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Burlington has released a schedule for its inaugural celebration of Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day and Freedom Day, this summer.

Tyeastia Green Shortly after moving to Burlington last year for a job in city government, Tyeastia Green pitched her new colleagues on celebrating Juneteenth. Green, the Queen City's first director of racial equity, inclusion and belonging, had fond memories of the holiday from growing up in Minneapolis. Yet Green, who was then the city's only Black department head, says she was met with confused looks when she first mentioned the event. It's a portmanteau of June 19, the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, lea...

Tue, 06/01/2021 - 1:34pm -- tim Vermont Business Magazine State Treasurer Beth Pearce today announced the names of twenty Vermont students who won this year’s prize drawing for the Treasurer’s Office’s Reading is an Investment financial education program. The winners were drawn from 2,419 K-6 students who completed all steps of the financial literacy curriculum, entitling them to the drawing for one of twenty $250 college savings accounts. “We’re incredibly proud of all our Vermont students who persevered through a challenging year of school closures and distance learning to take p...

The worst of the pandemic might be behind us, but the need for fresh vegetables and fresh air has never been higher, Vermont garden advocates say.

Aria Leff of the Malikians with a note from a care package she sent Seventy teams from across the state participated, including a group of 60 St. Albans teens and a pair of Springfield siblings. As the Challenge Master, I got an email every time one of them submitted an entry. After a snowstorm, I'd get a blizzard of submissions from kids who'd shoveled snow for their neighbors. On Tuesdays and Fridays, I'd hear from teams that listened to Gov. Phil Scott's COVID-19 press conferences. As Town Meeting Day approached, debate watching spiked in popula...