COVID-19

After a COVID-caused delay, Wardsboro meets

WARDSBORO- Residents ranging from as young as 11 days to 85 years showed up to the postponed, in-person 236th annual Wardsboro Town Meeting in a white tent on the Town Hall lawn.
After a rousing play fight between a few dogs who later returned covered in mud, and a bit of trivia with...

Gov. Phil Scott

Gov. issues vaccine challenge to Vermonters

MONTPELIER- At his COVID-19 emergency briefing on Friday, Gov. Phil Scott Issued a challenge to Vermonters, promising to lift COVID-19 restrictions the day it’s determined 80% of Vermonters have been vaccinated with at least one dose. Agency of Human Services Secretary Mike Smith said...

Department of Financial Regulation Commissioner Michael Pieciak

Vermont leading country in vaccination rate

MONTPELIER- Vermont continues to lead the nation in vaccine uptake, and the results can be seen in falling COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, state officials said Tuesday.
Agency of Human Services Secretary Mike Smith the state is closing in on the milestone of 400,000...

Newly-elected Dover Selectboard members were sworn in at Wednesday evening's special meeting. ME

Dover drops masks

DOVER- Following their reorganization after Tuesday’s election, selectboard members rescinded the town’s mask resolution signed nearly 11 months ago.
Vicki Capitani, who had been reelected selectboard chair during the reorganization, asked board members and the public if the mask...

The crowd at the 2010 Wilmington Old Home Week Parade

Old Home Week is good to go

WILMINGTON - Old Home Week planning committee chair Nicki Steel says as long as things keep moving in the direction they are, Old Home Week is a go for this year.
“We need it,” says Steel. “We waited an extra year. It’s going to be a party.”
Wilmington’s Old Home Week, a 130-year-...

Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine File Photo

Mobile vaccine sites coming to the valley, state ready to expand program

MONTPELIER- Vermont will begin vaccinating 12- to 15-year-olds as soon as this week, pending guidance from the CDC, officials said, and walk-in mobile vaccine sites are coming to the Deerfield Valley next week.
“Barnstorming” events, as Vermont Agency of Human Services Secretary Mike...

District will end year with a budget surplus

WARDSBORO- On Monday, May 3, the River Valleys Unified School District board began their regularly scheduled meeting with a budget informational meeting.
Wardsboro School Principal Tammy Bates and board chair Rich Werner were both at the Wardsboro Town Hall in person to hand out absentee...

Dr. Mark Levine

State expands vaccination program to include walk-ins

MONTPELIER- Gov. Phil Scott acknowledged National Nurses Day, and Nurses Week at his briefing Friday, and announced new opportunities for walk-in and drive-through vaccination. Younger Vermonters, especially ages 18 to 30, should sign up, Gov. Scott said. “Vaccinations mean no more masks, larger...

Gov. Phil Scott

Gov. says vaccine supply to remain steady for now

MONTPELIER- Vermont’s COVID-19 vaccine supply will remain steady over the next several weeks, according to Gov. Phil Scott, following his weekly call with federal health officials.
The “good news,” Gov. Scott said, is that a change in the distribution system may provide Vermont with an...

Vermont Department of Labor Commissioner Michael Harrington

State says UI claimants must now look for work

MONTPELIER- Vermont Labor Commissioner Michael Harrington announced the reinstatement of the work search requirement for unemployment claims at the administration’s COVID-19 emergency press conference on Tuesday.
The unemployment work search requirement was suspended about a year ago under...