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4:12 The Burlington, Vermont City Council postponed consideration of a settlement agreement with developers of a downtown project and also chastised the University of Vermont during Tuesday evening’s meeting. In December, the University of Vermont Dean of Arts and Sciences, by direction of the college president and provost, announced that three departments, 12 majors, 11 minors and four masters programs would be eliminated due to budget shortfalls and low enrollments.  The cuts to the liberal arts programs has enraged some faculty, students and staff. At Tuesday night’s Burlington City C...

Campaign signs in Burlington With just four weeks until the election, Tracy would typically be upping his ground game about now. He'd be packing his Surly bicycle with lawn signs and flyers and hitting the city streets to drum up votes. In each of his other campaigns, meeting people has been his favorite part, he said. But the pandemic has forced him to campaign differently. Instead of house parties, Tracy has hosted online listening sessions with business owners and residents. Every mayoral debate is virtual, and dropping off campaign literature...

Youngstown Police patrolman Robert Giovanni, at left, is seen talking to Silverio Caggiano, battalion chief for the Youngstown Fire Department near a home in the 700 block of Roxbury Avenue that exploded and caught fire at about 10:05 a.m. Tuesday. Giovanni was patrolling nearby when he heard the explosion and put the man who was injured in his cruiser. Staff photo / Ed Runyan YOUNGSTOWN — A repairman working in a vacant house on Roxbury Avenue on the South Side suffered burns to the top half of his body when the house exploded just after 10 a.m. Tuesday. The explosion left the house a pile...

YOUNGSTOWN — The roof and steel frame are nearly all that remain of the former Dollar Tree store at 3003 Mahoning Ave. The building is being deconstructed in the coming weeks. Then, reconstruction of a nearly identical structure — also a Dollar Tree store — will go up starting in January. An unlikely arsonist, a 5-year-old boy, sent customers and employees scrambling for the exit Sept. 24, after he wandered around the store apart from his dad, according to Kurt Wright, Youngstown arson investigator. Surveillance video showed the fire racing up the wall in the right rear corner of the s...