Minutes after voting to shut down Vermont Yankee , state Senate leaders summoned reporters to talk about "where we go from here." The lawmakers' answer: windmills, solar panels and methane-fueled "cow power." "We have an economic boom coming as a nation and as a planet, as we get off our addiction to oil and move to renewable [energy] technology," ...
Bruce Bjornlund, the town attorney for East Montpelier, made enemies at a meeting two years ago, and that bitter feeling has spilled over into the town's annual gatherings ever since.
Residents in the five towns that make up the Washington Central Supervisory Union will face various property tax increases if they approve their proposed school budgets on Town Meeting Day.
The Central Vermont Humane Society opened a new shelter Friday. It outgrew its old home in Barre, so it built a new shelter on Route 14 in East Montpelier.
Vermont U.S. Rep. Peter Welch and 25 of his congressional colleagues have called on the Boy Scouts of America to reverse its discriminatory policy against homosexuals, citing a decision by the organization to block an East Montpelier lesbian couple from serving as Cub Scout leaders with their son's troop.
Replacing the top Entergy Nuclear executive in Vermont is not nearly enough to answer the state's worries about the facility, the Douglas administration's chief utility regulator said Wednesday.
Armando Vilaseca, joined by U-32 principal Keith Garrett and state Department of Education officials, will announce the results from the New England Common Assessment Program on Tuesday.
Up to 2,000 members of Washington Electric Cooperative were without power for roughly two hours on Sunday and crews were still scrambling to restore service to nearly 500 of them at press time.