Meaghan Emery, associate professor of French at the University of Vermont and a former, longtime South Burlington city councilor, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award for France for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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Scenes from Chittenden County during the 2024 Solar Eclipse.
The two-day festival spanned two days and drew hundreds of people to enjoy cocktails, food trucks, live music and an indoor-outdoor market.
The suspect in an arson case at the Burlington offices of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders had his travel bags packed and his Shelburne hotel door barricaded when authorities tried to arrest him Sunday, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
When Richard Gagne, then 27, joined an informal committee four decades ago to discuss expanding volunteer opportunities to assist people in prison in Vermont, his rookie career path already indicated a strong interest in helping people.
April 1 at 1:37 p.m., police responded to a simple assault on Shelburne Road.
A years-long court case opposing a housing development in South Burlington’s Wheeler Nature Park is headed to trial but appears destined to be appealed to the state’s highest court.
South Burlington police are looking for a person suspected of burglarizing a home in the Oak Hill Drive Area.
A second try at passing a South Burlington school budget failed by 150 votes last week.
The South Burlington School Board appointed Christopher Trombly to fill the open seat vacated by Alex McHenry.
Paige Poirier, a senior at South Burlington High School competed on March 15-17 for the Vermont team at the Eastern High School Championships. After three individual events, she was 27th overall (98 skiers) and the 12th for the Vermont girls’ team.
South Burlington’s Tyler Bergmans was named to the Vermont Basketball Coaches Association all-star roster.
South Burlington solar eclipse scenes.
The Burlington Garden Club welcomes speaker Polly Ericksen, inaugural director of the University of Vermont Food Systems Research Center to its next monthly meeting, Tuesday, April 23, 1 p.m., Faith United Methodist Church, 899 Dorset St., South Burlington.
United Church of Hinesburg’s 2024 plant sale continues a 50-plus year tradition. The online sale of locally grown perennials and beautifully packaged homemade biscotti runs through Saturday, April 20, with orders ready for pick up on Saturday, May 4.
In every season of the year, birders may stumble upon the unusual: a western flycatcher with misguided migration; an arctic owl wandering south; or a far-flung waterfowl from across an ocean. How do these birds end up in our little state, and what can they tell us about our changing world?
The shelves of the South Burlington Food Shelf are looking very bare so if anyone wants to canvas a neighborhood, business or organization, Rep. Emilie Krasnow can provide bags and boxes to help.
Now that we are in the wake of our second defeated district budget proposal, it seems a good time to revisit Vermont’s unique education funding system. After all, a great number of people have said they voted down their local school budgets “to send a message to Montpelier.”
I didn’t know just how much Palace 9 cinema meant to me until I knew I couldn’t get it back. I would give about anything to have it back. Palace 9 theater closed forever. My heart is broken.
As I read the article “Parents’ lawsuit asserts racial bias, discrimination against district,” the pain caused and allowed by the South Burlington School District began to resurface. (March 28, 2024)
After reading The Other Paper’s recent article, about the lawsuit concerning racial bias and discrimination at Orchard Elementary School, I was disappointed, but not surprised. (“Parents’ lawsuit asserts racial bias, discrimination against district,” March 28, 2024)
How many of you share my sense of inadequacy relative to our housing crisis and climate change? The bad news is that both challenges are mind-bogglingly enormous. The good news is that some strategies help us make progress on both fronts.
As spring unfolds, so, too, do the intricacies of legislative agendas, presenting both challenges and opportunities for progress. We’re now more than halfway through the 2024 legislative session, and education finance continues to be a top priority, along with housing, flood and climate resiliency and Act 250 reform.
As we are about two thirds of the way through the 2024 legislative session, I wanted to highlight and speak to the three topics I’ve been contacted about the most this year.
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