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1 day ago | 
timesargus.com | Keith Whitcomb Jr.
Gov. Phil Scott said Wednesday that he’s doubtful the arrest of eight migrant farmworkers in Franklin County on Monday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents stems from a change in the federal government’s approach to immigration, but what happens next will be watched. “From my standpoint, it sounded like someone had called the Border Patrol about someone, two individuals, possibly crossing the border.
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2 days ago | 
rutlandherald.com | Keith Whitcomb Jr.
A number of land conservation projects have completed or moved forward in recent months, one a 200-acre parcel in Pawlet and another 464 acres in Wallingford. At its regular meeting April 15, the Pawlet Select Board voted unanimously to give its support to a proposal from The Nature Conservancy to buy 192 acres of land to add to the existing North Pawlet Hills Conservation Area.
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3 days ago | 
timesargus.com | Keith Whitcomb Jr.
MONTPELIER — A few weeks after learning its federal funding had been cut, Vermont Humanities has laid off two full-time staff, reduced the part-time hours for a third, and will cut or pause several programs. "It's a rough moment," said Vermont Humanities Executive Director, Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup.
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6 days ago | 
rutlandherald.com | Keith Whitcomb Jr.
FAIR HAVEN — Thinking they might change the policy on how social service groups ask taxpayers for money, the town's leaders got an earful from those who would have to gather voter signatures in order to be on the Town Meeting Day ballot.
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1 week ago | 
rutlandherald.com | Keith Whitcomb Jr.
MONTPELIER – A new study claims Vermont would do well to recruit and retain more licensed nursing assistants and offers advice on how to do so. The study was initiated by the Vermont Health Care Association, which got help from the Vermont Business Roundtable Research and Education Foundation. According to the study, it was funded by the Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living.
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1 week ago | 
timesargus.com | Keith Whitcomb Jr.
MONTPELIER – A new study claims Vermont would do well to recruit and retain more licensed nursing assistants and offers advice on how to do so. The study was initiated by the Vermont Health Care Association, which got help from the Vermont Business Roundtable Research and Education Foundation. According to the study, it was funded by the Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living.
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1 week ago | 
rutlandherald.com | Keith Whitcomb Jr.
MONTPELIER — Gov. Phil Scott said Wednesday that ending Vermont's agreement with federal immigration officials over detaining people in state facilities, as Democrats in the Senate have asked him to do, might not be the best thing for those being held.
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1 week ago | 
rutlandherald.com | Keith Whitcomb Jr.
Two weeks after the entire staff overseeing a widely used home heating fuel assistance program were laid off, those who administer the program on the state level are without answers as to what happens next. According to The Associated Press, the people who oversee the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) were abruptly laid off. They worked in the Division of Energy Assistance under the federal Department of Health and Human Services. “We heard about it when everyone else heard about it.
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1 week ago | 
rutlandherald.com | Keith Whitcomb Jr.
Vermont election officials are worried that a recent executive order, along with a bill passed by the U.S. House, will create undue barriers to voting, as well as open up town clerks and their assistants to criminal prosecution. Kari Clark, town clerk in Rutland Town, told the select board last week that an executive order from President Donald Trump was causing concern among the state's town clerks. "It's going to be a nightmare," said Clark.
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1 week ago | 
timesargus.com | Keith Whitcomb Jr.
Federal funding cuts have led the Vermont Historical Society to lay off a staff person and end a program that helped small historical societies preserve their towns' past. Andrew Liptak, public relations and guest services coordinator at the Vermont Historical Society, said Friday that he received notice that the Activating 21st-Century Local History Program, issued by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), had been terminated. Liptak said the grant was for $175,029.
