An ethics complaint filed in February against Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale citing her husband’s work in real estate was dismissed by a five-member committee last week.
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“Form follows function.” Those are the words that renowned Vermont architect Marcel Beaudin lived by during his 70-year career. Although he died in his home at the Residence at Shelburne Bay March 29 at the age of 95 and 11 days, Beaudin and his modernist design legacy live on in the more than 1,000 projects he completed in his lifetime.
April 8 at 2:28 a.m., a man reported a domestic incident between him and his wife. Police arrived at the Shelburne Road residence and helped mediate but the persons involved refused assistance and denied all services offered.
The Vermont Flannel Company has purchased the assets of Vermont Teddy Bear, the largest manufacturer of teddy bears in North America and a massive Shelburne destination hot spot.
Eleven-year-old New Jersey native David Danese pressed his eye against the magnifying glass of his giant Dobsonian telescope, using his right hand to gently move the lens into perfect focus.
On Saturday, March 30, nine students in grades six to eight represented Mater Christi School in Burlington at the 2024 Vermont Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fair at Norwich University. Six students were recognized with awards, including Ryan Schreiber of Shelburne, who wo…
Ute Otley, who has led Champlain Valley Union High School to eight state titles has been tapped to lead the Norwich University women’s basketball program.
Shelburne solar eclipse scenes.
Champlain Valley Quilters holds its annual quilt show, “Seams like Spring,” with featured artist Karen Abrahamovich, Friday to Sunday, April 26-28. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and noon-4 p.m. on Sunday.
Howard Center’s Spring Community Education Series presents a free panel discussion, “Substance Use and Our Community,” with moderator Beth Holden, the center’s chief client services officer in the auditorium of dealer.com, 1 Howard St., Burlington, on Monday, May 2, 6:30-8 p.m.
Masonry has always been a presence in the Green Mountain State. From the first settlers to the present, Vermont Masons have made a difference in their communities.
On April 6, Shelburne’s Equity and Diversity Committee held a retreat to create a charter and prioritize work in the coming fiscal year. The group was created in 2021 by the selectboard “To recommend to the Selectboard actions to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in all activities of town government and assist in mobilizing community and external resources for the same.”
The Burlington Garden Club welcomes speaker Polly Ericksen, inaugural director of the University of Vermont Food Systems Research Center to its next monthly meeting, Tuesday, April 23, 1 p.m., Faith United Methodist Church, 899 Dorset St., South Burlington.
United Church of Hinesburg’s 2024 plant sale continues a 50-plus year tradition. The online sale of locally grown perennials and beautifully packaged homemade biscotti runs through Saturday, April 20, with orders ready for pick up on Saturday, May 4.
In every season of the year, birders may stumble upon the unusual: a western flycatcher with misguided migration; an arctic owl wandering south; or a far-flung waterfowl from across an ocean. How do these birds end up in our little state, and what can they tell us about our changing world?
On Feb. 13, 14 Vermonters filed a conflict-of-interest complaint with the Vermont Senate Ethics Committee accusing Sen. Ram Hinsdale, chair of the Senate Committee on Economic Development, Housing, and General Affairs, of advancing and promoting the financial interest of her family’s vast real estate holdings by helping craft and approve language in a bill she sponsored that will benefit her family’s fortune.
Recent town meeting votes against school budget proposals were not a just a wakeup call about property taxes. It was a reminder that the school funding system needs major repair.
Vermont stands as a beacon of community values. Yet, beneath this facade, the education system has harbored inequities for decades that undermine these very principles.
Under political pressure from animal rights groups, in coordination with a national organization, Senate bill S.258 was passed and is now in the Vermont House.
A woman I was close to for most of my life gave up her license to drive because she didn’t want to be responsible for injuring someone else, inadvertently or otherwise. She was about 68 years old.
Last month, many Vermont towns defeated their school budgets, including the Champlain Valley School District. To be exact, 29 of 95 school districts statewide voted no and a key reason is the perfect storm of causes that generated higher than usual property tax increases to fund education.
While the revised Champlain Valley School District budget comes up for a vote on Tuesday, April 16, it is about more than the finances and operation of the school district but the result of accumulated legislative acts that drive the funding and delivery of education in Vermont.
I am the new chair of the Champlain Valley School Board. I have two children in CVSD schools — a sophomore at Champlain Valley Union and a sixth grader at Charlotte Central School — and I am in the unenviable position of being a new board chair without a passed budget.
As we are about two thirds of the way through the 2024 legislative session, I wanted to highlight and speak to the three topics I’ve been contacted about the most this year.
I recently completed an empowerment self-defense course, one specifically designed for women like me who have experienced physical or sexual assault. Initially, I felt skeptical. So much harm had been done to the core of who I am and to my sense of safety in this world, I figured it was too late for me. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
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