MAP: How much homestead taxes went up, by town Nearly every town in Vermont saw homestead tax increases in the new fiscal year, with a few seeing increases over 30%. That’s after a tumultuous school budget voting season, when a third of school budgets failed to pass on the first attempt and the… Aug 14 24August 14, 2024Article at Vermont Public
Tens of thousands of Vermonters have student debt. The path to relief can be unclearLifelong Vermonter Jill Savage, 45, did not follow the traditional path to an undergraduate degree. She attended Goddard College at 20 and withdrew after three semesters. After working full-time for a little over a decade, she returned in 2011 for a… Apr 26 24April 26, 2024Article at Vermont Public
MAP: See the path of the 2024 total solar eclipse in Vermont On April 8, for the first time in almost 100 years, Vermont will see a total solar eclipse. The moon will completely block out the sun, leaving only the sun's corona — the outermost region of the sun’s atmosphere, named for its crownlike appearance —… Jan 16 24January 16, 2024Article at Vermont Public
ICE deports Honduran family before they can apply to stay in Vermont Puedes leer la versión en español aquí. Earlier this month, Greisy Mejia, a Honduran living in the U.S. without legal permission, visited a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement service center in St. Albans with her 9-year-old daughter and infant… Jul 24 24July 24, 2024Article at Vermont Public
Battery recycling is now mandatory, and expanded programs are on the wayYou probably have some old batteries lying around the house. You might even have a drawer full of them. What you may not know is that almost all of them can be recycled — for free — in Vermont. And that program is expanding. Ten years ago, Vermont… Jul 01 24July 01, 2024Article at Vermont Public
Last week's heat wave saw a spike in emergency room visitsLast week’s heat wave saw the most heat-related emergency room visits of any Vermont heat wave in the past six years. There were about 40 heat-related emergency department visits, representing 0.5% of all visits last week, according to data collected… Jun 26 24June 26, 2024Article at Vermont Public
How pockets of cold air in New England may help plants survive a changing climateMost of Vermont’s forests are made up of what are known as northern hardwood trees, like maple and beech. As you climb to higher elevations, the temperature generally drops. Eventually, it becomes too cold for the northern hardwoods to thrive, and… May 03 24May 03, 2024Article at Vermont Public
Burlington’s new zoning sets city up for more ‘missing middle’ housingThis week, the city of Burlington enacted large-scale residential zoning reform. Every residential area in the city has been upzoned — allowing for larger properties with more units. The goal is to fill out the “missing middle” in housing:… Mar 29 24March 29, 2024Article at Vermont Public
A fungus among us: Students push for new Vermont state mushroomIn a packed room at the state capitol in Montpelier, second graders Charles and George Pelton sat at the end of a long table, flanked by legislators on all sides. “I’m gonna talk the whole time and George is gonna do the slides. He doesn’t really… Mar 20 24March 20, 2024Article at Vermont Public
How three unassuming plants link Vermont to its glacial pastAt Alburgh Dunes State Park, a split rail fence surrounds an unassuming site. Green grass covers a pile of sand, framed by trees a few meters back. But as with many things in nature, this apparently harmonious scene is in fact a battlefield,… Feb 16 24February 16, 2024Article at Vermont Public
Where are all the Airbnb rentals? Buffalo officials unable to track them despite lawA Buffalo ordinance passed nearly three years ago requires residences or rooms rented to others for short-term stays to be registered with the city and inspected. Aug 20 22August 20, 2022Article at The Buffalo News
Five years under Buffalo's Green Code: 70% of variance requests are grantedTo hear it from developers, the Green Code is working as intended: setting guidelines for what should be built, but allowing exceptions to the rules when needed. To others, however, Jul 13 22July 13, 2022Article at The Buffalo News