Vermont News

ALSO: Cities and towns across Vermont have either adopted or are considering resolutions requesting the power to regulate guns; Interstate 89 in Richmond south of Exit 11 is back to its regular traffic pattern in both directions; A Burlington man accused of killing his wife and seriously injuring her mother in a meat cleaver attack more than five years ago has been found guilty of first-degree murder.

ALSO: A bear attacked a person in Winhall on Wednesday evening; Liam Madden’s former GOP rival has called for his withdrawal over campaign donation scheme; Emergency preparedness, assessing threats and responding to active threats were all up for discussion at Wednesday’s daylong Governor’s School Safety Conference.

ALSO: The Vermont Supreme Court decided last week that Caledonia County Probate Judge William Cobb will lose his salary beginning this week; The University of Vermont has been included in a $79,000 federal grant to study the impact of climate change on manufactured-home communities; The new chair of Vermont’s Green Mountain Care Board didn’t start out working in health care.

ALSO: Montpelier Police Chief Brian Peete is leaving for Kansas after just over two years of heading the police force in the capital city; A jury deliberated for about six hours Monday without reaching a verdict in the case of a Burlington man accused of killing his wife and seriously injuring her mother with a meat cleaver; Nearly 90 forlorn snowplows still lack names of their own, and the Vermont Agency of Transportation is turning to the kids again to remedy that.

ALSO: In a competitive Franklin County House race, a Statehouse advocate is challenging a two-term incumbent; For the third time in five years, the Franklin West Supervisory Union is asking Fairfax voters to fund major renovations at the district’s largest school; Liam Madden, the Republican nominee for Vermont’s lone U.S. House seat, described in detail a self-funded scheme to inflate his campaign donations during the primary cycle on air.

ALSO: More than 100,000 Vermonters have already voted in this year’s general election; Vermont students’ reading and math scores dropped between 2019 and 2022; The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington has filed permits to demolish the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Burlington.

ALSO: Democrat David Potter and Republican state Rep. Art Peterson are political opponents, but they’re also neighbors; Department of Corrections data shows that nine juveniles have spent more than 100 cumulative days in Vermont’s adult prisons since 2020; A 19-year-old Burlington man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Hussein Mubarak.

ALSO: The Peace and Justice Center’s waterfront store in Burlington is slated to close this December; State Sen. Joe Benning insists he doesn’t want to run for governor; Paul Rumley's obituary triggered many memories of a bygone era.

ALSO: State regulators have cleared the way for GlobalFoundries to set up its own electric utility; State lawmakers voted Monday to release $2.5 million in emergency funds to help schools deal with PCBs; John Klar has used his battles with Randolph schools over critical race theory, Black Lives Matter, transgender rights and equity as his clarion call in his run for the state Senate.

ALSO: A fired Franklin County Sheriff’s Department captain, caught on video in August kicking a person in custody, has been cited into court on a charge of simple assault; A Brandon man accused of threatening to shoot his neighbors was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison; The Burlington City Council has endorsed a plan to connect Battery and Pine streets by potentially removing part of the Independent Block building.

ALSO: Democrat Katherine Sims and Republican Vicki Strong are facing off in the only race in the state where an incumbent is guaranteed to lose; A number of business owners who supply wood to Ryegate Power Station say they haven’t received timely payments from Stored Solar, the facility’s owner; A man arrested last week in South Burlington is now facing murder charges in the fatal shootings of a former Vermont couple in New Hampshire in April.

ALSO: TenFold Engineering wants to revolutionize the construction of modular structures from Springfield, Vermont’s once-storied hub of precision manufacturing; The president and longtime member of the Missisquoi River Basin Association has purchased and is renovating a building in Berkshire to provide affordable housing to his staff; Mike Pieciak must still reckon with a hefty piece of political baggage: his role regulating the Northeast Kingdom EB-5 projects that became the largest fraud in the state’s history.

ALSO: In announcing plans to sue the agrochemical company Monsanto, the Burlington School District joined many other municipalities and individuals seeking damages for contamination caused by PCBs; Despite his pledge last November not to accept any corporate PAC money, Vermont’s Democratic Rep. Peter Welch has continued to accept sizable campaign contributions from high-powered industry groups that frequently lobby Congress; The new owners of the long-stalled CityPlace development told the Burlington City Council on Monday night that construction would begin this fall. 

ALSO: A 26-year-old man arrested Wednesday at the South Burlington Public Library is a “person of interest” in the murders of a former Vermont couple; Vermont and New York state police have arrested the man who authorities say has always been the prime suspect in the 1989 stabbing deaths of his in-laws in their Danby home; The Burlington School District announced Thursday it intends to sue Monsanto over contamination of Burlington High School via hazardous chemicals known as PCBs. 

ALSO: The court-appointed receiver managing Jay Peak Resort and Burke Mountain Resort as they emerge from financial scandal is seeking more than $1 million; WCAX has deleted the online version of a news story that garnered national attention and provoked a barrage of transphobic messages toward a transgender Randolph student and her family; Bennington County was rated “high” for Covid for the second week in a row by the CDC.

ALSO: Caledonia County Probate Judge William Cobb is running for reelection in November, despite a record of reprimands and a currently suspended law license; Stowe’s House seat has long been a Democratic white whale and the party sees this year’s election as an opportunity to flip it; Gov. Phil Scott appointed DCF Commissioner Sean Brown to a key role in the Agency of Administration.

ALSO: Two community-based organizations in Winooski are seeking to connect people of color by providing counseling and other supportive programming in private residences and backyards; The Vermont Statehouse has dropped its Covid vaccination and testing rules; A Saint Michael’s College sophomore took a week off from classes to aid Floridians impacted by Hurricane Ian.

ALSO: The Vermont Department of Health has analyzed patterns of repeat emergency room visits due to an opioid overdose; Homeowners around Lake Carmi have faced yet another summer of pervasive cyanobacteria blooms; Vermont got a boost in funding for federal grants aimed at growing exports.

Also: Lieutenant gubernatorial candidates Zuckerman and Benning take swings in VTDigger debate; Bennington County has ‘high’ Covid levels, CDC reports; UNH poll: Scott, Zuckerman hold double-digit leads in races for governor and LG

Also: August outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Franklin and Grand Isle counties results in 1 death; Vermont launches awareness project amid record-high suicide rates; Woodstock police sergeant cleared in June shooting