Crimes like robbery, car theft, burglary and stealing from vehicles and stores went up in 2021 from 2020, but some violent crimes like aggravated assault and forcible rape decreased, according to the Rutland City Police Department crime statistics for last year.
BROC Community Action and the Rutland Elks Lodge #345 are hosting an “Extreme Cold Weather Emergency Shelter” for the state on Friday and Saturday night due to subzero forecasts combined with lack of available hotel rooms in the region.
RUTLAND TOWN —A Rutland man, accused of pushing a shopping cart into a woman and stealing her Christmas shopping money two days before the holiday, has been released from custody and officers with the Rutland Town Police Department are not happy about it.
Ed Bove, executive director of the Rutland Regional Planning Commission has announced that he’ll be stepping away from the job this year.
RUTLAND TOWN — After a verbal altercation with the town clerk and treasurer, the former town clerk and treasurer has been issued an order against trespass for the Rutland Town Town Hall.
CASTLETON — A broken pipe has closed Castleton Village School for the remainder of the week, or possibly longer.
The Rutland High School mascot debate is staying off the town meeting ballot.
BRANDON — Selecting a new pastor is a long, involved process, and the Brandon Congregational Church thinks it made the right choice with the Rev. Sara Ann Rossigg.
BRANDON — Expenses and per-pupil spending may be up, but tax rates are projected to be down by 4% in the Otter Valley Unified Union School District.
A local man was sentenced in the United States District Court of Vermont on Tuesday to almost four and a half years in prison for the armed robbery of the Maplewood convenience store on March 7.
BURLINGTON — A Springfield man suspected of a half-dozen robberies this month will remain behind bars for the time being a federal magistrate judge ruled on Tuesday.
MONTPELIER — Millions of dollars in tax incentives and workforce development initiatives were among the highlights in Gov. Phil Scott’s annual budget address.
The following is an edited transcript of the governor’s budget address:
While Green Mountain Power said it was responding to outages throughout the day Monday, there were no sign of more serious problems during the first big snowstorm of 2022.
CASTLETON — The new children and young adult librarian is thankful to be switching from a staff of about 80 to something closer to three.
BRANDON — Otter Valley Union High School has picked its next principal.
A bill before lawmakers would require bicyclists to ride single-file on highways without bike lanes.
PROCTOR — It appears that Town Meeting Day in Proctor will be as it was last year, with an informational meeting held via Zoom, then voting by Australian ballot.
With the first major storm of the winter in the forecast for late Sunday and Monday, utility companies are reminding Vermonters to be prepared for the snow event.
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MORETOWN — Police say a 29-year-old Waitsfield woman faces multiple charges, including neglecting a vulnerable person in her care, after she had crashed into a a barn along Route 100.
WATERBURY – The state Department of Corrections on Saturday reported 38 incarcerated individuals and nine staff members tested positive for COVID-19 at the Northeast Correctional Complex in St. Johnsbury during testing conducted Jan. 13.
A Pittsford woman is facing two felony counts after police accused her of embezzling more than $2,250 from the Rutland Area Food Co-op on Wales Street during the summer.
BURLINGTON — The former manager of a Washington County pharmacy pleaded not guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court to two felony charges that he diverted opioids from his store for his personal use.
BURLINGTON — The former manager of a Washington County pharmacy pleaded not guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court to two felony charges that he diverted opioids from his store for his personal use.
State officials released new guidance Friday for testing and quarantine protocols in Vermont’s K-12 schools.
Republican Gov. Phil Scott on Friday signed into law an act — S.172 — authorizing alternative procedures for town meeting gatherings this year.
BARRE — Amtrak passenger rail service in Vermont will not change, even as the company reduces routes in other parts of the country, owing to the surge in coronavirus cases from the omicron variant.
Gov. Phil Scott and the Department of Housing and Community Development this week launched the Multiunit Dwelling Electric Vehicle Charging Grant Program to bring more home-charging opportunities to Vermonters.
On Tuesday, the Rutland City Board of School Commissioners voted 6-5 Tuesday to reinstate the Raiders name and arrowhead logo — the culmination of a nearly two-year contentious debate that has divided the School Board and the Rutland community.
PAWLET — The state Supreme Court has upheld a decision requiring Daniel Banyai to remove all unpermitted buildings associated with his shooting school and to pay the town of Pawlet more than $46,000.
Hospital officials say patients with COVID-19 are not as big a problem for them as staffers with the coronavirus.
Lawmakers from Vermont’s more rural districts are introducing a bill that would, among other things, ease Act 250 restrictions around the forest products industry.
Last year, we knew there would be some new members of the Board of Aldermen before a single petition was filed.
An article in Thursday's Rutland Herald should have stated that Peter H. Hadeka, of Pawlet, was held without bail after being arraigned on Monday in Rutland Criminal Court. Police accused Hadeka of firing a gun in the parking lot of a Pawlet restaurant.
With greater food insecurity and inflation driving up the cost of food, organizers of this year’s Green Mountain Power Food Challenge are hoping to collect $35,000 in donations, beating a record set in 2019.
CASTLETON — Castleton University will begin its spring semester online when classes resume Tuesday.
CHITTENDEN — Barstow Memorial School will move to remote learning Friday.
WARREN — Niki Thran has announced she plans to run to represent Vermont in U.S. Senate.
NORTH CLARENDON — Per-pupil spending may be up but a surplus in the state Education Fund is driving tax rates down in the Mill River Unified Union School District.
BRANDON — Town Meeting Day will look a lot like it did last year, assuming the governor signs a bill granting towns authority to meet remotely.
City department heads have proposed $6.7 million worth of projects for Rutland’s $4.4 million in ARPA funds.
The Northeast may lose up to 143 of its organic dairy farms by this time next year, but the co-founder and former chief executive officer of an organic yogurt company says there’s an easy fix: Buy more local, organic dairy products.
Officials at the American Red Cross, responding to the “worst blood shortage in more than a decade,” are encouraging Vermonters to not only consider becoming donors but becoming regular donors.
BURLINGTON — A Rutland County man, who has been classified as a habitual offender due to his lengthy record, pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court on Wednesday to a new indictment charging him with possessing three firearms, including a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic handgun, while being a co…
MONTPELIER — All of the 350,000 rapid tests available free for Vermonters have already been claimed, according to the office of Gov. Phil Scott.
A Pawlet man is facing more than 12 years in prison after being arraigned on seven criminal charges on Monday after he allegedly fired a gun in the parking lot of the Barn restaurant when he was refused alcohol on Sunday.
RUTLAND TOWN — Town leaders in Rutland Town fielded questions about the budget, as well as issues going before voters in March, including cannabis sales.
Guy Babb can’t make the last Christmas Tree roundup of the year alongside his Boy Scout Troop, so his family is going in his place.
Rutland High School is once again home of the Raiders.
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