Dear Editor, Last Tuesday the Killington Select Board voted unanimously to proceed with handing over control of the town’s marketing and events to the KPAA [Killington-Pico Area Association]. Details of the proposed agreement are posted on the Killington town website. According to the agreement the town will spend the entire marketing and events budget, approved…

Dear Editor, I am totally enraged! The citizens of this town have made their feelings known to the Selectboard for at least five years (since the “holy five” purchased Bill’s Country Store), regarding the fact that we did not want to fund the Chamber/KPAA in any way. And every year the same group comes back…

Dear Editor, This past Tuesday during “Citizens’ Concerns,” Pat Linnemayr brought up the subject of the West Hill Slip Road. She, like many of the citizens of Killington, want to keep the slip road. Last year, in just two days Vito Rasenas collected over 100 names on a petition to keep the road, and I…

By Lee H. Hamilton A few weeks ago, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia made a small splash in the press when he took Congress to task for failing to authorize our nation’s ongoing war against Islamic militants. “The silence of Congress in the midst of this war is cowardly and shameful,” he said. “[T]his Congress,…

Dear Editor, Everyone has an opinion, everyone has a right to differ. We all have a say! There is currently  a  controversy in Taftsville regarding the installation of a commercial solar farm by an out of state developer on the scenic Route 4 Byway and Historic District. It is a village historic neighborhood. This will be…

Dear Editor, With Rutland Blooms’ biggest project to date now complete, thanks to the support of dozens of businesses, organizations and individuals, more than 200 trees have been added to the cityscape, improving it for generations.  Flowering crabapples now dot streets throughout the northwest neighborhood, and majestic maples will shine bright this fall and for…

Courtesy of Sanders for President Students hold up letters that read “Bernie for people” near the Burlington waterfront. By Angelo Lynn, Addison Independent Here’s why I’m standing with Sen. Bernie Sanders in his run for the presidential Democratic nomination and why it’s smart politics for other Vermonters—and moderate to liberal voters everywhere—to support him as…

Dear Editor, On Sunday, May 17, ARC Rutland Area again offered a Spring Fling dance for over 60 members, parents and friends of ARC Rutland Area for a fun afternoon of socializing, munching and dancing. Music was provided by Steve Smiel with support from John Saltis and everyone had their fill of pizzas, grinders, beverages…

Dear Editor, I apologize for sending this legislative wrapup so late! I was cut military orders early last week and after the session ended late Saturday night I had to rush home, pack and be at Camp Hinds in Raymond, Maine for muster on Sunday afternoon. I had hoped for better wifi and cell phone service but we’re pretty…

By Jack Hoffman In addition to pushing up property taxes in many towns, the education reform bill passed in the closing days of the session violates a fundamental principle of fairness in Vermont’s education funding system: towns with the same education spending per pupil have the same homestead tax rates. Before Gov. Peter Shumlin decides…

By Lynn R. Webster As a physician and author of the forthcoming book “The Painful Truth: What We Can Do About the Largest Invisible Epidemic in America,” I hope to provide a few insights that may help as we work toward a safer world that is free of opioid abuse. Here are six steps we…

By Dr. Stephen Pitmon Vermont has a great deal to be proud of when it comes to dental health care. We are one of America’s healthiest states. In fact, 88 percent of our children received dental care last year–the highest such rate in the nation. And, only 4.3 percent of Vermonters live in an underserved…

By Erin Mansfield, VTDigger.org Gov. Peter Shumlin signed into law Wednesday, May 20, a bill that makes permanent a series of protections in the state’s death with dignity law, otherwise known as physician-assisted suicide. The law passed the Legislature in 2013 and became Act 39, but the procedural requirements and additional safeguards in the bill…

By Don Turner, House Republican Leader Last November, Vermonters sent a clear message that the status quo no longer worked for them.  Vermonters told us that we needed to get to work to return Vermont to a sound and sustainable fiscal path, work to make Vermont a more affordable place to live and work to…

By Angelo Lynn It wasn’t pretty, but at the end of the day, this Legislature and the Shumlin administration passed a couple major pieces of legislation, and overcame several significant budget hurdles in crafting a reasonable budget in tough times. The major legislation focused on cleaning up the state’s waterways (particularly Lake Champlain, but also…