COVID-19 is having a dramatic impact on our lives, businesses, and on supply chains. I want to share an update on what UPS is doing to keep our customers and our people safe while continuing to deliver around the world. UPS is following the guidance of global ... More »
Childcare Centers Closed; Urged to Provide Care for Children of Vermonters Responding to Crisis Support from Teachers, School Employees & Childcare Providers Key to Response Montpelier, Vt. – Governor Phil Scott today issued a directive and announced additiona... More »
Now in place: all in-person visitation services are suspended for two weeks Waterbury, Vt., March 13, 2020 – The Vermont Department of Corrections will be cancelling in-person visitations services at all six Vermont correctional facilities. Given the current c... More »
Montpelier, Vt. – To support the ongoing work of the Vermont Department of Health and expand the capacity of state government to coordinate the COVID-19 response, Governor Phil Scott today ordered additional state agencies and departments to activate through t... More »
Task Force Leading Long-Term Mitigation Planning Effort in Supplement to State’s Current Response Work Montpelier, Vt. – At the direction of Governor Phil Scott, Vermont Emergency Management has assembled an interagency task force to support the overall public... More »
Agency’s first hound dog in more than three decades will specialize in tracking WATERBURY, Vt. (Jan. 29, 2020) — The newest member of the Vermont State Police is 9 weeks old; has long, floppy ears; likes to frolic with coworkers; and has a powerful nose for pu... More »
(January 19, 2020) – Vermont gas prices have fallen 1.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.62/g today, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 626 stations. Gas prices in Vermont are unchanged versus a month ago and stand 20.1 cents per gallon hi... More »
Montpelier, Vt. – Governor Phil Scott today announced the appointment of Jennifer Harlow to become Orleans County sheriff, following Kirk Martin’s resignation last month. Harlow will be the only female sheriff in Vermont at the time of her appointment. “I’m c... More »
Former Barton resident, Christian Gilcris captured this photo of Saturday’s blaze at the south end of Barre on Boynton Street from the back side of Spaulding High School. A sign on the front of the building reads Lacross Memorials. Reports are that several nei... More »
MONTPELIER, Vt. (Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020) — The Capitol Police Department and Vermont State Police issue the following statement on the removal of disruptive protesters from the House Chamber at the Vermont Statehouse on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020:Shortly after Ver... More »
Montpelier, Vt – Vermont is once again the healthiest state in the nation, according to the United Health Foundation’s newly released America’s Heath Rankings annual report. The state moved up three steps to reclaim the top spot in the Foundation’s 30thyear do... More »
Joshua T.B. Williams, MD,a,c John Rice, PhD,b,f Matt Cox-Martin, PhD,f Elizabeth A. Bayliss, MD, MSPH,d,g Sean T. O’Leary, MD, MPHc,e,f BACKGROUND: Forty-five states permit religious exemptions to school immunization laws; 15 abstract allow personal belief ex... More »
