A project of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program.
Along Dugway Road, the voices of children and families have replaced the sound of passing trucks. The road, which washed out in a major storm on Oct. 31, 2019, and is not yet repaired, has stayed busy despite the closure, parking issues, and a global pandemic.
In the wake of national protests calling to defund the police following the murder of George Floyd, Hinesburg will increase the town police budget, with the selectboard voting to hire another full-time police officer using town funds and a federal grant.
The likelihood of high school winter sports happening in Vermont this winter is uncertain.
Farmers across the United States have faced enormous losses amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with economists predicting 2020 will leave the entire agricultural industry in the red. But some area farmers have watched revenues rise, instead.
November property tax payments in Shelburne are running behind last year’s — to no one’s surprise. A week after the Nov. 15 payment deadline, about $600,000 of the $11 million due had not been paid, finance director Peter Frankenburg told the town’s selectboard on Nov. 24.
The Shelburne selectboard has honored Tom Little for his decades of volunteer service to the town.
The Charlotte Planning Commission met on Nov. 6; one topic on the agenda was a response letter that will go out to DG Vermont Solar about its application for a 23-acre solar array project.
A conversation about whether police should be in schools may be overdue, South Burlington police chief told the city’s school board, and he said he’s an advocate for the practice.
