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AREA TOWNS – Vermont candidates for statewide and local legislative races had until Thursday, May 28. to file petitions declaring themselves as candidates for the primary election, scheduled on Tuesday, August 11. Independent candidates have until Thursday, Aug. 6, to file their petitions. In Senate races, incumbent Minority Leader, Caledonia[Read More…]
MONTPELIER – For years, Vermont’s opioid epidemic seemed to move in only one direction: worse. Each annual report brought another heartbreaking record number of overdose deaths, another reminder that fentanyl had tightened its grip on communities across the state. But for the first time in years, Vermont may finally have[Read More…]
MONTPELIER – If you wake up at 9 p.m. with a high fever, a worsening cough, or a child who just doesn’t seem right, you don’t have many options. You can wait and worry or you can go to the emergency room. More and more Vermonters are choosing the latter. Not because[Read More…]
WASHINGTON COUNTY – Vermont health officials have detected measles in Washington County wastewater. The finding triggered an alert to area health care providers, specifically those at Central Vermont Medical Center, in Berlin, to be on the lookout for the disease if patients come in with measles symptoms, which can include a[Read More…]
MONTPELIER – The Vermont Department of Health recommends that people in the impacted counties of Lamoille, Caledonia and Washington take extra steps to protect themselves and their community from whooping cough by checking that the family is up to date on whooping cough vaccine (Tdap or DTap). The vaccine work[Read More…]
ST. JOHNSBURY – On September 20, the Vermont State Police (VSP), St. Johnsbury barracks, initiated an investigation into an alleged road rage incident that resulted in gunfire and occurred on U.S. Route 302 in South Ryegate. Based on their investigation, troopers obtained New England wide and New York extraditable arrest[Read More…]
VERMONT – Median household income in Vermont ranges from a high of $94,310 in Chittenden County to a low of $58,985 in Essex County, based on 5-year estimates of median household income. In the Gazette area, Washington County ranks fourth in the state, with median household income at $79,853. There[Read More…]
AREA COUNTIES – Washington County residents averaged about $1.05 in debt for every $1 of income, the lowest 2024 debt-to-income ratio of any county in Vermont. Caledonia County residents had a debt-to-income ratio of 1.13, while Orleans County residents averaged 1.37 and Lamoille County residents 2.39. Grand Isle County had[Read More…]
VERMONT – The National Weather Service issued a Heat Advisory Saturday, June 21 at 1:50 p.m., effective through Tuesday, June 24 at 8 p.m. Heat index values up to 102 are expected from 11 a.m. Monday to 8 p.m. Tuesday in Vermont’s Eastern Addison, Orange, Washington, Caledonia, Eastern Chittenden, Eastern[Read More…]
