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The Vermont Communications Union Districts Association (VCUDA) has elected new officers: President: Ellie de Villiers, Maple Broadband Vice President: Jonathan Baker, NEK Broadband Treasurer & Secretary: F. X. Flinn, ECFiber VCUDA consists of nine Communications Union Districts (CUDs), regional municipalities that have formed in Vermont to provide world-class broadband to unserved and underserved addresses in Vermont. Modeled on the Vermont League of Cities and Towns, VCUDA formed in November 20...

Senator Bernie Sanders announced in late December that he has secured over $42 million in federal funding to benefit 51 Vermont community projects, a number of which are located in Addison County. 

The state plans to close all walk-in Covid-19 vaccination clinics by Jan. 31, according to the Vermont Department of Health.

A bill introduced on Tuesday would eliminate the decades-old policy that allows sheriffs to take administration fees for their department’s contract work. It would also add to a list of unprofessional conduct definitions for law enforcement officers, which guides the Vermont Criminal Justice Council in evaluating police.

Legislators might reconsider how second-home owners pay property taxes. In more than a third of towns, they pay a lower rate than primary residents.

The Vermont Legislature is considering whether to allow continued pandemic-era flexibility in how and when the state’s 247 cities and towns decide local leaders, spending and special articles.Lawmakers passed several bills in the past two years...

Vermont will receive more than $100 million from opioid manufacturers and distributors in the coming years, its share of legal settlements intended to help combat...

Some 80% of Vermont communities in 2021 and almost 75% in 2022 used the temporary laws to replace shoulder-to-shoulder decision making with mailable ballots.

A Forest Service official shelved a plan to build a 10-person wilderness hut on the shore of Silver Lake, but expressed support for a shelter at another location.

Rep. Anne Donahue, R-Northfield, was a vocal opponent of Vermont’s reproductive rights amendment. She believes her advocacy work led to her removal from the House Health Care Committee.