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South Burlington Now Has Officers on the Bike Paths It Decided Not to Police
South Burlington police announced Aug.
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A Bermuda Charity is Paying to Send a First-Time Skier to Jay Peak
A charity in Bermuda is covering the entire cost of a February trip to Vermont for someone who has never stood in snow.
19 hrs ago
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The Best Cheese in New England Came From a Vermont Creamery That Didn't Exist Three Years Ago
Vermont has more than 40 cheesemakers, and thirteen of them medaled.
Aug 10
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Sunday Story Summary - August 9, 2026
We provide the data. You make the decisions.
Aug 9
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Every Reader Is an Editor Now — and Nothing Comes With a Full Ingredients List
We hope your experience with Compass Vermont inspires you to consider a paid subscription.
Aug 9
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Ray's Is Closing Its Essex Junction Market. It's Also the Hub of a Fish Trade Almost No Other State Allows
Vermont lets recreational anglers sell what they catch — almost nowhere else does. Most of that fish moves through Ray's. The closing notice covers one…
Aug 8
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A Federal Bank May Lend BETA Up to $1 Billion. Its Last Loan Projected 400 Vermont Jobs, and BETA Delivered.
What the money would build, what BETA has to deliver in return, and what has to happen before any of it moves
Aug 8
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Vermont's last second-home tax came in $6 million light. The new promises are seventy times bigger.
The state's own report says it can't yet count the houses, models a rate less than half what the biggest promise requires, and warns the whole category…
Aug 6
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A Packed Burlington City Hall, Six Hours of Argument, and One Word Everyone Agreed On
They just didn't agree on what it meant
Aug 4
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Parade Magazine Says Fewer People Are Coming to Vermont for Fall Foliage Than Ever. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Believe It.
The importance of asking where the number came from and how it got made, before deciding whether to believe what it’s being used to say.
Aug 1
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July 2026
A New Article in The Atlantic Features Burlington as a City That Said Yes to Drugs — and Wouldn't Reconsider
Other cities reversed course. The magazine casts Burlington as the holdout. Six days before it published, the council's Democratic majority moved to…
Jul 30
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Eight Years of Chittenden County Court Data Show — and Don’t Show — About the State’s Attorney Race
On Tuesday, August 11, the question is really this: has State's Attorney Sarah George's approach to prosecuting crime earned more time to prove itself …
Jul 29
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