Vermont news

• Tristram Gray Chase Jensvold

  08-07-2026 21:20 via vtdigger.org
  
  Born: 08/03/1978Burlington, VermontDied: 04/16/2026Nashville, TennesseeDetails of service:Donations in Tristram’s name may be made to Turning Point of Chittenden County, Spectrum Youth and Family Services, or The Humane Society.Tristram (aka T, Tris, TJ) Gray Chase Jensvold was born in Burlington on August 3, 1978. Shortly after birth, he and his parents moved to Danville, where T spent his first years living on the Danville Morgan Horse farm, later moving to a log cabin overlooking Joe&r
  
  Read more

• ‘Broken’ trust: Energy site redevelopment company seeks input from Vernon community on uses for former Vermont Yankee plant

  09-07-2026 12:53 via vtdigger.org
  
  Members of the Vernon Selectboard listen to representatives from Power Transitions discuss plans for the redevelopment of the former Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant during a meeting in Vernon on Tuesday, July 7, 2026. From left to right are board members Shelli Harvey, Sandra Harris and board chair Brandon Bucossi. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerVernon Selectboard members are raising concerns about being left out of the planning process for the future of a former nuclear power plant, which c
  
  Read more

• Poll: Most young Vermonters say they’re likely to leave state amid affordability concerns

  09-07-2026 00:47 via vtdigger.org
  
  University of Vermont students gather at a protest on campus in Burlington in April 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerTheo Wells-Spackman is a Report for America corps member who reports for VTDigger.Nearly two-thirds of Vermonters ages 18 to 34 say they’re likely to leave the state within five years in search of adventure or a cheaper place to live, according to a poll from the University of New Hampshire.  Overall, the poll estimated that 86% of Vermonters find the sta
  
  Read more

• Phil Scott issues executive order that would allow age-based health insurance premiums

  08-07-2026 23:43 via vtdigger.org
  
  Gov. Phil Scott speaks during a press conference at the Statehouse in Montpelier in April 2025. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerGov. Phil Scott issued an executive order Wednesday that included a number of measures to decrease health insurance regulations in an effort to lower costs, including implementing age-based insurance premiums. “None of these ideas are radical,” Scott said in a Wednesday press conference. “In fact, they’re very mainstream, and we know th
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Vermont gets $1.3 million to settle allegations Cash App did not shield users from fraud

  08-07-2026 23:01 via vtdigger.org
  
  Attorney General Charity Clark speaks during a press conference at the Statehouse in Montpelier in June 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerMONTPELIER — Vermont will receive $1.3 million as part of a multistate settlement with Cash App over allegations that the popular currency transfer platform failed to protect its users from fraud and misled them about the platform’s safety.Charity Clark, Vermont attorney general, announced the settlement with Cash App’s parent compan
  
  Read more

• Report: Norwich woman died of asphyxia

  08-07-2026 22:12 via vtdigger.org
  
  Noel Neely, the 82-year-old woman whose death at her residence at 48 Douglas Hill Road in Norwich, Vt., on May 9 remains under investigation. Photo by Jennifer Hauck/Valley NewsThis story was first published in the Valley News on July 6, 2026.NORWICH — A woman who was found dead in Norwich in May died due to “asphyxia by exclusion of oxygen” as a result of “nitrogen gas delivered to face mask and plastic bag over head,” according to the Vermont Chief Medical Examin
  
  Read more

• Vermont doesn’t have a housing shortage. It has a hoarding problem.

