Julie Basol steps down from city role

The leader of the Vergennes Partnership has decided to leave her post. Julie Basol said in a Wednesday email to friends of the Partnership that she will step down from her role as executive director of the organization, effective mid-December. 

What exactly is planned for the Green Mountain Youth Campus juvenile facility on Vergennes’s Comfort Hill?

It looks like the vast majority of the Ilsley Public Library’s book collection will repose in Vergennes for around 17 months while the Ilsley’s historic headquarters at 75 Main St. in Middlebury is being renovated and expanded beginning early next year.

The overall residential tax rate in Vergennes — including rates to support both municipal services and Addison Northwest School District schools — rose by almost exactly 21 cents, or 7%.

Thanks to the generosity of numerous area organizations and individuals, the Vergennes Community Food Shelf recently made several upgrades inside their building to use existing space more efficiently, make the shopping experience for clients more convenie … (read more)

The Vergennes City Council backed a request from the city fire department to tap the department’s Ray Davison Fund, which is not taxpayer money, for $25,000 to buy a used pickup truck from the Williston Fire Department.

The Vergennes City Council reviewed a draft proposal last week that would ease the requirement that local residents have to move their cars off city streets every night between Dec. 1 and March 31.

If you’re looking for an opportunity to enjoy locally made food, live music, and learn more about energy-related topics — look no further.

The Vergennes City Council on Aug. 27 approved a $40,000 city loan to downtown ice cream business lu*lu to help it expand the company’s manufacturing/wholesale end into an undisclosed location elsewhere in Vergennes.

The Vermont Department of Health strongly recommends limiting evening time outdoors in high-risk areas due to the threat of Eastern equine encephalitis. Vergennes, Whiting and Cornwall are at slightly higher risk.

The Vergennes Opera House’s planned All Access Project got a boost last week when the Department of Housing & Community Development awarded the city theater a $150,000 Community Development Block Grant (CBDG) toward completion of that planned effort.

Sweet Charity in Vergennes has a unique auction going on now until Aug. 30. Inspired by their own name perhaps, or the abundance of chairs in their store, they are auctioning custom chairs refurbished by their own volunteers — a “Sweet Chair-ity” event.

It’s a sesquicentennial celebration! The Bixby Library will host an exhibit and talk to honor the building of St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Vergennes.

As Labor Day approaches and we all begin to think about the end of summer, celebrate with a big bang at the 42nd annual Vergennes Day, which return to the city’s downtown green on Saturday, Aug. 24.

Vergennes Champs swimmers combined to win 27 individual titles and claim third place as a team in Division I of the Vermont State Swim Association’s championship meet, held on this past Saturday and Sunday in the Upper Valley Aquatic Center in Hartford.