Homeless citizens are out of view, but they’re still there

Frigid temperatures and the recent removal of Middlebury’s largest encampment behind the Ilsley Library has temporarily made homelessness more of an unseen problem in the county’s shire town. So where did the folks go?

Vergennes Police Sergeant Adam O’Neill knew quickly on New Year’s Eve that the woman calling the station was upset. City homeowner Tracy Tembreull was reporting the theft of an item from her family’s South Maple Street front porch. It was an item that in … (read more)

A new food truck in Bristol is looking to offer more than a good bite to eat. The BEATs Eats food truck is run by Bristol resident Daniel Lyons and is aimed at providing employment, advocacy and support for a diverse cohort of local youth.

Patricia Hannaford Career Center (PHCC) directors are proposing a fiscal year 2026 spending plan of $5,704,280 to deliver vocational-technical education to students from most Addison County towns. This ask represents an 8% increase compared to this year.

Addison County lawmakers are particularly well positioned for the next two years to influence state policy related to education, spending, human services and the environment.

Barring an eleventh-hour adjustment, the Middlebury selectboard on Jan. 28 will send voters a proposed fiscal year 2026 municipal spending plan of $14.5 million.

An early Wednesday morning water main break under Monkton Road cut off water to major portions of Vergennes and Ferrisburgh and ended classes for the day at Vergennes Union High School and Ferrisburgh Central School.

Hello all you creative folks out there — it’s time to slip into deep thought and put fingers to keyboard for the Seventh Annual Weybridge Haiku Contest.

In 2020, Joanna Colwell launched a radical program at her yoga studio in Middlebury. The Yoga Equity Project would pay people of color to take classes there. The idea was to make Otter Creek Yoga a more inclusive space by breaking down two of the barriers … (read more)

The East Middlebury resident, who is better known for his three decades of teaching yoga in our area, began powerlifting competitively in 2020.

By early this week, life in the Addison Northwest School District had largely returned to normal, or as much as could be expected, after the Jan. 7 ransomware cyberattack took most of the district computer servers offline and compromised a still unknown a … (read more)

As the Addison Northwest School District struggled with a ransomware cyberattack last week, officials at the other two big school districts in Addison County were assuring folks that they had taken steps to ensure that they wouldn’t be similarly imperiled … (read more)

When Vermont Democrats lacked a gubernatorial candidate the afternoon of the primary deadline in August 1972, Rockingham lawyer Tom Salmon, in the most last-minute of Hail Mary passes, threw his hat in the ring.

Lincoln residents could soon weigh in on whether the town should explore development of an ordinance for ATV use on Lincoln roads.

Vermonters made a total of 3,533 scam reports to the Attorney General’s Consumer Assistance Program (CAP) in 2024.