Vermont voters approve 82% of school budgets, despite property tax implications

The prospect of yet another double-digit hike in property tax bills didn’t stop most Vermont voters from approving their local school budget proposals Tuesday. According to results compiled by the Vermont School Boards Association, 82% of the 112 votes …

How Vermont prepares for ice jams and works to increase flood resilience

MONTPELIER — Each winter, Vermont prepares for potential ice jams and their impacts. Also known as “ice dams,” ice jams form when blocks of ice clump and block river flow. Ice jams can cause upstream flooding before they break up or release suddenly and …

Sen. Alison Clarkson to retire after more than two decades in Vermont’s Legislature

This story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public. After more than two decades serving in the Vermont Legislature, Sen. Alison Clarkson, D-Windsor, does not plan to run for …

Vermont looks to study – and possibly block – data centers

The rapid growth in artificial intelligence is driving the construction of large-scale data centers nationwide. Vermont has no AI or crypto data centers in the state, but what would happen if they did? Royalton voters approved a 5-year moratorium on the …

Vermont joins legal challenge to latest Trump tariffs

Vermont is joining round two of the fight over President Donald Trump’s trade war. Attorney General Charity Clark joined 23 other, mostly Democrat-controlled states on Thursday in a legal challenge to the across-the-board tariffs Trump imposed last month …

Christopher Wren, a veteran foreign correspondent who landed in Vermont, dies at 89

Christopher Wren, a veteran foreign correspondent for the New York Times and author, died last month at his home in Thetford. He was 89. Wren spent 28 years at the Times and reported from all over the world. He served as the newspaper’s bureau chief in …

Vermont H.S. playoff scores for Thursday, March 5

Enser: Vermont state lands

A recent Rutland Herald article by Vermont Commissioner of Forests, Parks, and Recreation Danielle Fitzko extolling the benefits of state lands begins with the following lofty description: “Vermont state lands are quiet places where trees grow tall, …

Most of Vermont’s larger communities approve school budgets

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Several of Vermont’s largest school districts approved their budgets Tuesday, including two that came down to close votes. In South Burlington, a nearly $74 million school budget passed 1,915 to 1,777. Colchester also saw a narrow …

Today in US history on March 4: Washington’s second inauguration, Lincoln takes office, Vermont becomes a state

Before the ratification of the Twentieth Amendment in 1933, March 4 traditionally marked Inauguration Day in the United States. When the date fell on a Sunday, as it did several times in the 19th and early 20th centuries, inauguration ceremonies were held …