VERMONT – The Federal Emergency Management Agency has already given out $6 million to Vermont individuals and households affected by flooding in early July, with less than a month to go before the application for FEMA aid closes for damage related to that storm. From July 10 to 11, Vermont communities[Read More…]
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Vermont State Parks Celebrate Hundredth Anniversary
VERMONT STATE PARKS – May 1 marked the one-hundred year anniversary of the Vermont State Parks. State parks are an opportunity for the Vermont community to experience the outdoors. They offer a variety of hiking, swimming, camping and picnicking opportunities. Mount Philo State Park in Charlotte, was the first state[Read More…]
New Student Enrollment at VSU Ticks Up
VERMONT – More than 1,700 first-year students are expected to enroll at Vermont State University, an increase of about 14% compared with fall 2023 and a sign of hope for the public, multicampus university. The roughly 200-student enrollment bump in the university’s second-ever fall semester, just over a year after[Read More…]
NEKCA and KURRVE Receive VCF Flood Recovery Grants
NORTHEAST KINGDOM – Northeast Kingdom Community Action (NEKCA) and Kingdom United Resilience & Recovery Effort (KURRVE) have received flood relief grants from the Vermont Community Foundation (VCF.) The Vermont Community Foundation has distributed $455,500 in flood relief grants over the past month to respond to devastating flooding around the state[Read More…]
Front Porch Forum Leaves Users Feeling Better, Says Washington Post
VERMONT – “On Front Porch Forum, politics is fair game but unkindness is strictly prohibited,” wrote Will Oremus in the August 10 Washington Post (WaPo). “Imagine an online community where substantive debates about Donald Trump, climate change and America’s culture wars nestle quietly alongside messages about lost rabbits and school board[Read More…]
Vermont in Top 10 States with Most Federal Disaster Declarations
VERMONT – Do natural calamities strike Vermont more often than other states? Many Vermonters might say yes, recalling the storm just a few weeks ago, or casting their memory back to last summer’s floods, or to Tropical Storm Irene, among others. A new report from a nonprofit research group indicates[Read More…]
How to Vote in Vermont’s 2024 Primary Election
VERMONT – To take part in the primary, Vermont residents must be registered to vote in Vermont, though they may still register on the day of the election. There are two ways to vote: Early voting by mail or in person, from June 29 to Aug. 12, and in person at a[Read More…]
Officials Warn Against Excess Dredging During Flood Recovery
VERMONT — State officials are urging locals not to dredge rivers during flood recovery efforts without guidance and permits from the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. Dredging has long been used as a strategy to clear debris from streams and rivers after heavy rains, but it “comes with significant risk[Read More…]
Anger over Act 181 bubbles up, lawmakers consider postponing implementation
VERMONT – Hannah Burrill, a real estate agent in the Northeast Kingdom, was floored when she learned while gearing up for her license renewal this winter about a slate of land-use law changes coming down the pike from Montpelier. To her, Act 181 seemed to represent an infringement on rural landowners’ property[Read More…]
