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3 days ago | 
vtdigger.org | Henry Fernandez
An Indiana-based gardening retailer has submitted a $9 million bid to purchase Gardener’s Supply Company, a popular employee-owned Vermont business that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday. Gardens Alive, Inc., is currently the sole bidder ahead of a potential auction on July 18, according to court documents. The auction will only take place if additional bidders emerge.
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3 days ago | 
buff.ly | Henry Fernandez
An Indiana-based gardening retailer has submitted a $9 million bid to purchase Gardener’s Supply Company, a popular employee-owned Vermont business that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday. Gardens Alive, Inc., is currently the sole bidder ahead of a potential auction on July 18, according to court documents. The auction will only take place if additional bidders emerge.
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1 week ago | 
vtdigger.org | Henry Fernandez
As he prepares to leave his role next month, Vermont Progressive Party Executive Director John Wronski is reflecting on nearly a decade spent growing the state’s third-largest party — the work, the wins and the challenges that defined his tenure. Wronski announced last month he would leave his position on July 4 and join the staff of the Vermont State Employees’ Association, “one of the most impactful unions in our state,” he said.
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1 week ago | 
buff.ly | Henry Fernandez
As he prepares to leave his role next month, Vermont Progressive Party Executive Director John Wronski is reflecting on nearly a decade spent growing the state’s third-largest party — the work, the wins and the challenges that defined his tenure. Wronski announced last month he would leave his position on July 4 and join the staff of the Vermont State Employees’ Association, “one of the most impactful unions in our state,” he said.
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1 week ago | 
vtdigger.org | Henry Fernandez
MONTPELIER — Bill Fraser attended his final City Council meeting as the capital’s longest-serving city manager on Wednesday night. Fraser was voted out by the City Council in February and plans to exit the role at the end of the month. Fraser’s ousting followed a potential 24% tax increase that the city decided to prevent by cutting municipal staff, a decision he pushed back on.
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1 week ago | 
vtdigger.org | Henry Fernandez
A Republican Flag Day gathering in front of the Vermont Statehouse ended in a frosting fiasco Saturday after a cake was destroyed and a man was shoved. The intention of the gathering was to celebrate “Flag Day, the 250th Anniversary of the U.S. Army, [and] President Donald Trump’s 79th Birthday!” According to the Vermont Republican Party’s online calendar. The celebration was scheduled to start just an hour after the anti-Trump “No Kings” protest hosted in the same location.
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2 weeks ago | 
vtdigger.org | Henry Fernandez
MONTPELIER — Amid President Donald Trump’s push for mass deportations, the City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to form a committee that will develop a strategy for navigating U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity within Montpelier and improve how the city communicates residents’ rights. The proposal was introduced by Councilor Perin Kohn, who was born in Turkey and moved to the United States with her American husband in 2017.
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2 weeks ago | 
buff.ly | Henry Fernandez
MONTPELIER — Amid President Donald Trump’s push for mass deportations, the City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to form a committee that will develop a strategy for navigating U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity within Montpelier and improve how the city communicates residents’ rights. The proposal was introduced by Councilor Pelin Kohn, who was born in Turkey and moved to the United States with her American husband in 2017.
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2 weeks ago | 
vtdigger.org | Henry Fernandez
On a warm summer day, about a dozen seniors found themselves enjoying what may be one of their last meals at the Center of Recreation and Education, as Burlington’s senior center programming may end Sept. 30 following a serious round of city budget cuts. Senior programming for Burlington is held in the Center of Recreation and Education, which is inside the Old North End Community Center on Allen Street.
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3 weeks ago | 
vtdigger.org | Henry Fernandez
Bennington College has finalized its collective bargaining agreements with the three groups that make up the college’s union, according to a June 5 press release. The agreements come after a unionization process that began in 2023, after 150 faculty, staff and campus safety workers formed Bennington College United.
