Vermont news

• Drusilla Beach Powden

  10-03-2026 16:27 via vtdigger.org
  Born: 12/29/1930Rutland, VermontDied: 03/05/2026Peacham, VermontDetails of service:There will be a graveside service at the Peacham Village Cemetery on May 27th at 2:00 p.m. with a reception to follow at Drusilla’s home.Drusilla Powden, a long-time resident of Peacham, passed away peacefully at her home on Thursday, March 5th.The youngest of five children, Drusilla was raised during the Great Depression by her widowed mother. While life was difficult, she had many fond memories of growing
  
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• Vermont ski lift workers left out in the cold with no action from legislature, regulators

  10-03-2026 11:55 via vtdigger.org
  It’s been a banner year for Vermont’s mountain resorts but for Okemo ski lift operator, Casey Jennings, it’s been business as usual: getting a quick break to warm up from the extreme cold or to visit the bathroom can involve slowing down the lift — leaving guests on long cold lift rides — in order to recruit cover for his post.  Casey’s dilemma and the grueling job of enduring the cold as a ski lift operator has been a long-standing worker protectio
  
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• Bob Stannard: If you love Vermont, help pay for it

  10-03-2026 02:41 via vtdigger.org
  Dear Editor, I do not know Peter Rinaldi, who recently sent a letter to VTDigger complaining about Vermont property transfer taxes, and I’m sure that he’s a perfectly delightful chap. However, it’s clear to me that he and I come from very different worlds. Unlike Mr Rinaldi, a Florida resident who enjoys living in Vermont six months a year, I’m a generational Vermonter who still lives here. Like Mr Rinaldi, I am also fairly well-to-do and could afford to do as he ha
  
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• David Moats: Bernie Sanders and the long river of history

  10-03-2026 02:26 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by David Moats, who lives in Salisbury. He is editorial page editor emeritus at the Rutland Herald, where he won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for a series of editorials on Vermont’s civil union law.The story of Bernie Sanders’s rise from couch-surfing, penniless single dad to mayor of Burlington, the U.S. Senate and presidential politics is both familiar and astonishing.It’s astonishing for what it says about the capacity of the political system to make room for
  
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• Beta Technologies selected for federal pilot program, set to fly in Vermont this year

  10-03-2026 00:53 via vtdigger.org
  A team meets on the floor of a BETA Technologies manufacturing facility in South Burlington on Thursday, February 12, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerTheo Wells-Spackman is a Report for America corps member who reports for VTDigger.Beta Technologies announced Monday that the company had been selected for a federal pilot program that will allow the South Burlington-based electric airplane maker and its partners to begin medical flights to and from Vermont this year.In a call with inves
  
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• Audit finds gaps in Vermont child care oversight pose risks to children, threaten federal dollars

  09-03-2026 23:33 via vtdigger.org
  Kalie Wolf helps a youngster with their lunch at a Capstone Community Action daycare in Barre on Dec. 1, 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerTheo Wells-Spackman is a Report for America corps member who reports for VTDigger.Gaps in the state’s child care oversight processes pose potential risks to both child safety and federal funding, a report from Vermont State Auditor Doug Hoffer found last week. Problems with monitoring, inadequate background check practices and obsolete IT
  
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• Judge tosses key DNA evidence that helped crack cold case in Danby double-murder more than three decades ago

  09-03-2026 23:26 via vtdigger.org
  Rutland District and Family Courthouse, where Rutland Superior Court meets. Photo by Andrew Kutches/VTDiggerRUTLAND – A Vermont judge has thrown out key evidence against an 83-year-old New York state man who faces two counts of murder in the death of his wife’s parents in Danby in 1989, prompting a move by his attorney to toss out the entire case.Rutland Superior Court Judge Cortland Corsones’ ruling is the latest twist in a cold case that led eventually to charges more than t
  
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• One close election, two vocal sides and a dog leash debate Montpelier can’t shake

  09-03-2026 22:55 via vtdigger.org
  A person walks their leashed dogs in Hubbard Park in Montpelier on Friday, March 6, 2026, Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerNeil Herrick and Ryker used to avoid Hubbard Park.The trails through the wooded hills outside of Montpelier had become the center of too much conflict. So he and his rescue dog stayed away. “There was a lot of yelling and a lot of accusations,” Herrick said. “So we just didn’t come.”But that was back when leashes were optional throughout the
  
