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Indiana company finalizes purchase of Vermont’s Gardener’s Supply
WCAX - Vermont
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August 13, 2025
SHELBURNE, Vt. (WCAX) - The estimated $9 million sale of Gardener’s Supply to an Indiana company is now complete. It’s the end of an era for Burlington-based Gardener’s Supply. Back in June, the employee-owned business filed for Chapter 11...
Planned state road construction for the week of Aug. 11-15
The Mountain Times - Vermont
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August 13, 2025
The Vermont Agency of Transportation (AOT) released its weekly report of planned construction activities that will affect traffic on state highways and roadways Aug. 11-15. The following are roads affected locally. Hartford Crews continue work on...
How good are school lunches in Vermont? Pretty good, report says
The Burlington Free Press - Vermont
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School in Vermont is starting up again, which means another year of school lunches. As a parent, you're not exactly there with your children to assess the cafeteria food's quality, but you would hope the school lunches are healthy and nutritious...
Vermont Shares Sensitive Data About Food Assistance With Feds
Seven Days - Vermont
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August 5, 2025
Vermont has turned over sensitive information to the federal government about tens of thousands of people who receive food assistance, a move state officials say was required but others called a breach of trust. The Vermont Agency of Human...
'An uphill battle': Housing developers in Vermont face 'an onslaught' of regulations and other challenges
Brattleboro Reformer - Vermont
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August 12, 2025
Editor's note: Today we begin a series of articles analyzing the housing crisis here in Windham County and all over Vermont. The series will be published over the next three days in the print editions of the Reformer and online at reformer.com....
Trump administration cancels Vermont solar grants for low-income communities
Environmental Health News
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August 12, 2025
Vermont will lose $62.5 million in federal funding for solar projects aimed at cutting electricity costs for low-income residents after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ended the Solar for All program. Austyn Gaffney reports for VTDigger....
How federal cuts to mRNA vaccine development will affect Vermont
VTDigger - Vermont
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August 12, 2025
Senior Manufacturing Science Associate Diane Morgan performs an analysis of plasmid DNA at Vernal Biosciences in Colchester on Tuesday, Aug. 12. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr....
Continuing drought affecting Vermont farmers, especially livestock farms
NBC5 - Vermont
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August 12, 2025
As dry conditions continue to spread across Vermont, one industry feeling the heat is the farms.Farm officials say a stretch of days without rain can really take a toll on dairy and livestock farmers, forcing them to supplement feed. Days without...
Ilona Maher Celebrates Her Birthday With Peak Main Character Energy and We Can’t Get Enough
Sports Illustrated - New York
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August 12, 2025
It’s Ilona Maher’s birthday today, and she’s celebrating with an Instagram post that is both stunning and totally on-point. In a duo of frames posted to the app, Maher provided her followers with two jaw-dropping images in a figure-hugging mid...
VermontBiz reveals inaugural 91 Influencers
Vermont Business Magazine
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August 4, 2025
Vermont Business Magazine It is with great excitement that VermontBiz Magazine celebrates the remarkable achievements of all the individuals chosen as the inaugural 91 Influencers here in Vermont. This prestigious honor highlights their unwavering...
Bliss Farm's Barn Dinners Bring Boston to Southern Vermont
Seven Days - Vermont
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August 12, 2025
Sometime around the late 1970s, a Chester-area newspaper profiled Alice Bliss. Alice and her husband, Bill, started a small farm on High Street in 1940, a quarter mile from the Windsor County town's main drag. "Kids have always found their way to...
Champlain Valley Fair fun goes on despite rising prices
WCAX - Vermont
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August 26, 2025
ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. (WCAX) - Tuesday was Senior Day at the Champlain Valley Fair, which means a few bucks off at the gate. But our crews spotted people of all ages having fun at the fairgrounds in Essex Junction on Day Five of the Best Ten Days of...
Ayotte taps Bryan Gould, a lawyer with Republican Party ties, for state Supreme Court
New Hampshire Public Radio
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August 27, 2025
Gov. Kelly Ayotte has announced her picks for two key state legal positions, tapping Concord lawyer Bryan Gould to fill a vacancy on New Hampshire’s highest court, and nominating Attorney General John Formella to serve another term as the state’s...
Quincy City Council approves two construction projects to address sinkholes
WGEM - Illinois
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August 12, 2025
QUINCY (WGEM) - Quincy City Council approved two construction projects were approved to fix underground infrastructure at two locations in town. Currently, the brick sewer lines underneath 22nd to 24th streets have caused a number of holes. The...
Vermont Engineer Revives Pay Phones as Free Hubs for Rural Calls
WebProNews
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August 4, 2025
Reviving Relics in Rural Connectivity In the quiet hills of rural Vermont, where cell phone signals often fade into oblivion, an electrical engineer named Patrick Schlott is breathing new life into a seemingly obsolete technology: the pay phone....
Vermont Engineer Revives Pay Phones for Rural Connectivity
WebProNews
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August 4, 2025
In the quiet hills of rural Vermont, where cellular signals often fade into oblivion, an electrical engineer named Mike Clements is breathing new life into a relic of the analog era: the pay phone. Clements, a tinkerer with a passion for vintage...
‘We believe food is love in action’
The Commons
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BRATTLEBORO-It's all about home grown and home cooking for Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU) school meals this year. The change to an independent, in-house school nutrition program came after decades of working with commercial food...
Vermont Green FC wins league championship after undefeated season
WAMC - New York
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August 4, 2025
Burlington, Vermont, is now home to not one, but two championship-winning soccer teams. Thousands of Vermont Green FC fans were celebrating over the weekend as the semi-pro club captured its league’s national title. An undefeated regular season...
Lt. Gov. John Rodgers says Vermont could learn from Stafford Technical Center
Rutland Herald - Vermont
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Lt. Gov. John Rodgers said other parts of the state could learn from Stafford Technical Center. Rodgers toured Stafford Monday as part of a visit to Rutland County that included stops at the Vermont State Fairgrounds and a Habitat for Humanity...
Trump cuts $62.5 million in promised federal funding to Vermont solar projects
VTDigger - Vermont
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August 11, 2025
Solar panels in Barre Town. File photo by John Herrick/VTDigger The federal government killed a program that was designed to reduce the cost of electricity for low-income Vermonters by installing millions of dollars worth of solar energy across...