Featured Stories

A teenage driver fined $220 for her part in a double-fatal car crash that killed an elderly Addison County couple in September 2020 in Charlotte was among those arrested at an anti-Israel encampment at Columbia University in New York City last week.


Common Roots, the South Burlington-based nonprofit farmstead, is asking the city for an allocation of American Rescue Plan Act funds to help the organization purchase land for a new facility.

As the fourth hour of Wednesday night’s school board meeting waned, the South Burlington School Board adopted its third proposed budget of $68,082,002 and warned a vote for May 7.

MycoLab, the community branch of MycoEvolve, is holding ecological restoration workshops at Shelburne Farms, 1611 Harbor Road. Volunteers will grow skills in non-chemical removal of nonnative plant species, tool safety and plant identification.

American Abenaki people in Vermont were and are culturally competent in many types of Indigenous hunting and trapping techniques as well as the use of traditional hunting spirituality. They have used sophisticated Native American technologies such as canoes and snowshoes to get to hunting grounds, stayed in the field in wigwams or tents, fished with spears and handlines, hunted and killed game with lances, bows and guns, and brought it back to camp for processing.

The House Committee on Judiciary has focused on public safety during the decade I have served as a representative. This year, the committee has passed bills to address retail theft, trespass into motor vehicles, domestic and sexual violence and the backlog of court cases.

Common Roots is requesting $400,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds to acquire land to expand on the organization’s mission. I am writing to ask the city council to deny the request because it will not benefit a large part of our community and will increase the inequity between the southeast quadrant and the rest of the city.

Senate bill S.258 has passed and is now in the Vermont House of Representatives. This bill was pushed by and written in cooperation with animal rights groups.

Two of the four modern languages currently being taught at South Burlington High School are potential victims of the failed school budget votes. The teachers of German and Japanese have been issued RIF, or reduction-in-force, notifications that their current positions have been eliminated, and since each of these programs employs only one teacher, students could be robbed of their opportunity to learn these languages.

In the April 18 issue of The Other Paper (“Ethics panel: no violation against Sen. Ram Hinsdale”), Sen. Ram Hinsdale tried to defend herself against the conflict-of-interest complaint filed by 14 Vermonters. Here are examples of the senator’s flawed defense.

The availability, affordability, and yes, safety, of housing will make or break a community, its economic vitality and its social vibrancy. If there is one thing that unites us, it’s that we all recognize the affordable housing crisis in Chittenden County and Vermont.