1+ week, 3+ day ago   (464+ words) The National Trust for Local News, the nonprofit that owns the Portland Press Herald and dozens of newspapers in Maine, Georgia, and California, is buying five weekly newspapers in Vermont. The trust is acquiring the Vermont Community Newspaper Group, which…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1446+ words) QUECHEE, Vt. — The eaglet was getting hungry. Nested 100 feet up a white pine tree on the Ottauquechee River, its chirps grew louder and louder as it waited for its parents to deliver food. The 6-week-old bald eagle was all alone....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1051+ words) In May, the president of the University of Vermont, Marlene Tromp, asked state lawmakers for $12 million for the school’s athletics and recreational renovations. The money, she pleaded, was about much more than sports. Aging locker rooms, uncomfortable arena seats, and…...

3+ mon, 13+ hour ago   (984+ words) Standing on a dock at a Lamoille River fishing access last week, Andrea Shortsleeve said that ballooning expenses and high demand are making state land and infrastructure harder and harder to manage. Moments later, Shortsleeve, who is the Vermont Fish…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (14+ words) Vermont police told ICE to stand down. The feds didn’t listen The Boston Globe...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1223+ words) When Tropical Storm Irene barreled into Vermont in 2011, Sue Minter learned a lesson that would stick with her to this day: “Nature always wins.” Nearly 11 inches of rain inundated parts of the state that August, turning typically placid rivers into…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1114+ words) Over the course of nearly two decades, VTDigger built itself into one of the scrappy success stories of nonprofit digital news — growing to fill the gap left by Vermont’s vanishing local and regional outlets. But VTDigger, now 30 staffers strong and…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1311+ words) MONTPELIER, Vt. — As politicians from around the country gathered in Washington, D.C., over the past week for a meeting of the National Governors Association, a single term was never far from their lips: affordability. It’s become an inescapable political buzzword…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (798+ words) MONTPELIER, Vt. — The day after a second protester was shot in Minneapolis last weekend amid the federal immigration crackdown, Vermont’s Republican governor, Phil Scott, issued an unusually blunt response for the understated leader. “Enough,” he wrote. “It’s not acceptable for…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1543+ words) With the second-oldest population in the country, Vermont needs its nursing homes. Yet, while Vermonters rapidly age, the state’s long-term care capacity has dwindled, losing 900 beds in the last two decades. To keep the struggling system afloat, the state has…...