The youth swim team in Vergennes handily defeated the team from Winooski in a Thursday meet.
In the 11th hour for adopting a budget for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25), Vergennes officials calculated there would be enough of a surplus left over from the current fiscal year to limit the increase in the city property tax rate needed to support municipal sp … (read more)
In addition to celebrating its 150th anniversary, the parish is also embarking on a major fund-raising effort for a project that echoes the labor of its parishioners in the early 1870s, when they built the church with their own hands on its current 85 Sou … (read more)
The re-imagination of the Tri-Valley Transit bus shelter in downtown Vergennes is blooming into reality.
At their next-to-last meeting to discuss the city budget and tax rate for the upcoming 2024-2025 Fiscal Year (FY25), Vergennes City Councilors on Tuesday edged toward adopting a spending plan that would raise the city’s current $1.06 municipal tax rate by … (read more)
One plan discussed during both June 11 and June 18 Vergennes City Council budget deliberations would change how the city would handle overnight winter parking on its streets.
A June 5 gathering of about 40 city residents and officials at the Vergennes Opera House heard leaders of the Department for Children and Families and the Department of Buildings and General Services make the case for siting a locked facility for “justice … (read more)
Major improvements to the city of Vergennes Sam Fishman Memorial Pool wrapped up on Saturday included upgrading the filtration system, a new pool lining, improved lighting, new roofing on the pool house, and a second handicap access to the pool itself.
Bixby Free Memorial Library Director Catharine Findiesen Hays called the institution’s May 31 “Celestial Soiree” fundraiser at the Main Street library “an astronomical success” in a Monday interview with the Independent.
The latest project for the Vergennes Leos club, a civic-minded youth group sponsored by the Vergennes Lions Club, will help aging and/or disabled city residents more easily pursue their passion for gardening, and it’s also teaching carpentry skills to clu … (read more)
The Department for Children and Families next week will hold a public meeting about its recently announced plans to build a secure youth treatment center, called the Green Mountain Youth Campus, in Vergennes.
Cornerstone Solutions LLC of Vergennes has resumed construction on two condominium/apartment buildings at 1-3 West Main St.
Back on July 5, 1999, the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes first opened its doors under the guidance of founder Sam Allo. It was then based in the Vergennes National Guard Armory on Monkton Road.
Michael Jackman served in the Coast Guard from 1965-1969, including a tour in Vietnam.
After nearly three years in the making, the water project sponsored by Vergennes Rotary and the Catholic Migrant Ministry of Addison County in San Jose Monteverde, Mexico, is now completed.
