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3:40 Many Vermont communities will decide issues through Australian ballot rather than floor discussion and voice votes on Town Meeting Day Tuesday due to the pandemic.  This year questions range from land purchase approvals to cannabis sales. Most communities in Vermont will accept or reject their school budgets on Town Meeting Day.  In Burlington voters are being asked to approve a $95.1 million school budget.  Burlington School District Senior Finance Director Nathan Lavery outlines the proposed fiscal plan.  “One of the things that the budget incorporates is a significant number of ...

Architects rendering of CityPlace at St Paul and Cherry streets. by Timothy McQuiston, Vermont Business Magazine In a special meeting Tuesday night called by Mayor Miro Weinberger, the Burlington City Council voted unanimously to resolve litigation and execute the newly negotiated Amended and Restated (A&R) Development Agreement with the Developer of CityPlace Burlington. This is the next step in reconnecting St Paul and Pine streets and then rebuilding the demolished central section of the downtown mall and refurbishing the existing buildings. It requires developer Devonwood Investors to rec...

The Douglas County Courthouse is pictured in September 2018. A rural landowner wants to turn a former motel property into a facility for agricultural equipment sales and repairs, and a septic company wants to continue using a property near the North Lawrence neighborhood for truck storage. The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday will consider the two rural land use requests, one that planning staff recommended for approval and another that planning staff recommended for denial. According to planning documents, Pine Family Investments LC has requested a site plan for equipment sales and ser...

January 29, 2021 County reports five deaths this week; six new cases this week at Linfield Marcus Larson/News-Register##Sue Buel Elementary third grade teacher Laura Hyman gets her first COVID-19 vaccine shot from TVF&R paramedic Brian Pine with assistance from Ryan Niemeyer, during McMinnville School District's vaccine clinic. Yamhill County reported five new deaths from COVID-19 this week, bringing the county to a total of 53 residents lost to the disease. As of Thursday, the county had reported 3,367 cases. Also this week, the Oregon Health Authority announced it would no longer report det...

Black With a Capital B Why do you capitalize Black when you refer to Black people, but not white when you refer to white people? Is this something new? I notice Bob Woodward did the same thing in his most recent book, Rage. I really don't get it. Eric Johnson Editor's note: Seven Days began capitalizing Black when it refers to racial, cultural and ethnic identity last June, shortly before the Associated Press Stylebook formalized the same recommendation, stating that doing so conveys "an essential and shared sense of history, identity and co...