Vermont

Cyber Monday remains an important focus for retailers, businesses insist, even as online shopping has become a year-round activity — especially during the pandemic. “I feel like Cyber Monday has become almost a cultural event,” said Cassie Clayton of Vermont Teddy Bear in Shelburne. Between bears, the company’s PajamaGram label and its new official line of Bernie Sanders mittens inspired…

Since everyone’s been doing so much online shopping since the pandemic began, is Cyber Monday still relevant?

Two men were found dead following a reported shooting inside a home in Alburgh, Vermont on Saturday night. Police say the shooting occurred following a weeklong dispute between two men over access to a property for hunting. Police responded to a home on Cameron Drive around 10p.m. after multiple calls reporting of a shooting. Police found two men — one…

With hunting season underway, wildlife agencies in New Hampshire and Vermont have started testing for COVID-19 in white-tailed deer, as antibodies for the virus have been found in deer in other states. New Hampshire and Vermont were approached by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service about testing the white-tailed deer population as part of...

Thomas Jackson of Cornwall, Vermont, explains why he aims to live every day as if it’s Thanksgiving Day.

Police in Billerica, Massachusetts, have safely located a missing teenager from Vermont. Ethan McGuire, age 13, was found safe early Friday morning in Lowell, Billerica police said in a tweet. Police asked the public for assistance locating him Thursday night and said the teen had been missing since 6:30 p.m. from the area of Charnstaff Lane. Billerica police thanked everyone…

A man in Vermont says he has re-learned the true meaning of Thanksgiving — a process that deepened during a medical crisis. “There’s so much to be grateful for,” said Thomas Jackson of Cornwall, who aims to live every day as if it’s Thanksgiving Day. A seizure in July of 2020 led to a weeks-long stay at the University of…

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says Vermont’s wild turkey population is the result of a successful wildlife restoration project. The department says wild turkeys had disappeared from the state in the mid-to-late 1800s when land was cleared for farming, destroying habitat. It says in 1969 and 1970, the department stocked 31 wild turkeys in Rutland County as the state’s…

A Thanksgiving weekend tradition is returning to New England’s largest ski resort after taking a year off in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Wednesday, crews were busy putting the finishing touches on the venue for the HomeLight Killington Cup at Killington Resort. For the fifth time, Vermont will welcome many of the world’s fastest female ski racers for...

Some of the fastest female skiers in the world will descend on Vermont for the HomeLight Killington Cup.

Smugglers Notch, the winding mountain pass between Stowe and Cambridge, is closed for the season, the Vermont Agency of Transportation announced Wednesday. The roadway, officially known as Route 108, will reopen in the spring. “With the current winter weather that we have experienced so far and the expected trend, VTrans is leaving Scenic VT 108 ‘The Notch’ closed for the…

The head cook at a Vermont school has been fired for writing “Let’s Go Brandon” — a euphemism for a vulgarity targeting President Joe Biden — on a menu calendar and leaving work early. The Walden School termination letter for Alex McGregor said he wrote the phrase “on school property in a location where it would easily be seen by…

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott signed into law Tuesday a bill that will allow the state’s municipalities to adopt temporary indoor mask mandates. Scott’s signature on the new law came a day after the Vermont Legislature held a special session in which the new law that allows a municipality to impose their own mask mandate was introduced and approved. Scott...

Instagram feeds across Vermont are about to get much brighter with the launch this week of a new holiday tradition from one of the state’s best-known landmarks. “I think it’ll be wonderful,” Chip Stulen predicted of Shelburne Museum, referring to “Winter Lights.” The offering debuts on Black Friday and is then open Thursdays through Saturdays through New Year’s Day....

A Vermont landmark is lighting up its grounds with holiday lights.

Longtime Congressman Peter Welch is running to fill a rare vacancy in Vermont’s U.S. Senate delegation, and he’s already received a key endorsement.

The Vermont Senate passed a bill in a special session Monday that would allow municipalities to adopt temporary indoor mask mandates amid a surge in COVID-19 cases and after the governor has declined to reimpose a state of emergency. The House was also meeting to consider a similar proposal. Republican Gov. Phil Scott has said Vermonters must do their part…

Vermont’s lone member of the U.S. House of Representatives has announced he is seeking election to the Senate in 2022.

Vermont’s lone member of the U.S. House of Representatives has announced he is seeking election to the U.S. Senate in 2022. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, made it official Monday morning, writing, “We are at a pivotal moment” in U.S. democracy. “The result of this election will determine control of the Senate and with it, what we can accomplish for...

Killington ski resort is making final preparations as it again hosts women’s World Cup ski racing on Thanksgiving weekend. The event was postponed last year amid the pandemic. This year tickets are being sold to control attendance and proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours is required to attend. “We usually have about 15,000 people each…