Read the latest news from regional and global sources, presenting different voices and perspectives.
Upper Valley representatives on Vermont school redistricting task force look for sensible solutions
Valley News - New Hampshire
·
October 7, 2025
Two Upper Valley educators with experience in reorganizing school districts are members of the task force charged with drawing a new school district map for Vermont. State Rep. Rebecca Holcombe, a Norwich Democrat, served as Vermont education...
Vermont Conversation: Sociologist Arlie Hochschild on the rise of the right in rural America
VTDigger - Vermont
·
July 9, 2025
Arlie Hochschild’s new book is “Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right” (The New Press, 2024). Photo by Paige Parsons The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and...
Vermont film gives voice to ‘quiet crisis’ facing boys and young men
VTDigger - Vermont
·
July 9, 2025
A camera operator from the Montpelier-based Well Told Films talks with a Vermont boy for the new documentary “Gone Guys.” Photo courtesy of Well Told Films Adjusting 90 pounds of gym weights, a Vermont teenager named Gabe introduced himself to a...
Border Crossings Decline at Vermont Port of Entry
The Newport Daily Express - Vermont
·
DERBY LINE- Crossings from Canada into the United States have fallen to their lowest level since 2023, according to recent data from US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). The Boston Field Office for the US CBP tracks inbound travelers crossing the...
Vermont's historic floods: Looking back on the floods of July 2023 and 2024
NBC5 - Vermont
·
July 9, 2025
into the weekend, a warming trend will begin. Hotter conditions will peak on Sunday ahead of a weak cold front, which will bring conditions a little closer to normal after rounds of showers and storms. Then a return to climatological afternoon pop...
Protect rural Vermont by supporting rural schools
News & Citizen - Vermont
·
While it’s summer and classrooms are quiet, school board work across Vermont is anything but. With the passage of H.454 and major education transformation on the horizon, school boards from Arlington to Canaan are deep in discussion, preparing for...
Editor’s Note: The Political Revolution Is Back
The Indypendent - New York
·
July 10, 2025
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made national headlines earlier this year when they barnstormed the western states. They drew massive crowds in places like Utah, Idaho, and rural California, vowing to take on the billionaires whose...
Community and Business News in Brief, July 9, 2025
The Montpelier Bridge - Vermont
·
July 10, 2025
Piggy Banks Stand in for Federal Food Bank Cuts The pigs have returned to Montpelier. If you’ve noticed large, metal, colorfully painted piggy banks throughout downtown Montpelier and wondered what they were about, wonder no more. Unlike...
Pennsylvania fines gay grandpa with stage 4 cancer $16k for protesting trans youth suicide
The Advocate
·
July 9, 2025
A Vermont grandfather has been ordered to pay over $16,000 in damages after gluing his hand to a Pennsylvania Capitol railing to protest lawmakers' indifference to transgender youth suicides. James Lantz, a filmmaker known online as "Angry Gay...
America's Top States for Business 2025: The full rankings
CNBC
·
July 10, 2025
To rank America's Top States for Business in 2025, CNBC scored all 50 states on 135 metrics in 10 broad categories of competitiveness. The fundamentals of the study, now in its 19th year, are the same as they have always been, identifying the...
UVM researchers study past floods to improve future outcomes after natural disasters
NBC5 - Vermont
·
July 10, 2025
After back-to-back summers of intense flooding in Vermont, local leaders, researchers and volunteers have taken steps to be better prepared the next time an extreme weather event hits the Northeast. On the anniversary of the floods in July 2023...
Local brewers team-up to celebrate 30 years of Vermont Brewers Association
Saint Albans Messenger - Vermont
·
BURLINGTON — Brewers across the state are making a toast to the Vermont Brewers Association this month in celebration of its 30th anniversary. The party will truly kick off July 18-19 at the Vermont Brewers Festival in Burlington, when 50 brewers...
Vermont Climate Superfund Lawsuits Pile Up: Advocacy Groups Join Defense
The Montpelier Bridge - Vermont
·
July 9, 2025
The Vermont Climate Superfund Law aimed at holding oil companies financially responsible for flooding and other damages caused by climate change is facing a flurry of litigation that Gov. Phil Scott anticipated when he declined to endorse the...
Pelin Kohn: A values-based response to homelessness in Vermont
VTDigger - Vermont
·
July 10, 2025
Commentaries are opinion pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters. Commentaries give voice to community members and do not represent VTDigger’s views. To submit a...
Meet the 11 people who will redesign Vermont's school districts
The Burlington Free Press - Vermont
·
Vermont's Redistricting Task Force, responsible for redrawing school district boundaries, has been formed. The task force aims to consolidate the current 100+ districts into roughly a dozen, adhering to Act 73's student population guidelines. The...
On the anniversary of Vermont’s summer floods, one village seeks to rebuild on higher ground
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
·
“It’s like looking at a dollhouse, you know?” said neighbor Lauren Geiger as she gestured toward the wreckage. “It’s so traumatizing for the people who’ve lived there to have to walk by this place all the time. It’s just heartbreaking, really.”...
Discovering Vermont’s essence in search for peace signs
The Charlotte News - Vermont
·
July 10, 2025
For the past year, Shawn Dumont and his kids Zoë (9) and Jasper (5) have been on a quest. Rather than seeking a grail, they’ve been crisscrossing Vermont in pursuit of peace signs to photograph. And they have found the Green Mountain State to be...
Farm raid in Vermont raises concern
The Antelope Valley Press - California
·
July 8, 2025
MONTPELIER, Vt. — After six 12-hour shifts milking cows, José Molina-Aguilar’s lone day off was hardly relaxing. On April 21, he and seven co-workers were arrested on a Vermont dairy farm in what advocates say was one of the state’s largest-ever...
rep becca balint addresses climate change and political tensions on social media
Burlington Standard - Vermont
·
July 9, 2025
Rep. Becca Balint, currently serving in the U.S. Congress representing Vermont's at-large district, recently addressed a series of issues on social media concerning climate change and political tensions. Her tweets reflect her ongoing concerns and...
becca balint discusses women's rights, corruption allegations, and vermont's flood recovery
Burlington Standard - Vermont
·
July 9, 2025
Rep. Becca Balint, a U.S. Congress member representing Vermont’s at-large district since 2023, recently shared her views on social media regarding several pressing issues. Born in Heidelberg, West Germany in 1968 and currently residing in...