Fund, a component fund of the Vermont Community Foundation, on Thursday announced its 2025 grant cycle awards. This year, awards were distributed to 39 nonprofit organizations across the state, totaling $359,336. These grants...

Vermont beaches are closing for cyanobacteria. Here's how to keep track

Several beaches on Lake Champlain in Burlington have closed this week due to slick green cyanobacteria blooms — and several other bodies of water in the northwestern part of Vermont are on high alert. As of Thursday, low to moderate levels of...

Vermont Secretary of State back from official trip to Taiwan

MONTPELIER -- Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas returned from a trip to Taiwan, where she led a bipartisan delegation of her fellow secretaries from the United States. Several secretaries of state journeyed as part of a National...

Protect rural Vermont by supporting rural schools

While it’s summer and classrooms are quiet, school board work across Vermont is anything but. With the passage of H.454 and major education transformation on the horizon, school boards from Arlington to Canaan are deep in discussion, preparing for...

Vermont State Police Log: Man flees, crashes motorcycle

Vermont State Police Log: Man flees, crashes motorcycle

ADDISON COUNTY — In an otherwise quiet first week in July, Vermont State Police dealt with a bad motorcycle crash and a situation in which a local man was alleged to be the perpetrator of one crime and then the victim of another. On July 5 just...

Eight local golfers make the cut at Vermont Amateur

MANCHESTER — Lakeside Golf Club’s Cory Jozefiak held the lead heading into Thursday’s final two rounds of the Vermont Amateur at Manchester Country Club. Jozefiak entered the final two rounds at -5 on the par 72 course, looking for his first...

Quaint Vermont village will move to new location in bid to avoid more flood devastation

A charming village in Vermont plans to move to a new location in a bid to avoid more devastation after it was ravaged by a pair of forceful floods two years in a row. Plainfield - about 15 minutes outside of Montpelier - was rocked by an intense...

Federal cuts threatens Vermont’s disaster preparations

THE VERGENNES FALLS basin overflows with stormwater in July 2023 after 36 hours of heavy rain. On the anniversaries of massive flooding in 2023 and 2024, Vermonters are assessing how to prepare for future deluges. Photo by Mike Daniels The...

Barre Up Trains Central Vermonters in Use of Flood Recovery Tools

In the second of its “Facing the Water” workshop series, Barre Up, a long-term recovery organization in Barre City, taught residents how to use flood-related tools and machines at the Aldrich Library on June 30, less than two weeks from the...

Remains found over 50 years ago identified as missing Vermont nurse 

Remains found 51 years ago in a wooded New Hampshire area have been identified as a missing nurse and now, police want to find out how her remains ended up there. The remains belong to Nancy Gale Erickson, a 21-year-old who once lived in the...

Today in history: Springfield, Vermont, named official home of 'The Simpsons'

Springfield, Vermont, is known nationwide thanks to a victory in a quirky contest held 18 years ago.On July 10, 2007, the southern Vermont town won the distinction of being named the "official" home of the famous TV family of "The...

Police ID Vermont man killed while trying to save turtle on busy Florida interstate

A Vermont man was killed over the weekend after police said he tried to save a turtle that had crossed onto a busy Florida interstate.The Florida Highway Patrol said the victim, a 77-year-old man from Vermont, died after he tried to cross...

4th seizure of horses from Vermont farm highlights animal welfare system’s ongoing gaps

Two weeks after the state confiscated 39 horses from a horse farm in Townshend, Vt., all the horses are stable, but some have a longer “road to recovery” than others, according to Jen Straub, executive director of Dorset Equine Rescue. The two...

Vermont towns try to move, or fortify, their flood-prone buildings

The town of Johnson made headlines back in April when it moved its flood-prone public library up to higher ground. The town literally picked up the building and rolled it half a mile down Route 15, out of the flood plain. But towns can’t always...