  08-07-2026 22:05 via vtdigger.org
  
  Dear Editor,I’m responding to Mickey Nowak’s recent letter to VTDigger, which in turn was a response to a commentary by John Bossange.There was a time when housing was both affordable and aesthetically appealing. People gathered to build a structure in town, whether it be a town hall, church, covered bridge or house or barn for their neighbor, and despite primitive carpentry skills and lack of fancy tools, built some of Vermont’s most iconic structures that still stand proudly
  
  Read more

• Vermont Judge Dickson Corbett remembered for kindness and dedication to the law

  08-07-2026 21:54 via vtdigger.org
  
  Judge H. Dickson Corbett in the Windsor Superior Court in White River Junction in May 2026. File photo by Alex Driehaus/Valley NewsThis story by Alex Hanson was first published in the Valley News on July 7, 2026.THETFORD — Vermont Superior Court Judge Dickson Corbett died unexpectedly last week.Former colleagues said Corbett was found unresponsive Thursday morning and was taken to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, where he was pronounced deceased. Colleagues and friends said he died of
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Vermont Conversation: ‘How the Democrats Screwed Bernie.’ Former Sanders chief campaign strategist Tad Devine on the 2016 presidential race

  08-07-2026 19:13 via vtdigger.org
  
  The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues. Listen and subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get podcasts.Author and Democratic strategist Tad Devine. Photo by Ellen DevineIn 2016, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was an insurgent candidate taking on Hillary Clinton, the heavily favored pick of the Democratic establishment for the presidential primary. As Sa
  
  Read more

• New Chittenden County recycling facility to remain on track after waste district recovers $2.27 million stolen in scam

  08-07-2026 00:46 via vtdigger.org
  
  The existing recycling facility will be replaced by a new one that is expected to take on more processing capacity. Courtesy photoA long-awaited Chittenden County recycling facility will see a chunk of its funding returned after it was stolen in a cyber fraud scheme early this year, federal authorities said Tuesday.The reimbursement will allow the Chittenden Solid Waste District to stay on track in funding the upgraded plant, said Sarah Reeves, the waste district’s executive director.&nbs
  
  Read more

• Platner’s last pillar of support falls as Sanders says: Drop out

  07-07-2026 23:19 via vtdigger.org
  
  Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, right, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., join hands at an event in Orono, Maine, on May 24, 2026. File photo by Robert F. Bukaty/AP Credit: AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty / The Associated PressThis story by Jenna Monnin was first published in NOTUS on July 7, 2026.U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., called on Graham Platner to drop out of the race for Maine’s U.S. Senate seat Tuesday, leaving the scandal-scarred candidate without the s
  
  Read more

• Why do Vermont roots matter in a story about economic power?

  07-07-2026 22:11 via vtdigger.org
  
  Dear Editor,The recent article in VTDigger about Beta Technologies stated that Mike Vincent, owner of J&M Avionics in Middlebury, “said his family roots in Vermont go back generations.” It also described Beta CEO Kyle Clark as “a native Vermonter.” I’m curious why VTDigger thinks such ascriptions — treated as a claim in one case and (perhaps carelessly) as a fact in the other — are pertinent to the story. Please tell me why, in this instance, family
  
  Read more

• Grand Isle prosecutor’s DUI case heading to court diversion, court records state

  07-07-2026 21:28 via vtdigger.org
  
  Grand Isle State’s Attorney Doug DiSabito speaks in the Grand Isle Superior criminal court in July 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe drunken driving case against Grand Isle County State’s Attorney Douglas DiSabito is being referred to a court diversion program, according to court records. DiSabito was arrested in April after police alleged he showed up at the Franklin County Superior Court in St. Albans displaying signs of intoxication, court records stated. Later,
  
  Read more

• Judge H. Dickson Corbett

  07-07-2026 20:53 via vtdigger.org
  
  Born: 09/26/1979Died: 07/02/2026Details of service:A remembrance of life ceremony will be held to honor Dickson later this summer.Judge H. Dickson Corbett died unexpectedly on July 2nd after walking in the woods and making his family breakfast. After his passing, he will be forever loved by his wife Megan Campbell, his children Plover and Ira Corbett, his parents Adele and Henry Dickson Corbett III, his sister Taylure Corbett and her husband Andrew Salvitti, his sister Alyssa King, her husband
  
  Read more

• Burlington’s mayor says the city is ‘back.’ Is it just a blip?

