Chittenden News

A Killington family's home on East Mountain Road was heavily damaged in a fire Sunday afternoon that started in a wall in back of their woodstove.

The Montpelier City Council voted Wednesday to contact the state Auditor of Account's office, as well as private auditing firms, about reviewing the city's financial management systems and the 2004 overpayment to Scott Construction Inc.

"Matt Dunne is in the race for governor - pass it on," reads the headline over an under-construction Web site for the newest Democratic gubernatorial candidate.

SOUTH BURLINGTON - A man found running wearing no pants on a South Burlington bike path Saturday afternoon will face a Prohibited Act charge tomorrow in Chittenden District Court, police say.

U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders will likely make history this year when - for the first time ever - he brings a bill creating a national single-payer health care system to the floor of the Senate for a vote.

Police continue to investigate the robbery of two Chittenden Banks Tuesday. Police don't believe the hold-ups in Brattleboro and Swanton are connected, but both may be part of regional crime sprees.

SWANTON - Two Chittenden Bank branches in opposite corners of the state were robbed Tuesday morning.

DATE OF RELEASE: October 27, 2009 INCIDENT: Armed Bank Robbery CASE #: 09A204967 - Vermont State Police 09SW01126 - Swanton Police Department DATE/TIME OF INCIDENT: October 27, 2009 @ approximately 1039 hours LOCATION: Chittenden Bank located at 15 Canada Street in Swanton Village ACCUSED: Unknown at this time SUMMARY OF INCIDENT: At approximately ...

Vermont police are investigating two bank robberies that occurred this morning at opposite ends of the state.

The state of Vermont has begun setting up shop in schools vaccinating students against the H1N1 flu.

A representative from the Vermont School Boards Association told the Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union board Tuesday that governance studies are often expensive, time-consuming and "a lot of smoke but not a lot of fire." Winton Goodrich, associate director of the VSBA referred to more than 30 examples of supervisory unions or school districts ...

Dramatic 911 tapes were played in court Tuesday as a woman charged with killing her 16-year-old niece asked a judge to set her free pending trial.

The owner of a Milton junkyard lost a round in court last week but vowed to continue to fight.

The 15-member "Committee on the Financing & Effectiveness of the Vermont Education System in the 21st Century," empaneled earlier this year by the state Legislature, is holding a public meeting in Montpelier today to hear from the public and the University of Maine's Dr.

A panel charged with recommending changes to the structure and funding of Vermont's schools likely will propose small steps rather than major reforms such as consolidation of the state's 280 school districts.

Vermont's students are at the top of the class in math, but a gap remains between those living in poverty and those who are not.

Vermont should keep unemployment taxes high when the economy is doing well so that it will have the money to pay out benefits when the next recession hits, an unemployment attorney told lawmakers Tuesday.

Rutland High School student Sam Lucci learned some broadcasting tips from Rutland alumna and Fox 44 meteorologist Kerrin Jeromin Friday during an Audio / Visual Communication class.

In another potentially bankrupting verdict against the state's largest religious denomination, a Chittenden Superior Court jury ruled Friday that Vermont's Catholic Church should pay $2.2 million for negligence in hiring and supervising a pedophile priest.

The fortunate among us might grumble as we write our monthly checks or click online through bank accounts.