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• Edward William Eckman

  09-03-2026 22:37 via vtdigger.org
  Born: 11/11/1939Lancaster City, PADied: 03/03/2026Lebanon, NHDetails of service:Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 14, 2026, at the Bradford Evangelical Free Church, with Pastor Brian Bailey officiating. Calling hours are from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 12, 2026 at the Hale Funeral Home in Bradford, VT.In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in honor of Edward to the Jack Byrne Center for Palliative & Hospice Care, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon
  
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• Richard Owen Davis

  09-03-2026 22:30 via vtdigger.org
  Born: 10/20/1949Washington DCDied: 02/16/2026South Hero, VTDetails of service:A celebration of life will be held May 31, 2026 in South Hero.Rick was a true Renaissance man. Over the course of his 76 years he lived an active and involved life.Fresh out of the Quaker Friends School in Baltimore, he became involved in the peace movement in NYC in the late 1960s, counting a number of activists such as Abby Hoffman, Igal Roodenko, and Bayard Rustin as his friends. At 19, Rick was clubbed by a police
  
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• New shelter addresses ‘real gap in our system’ for unhoused people in recovery from addiction

  09-03-2026 21:52 via vtdigger.org
  The Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity and Howard Center opened the Bridges Recovery Shelter for people experiencing homelessness and substance-use disorder in downtown Burlington on Monday, March 9. Photo by Zoe McDonald/Vermont PublicThis story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.BURLINGTON – A new shelter is opening for unhoused people seeking recovery from addiction.Located in the Queen C
  
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• New Vermont State University president appointed

  09-03-2026 21:32 via vtdigger.org
  Sherry Kollmann is the new president of Vermont State University. Courtesy Vermont State UniversityVermont State University’s Board of Trustees appointed Sherry Kollmann as the university’s new president and system vice chancellor Monday.Kollmann, currently the chancellor of the New Mexico State University Global Campus, will succeed outgoing President David Bergh, who announced his retirement last year.Since her 2020 appointment in New Mexico, Kollmann helped grow online enrollment
  
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• Jordan Elias Kurker-Mraz

  09-03-2026 19:30 via vtdigger.org
  UPDATED: March 9, 2026, at 2:25 p.m.Born Feb. 16, 1992Burlington, VermontDied Sept. 21, 2025Tucson, ArizonaDetails of servicesDate: Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. EDTLocation: First Congregational Church, 38 S. Winooski Avenue, Burlington, VTParking: on the street or in the nearby parking garageReception to follow at the churchIf you would like to attend but cannot be there in person, the service will be live streamed on the church’s YouTube channel. Click here
  
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• Purpose, dignity, and joy through supported employment: connecting Vermonters experiencing mental health and substance use challenges with meaningful employment in their communities

  09-03-2026 15:04 via vtdigger.org
  Pictured: CMC’s Supportive Employment Team with Executive Director Melanie Gidney, presenting Bethel Mills staff with the 2025 Vocational Services Award.For most of us, work is part of our identity. When we feel good about having a job, we often see ourselves in a more positive way. Work provides income, structure, routine, and contributes to our overall health. For individuals navigating mental illness, substance use disorders, or both, the path back to meaningful employment can feel imp
  
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• Young Writers Project: ‘New Forest’

  08-03-2026 11:00 via vtdigger.org
  “Cold & Bright,” by Phoebe Gresham, 16, of Huntington.Young Writers Project is a creative, online community of teen writers and visual artists that started in Burlington in 2006. Each week, VTDigger publishes the writing and art of young Vermonters who post their work on youngwritersproject.org, a free, interactive website for youth, ages 13-19. To find out more, please go to youngwritersproject.org or contact Executive Director Susan Reid at sr
  
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• After a Covid-19 boom, Vermont is once again losing residents. What changed?

  08-03-2026 11:00 via vtdigger.org
  A sign in Colchester points toward a house for sale in July 2025. Photo by April McCullum/Vermont PublicJenny Hopkins moved to Hinesburg from Austin, Texas, just weeks before the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the world.
  So when she first struggled to find a primary care doctor or reach a gynecologist with a health emergency, she chalked it up to Covid-era challenges with the health care system. But years down the line, she found herself in the middle of a post-partum mental health crisis. Sh
  
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• New leader to take charge of Vermont National Guard as war in Iran looms large

  07-03-2026 20:08 via vtdigger.org
  Uniformed participants stand in formation during a Saturday change-of-command ceremony in South Burlington in which Maj. Gen. Henry “Hank” Harder was sworn in as Vermont’s adjutant general.Photo by Emma Cotton/VTDiggerMaj. Gen. Henry “Hank” Harder was expected to take command of the Vermont National Guard on Saturday during a ceremony at the 158th Fighter Wing in South Burlington.Harder succeeds Maj. Gen. Gregory C. Knight, who is retiring after seven years as adju
  
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• New leader takes charge of Vermont National Guard as war in Iran looms large

  07-03-2026 20:08 via vtdigger.org
  Hank Harder, second from right, prepares to be sworn in as the next Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard at a South Burlington ceremony Saturday, March 7, 2026. Photo by Emma Green/VTDiggerUpdated at 4:15 p.m.Maj. Gen. Henry “Hank” Harder took command of the Vermont National Guard on Saturday during a ceremony at the 158th Fighter Wing in South Burlington.Harder succeeds Maj. Gen. Gregory C. Knight, who is retiring after seven years as adjutant general. Harder assumes
  
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• More than 500 attend ceremony for new leader of Vermont National Guard

  07-03-2026 20:08 via vtdigger.org
  Hank Harder, second from right, prepares to be sworn in as the next Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard at a South Burlington ceremony Saturday, March 7, 2026. Photo by Emma Green/VTDiggerUpdated at 6:47 p.m.SOUTH BURLINGTON – On a makeshift stage flanked by a Black Hawk helicopter and an F-35, Maj. Gen. Henry “Hank” Harder took command of the Vermont National Guard on Saturday. The ceremony in a cavernous metal hangar at the 158th Fighter Wing marked his assum
  
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• Gov. Scott signs Vermont’s midyear budget increase of $111 million

  07-03-2026 00:03 via vtdigger.org
  Gov. Phil Scott speaks after a meeting at the Statehouse in Montpelier on November 13, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerRepublican Gov. Phil Scott approved lawmakers’ midyear budget tuneup Thursday, signing their updated plan to increase state spending for the remainder of the fiscal year by more than $111 million over the original budget. Potential federal funding shortfalls continued to cast a shadow over lawmakers’ budget decisions for this year, with their review of sta
  
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• Vermont attorney general joins lawsuit against new wave of Trump tariffs

  06-03-2026 23:54 via vtdigger.org
  Attorney General Charity Clark speaks during a press conference at the Statehouse in Montpelier on June 18, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerTheo Wells-Spackman is a Report for America corps member who reports for VTDigger.Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark joined a multistate lawsuit against the Trump administration Thursday, challenging new wide-ranging tariffs the president announced following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that blocked a similar previous effort.On Feb. 20, the Supreme
  
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• In search of forever homes

  06-03-2026 22:55 via vtdigger.org
  Williston young adults, from left, Jack Savage, Bennett Townley, Justin McQuiston and Emily Scott, are hoping to find a place where they can live together as peers within a staff supported group home. Photo courtesy of the Williston ObserverThis story by Jason Starr was first published in the Williston Observer on March 6, 2026.For Donna Savage and other parents of Vermont’s young adults with developmental disabilities, the day-to-day challenges of helping their kids find their way in the
  
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• Doris Tennant: Who decides when we go to war?

  06-03-2026 22:27 via vtdigger.org
  Dear Editor,Trump has unleashed the dogs of war, and the Vermont National Guard has been deployed to the Middle East under federal rules, with F-35 fighters from Vermont having been positioned for attack and now likely in play.  The Defend the Guard Act, introduced in the Vermont House by Rep. Troy Headrick, I-Burlington, would prohibit the Guard from being deployed to combat unless Congress has declared war. Not only would the bill protect the Guard from being placed into combat to f
  
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• Peter Rinaldi: Vermont’s transfer tax drove us away

  06-03-2026 22:19 via vtdigger.org
  Dear Editor,Although we are Florida residents, my wife and I love Vermont and spend six months a year here, enjoying the scenery and skiing.When we bought our condo in Moretown in January 2023, we paid 1.25 % transfer tax on the property, plus a small clean water surcharge. Because of my recent difficulties climbing stairs, we’re now selling it, and we had hoped to buy a place that was a little bit bigger with no stairs.However, I was very surprised to learn that the transfer tax to buy a
  
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• VTDigger announces newsroom leadership changes

  06-03-2026 20:32 via vtdigger.org
  VTDigger Editor-in-Chief Geeta Anand speaks during a conversation with David Goodman at the Manchester Community Library in Manchester on Tuesday, November 11, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerVTDigger announced today that Editor-in-Chief Geeta Anand will step down on June 30, 2026, as she returns to teaching journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.VTDigger also announced appointments to top editing positions. Susan Allen, veteran Vermont journalist who has led several o
  
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• Vermont targeted in federal investigation of Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse 

  06-03-2026 17:36 via vtdigger.org
  Jill Mazza Olson, deputy director for health care reform at the Vermont Agency of Human Services, speaks before the Senate Health and Welfare Committee at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Wednesday, January 14, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerVermont is the target of the latest federal probe into Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse. On March 3, state officials received a letter from representatives on Congress’s Committee on Energy and Commerce requesting information on the state&rsq
  
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• From cookies to community: one impact investor’s story

  06-03-2026 13:45 via vtdigger.org
  VCLF Impact Investor Nicki Steel in her garden in southern Vermont.It was a warm summer day in cherry growing country of rural Michigan when Nicki Steel’s dad pulled the car over to the side of the road. She watched as he got out to help a family of migrant workers whose vehicle had stalled. When he couldn’t get their engine started, he offered the family some of the groceries they had just bought. Much to her disbelief, he even gave away the package of her favorite cookies.Nicki wa
  
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• Gabe Lajeunesse: Update CHIP to build flood-ready housing

  06-03-2026 13:04 via vtdigger.org
  Dear Editor,Vermont’s housing crisis keeps colliding with another reality we can’t wish away: our rivers are moving. As the recent Waterbury proposal shows, the only places with water, sewer and walkable access are often the same places shaped by the 100-year floodplain. That tension isn’t going away. But we can choose whether it becomes a barrier or a catalyst for smarter building.Right now, the Community Housing and Infrastructure Program (CHIP) helps communities use future
  
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• Residents question Colchester board’s approval of a $8M waterfront hotel project

  05-03-2026 23:57 via vtdigger.org
  Colchester’s Development Review Board has approved plans for a proposed $8 million hotel on a small slope overlooking Malletts Bay in Chittenden County after months of heated opposition.The proposed project, named The H on Malletts Bay, would be the first new development to connect to the Malletts Bay sewer that is under construction. Residents are concerned that if local and state regulations designed to protect Lake Champlain are not enforced, the project could set a dangerous precedent
  
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• After bond approval, Woodstock school project faces next tests

  05-03-2026 22:24 via vtdigger.org
  Woodstock Union Middle School and High School, January 15, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThis story by Alex Hanson was first published in Valley News on March 4, 2026.WOODSTOCK — Area voters this week narrowly approved a long-debated replacement for its aging schools.There’s more work left to do.Voters in the Mountain Views School District on Tuesday approved a $112 million bond issue for a new middle and high school.Ballots cast in the district’s seven towns favor
  
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• Sen. Alison Clarkson to retire after more than two decades in Vermont’s Legislature 

  05-03-2026 21:49 via vtdigger.org
  Sen. Alison Clarkson, D-Windsor, at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Jan. 7, 2026. Photo by Brian Stevenson/Vermont Public
  This story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.After more than two decades serving in the Vermont Legislature, Sen. Alison Clarkson, D-Windsor, does not plan to run for reelection this fall. Clarkson made the announcement to voters at Reading’s town meeting on Saturday, the Valley
  
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• Grand Isle man accused of driving over deputy sheriff after traffic stop

  05-03-2026 20:11 via vtdigger.org
  The Grand Isle County Courthouse in North Hero. Photo courtesy of Jimmy Emerson/Flickr
  A Grand Isle man accused of driving over a deputy sheriff following a traffic stop in South Hero Wednesday night has pleaded not guilty to several charges, including attempted first-degree murder, according to court documents.Kevin Marx, 36, had been held in custody without bail since his arrest after police said they tracked him down at his home late Wednesday night, about three hours after the incident.He w
  
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• Andrea Colnes: What does conservation mean in Vermont?

