CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — These Vermont lotteries were drawn Thursday:

RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — A New Jersey summer camp that brought several hundred students to Vermont for a three-week stay at a Rutland hotel has been told the hotel is overcapacity.

SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Law School plans to paint over a mural that was originally intended to honor African Americans and abolitionists involved in the Underground Railroad after some school community members said the depictions are offensive, the school said.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont's health commissioner is urging people to practice swimming and boating safety this summer following a number of recent drownings.

JOHNSON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Electric Cooperative in Johnson is encouraging customers to reduce their electricity use Thursday and Friday during high temperatures forecast throughout New England, when demand for electricity is expected to spike.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A new resident under quarantine at a Burlington nursing home has tested positive for COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.

RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — A man was shot by police and wounded and another injured in a car crash early Wednesday that followed a police pursuit in Rutland, Vermont State Police said.

Vermont announced Tuesday mandatory guidance and health protocols for colleges and universities to follow — including a health safety contract for staff and students to sign — as they reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — These Vermont lotteries were drawn Tuesday:

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont State Colleges System has a new leader, the board of trustees announced Monday.

JERICHO, Vt. (AP) — Vermont State Police troopers are working to determine if bias played a role in damaging Black Lives Matter-themed artwork painted on roads in Jericho and Underhill.

ROCKINGHAM, Vt. (AP) — Police are investigating a suspicious fire that damaged a home in the southern Vermont village of Bellows Falls.

An small independent school in Montpelier has closed for good because of the coronavirus pandemic. River Rock School, which served students aged 5 to 14, announced last week that it had closed, the Times Argus reported.

Most of Massachusetts is moving forward with the next phase of its economic reopening, which covers many indoor venues like gyms, museums movie theaters and casinos, effective on Monday.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — These Vermont lotteries were drawn Sunday:

RYEGATE, Vt. (AP) — A northern Vermont lake that suffered many years of algae blooms and other challenges has improved to the point that it's being removed from Vermont’s impaired water list next month, the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation said.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — These Vermont lotteries were drawn Saturday:

The Fourth of July had many of the traditional trappings in New England despite the coronavirus pandemic: Cheap lobsters, warm weather and barbecues. But absent were large crowds and most public fireworks displays on Saturday.

ESSEX, Vt. (AP) — A new weather vane to honor a Vermont teacher killed in a 2006 school shooting in Essex has been installed after the original one was stolen earlier this year.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont State Historic Sites are now open on a limited basis.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — These Vermont lotteries were drawn Friday:

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Department of Health reported nine new confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Friday, for a total of 1,236 cases to date.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — With Vermont's new food scrap ban in effect, the state is offering tips for backyard composters to avoid attracting bears.

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) —

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — These Vermont lotteries were drawn Thursday:

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Four Burlington bars have been warned for not following rules intended to limit the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19, the city's mayor said.

WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — State troopers are investigating after graffiti from what is being described as a white supremacist hate group was painted on a portion of the Waterbury dam, the Vermont State Police said.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont State Police on Wednesday were helping to search Lake Champlain for a missing kayaker from Quebec.

ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — Vermont U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy said Wednesday looming furloughs at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services center in St. Albans would idle 1,111 workers on Aug. 3.

The state of Vermont is set to begin a campaign to encourage people to wear masks to help reduce the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19, Gov. Phil Scott said Wednesday.

ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — A former Vermont police officer has been charged with assault accusing him of using pepper spray on a suspect who was handcuffed and in a holding cell at the St. Albans police department in 2017 after the state attorney general reopened the case.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A U.S. Supreme Court decision that says states can’t cut religious schools out of programs that send public money to private education could breathe new life into efforts to force Maine and Vermont to help fund religious educations.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Most food scraps are now banned from the trash and landfill in Vermont.

Editorials from around New England:

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — These Vermont lotteries were drawn Tuesday:

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The city council in Vermont's largest city has approved a resolution backing the reduction of the police force by 30% through attrition amid calls in Burlington and nationwide for racial justice and to defund police.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The head of the Vermont Senate is calling on the Agency of Education to create a task force to study the best ways to re-open in-person schools this fall.

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott thanked the Legislature on Monday for its hard work in appropriating around $576 million in spending to help the state confront the COVID-19 pandemic.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The city council in Vermont’s largest city is expected to vote on the mayor’s proposed budget that includes a cut of about 9% to the police department. Some activists were calling for even deeper cuts amid outrage over racial injustice and police brutality across the country.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Symphony Orchestra has named the managing director of an opera company in South Africa as its new executive director.

BOSTON (AP) — A look at coronavirus developments in New England:

PUTNEY, Vt. (AP) — Main Street in a Vermont town is going to be closed for construction during two weeks in July.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — These Vermont lotteries were drawn Saturday:

HARTFORD, Vt. (AP) — A landowners' association in Vermont wants to use a new herbicide to help control an invasive aquatic plant in a man-made lake but town officials have concerns about the proposed chemical treatment.

BOSTON (AP) — A look at some of the coronavirus developments in New England: