Submitted The mean water level (shown with a red arrow) is the average height of a water body over time and often marks where plants no longer grow. Vermont’s DEC warns against permitted lake encroachment construction projects. During the […]
Category: State News
$15.5 million awarded to 46 manufactured housing communities for water infrastructure
$420,625 awarded to two projects in Brandon and Castleton Governor Phil Scott and the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) on March 8 announced $13.3 million in Healthy Homes Initiative awards and $2.2 million in Three-Acre Stormwater Initiative awards to help 46 manufactured housing communities […]
What is a ‘fair share’ to pay in state taxes?
Editor’s note: The following article is republished from the lieutenant governor’s March 6 newsletter. Today, I have an exceptionally important topic to talk about: taxes! Taxes have become a dirty word, and in many ways for good reason. Since the 1980’s there has been a significant […]
Vermonters rejected nearly one-third of school budgets
On Town Meeting Day 29 of 93 reported budgets were voted down By Ethan Weinstein/VTDigger Voters struck down close to a third of school budgets across Vermont on Tuesday, March 5, the highest proportion in at least a decade, according to […]
Pre-TMD: Flood grants and ed funding
The Vermont Legislature is now on its Town Meeting week break. It is an opportunity for us to go to town/information meetings, meet with constituents, and re-energize our personal batteries. My hope is to get to 12 town/information meetings this […]
Heating up
With self-imposed deadlines coming up to move legislation from the House to the Senate or vice versa, the pace of bills advancing is heating up. And being the second year of the biennium with elections coming up this fall, the […]
Dec. 18-19 disaster declaration approved for seven counties
Rutland and Windsor are among them President Joseph Biden has signed a major public assistance disaster declaration for seven Vermont counties to assist communities in recovering costs for the repair of public infrastructure damaged by severe storms and flooding on […]
Gardeners/farmers take note: USDA hardiness zones have changed
By Deborah J. Benoit, UVM extension master gardener There are countless things that can go right or wrong in a garden. Some of them are obvious: too much or too little water, diseases, pests and critters that nibble on […]
Nikki Haley wins Vermont, the first state to spurn Trump in primaries
By Glenn Russell/VTDigger Above: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley spoke in South Burlington on March 3. By Emma Cotton and Paul Heintz/VTDigger Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley won her first state in the Republican presidential primary on Tuesday […]
Education spending ticks down as state gets affirmation of what’s driving costs
By Ethan Weinstein/VTDigger Submitted The latest data from the shows a small decrease in projected education spending and affirms previously anecdotal evidence on the major factors causing a projected increase in education property taxes. Health care costs, construction, special […]