The Senate Education Committee on Wednesday voted to recommend Zoie Saunders to the full state Senate as Vermont’s next education secretary. The vote was 3-2. Committee chair Sen. Brian Campio...
A Washington County judge has rejected the Town of Roxbury's request to stop an April 30 vote on a revised school budget that, if passed, would lead the town's elementary school to close. The to...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/court-rejects-roxburys-request-to-block-school-budget-vote-40739220
A Norwich University graduate — and member of its board of trustees — is set to become the military school’s new president. Lt. Gen. John Broadmeadow, a Marine who graduated from Norwich i...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/norwich-university-names-new-president-40739545
Mitch Wertlieb, host and producer of Vermont Public’s daily news podcast “The Frequency,” has been named permanent host of “Vermont This Week.” The show is the flagship televised news ...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/media-note-mitch-wertlieb-named-host-of-vermont-this-week-40738856
'Earth-Shadowing Moment' : At 3:26 p.m. on April 8, 2024, in northern Vermont, it was our moon, the Rolling Stone in the sky, that heard: "I wanna see the sun / blotted out from the sky / I wanna...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/letters-to-the-editor-4-24-24-40731267
In his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T.S. Eliot wrote of a life measured out with coffee spoons. My existential yardstick has been: cats. A succession of them, from my twenties to ...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/from-the-publisher-kitty-conundrum-40732692
There's nothing that dog mom Robin Miller enjoys more than exploring a new hiking trail with her chocolate lab, Millie. Now she's helping others find the same joy. The VT Hiking Dog Challenge, w...
Bryeanne Russillo's day started at the crack of dawn with a wake-up call from Nate the rooster. Sporting hot pink sweatpants and fuzzy platform slippers, Russillo headed outside to chip away at ...
Lark Thompson heard desperate cries coming from a dark Charlotte farm on Ferry Road late one night in July 2022. When she went to investigate, dozens of emaciated, bleating goats desperate for f...
The person leading the class struggle in the Vermont Statehouse this year, Rep. Emilie Kornheiser, lives in a rented farmhouse with no mobile phone signal and sketchy WiFi. Her landlord's goats ...
Zoie Saunders, Gov. Phil Scott’s pick for Vermont’s education secretary, took her first step toward confirmation on Tuesday when she spent 90 minutes answering questions from the state Senat...
The Vermont Department of Health confirmed on Tuesday that a person visiting the state as part of an international program has tested positive for measles. It’s the state’s first case of the...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/vermont-reports-its-first-case-of-the-measles-since-2018-40731604
Barre city councilors are expected on Tuesday to approve plans for selling two small parking lots for $1 to a developer that wants to build as many as 40 apartments there. After going public la...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/barre-to-sell-two-parking-lots-for-1-to-housing-developer-40715279
Vermont will receive $62.4 million from a new federal program that's aiming to make solar power more affordable for low-income people. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the awar...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/vermont-awarded-62-million-in-federal-solar-incentives-40723275
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A bill meant to limit property tax increases next year is advancing in the Vermont House over the objections of minority Republicans who are highly critical that it doesn’t rein in spending. W...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/property-tax-relief-bill-sparks-partisan-feud-40692142
The Town of Roxbury is suing Montpelier Roxbury Public Schools in an attempt to prevent a budget revote on April 30 that could close the Roxbury Village School as a cost-saving measure. The laws...
Flipped Eclipse? I think the time-lapse picture of the eclipse on the cover of the April 10 issue is flipped. We watched from Montpelier, and the shadow wedge entered from the bottom and traveled...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/letters-to-the-editor-4-17-24-40678619
I can't stop thinking about last week's eclipse. I know it's been nine days — an eternity in the news business — since the sun silhouetted the moon in the path of totality, an awe-inspiring ...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/from-the-publisher-still-mooning-40679749
Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak's first few days on the job were nothing short of celebratory, including a standing-room-only swearing-in ceremony and a once-in-a-lifetime eclipse festival...
Cheryl Rose was ready to retire after 15 years as a care coordinator for Cathedral Square, a nonprofit that provides affordable housing for older adults. An avid crafter, she was eager to spend ...
Drive down Dorset Street in South Burlington, and you'll enter a real-life version of a city planner's nightmare. Strip malls line one side of a busy divided four-lane road. On the other side, d...
State officials have selected Vergennes for the site of a new secure juvenile treatment facility, according to people familiar with the selection process. A proposal for the 14-bed facility on ...
Saturday’s mail brought an unexpected windfall to stunned residents around Winooski — two crisp $100 bills, along with a cryptic note. Each envelope, postmarked from Burlington, contained th...
The Vermont Senate Ethics Committee has rejected a complaint alleging that Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale (D/P-Chittenden-Southeast) has a conflict of interest stemming from her marriage to the scion o...
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/ethics-panel-dismisses-complaint-against-ram-hinsdale-40634010