Letter: Thanks for help with winter heat program On behalf of the Franklin/Grand Isle Food and Fuel Workgroup, I want to thank the community partners and the businesses who have stepped up so generously to ensure that some families in need will have warm hearths and homes as the winter season approaches.
Session at Milton School Tuesday night MILTON - Vermont's Public Service Board will hold a second public hearing on the proposed Georgia Mountain Community Wind Project here on Tuesday night.
Bushway Packing Inc. in Grand Isle is an organic-certified, small, custom slaughterhouse that has been cited three times already for animal treatment violations .
A coalition of Vermont animal welfare groups that sprang up following disclosure of alleged abuse of days-old calves at a Grand Isle slaughterhouse is urging the state to pursue animal cruelty charges in the case.
The attorney for a Grand Isle slaughterhouse shut down late last month on allegations of abuse of days-old calves says the person who secretly filmed footage that led to the closure provoked a plant worker to engage in some of the mistreatment caught on film.
The lawyer for a Vermont slaughterhouse that was ordered shut down for allegedly mistreating baby calves says the person who secretly filmed footage that led to the closure provoked a plant worker to mistreat the animals.
A special commission on judicial operation voted Friday to recommend a sweeping reorganization of the state's court system to unify its management, eliminate duplicative staffing and produce more than $2 million in ongoing savings in state and local taxes.
Grand Isle, Essex services in jeopardy ST. ALBANS - As expected, the final draft of the Commission on Judicial Operation report to the legislature recommends the near-closure of the Grand Isle and Essex County Courthouses.
ST. ALBANS -- Federal workers in Vermont who recently won back pay from private contractors who paid them under order of the U.S Department of Labor Saturday thanked two of the government officials and Sen.
GRANDE ISLE - Video recordings purporting to show cruelty to calves at a Grand Isle slaughterhouse prompted health officials to close it down Friday, a spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States said.
The Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties has scheduled four public H1N1 flu vaccination clinics in Chittenden County next month.
The Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties announced that the clinic held today in South Hero will likely be the last public seasonal flu clinic offered by the VNA.