Vermont

Girl Scout cookies come to valley

VERMONT - Now is the time to stock up on a favorite flavor of Girl Scout cookies. Or maybe try a new one. Since last Friday Girl Scouts across New Hampshire and Vermont have been running their very own cookie businesses with booths popping up in places people like to shop.
For example, on...

Earned Income Tax Credit links to 3SquaresVT

VERMONT - This tax season, more people than ever before will qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit. People who worked during 2021 may qualify for a financial boost of up to $1,500 if they don’t have children or up to $6,700 if they do have children by claiming the EITC. Additionally, any...

Homeowner Assistance program accepting applications, part of ARPA

VERMONT - Gov. Phil Scott and the Department of Housing and Community Development announced that the Homeowner Assistance program, which will help Vermont homeowners facing pandemic hardships, is now accepting applications.
The program, funded by $50 million from the federal American...

Better Places program supports community-led projects

VERMONT - Better Places is a community matching grant program empowering Vermonters to create inclusive and vibrant public places serving Vermont’s designated downtowns, village centers, new town centers or neighborhood development areas.
The program is led by the Vermont Department of...

Workshops

Printmaking BRATTLEBORO - Daniel Chiaccio will demonstrate the basics of monotype printmaking at First Proof Press on Saturday, February 12, at 2 pm. This event is presented in partnership with the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.
Monotype printmaking is an ideal...

Senate Pro Tem Becca Balint

Report highlights issues facing Vermonters

MONTPELIER - In January, the office of Senate Pro Tem Becca Balint released a report that synthesized the findings of a public engagement period held by Balint and House Speaker Jill Krowinski. The report details Vermonters’ concerns about the state’s biggest challenges. Voices from Windham and...

Lawsuit has its day in court

Whitingham arguments on education disparities heard by justices
MONTPELIER- Attorneys in Boyd, et al., v. state of Vermont, an education funding lawsuit filed by the town of Whitingham and two of its residents, argued their case before the Vermont Supreme Court last week....

Rep. Peter Welch

Welch holds online session with child care educators, hears their problems

VERMONT- On Wednesday morning, Rep. Peter Welch held a virtual round table with early child care educators in Vermont. They discussed issues that their industry has been facing over the past two years and what supports and changes they need from elected officials as well as what they have done to...

Share some love, write a letter to your town

VERMONT - It’s year two of the pandemic and everyone could use a little love. That’s why Come Alive Outside is asking Vermonters to help boost the morale of their community, themselves, and their neighbors by telling the world what they love about where they live.
Come Alive Outside’s...

Celebrate winter with “Walk to School” day

VERMONT – Embrace the Norwegians’ wintertime secret for a healthy mind, body, and emotional well-being. Cool that cabin fever with a refreshing winter walk to school, work or the grocery store.
Whether or not people and their families have fun this winter could be all about how they...