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Vermont's New Tax Credit for Low-Income Veterans Paid Out a Third of What Analysts Projected
The 2025 tax package was projected to return $13.5 million to Vermonters. About $10 million has gone out. Anyone who thinks they may be owed money can…
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The State Could Have Made Arrests Outside the Governor's Office. It Chose Bird Calls.
After months of fires, fights, needles and human waste on the porch of Montpelier's Pavilion building, where people had been sleeping, the state tried a…
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AdaptHealth Breach Exposed Health Records of One in 13 Vermonters
AdaptHealth sells and rents durable medical equipment — the industry term for medical gear people use at home rather than in a hospital or clinic.
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Vermont Capped Ticket Resale Prices on July 1. Six Weeks Later, a Brattleboro Venue Sued StubHub for $5 Million — in New York
Options under Vermont law were to file a consumer complaint and wait for the Attorney General. Its option under federal law was to sue for $5 million…
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Compass Points: A Shelburne Songbird Wintered in Belize and Came Home to the Same Farm
Every story that serves Vermonters has value, no matter who reports it. This one is from Audubon Vermont.
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Somerville Went Four Years Without a Traffic Death. Burlington Has the Same Playbook and a Fraction of the Staff
The difference is that Somerville put recurring money and people behind the playbook.
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Sunday Story Summary - August 16, 2026
We provide the data. You make the decisions.
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Vermont's Draft Rules Would Ban Autoplay, Infinite Scroll and Streaks for Minors
The office announced this week that it will take public comment on those drafts at three hearings in September, with written comments due on or before…
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Terry Precision Cycling Got Most of Its Tariff Money Back. Now It's Asking a Court to Unlock $11 Billion for Everyone Else
It cut $50 off a product hit by 145% tariffs as soon as the refund landed. Now the Burlington company is asking a court to do it for everyone.
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Four Summers After It Was Built, Vermont's 95-Mile Rail Trail Is Finally Whole
This is the first summer riders have had all of the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail.
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Free Firewood, No Income Test — But Requests Close in November
Every story that serves Vermonters has value, no matter who reports it. This one is from The Essex Reporter
A State Crew Practicing for an Oil Spill in Vergennes Got Called Away to a Real One in Burlington
DEC's oil-spill plans are called packets — one for each stretch of water. Vermont has 29, and most of the state's river miles don't have one.
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