  07-07-2026 13:03 via vtdigger.org
  
  People walk along Church Street in Burlington on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak stood at a podium on Church Street, flanked by city employees, and declared that “Burlington is back.” “There’s a growing sense that Burlington is turning a corner, that energy is back, the confidence is returning in this city, and that this city is moving forward,” Mulvaney-Stanak said at a press conference late
  
  Read more

• VTrans receives over $19 million in federal funds for Route 7 reconstruction

  07-07-2026 00:18 via vtdigger.org
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders, left, Rep. Becca Balint, center, and Sen. Peter Welch. File photos by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Vermont Agency of Transportation received $19.7 million in federal funding to help complete the reconstruction of Route 7 from Pittsford to Brandon, one of the state’s — and New England’s — busiest highways, the Vermont Congressional Delegation announced Monday. “We’re seeing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law at work here in Rutland County
  
  Read more

• Michel “Mich” Daniel Allen

  07-07-2026 00:07 via vtdigger.org
  
  Born: 10/19/1943Died: 11/17/2025Details of service:Graveside Services and Interment will be at 10:15 a.m. on Saturday, July 18, 2026, at St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Archibald Street, Burlington.A Celebration of Life will be held at 12:15 p.m. at the Fellowship Hall of the First Congregational Church of Essex Jct. near the five corners. At Mich’s request, you are invited to join us for a meal and memories. Casual dress is preferred.Michel “Mich” Daniel Allen passed away peacef
  
  Read more

• In inaugural season, Vermont Green FC women win conference title

  06-07-2026 23:05 via vtdigger.org
  
  Vermont Green FC Women won the USL W Eastern Conference title on July 5, 2026 in Burlington. Photo Courtesy Josh Wallace/Vermont Green FCTheo Wells-Spackman is a Report for America corps member who reports for VTDigger.In its inaugural season, Vermont Green FC’s women’s team has still not lost a match.Following an unbeaten regular season, the squad has pushed on with two home playoff wins that saw them crowned conference champions on July 5 in front of a sold-out crowd in Burlington
  
  Read more

• Foresters adapt as insects become driving force in tree mortality

  06-07-2026 22:40 via vtdigger.org
  
  An emerald ash borer perched on a leaf. Photo courtesy Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and MarketsErika Tally is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program.BURLINGTON — Across Northeastern forests, natural causes now account for more tree deaths than harvesting, including in Vermont, according to a recent study from the University of Vermont. But these natural causes are still cause for co
  
  Read more

• US Supreme Court ruling on deportation protections leaves Vermont Haitians out of work and scrambling for options

  06-07-2026 22:10 via vtdigger.org
  
  People hold hands and a Haitian flag during a vigil at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary immigration status, or TPS, for Haitians, Feb. 2026, in North Miami. File photo by Lynne Sladky/APErin Jacobsen was texting a potential client, worried about the future.The following day, Jacobsen, advocacy director and senior staff attorney at the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project, would see that worry deepen.A June 25 decision by
  
  Read more

• PHOTOS: Warren July 4th parade draws thousands

  05-07-2026 16:51 via vtdigger.org
  
  Thousands of people participate in a Fourth of July parade in Warren on Saturday, July 4, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThousands of people lined Main Street in Warren for the annual Fourth of July parade.  Torrential rain began to fall right before the start of the sesquicentennial celebration, but that didn’t deter those marching or watching from enjoying the display. After a raucous review in the rain, the sun came out again.
  Read the story on VTDigger here:PHOTOS: Warren J
  
  Read more

• Vermonters need to do their part to keep bears wild

  05-07-2026 16:13 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Jason Batchelder, the commissioner of the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department.On June 3, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department authorized the killing of a bear in Stowe that had grown dangerously comfortable seeking food around people from homes and businesses. If the past few years are any indication, by the end of summer, we will have had to put down or provide similar authorizations for dozens more bears to end acute conflicts that threaten human safety. No one
  
  Read more

• Montpelier tackles housing shortage with talks of taller buildings and simplified zoning

  05-07-2026 15:03 via vtdigger.org
  
  Multi-story apartment building on Cedar Street in Montpelier. Photo by Michael Bielawski/The BridgeThis story by Michael Bielawski was first published in The Bridge on July 1, 2026.MONTPELIER — Planning commissioners have been considering the possibility that buildings could start getting taller in Montpelier’s River District. Planning Director Mike Miller recently spoke with The Bridge about the direction in which the commission is going in terms of shaping the city’s fu
  
