Lowell News

Heavy storms batter Vermont wreaking havoc throughout the state. Some received only a sprinkling; other cities and towns got hammered.

Few people get to enjoy the views of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom that Catherine Morrell and her colleagues do.

On Town Meeting Day, residents in Lowell and Eden will be asked whether they support making the abandoned asbestos mine on Belvidere Mountain a federal Superfund site.

The big news this week is that the long -awaited mercury standards for mercury emissions from coal plants are now on the books, published yesterday in the Federal Register.

Voters in two northern Vermont towns are going to decide whether to ask that an abandoned asbestos mine be declared a federal Superfund hazardous waste site so it can be cleaned up and eventually redeveloped as a biomass power plant.