Celebrating a successful winter season, supporters and friends of Vermont’s ski industry joined the state’s Alpine and crosscountry ski areas at Killington Resort on June 7-8 for the Vermont Ski Areas Association’s 54th Annual Meeting. Despite initial weather challenges in the first half of the […]
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Sanders: $1 million for solar and sustainable energy projects in schools, libraries
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and the Vermont Department of Public Service announced June 9 that $1 million in federal funding will soon come to Vermont to establish sustainable energy projects at elementary, middle, and high schools across the state […]
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Rutland robotics team awarded Medal of Honor for collaboration at Mass event
The Rutland Area Robotics’ FRC Team 2370- IBOTS, based at the Stafford Technical Center, traveled to a prestigious offseason event at Worcester Polytechnic Institute June 3-4,called BattleCry @ WPI ‘23. The event was attended by 64 teams from all over […]
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Vermont should ban trapping
Dear Editor, The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife has recently proposed new trapping regulations they call “Best Management Practices (BMPs)” in response to Act 159, which was passed last year by the Vermont Legislature. The purpose of Act […]
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State urges to protect grassland birds by mowing later
Bobolinks, Savannah sparrows and eastern meadowlarks enrich our summers with their songs, but their populations have suffered dramatic, long-term declines due to the loss of their grassland habitat. “These species have experienced declines across the continent, but on Vermont’s […]
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State awarded $1 million grant to expand community-based mental health, substance use services
On May 30 the Vermont Department of Mental Health announced that the state had received a new federal grant to help provide mental health and substance use services to more people throughout the state. The $1 million, one-year planning […]
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State employees to enroll in family and medical leave July 1
Gov. Phil Scott today announced continued progress towards the implementation of the Vermont Family and Medical Leave Insurance Plan (VT-FMLI). The Department of Financial Regulation approved the VT-FMLI insurance coverages and rates filed by The Hartford, a private insurance carrier […]
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Governor signs housing crisis bill
Gov. Phil Scott signed S.100 – known as the Housing Opportunities Made for Everyone or HOME Act – on June 5, which will enable more significant progress addressing Vermont’s housing shortage. “This bill represents what we can get done […]
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A big deal
Earlier in the session, one of our colleagues on the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Woodman Page of Newport, referred to one of the changes in the Medicaid program as a big deal when explaining his sections of the budget on […]
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Phil Scott vetoes Vermont’s $8.5B state budget, House Speaker calls for state of emergency
By Lola Duffort/VTDIgger Gov. Phil Scott on Saturday vetoed the $8.5 billion state budget sent his way by the Democratic-controlled Legislature. The governor’s action was widely anticipated, but in a more unexpected turn of events, House Speaker Jill Krowinski, […]