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New Vermont laws for July 1 affect library books, bake sales and job ads
Vermont Public Radio
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June 30, 2025
Each year on the first day of July, a new slate of state laws kick in, timed to coincide with the start of the fiscal year. This latest batch of legislation makes financial aid accessible to undocumented students, requires salary ranges to be...
Vermont Legislature approves FY26 budget; introduces program boosting housing development
Green Mountain Times - Vermont
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June 26, 2025
The Vermont General Assembly concluded its 2025 Legislative Session at the end of May, having finalized a state budget and set the statewide education property tax yield for 2026. This year's legislative recap highlights key aspects of the budget...
Commentary | Samantha Sheehan: CHIP is a hand up for rural Vermont
Brattleboro Reformer - Vermont
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June 29, 2025
I want you to imagine a place in the heart of Vermont. Picture a little town, home to a small ski mountain and halfway between two of the Northeast’s largest ski resorts. It’s on a scenic byway. The Long Trail and White River run straight through...
Vermont pauses electric car mandate rollout
Green Mountain Times - Vermont
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June 25, 2025
CBT News has reported that Vermont has temporarily halted the implementation of its electric vehicle (EV) mandate. This decision follows the state's inability to meet the targeted zero-emission vehicle sales percentages set under California's...
Lawsuit seeks to stop logging project in NH’s White Mountains
Seacoastonline - New Hampshire
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A group of environmentalists have launched a legal battle to stop a logging project in the Sandwich Range of New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest. The Sandwich Vegetation Management Project, which was approved by the U.S. Forest Service...
How a DC Couple Built a Sustainable House On a Budget
Washingtonian
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July 7, 2025
For a young couple on a budget, buying a first home together, especially in a desirable neighborhood, can rival the search for Bigfoot: an impossible quest for a mythical object. Jack Becker and his now wife, Maddie Hoagland-Hanson, had the added...
The surprising shifts climate change is bringing to Vermont farms: rice paddies, peaches and saffron
VTDigger - Vermont
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June 29, 2025
Newbury farmer Jette Mandl-Abramson holds a mason jar of cured saffron in 2025. File photo by Spencer Robb/CNS Maeve Fairfax is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling...
Vermont banned plastic bags in 2020. How has that worked out?
The Burlington Free Press - Vermont
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A 2020 Vermont law banning plastic bags in businesses resulted in a 91% drop in their use. Paper bag use saw a minor 6% increase, suggesting the 10-cent fee didn't deter consumers. Approximately 70% of surveyed Vermonters viewed the plastic bag...
Northshire Bookstore presents poet Scudder Parker
Bennington Banner - Vermont
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MANCHESTER -- The Northshire Bookstore will host an evening with poet Scudder Parker to discuss his latest collection of poetry, "The Poem of the World." The event will be held on Friday, July 19 at 5:30 p.m. “Anyone reading Scudder’s poems knows...
Vermont Enacts Age-Appropriate Design Code Act
JD Supra - California
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June 24, 2025
On June 12, 2025, Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC), which will impose a range of obligations on businesses that offer online products, services, or features likely to be accessed by children...
US Homeowners Insurance Rates Rose 40.4% in Six Years: Report
Insurance Journal
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July 7, 2025
U.S. homeowners insurance rates rose 40.4% over the past six years, with the biggest increases hitting in the last two years, a new report shows. LendingTree’s 2025 State of Home Insurance Report shows rates from 2019 through 2021 remained stable,...
California’s plan to ‘Make Polluters Pay’ for climate change stalls again. Why oil companies are fiercely opposed
Los Angeles Times
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July 7, 2025
California lawmakers have for years vowed to hold fossil fuel companies liable for damages caused by their emissions, including worsening wildfires and floods and mounting costs of climate recovery and adaptation. But the state’s so-called Climate...
OVRCC Annual Meeting and awards ceremony
The Vermont Journal & The Shopper
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July 7, 2025
Iris Fischer-McMorrow (center) receives the OVRCC Member of the Year award. Photo provided LUDLOW, Vt. – The Okemo Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce (OVRCC) held its annual meeting on May 21, and it was a resounding success. The event featured a...
Village Roofs Shingled with Vermont Slate
The Hinesburg Record - Vermont
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June 28, 2025
By Roger Donegan As a crow flies low over Hinesburg Village it pans the rooftops in town center, including Town Hall, which structures are prudently protected from the elements of the four seasons by expanses of sheet metal, synthetic asphalt and...
Vermont Agricultural Hall of Fame to induct 3 from Franklin County
Saint Albans Messenger - Vermont
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June 23, 2025
ESSEX JUNCTION — Franklin County will be represented big time at the 2025 Vermont Agricultural Hall of Fame ceremony, when three individuals from the region will be inducted. Amy Maxham, a service provider and farmer from Highgate, will receive...
Deep-blue Arizona district up for grabs as Grijalva steps down
ABC News - New York
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July 7, 2025
PHOENIX -- For over two decades, much of southern Arizona was represented in Congress by Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva, a champion of environmental, immigrant and Native American causes who cast a large shadow in progressive politics. He staked...
Vermont officials urge caution to outdoor workers as heat advisory takes effect
NBC5 - Vermont
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June 23, 2025
Many will be looking for a place to keep cool this week in our region, with a heat advisory issued for Monday and Tuesday. As heat builds across Vermont, concerns are growing for people who work outside. Health officials say the temperatures could...
Chen: SOS for public health in Vermont
The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus - Vermont
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We Vermonters pride ourselves on Vermont’s being one of the healthiest states in the country. In 2024, Vermont ranked second in the widely respected United Health Foundation’s rankings and, in recent years, has been among the top five. Our...
Vermont migrant leader heads home after hundreds rally at her ICE appointment
Valley News - New Hampshire
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Hundreds of people gathered outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in St. Albans, Vt., on Friday, waiting to hear if Wuendy Bernardo, a migrant farm worker who has lived on a dairy in Orleans County for over a decade, would...
Vermont Community Foundation Uses Mission Investing to Create Impact
Seven Days - Vermont
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June 23, 2025
St. Johnsbury has been on the upswing. The largest town in the Northeast Kingdom, it’s now home to a newly reopened arts center, Catamount Arts; Dog Mountain, known for its Dog Chapel, which attracts passionate pooch lovers from around the globe;...