Vermont Civic Symphony performs special summer pop concert in Burlington

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Burlington City Hall alive with the sound of music Sunday morning. After moving inside due to rain, the Vermont Civic Symphony gave an hour long performance in the City Hall auditorium. The show featured a combination of orchestral …

Vermont Civic Symphony performs in Burlington

Driver injures 30 outside Vermont Hollywood nightclub in East Hollywood

A chaotic scene unfolded early Saturday when a driver plowed into a crowd outside the Vermont Hollywood nightclub, injuring at least 30 people. The incident occurred around 2 a.m. when Fernando Ramirez, 29, was asked to leave the nightclub due to …

ANR releases annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory for Vermont

MONTPELIER – The Agency of Natural Resources’ (ANR) Climate Action Office (CAO) has released the latest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Forecast (GHG Inventory), the state’s official measure for evaluating progress towards the emissions reduction …

Federal cuts result in layoffs at Vermont Foodbank

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Facing federal cuts, the Vermont Foodbank has laid off seven employees and cut two vacant positions. The layoffs amount to almost nine percent of total staff. The non-profit says the layoffs are due to the loss of one-time Covid- …

School Notes: Community College of Vermont launches project management certificate program

Secondary accomplishments Shaashwat Halwawala, of Lebanon, who is planning on studying neurosurgery at Northeastern University, earned a National Merit Scholarship Post-secondary graduations Andrew DeBois, of Orford, graduated from Fairfield University in …

Vermont Foodbank layoffs amid federal funding cuts

Then Again: From his Vermont farmhouse, a novelist imagined a fascist takeover of America

Nobel Prize winning author Sinclair Lewis sequestered himself on his Vermont farm during the summer of 1935 and hammered away on his latest novel. He was in a hurry, fearing that real-world events might overtake his narrative. For his plot, Lewis drew from …

Nursing home operator with troubled Vermont facilities files for bankruptcy

Genesis HealthCare, a prominent nursing home provider in Vermont and one of the largest skilled nursing companies in the nation, filed for bankruptcy last week.  Genesis currently operates three long-term care facilities in the state: the Bel Aire Center …

Watch Vermont in the Little League New England softball region 

The New England Little League softball region tournament kicks off this weekend starting on Sunday, July 20 and concludes on Friday, July 25 with the championship game at noon. For the third year in a row the 10-to-12-year-old all-stars from Champlain …