By Lola Duffort/VTDigger The state was given an unusual task in a last-minute legislative deal brokered in June that extended publicly financed motel-based shelter for more than 2,000 unhoused individuals. It was charged with attempting to rehouse or shelter everyone by April 2024, and required to report back to the Legislature on its progress — every single month.…

  Two captive insurance media publications are now naming Vermont the top captive insurance domicile in the world. In their “Q1 Captive Formation Round-Up” article published June 13 in Captive Review used the most recent data to confirm Vermont’s No. 1 status. Another captive media publication, Captive Intelligence, confirmed that data in their captive insurance data…

    Green Mountain Power (GMP) is making it easy for Vermonters to switch to driving an electric vehicle (EV) with its new Try-an-EV program letting customers experience what it is like to own and drive an EV, without a long-term commitment. The subscription service allows customers to select a vehicle and schedule delivery online…

  By Brooke Geery  Tucked into a wildflower-filled field just off lower Killington Resort’s Great Eastern trail, several hundred thousand bees are hard at work. They’re in various stages of life, from hatching to metamorphosis to learning the ropes around the hives. The adults are busily collecting pollen and nectar, carrying it back to the…

   A suspect in a June double shooting in Leicester that left one man dead and his brother critically injured has been arrested on an unrelated federal charge in Maine.  Zaquikon Roy, 35, of Brooklyn, New York, was arrested Thursday, Aug. 10, in Lewiston, Maine, on a federal charge of being a felon in possession…

Staff report Police said one died in a two-car crash on Route 4 near Craigs Lane in Mendon around 7:30 p.m. Aug. 11. Police said Stephen P. Marcoulier, 62, of Ashby, Massachusetts, was pronounced dead at the scene. Preliminary investigation determined Marcoulier was driving a 1983 Volkswagen traveling eastbound on Route 4. Marcoulier left the…

  The Vermont Dept. of Financial Regulation was notified that a large-scale data security breach has compromised the personally identifiable information of roughly 42,000 Vermonters and over 38 million consumers nationwide. The breach occurred when the CLOP Ransomware Gang, a known threat actor, infiltrated the MOVEit file transfer software used by many public and private…

  The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center is dedicating public artwork at noon on Saturday, Aug.19, as part of the annual Rutland Town-wide celebration. The permanent installation at Northwood Park is in partnership with the town of Rutland.   Seven teenage sculptors carved the 14th public artwork in the Stone Bench Project from June 26 through…

  Vermont Emergency Eats (VEE), a smaller-scale version of Vermont Everyone Eats, the pandemic-era program that provided meals to food-insecure Vermonters, has launched in response to the recent flooding in the state. VEE is  providing meals to those affected in the nine counties in the Federal Disaster Declaration, which includes Rutland County.  Southeastern Vermont Community…

  By Tiffany Tan/VTDigger LUDLOW — The Timber Inn Motel is among roughly a thousand Vermont businesses damaged in last month’s historic flooding. Propelled by the raging Black River, floodwaters rose over 6 feet at the motel, wrecking guest rooms, machinery and outdoor structures. Three weeks after the deluge, the nine flooded guest rooms lay stripped…

  Un-permitted structures for paramilitary school must be removed and fines paid or face prison  Staff report A judge has thrown out a federal lawsuit against the town of Pawlet brought by resident Daniel Banyai as he attempts to build a paramilitary school. The lawsuit was dismissed Monday, Aug. 7 by U.S. District Court Judge…

  By Katy Savage A new Vermont survey shows more than 200 farmers had damages totaling over  $12 million in the July flood. There was damage to  more than 18,000 acres.  The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets  sent out the survey  to understand the scale of the damage  throughout the state in early…

By Cassandra Tyndall The more things change, the more they stay the same. And while things may have had a stable or stagnant quality to them, believe me, they are indeed changing. When we think about change, we tend to look for the big events. Strange though, isn’t it? So few of us actually enjoy…

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