Michael Tonn News Today

A court ruling last week gave Burton Snowboards the green light to relocate Higher Ground to its Burlington campus, but the neighbors fighting the project...

Governor Phil Scott announced on Friday $47.8 million in grants to support high-speed internet connectivity projects across Vermont. At least 10,234 households will benefit. The...

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Seven Days Cartoon Issue. Those early issues were especially ambitious. Originally conceived by cofounder Pamela Polston, the...

When Christine Hallquist, the director of the Vermont Community Broadband Board, bought her house in Wolcott last year, the home had never had internet installed...

I didn't want to leave the food table at the outdoor, all-you-can-eat seafood fest at 18 Elm in Waterbury, onto which chef Eric Warnstedt was dumping steaming pots of shrimp, mussels, clams, corn on the cob, sausage and potatoes. But I needed a quote from someone in the crowd, so I scanned the attendees. My goal was to grab a quick quote about steamers and get back to my preferred activity: eating.

Michael Tonn More than 1.6 million people worldwide have died of COVID-19 so far this year; more than 300,000 of them were in the United States, and 100 were in Vermont. The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the U.S. economy. Its driving up rates of depression, anxiety and overdose deaths, and causing record numbers of parents, mostly women, to leave the workforce to care for their kids. An...