  Read more

• Nothing to sneeze at: Dartmouth Hitchcock is home to the region’s only pollen counter

  05-07-2026 14:30 via vtdigger.org
  
  The roof of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, New Hampshire, is home to the only motorized pollen counter of its kind in New England. Photo by Olivia Gieger/VTDiggerLEBANON, N.H. — On the roof of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, cast against a backdrop of the Upper Valley’s rolling green hills, a green metal motor no bigger than a blender hums as its rudder directs it to spin and turn with the breeze.This unassuming device is the only one of its kind in New England.
  
  Read more

• Then Again: Lemuel Haynes — a minuteman, preacher and longtime Vermonter — puts his stamp on history again

  05-07-2026 14:05 via vtdigger.org
  
  Lemuel Haynes is featured on a new U.S. Postal Service stamp as part of its Figures of the American Revolution series, which honors 25 individuals who played important roles during the period. Photo by Mark BushnellLemuel Haynes was of two minds about the American Revolution. He was outraged by the stark hypocrisy of some of the rebellion’s leaders, slaveholders who condemned the British government for impinging on their freedoms. At the same time, however, he risked his life for the revo
  
  Read more

• Bolstered bloc of Vermont Republicans see bills repealed this year as a win

  05-07-2026 13:17 via vtdigger.org
  
  Senate Minority Leader Scott Beck, R-Caledonia, listens to discussion on the floor of the Senate on the opening day of the legislature at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Wednesday, January 8, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerPolitical parties are quick to declare victory when the bills they support make it into law. But for Vermont’s Republican minority in the Legislature, it was the laws they succeeded in rolling back this year that seem to have the party celebrating just as much.In
  
  Read more

• Two more Montpelier officers head to Northfield as department grapples with staffing crisis

  03-07-2026 15:55 via vtdigger.org
  
  Two more officers from the Montpelier Police Department are departing for Northfield. File photo by Natalie Williams/VTDiggerThis story by Grace Benninghoff was first published in The Bridge on July 2, 2026.The exodus of Montpelier police officers to the nearby town of Northfield is not over.Two additional members of the Montpelier Police Department — Sgt. Diane Mathews and Detective Alesha Donovan — have resigned to join the Northfield Police Department. That makes four officers de
  
  Read more

• Noah Kahan fans blamed for disappearing Strafford road sign

  03-07-2026 14:45 via vtdigger.org
  
  An empty road sign post sits on the end of Alger Brook Road in Strafford, Vt., on Wednesday, June 17, 2026. The sign was recently stolen. Photo by Jennifer Hauck/Valley NewsThis story by Marion Umpleby was first published in the Valley News on June 29, 2026.STRAFFORD — Town officials believe that fans of Noah Kahan, the singer-songwriter turned global superstar, have been stealing the sign for a road mentioned in one of his songs.“Past Alger Brook Road, I’m over the bridge/A m
  
  Read more

• Independence Day reminds us why a free press matters

  03-07-2026 14:00 via vtdigger.org
  
  The Vermont State House, in Montpelier, VermontDear Reader,This Independence Day, many of us are celebrating with family traditions, parades and fireworks. It’s also a moment to reflect on the values at the heart of our country’s founding.While the freedoms proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence were not initially extended to everyone, it advanced an enduring principle: that those who hold power should answer to the people.Two hundred and fifty years later, we can’t los
  
  Read more

• Women’s history is American history. So why isn’t it taught in Vermont schools?

  03-07-2026 13:53 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Amelie Fairweather, a student at Champlain Valley Union High School in Hinesburg.Even as the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, women’s history is still not taught in Vermont schools. Right now, there is no requirement in the state curriculum to teach women’s suffrage as part of U.S. history classes. In 2025, I founded Her Education Required, a national organization dedicated to integrating women’s history int
  
  Read more

Follow @NewsVermont_ on Twitter!