Jennifer Murray knows a thing or two about libraries. After all, she’s been working in them for more than three decades.
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Ethan Tapper hopped out of his truck and pointed his binoculars to the sky, scanning the tops of the trees on his 175-acre property in Bolton.
The South Burlington City Council approved a tentative bargaining agreement with library employees on May 6, concluding months of negotiations between the city and the newest cohort of unionized city workers.
A South Burlington woman has been sentenced in federal court to almost two years in prison for being an accessory after a fatal drug-related shooting of a Lamoille County man four years ago.
May 7 at 12:18 p.m., Lawrence G. Ritchie, 52, no address provided, was arrested on an in-state warrant on Dorset Street.
Orchard Elementary School in South Burlington revived a science fair for the first time since 2019. Twenty-eight students in grades one to five participated.
Audrey E. Smith of South Burlington, a 2016 South Burlington High School graduate, graduated from Babson College on May 11. She is the daughter of Douglas Smith and Brenda Balon and sister of Nolan Smith. Smith will be working for Ernst and Young in Boston in January. She is currently studying for the CPA exam and gardening at Wheelock for the summer.
Buoyed by an outstanding individual performance from Regina O’Leary, the South Burlington girls’ track and field finished fifth overall at the annual Burlington Invitational.
Last weekend, volunteer parents from South Burlington Little League softball, along with Ethan Bartlett, created a softball field at Jaycee Park. They prepped the hard, rocky surface and then moved 30 tons of infield mix onto the field.
South Burlington solar eclipse scenes.
On May 4, four South Burlington teachers and a South Burlington High School graduate sashayed down the catwalk set up in Hula’s glitzy Reef room in Burlington as part of the South End Arts + Business Association’s STRUT! fashion show.
Few prominent Americans are as associated with a place as Thomas Jefferson is with Virginia. The heart of Jefferson Country is his house and plantation at Monticello, but Jefferson traveled the breadth of his home state, from his time at William & Mary in Williamsburg to the new state capital at Richmond and his retreat and plantation at Poplar Forest, near Lynchburg.
The nonprofit Sail Beyond Cancer Vermont kicks off the season with a SPLASH! for Tranquility fund raiser on Saturday, May 18, 3-6 p.m., at the ECHO Center in Burlington.
The Vermont Garden Network is offering a free workshop on garden planning for raised beds on Thursday, May 16, 5 p.m., at the Davis Park raised garden in Shelburne.
I am running for re-election as representative for South Burlington’s Chittenden-9 District.
While the annoying wail of conventional lawn mowers has long been associated with summer, that sound is thankfully becoming less common with the growing popularity of battery electric lawn equipment.
I first announced my candidacy for the Vermont House of Representatives a decade ago. It has been an honor to represent my district for those 10 years, and I hope to return to the Statehouse in January to continue the important work of the Legislature.
Building accessible, affordable, quality health care for Vermonters is an overdue work in progress. Regardless of mixed results of past major reform efforts, Vermont’s goals to improve population health, advance health equity by reducing disparities in health outcomes and curb health care cost growth are possible.
There has been a great deal of discussion about affordable housing in South Burlington.
Dr. Louis Meyers has announced his candidacy for the Senate in Chittenden Southeast.
Recent arguments against increased density in population centers have used the tired refrain of “Vermont is not for sale.”
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