Cop and community health worker form ‘unlikely partnership’ to help unhoused...
Osa Busch of Good Samaritan Haven, center, and Sgt. Chad Bassette of the Berlin Police Department, right, distribute food and supplies to an unhoused person in Barre on Friday, August 23, 2024. Photo...
View ArticleDisaster recovery center to open in Barre on Saturday
Workers remove a toilet from a flood-damaged home on Third Street in Barre on July 12, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerStarting this Saturday in Barre City, Vermonters affected by the floods in...
View ArticleUS Postal Service fails to meet promises for Montpelier post office
Montpelier’s temporary post office at 89 Main St., seen on August 8, 2024. Photo by Juan Vega de Soto/VTDigger If you live in Vermont’s state capital, you still cannot buy stamps or ship a package...
View ArticleHotel project at Burlington airport falls apart, 7 years after efforts began
A private jet taxis away from the Heritage Aviation terminal at the Burlington International Airport in South Burlington on Tuesday, August 31, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger On the lot just...
View ArticleTuesday’s primaries featured lowest turnout in a decade
Voters check in at the polling station in Williston on Primary Day, Tuesday, August 13. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Not since 2014 had so few people voted in Vermont’s primary elections. On...
View ArticleAfter quiet primary, Bernie Sanders to face Gerald Malloy and Becca Balint to...
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, answers a few questions after voting in Burlington on Primary Day, Tuesday, Aug. 13. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Updated at 8:54 p.m. In Vermont’s...
View ArticleNicaraguans made central Vermont home in the past year, but they may not be...
Nereyda Urbina makes a sandwich while working at the Red Hen Baking Co. in Middlesex on Thursday, June 20. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Editor’s note: Interviews with Nicaraguan sources were...
View ArticleBernie Sanders invites youth to shoot hoops with him on Saturday
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, speaks with members of the media after a town meeting with students at Essex High School in Essex Junction on Thursday, January 12, 2023. File photo by Glenn...
View ArticleTropical Storm Debby heads toward Vermont, threatening heavy rains Friday
A map showing areas at risk for excessive rainfall on Friday, August 9. Map via the National Weather Service A very rainy Vermont summer may get rainier yet. The remnants of Tropical Storm Debby are...
View ArticleGoddard College inks $3.4M deal to sell campus to a local community group
Goddard College in Plainfield on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The long drama of Goddard College’s dissolution might have reached its final scene. On Thursday morning, a...
View ArticleNortheast Kingdom sifts through flood damage, braces for more thunderstorms
Storm clouds gather over Plainfield on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Photo by Jeb Wallace-Brodeur/VTDigger Engulfed by heavy rains just two nights ago, towns in the Northeast Kingdom looked to the sky on...
View ArticleBurlington rugby star Ilona Maher wins Olympic bronze
Burlington rugby athlete Ilona Maher celebrates after her team won the women’s bronze medal Rugby Sevens match between the United States and Australia at the 2024 Summer Olympics, in the Stade de...
View ArticleVermont in top 10 states with most federal disaster declarations, new study...
Workers from ReSource and the Montpelier Youth Conservation Corps clear mud out of a basement on Third Street in Barre on Friday, July 12, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Do natural calamities...
View ArticleVermont’s Covid-19 cases on the upswing this summer
Data from WastewaterSCAN showing a spike in Covid-19 in Vermont wastewater. Chart courtesy of WastewaterSCAN After a very quiet spring, Vermont’s sewage is gathering greater traces of Covid-19, a...
View ArticleVermont delegation boycotts Netanyahu’s address to Congress
From left: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Becca Balint and Sen. Peter Welch. Photos by Glenn Russell/VTDigger As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress on...
View ArticleGlobal tech outage affects medical, transportation and state operations in...
The Miller Building at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington on Monday, November 23, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Updated at 5:52 p.m. Early Friday morning, as a technology...
View ArticleAt Republican National Convention, Vermont’s delegates find a party forged in...
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Photo by Nam Y. Huh/AP Asked to describe this...
View ArticleGoddard College campus up for sale again, after deal with previous buyer...
Goddard College in Plainfield on June 22, 2023. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The long saga of Goddard College’s dissolution has a new twist. After striking a deal nearly two months ago, the...
View ArticleSevere thunderstorms approach Vermont, threatening powerful winds and large...
A map showing parts of Vermont and New York that could face severe thunderstorms on Tuesday, July 16. Map via National Weather Service In the atmosphere above Lake Ontario, a vortex of air was...
View ArticleFlooded 3 times in a year but denied a buyout, Barre family looks for an out
Katie O’Day and Nick Roos, with their daughter Oona, have had their Barre home flooded three times in the past year . Seen on Friday, July 12, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger BARRE CITY — Kate...
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