LUDLOW, VT – This past Wednesday, October 18, marked exactly 100 days since Monday, July 10, the date this year’s historic flooding began across Vermont. In this edition of Your Hometown Stories, we’re checking in on one of the hardest hit communities in the state: The town of Ludlow. Signs of damage and some closures […]
Barre, VT – Even before flooding started in Vermont back in July, the state was going through a hunger crisis. But in the wake of the natural disaster, hunger relief organizations statewide are now seeing near record-high demand. That includes the Vermont Foodbank, the state’s largest anti-hunger organization. Carrie Stahler, a public affairs officer with […]
Middlebury, VT – A little more than two weeks ago, six inches of rain fell in four hours in Middlebury, flooding homes and washing out roads for the second time in a matter of weeks. Residents dealing with the impacts of the floods say they aren’t receiving any recovery assistance from the Federal Emergency Management […]
Over the past five weeks, hundreds of small businesses across Vermont have been devastated by floodwaters, leaving many owners in need of an attorney to advise them on everything from negotiating with insurers to applying for federal aid. Now the Vermont Law & Graduate School’s Entrepreneurial Legal Laboratory, or VLSell for short, has teamed up […]