BOR Ice Rink Unlikely to Open This Season
The BOR arena’s ice rink is not expected to open for the coming skating season.…
Letters to the Editor, June 24, 2026
Montpelier Must Lead With Vision, Not Manage Decline To the Editor: We are all talking about the crisis Vermont is facing: a lack of…
Commentary: A Community Responsibility — Supporting Our WCUUSD Schools and Their Leaders
By Anna Matheson Over the past seven years, the Washington Central Unified Union School District (WCUUSD) has had five superintendents, including two on an…
Heat Wave! Local Cooling Centers Available
An alert from the city of Montpelier noted that the National Weather Service is predicting dangerously high temperatures for central Vermont this week, starting…
Kohn Ekes Out a Win; Local Options Tax Passes; Article 13 Gets a Thumbs Down
Montpelier has two new city councilors and a third incumbent who eked by her win by four votes, along with a newly approved local…
Flood Watch Issued in Central Vermont
The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a flood watch for central Vermont from Wednesday, Dec. 11, through Thursday morning, Dec. 12, according to…
1,700 Thanksgiving Meals; Giving Thanks (and Food)
1,700 Thanksgiving Meals National Life Group will be distributing 1,700 Thanksgiving meals this year, notes Beth Rusnock, president of the National Life Group Foundation,…
Suspected Double Homicide on Gallison Hill Road
The Montpelier Police Department spent most of Friday, Nov. 15, responding to and investigating a suspected double homicide on Gallison Hill Road. The road…
From the Editor’s Desk: Danger, Drought, and Community Support
The morning of Nov. 4, on the eve of perhaps one of the most important U.S. presidential elections in history, I heard yet another…
Bike Path Safety Concerns Grow as Harassment Incidents Increase
Parts of Montpelier’s bike path have become dangerous, according to a planning commission member who started logging incidents from children and adults who say…
With Election Day Looming, Early Ballots Should No Longer Be Mailed: Drop off in Person.
What’s scarier than a haunted Halloween? Not getting your vote counted during one of the starkest presidential elections in U.S. history. Election officials are…
Montpelier Commission Unveils Draft Emergency Response Plan
The Montpelier Commission for Recovery and Resilience introduced a draft emergency response plan at a public forum at Montpelier High School on Oct. 11,…
‘This is an Emergency’: Good Sam Seeks Donations to Keep People Sheltered; Winter Shelter Opened at Elks Club Oct. 1
The Good Samaritan Haven and others who work with unhoused people are sounding the alarm: As hundreds of people throughout Vermont continue to lose…
The Flood, Part II: Preparations Helped; Montpelier Largely Spared
Alerts of road closures throughout central Vermont continued to come in by 9:15 a.m., Thursday, July 11, after a night of flooding in the…
Heat Wave: Where to Cool Off in Barre and Montpelier
Barre City is opening hydrants, and Montpelier has designated six cooling stations in anticipation of what meteorologists are calling an unprecedented heat wave expected…
Third Water Leak on Park Avenue Gives UES Students a Day Off
By Cassandra Hemenway A “couple thousand pounds a minute” water leak on Park Avenue interrupted the school day for students at Union Elementary School…
Nobody Stayed at State Emergency Shelter; Homeless Advocates Scramble to Extend Motel Stays
Sixty people in Washington County were potentially without a place to sleep last week, when the state ended eligibility for many sheltered through Vermont’s…
Heard on the Street, Mar. 20, 2024
Paine Turnpike Closed for at Least 18 Months Paine Turnpike in Berlin, the road leading from Montpelier’s Berlin Street to Interstate 89, has been…
Town Budget, Local Options Tax, $1 Million Property Sale all Pass in Berlin
Nikki Haley and Joe Biden Win Presidential Primary Early Berlin Town Meeting results showed voters approved all the town articles including a $4.5 million…
Barre City School Budget passes by Two Votes
Unofficial election results in Barre City show that voters passed a $58,880,532 school budget by just two votes. Out of 1,388 total votes cast,…
Filibuster Cafe is Open for Breakfast (and Lunch)
Montpelier has a dedicated breakfast restaurant once more in the Filibuster Cafe at the corner of Elm and State Streets in an former bank…