  05-03-2026 13:04 via vtdigger.org
  Dear Editor,In his recent commentary, “Vermont’s forests need management, not mandates,” Michael Snyder, former commissioner of Vermont’s Departments of Forests, Parks and Recreation, cautioned against the risks of defining conservation too narrowly.  At the New England Forestry Foundation, where I am deputy director and climate fellow, we couldn’t agree more. To support the long-term health of our region’s forests for the next generation, set the s
  
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• Bryan Gantt: A win for foster kids and religious freedom

  05-03-2026 13:03 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Bryan Gantt, the lead pastor of Agape Christian Fellowship in Brattleboro. He and his wife served as foster parents for seven years and adopted three children through foster care.Across the country, foster care systems are in strained, with thousands of children waiting for permanent placements. In Vermont, the opioid crisis has significantly impacted some of our most vulnerable children hardest. Now, Vermont has thankfully scuttled a previous policy that excluded loving f
  
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• Waterbury considers building new housing on the edge of 100-year flood zone

  05-03-2026 11:00 via vtdigger.org
  This story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.WATERBURY – On July 10, 2023, Carrie MacMillan watched as floodwaters crept toward her Waterbury home. The nearby Winooski River had jumped its banks, and MacMillan recalled seeing the water swirl up to the parking lot wedged between her house and the towering state office complex next door. Firefighters came and urged her family to evacuate, she said.The wat
  
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• Local option tax proposals see mixed reception in nearly 20 Vermont communities

  05-03-2026 00:47 via vtdigger.org
  A restaurant bill in an unspecified country. Stock photo via PexelsTheo Wells-Spackman is a Report for America corps member who reports for VTDigger.Voters in at least 19 towns and cities across Vermont weighed new municipal taxes on some combination of meals, rooms, alcohol and sales this Town Meeting Day, with mixed results.While local officials were largely supportive of the measures, which they said would direct new revenue into much-needed community projects under increasing financial
  
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• Voters approve a majority of Town Meeting Day school budgets

  05-03-2026 00:43 via vtdigger.org
  Voters second a motion during Town Meeting at Colchester High School in Colchester on Monday, March 2. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerVoters approved the vast majority of school budgets on Town Meeting Day this year, the second year of relative calm in school budget voting following the historic rejection of school budgets in 2024.According to preliminary results compiled by the Vermont Superintendents Association and the Vermont School Boards Association, 85 school budgets were approved, while
  
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• Delegation asks FEMA to explain why it denied aid for Vermont’s 2025 flooding damage 

  05-03-2026 00:34 via vtdigger.org
  Robert Rydeski walks across his flooded driveway in Sutton on July 11, 2025. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerVermont’s congressional delegation has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to explain why it won’t send aid to the state even though damage from flooding in 2025 met the agency’s threshold. During flash flooding on July 10, towns in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom sustained more damage to roads and bridges than they could cover with their own annual
  
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• Vermont Conversation: Bill McKibben on fighting climate denialism with democratic power

  04-03-2026 22:36 via vtdigger.org
  
  
  Environmental activist and author Bill McKibben speaks during a march and rally in Burlington calling for a stop to the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota on Sept. 24, 2021. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues. Listen below and subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts.As the world contends with increasingly destructive a
  
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• Legislation takes aim at waste from Vermont’s only landfill

  04-03-2026 20:40 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont’s only landfill, located in Coventry, is owned and operated by Casella Waste Systems. File photo by Riley Robinson/VTDiggerThe Northeast Kingdom produces less than a tenth of Vermont’s total waste, but bears all of the burden, according to locals who live near the state’s only landfill in Coventry.They’re asking the legislature to protect the lake that abuts the landfill through H.652, a bill that would prohibit discharge of waste from the landfill, or any other
  
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• Free College & Career Pathways event helps students and families plan next steps after high school 

  04-03-2026 15:13 via vtdigger.org
  On Saturday, March 14th, students and families from across Vermont are invited to the Davis Center at the University of Vermont (UVM) for College & Career Pathways. Organized by VSAC, College & Career Pathways is a free event to help high school students, family members, and guardians discover resources and connect with local experts.  
  When: Saturday March 14th, 2026, 1:00 – 5:00 PM Where: UVM Dudley H. Davis Center Registration: Free but required. Register he
  
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• Jim Willard: Don’t let Vermont miss the AI boom

  04-03-2026 13:05 via vtdigger.org
  Dear Editor,Where many people see risk, they should seek opportunity instead.Some very large companies with deep pockets are desperate to find places to build artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, thanks to resistance in many states. Amazon recently announced a $12 billion data-center expansion, and Google has signed long-term power deals to support new facilities. Vermont is desperate to solve systemic and intertwined problems, including lack of affordable housing, not enough young famili
  
