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How we did it Since fiscal year 2010, the size of the city's budgeted workforce has grown by about 116 positions. To calculate the figures, we used the full-time equivalent positions included in ...

Social studies teacher Phil Stetson was initially skeptical last year when Harwood Union Middle and High School announced that students could no longer use cellphones during the day. He'd seen how ...

61% of adults in Vermont drink, compared to roughly 52 percent of U.S. adults 10% of adults in Vermont report heavy drinking (more than two drinks a day for men and more than one a day for women ...

T he state of the housing market in Vermont is discouraging, to put it lightly. Late-night browsing of home prices on Zillow can make Ohio look enticing. Many Vermonters can rattle off a list of ...

B eaver was on the lunch menu at the Roy house. In late February, Brad Roy stood over an electric meat grinder in the kitchen of his family's Middlesex home. Sporting a reddish-brown beard and ...

In January, Walker, 24, declared for the NFL Draft, to be held later this month in Green Bay, Wis. According to draft pundits, the six-foot-three, 230-pound tight end out of Texas' Rice University ...

Bienvenue aux Canadiens! That’s the message Burlington is sending to its northern neighbors this summer by temporarily changing the name of Church Street to “Canada Street” — or “Rue ...

The price of health care plans in Vermont has doubled in six years, and hospitals expenses are rising rapidly. The prognosis for cost containment is grim.

Owners of a large Addison County dairy farm already found liable for polluting a neighbor's land want to expand, raising concerns that increased runoff could damage a public water supply and ...

Updated on December 9, 2022. Former University of Vermont men’s basketball star and current NBA player Anthony Lamb has been accused in a civil lawsuit ...

It began with a loud knock on the door. A sheriff's deputy asked Krag to get Jesusa, then broke the news: Peter had been found dead in his car from an apparent overdose. It was May 22, 2020. Krag ...