by Joseph Gresser EAST BURKE — Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver who has been working to unravel the EB-5 fraud perpetrated by the former owner of Jay Peak Resort, appears to be coming to the end of his labors. On Friday he asked U.S. District ... More »
by Maria Amador MONTPELIER — While the imposition of tariffs remains at once looming and elusive, state officials and businesses on both sides of the border are trying to prepare for the worst. Some have already started living it. That was the theme at a join... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — A Newport Center woman is facing four charges of reckless endangerment and one of reckless or grossly negligent driving after police say she rear-ended two vehicles on April 6. Forty-six-year-old Jana Leigh appeared in the Criminal ... More »
by Maria Amador CRAFTSBURY — On April 9, House Representative Leanne Harple of West Glover was among several speakers at a Craftsbury Schools Forum. She discussed her recent work on the education bill H.454, and said she planned to vote aye for a versio... More »
by Matthew Wilson COVENTRY — Eventually winter’s ice and snow is bound to melt. When it thaws, waters rise, and anyone who has ever put too many ice cubes in a drink knows that frozen chunks can complicate things. Coventry is a community that sometimes exper... More »
by Maria Amador BARTON — Cold and rain weren’t enough to deter those Vermonters opposed to President Donald Trump’s executive actions from spending Saturday protesting in the Kingdom. On Barton’s Village Square and Newport’s Main Street, hundreds stood with s... More »
by Matthew Wilson DERBY LINE — Members of the public discussed the Haskell Free Library and Opera House at the Derby Line Village Annual Meeting on April 1. U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s decision to bar Canadians from walking to the building’s main e... More »
by Joseph Gresser BURLINGTON — Two admitted drug dealers will spend more than 12 years in prison after they changed their pleas to guilty on federal charges of selling fentanyl and cocaine in Orleans County. On March 31, U.S. District Court Judge William Sessi... More »
by Maria Amador HARDWICK — On March 27 Vermonters traveled from all over the state to Hazen Union High School for a public education town hall. Its focus was Governor Phil Scott’s plan to transform the state’s education system. Participants included teachers... More »
by Maria Amador MONTPELIER — On March 20, the Vermont Senate introduced a resolution supporting “warm and cooperative” relations on behalf of both the United States and Vermont with Canada. The resolution, which was sponsored by 27 of the 30 senators in the L... More »
by Joseph Gresser NEWPORT — In an affidavit filed in the Criminal Division of Orleans County Superior Court, Newport City Police Detective James LeClair said he along with fellow Newport officers Sergeant Nicholas Rivers, and Patrolmen Joshua Lillis and Tanner... More »
by Maria Amador MONTPELIER — The first confusion was over the town. Last week my friend Helen suggested I take my other friends from out of town on an easy hike up Greensboro’s Barr Hill. Naturally, I assumed the other Barr Hill, experts in gin, built its d... More »