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• Narain Batra: The politics of ‘after Trump’

  04-03-2026 13:04 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Narain Batra, a professor, historian, journalist and author whose work spans freedom, artificial intelligence, media and geopolitics. He will teach a weekly seminar in April, “India, America and the Shaping of the Modern World,” in person and on Zoom at the Osher Institute at Dartmouth College. Is Pete Buttigieg a beautiful angel beating his luminous wings in the void, or is he a hard-rock pragmatist who could go to the White House? He came to New Ham
  
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• Tom Donahue wins Rutland mayor race in rare write-in election

  04-03-2026 03:28 via vtdigger.org
  Tom Donahue. Photo by Greta Solsaa/VTDiggerRUTLAND CITY — Voters elected Tom Donahue as Marble City’s next mayor, a choice made through a rare write-in ballot.Faced with a blank line for the mayoral election ballot measure, 1,323 voters inked the name Tom Donahue for Rutland’s highest post, according to unofficial results issued by the City Clerk’s office Tuesday night. Donahue won with 40.4% of the 3,276 write-in votes cast for mayor. Seldom seen in the city, the w
  
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• Rutland City elects Tom Donahue as next mayor via write-in ballot

  04-03-2026 03:28 via vtdigger.org
  Tom Donahue. Photo by Greta Solsaa/VTDiggerRUTLAND CITY — Voters elected Tom Donahue as Marble City’s next mayor, a choice made through a rare write-in ballot.Faced with a blank line for the mayoral election ballot measure, 1,323 voters inked the name Tom Donahue for Rutland’s highest post, according to unofficial results issued by the City Clerk’s office Tuesday night. Seldom seen in the city, the write-in election was triggered by the unexpected resignation of for
  
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• Vermont Air National Guard supporting war in Iran

  03-03-2026 23:22 via vtdigger.org
  A youngster peers at a pair of F-35 jets at an Open House held by the Vermont Air National Guard at the airbase in South Burlington on Sunday, September 11, 2022. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Vermont Air National Guard is positioned to assist with the war in the Middle East, Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a press briefing Monday. Caine said that the Vermont Air National Guard was part of a forces buildup in the region over the past month. After the bui
  
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• Vermont Air National Guard deployed to war in Iran

  03-03-2026 23:22 via vtdigger.org
  One of the first two F-35 fighter jets to arrive at the Vermont Air National Guard base in South Burlington does a flyover at the Burlington International Airport on Thursday, September 19, 2019.Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerUpdated at 5:32 p.m.The Vermont Air National Guard is positioned to assist with the war in the Middle East, Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a press briefing Monday. Caine said that the Vermont Air National Guard was part of a forces buil
  
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• New lawsuit challenges restrictions on school choice in Vermont’s education reform law

  03-03-2026 23:15 via vtdigger.org
  Rice Memorial High School. Photo via FacebookTwo parents from Georgia, Vermont, have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s education reform law, claiming it arbitrarily violates their children’s access to private school and limits their educational opportunity.The lawsuit, filed on Friday in Washington County Superior Court, centers on Vermont’s publicly funded tuition system, which allows families in districts without a public school for certain grades to use public dollars
  
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• Latest results: 2026 Vermont Town Meeting voting

  03-03-2026 23:08 via vtdigger.org
  Rockingham residents stand and hold up their voter cards during the school district portion of Town Meeting at the Bellows Falls Opera House on Saturday, Feb. 28. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerAmid concerns about the cost of living, Vermonters from northwestern Alburgh to southeastern Vernon used Town Meeting voting to express their opinions on everything from local spending to state universal health care to the national and global actions of President Donald Trump.The state’s 247 munici
  
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• Lawsuit alleges Vermont prison failed to treat diabetic inmate before fatal fall

  03-03-2026 21:46 via vtdigger.org
  Lisa Steadman, themother of Jason Colebaugh, speaks about his case during a press conference in Burlington on Monday, March 2, 2026, on the one year anniversary of his death while incarcerated. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — The family of a man who reportedly died last year after an injury in prison is suing the Vermont Department of Corrections and its health care provider, claiming that prison and medical staff didn’t properly treat the man’s diabetes, leading t
  
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