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Vermont was ranked the safest state in America as it pertains to COVID-19, according to a study released Thursday by the personal finance website WalletHub.
BENNINGTON — Announcing a sweeping plan to expand the Emergency Department and construct a new cancer center, Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s Foundation Board President Bob Van Degna announced that $24 million has been raised over the last four years toward the goal of $25 million for the…
After being approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration last week, Novavax became the first authorized COVID vaccine in the U.S. to be manufactured in India. The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization to the vaccine, and the doses can be given out to people aged 18 and older.
BENNINGTON — A local organization whose volunteers have helped provided testing, vaccination and other services throughout the COVID pandemic has received a federal grant.
Vermont children under the age of 5 could become eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine as early as this fall, Health Commissioner Mark Levine said Tuesday.
BENNINGTON — Bennington County is among seven Vermont counties rated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control as having high community levels of COVID-19.
HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. — The school district here is one of the few across the region to take the precaution of going remote, after about 15 percent of its students were out from illness prior to switching to distance learning Thursday.
BOSTON — On Tuesday, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health eased its advice on pandemic-related mask use for healthy and vaccinated residents and visitors.
Vermont’s COVID-19 numbers — from caseload to vaccinations to hospitalization rates — continue to move in the right direction, prompting Gov. Phil Scott to suggest that the state’s mask mandate in schools could be lifted as soon as later this month.
MONTPELIER — Gov. Phil Scott on Thursday encouraged Vermonters to order at-home COVID-19 tests through the federal government.
BENNINGTON — In a push to increase the number of COVID-19 vaccinations in the region and protect especially young Vermonters from the virus, the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center will hold a pediatric vaccination clinic on Jan. 28 from 1 to 5 p.m. for children ages 5 to 11 at the hospital’…
MONTPELIER — Responding to COVID-19 and its public safety threat, Gov. Phil Scott signed a bill that will allow municipalities and school districts to hold town meeting votes by Australian ballot to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus.
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MANCHESTER — Like many schools across the state and nation, Manchester Elementary Middle School is having trouble keeping up with a growing number of COVID cases and contact tracing, said school Superintendent Randi Lowe on Friday.
Heavy demand for free at-home rapid COVID-19 tests on Wednesday temporarily crashed the website for ordering the kits, with more than 150,000 hits to the Vermont Department of Health-hosted site in less than an hour after it opened.
Gov. Phil Scott warned Tuesday that the rate of positive COVID-19 cases — already at record levels — will continue to sharply increase in the coming weeks, hopefully leveling off and falling in late January or early February.
BENNINGTON — A cluster of COVID cases has been reported among staff at Vermont Veterans Home, and one resident is hospitalized with the virus.
MANCHESTER — In a letter e-mailed to families Sunday evening, Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union Superintendent Randi Lowe warned the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus has already impacted food service staff in the Taconic & Green Regional School District and could force school closures.
BENNINGTON — Another day, another COVID-19 case count record broken.
White House officials and U.S. Rep. Peter Welch announced Friday that Vermont will receive $45.5 million to help low- and moderate-income families pay for home heating this winter and cover their rent and utility costs, twice the amount received last year and by far the largest such appropri…
BENNINGTON — Jane Schaeffer turned to yoga 49 years ago on the advice of a friend. She had just given birth to her first daughter, Ani, and described her mental state as “cuckoo” at the time.
BOSTON — A winter storm that had already blanketed parts of the South in snow moved into the Northeast on Friday, snarling air travel, crushing morning commutes and delivering a dilemma to school districts that had been trying to keep children in classes during a surge in coronavirus cases.
MONTPELIER — The House of Representatives has passed a bill allowing towns and school districts to hold town meeting votes by Australian ballot to prevent the further spread of COVID-19.
MANCHESTER — As the state set all-time records for new COVID-19 cases this week and came close to equaling the mark for hospitalizations, area schools remain open, saying they’re taking things day by day.
BRATTLEBORO — A popular Polish food truck is setting up shop on Marlboro Road next to a soon-to-be brewery.
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SUNDERLAND — A 35-year-old Bennington woman was arrested today for providing the opiates that led to a man’s fatal overdose in Sunderland in 2021.
WATERBURY CENTER — April is going to be a very big month for the Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF). After 25 years under the leadership of founder Duncan McDougall, the nonprofit that strives to inspire and educate under-resourced children will be passed on to its second executive direct…
BENNINGTON — A suspended veteran Vermont State Police trooper is expected to go on trial in May in Bennington County Superior Court for a charge of simple assault on an unruly, intoxicated prisoner from Shaftsbury two years ago.
BENNINGTON — One of Bennington’s finest historic Victorian homes is adding a unique and authentic dining experience to its thriving hospitality business later this summer.
For years, the late Lu French looked to the stars with the members of the Burr and Burton Academy Astronomy Club. Now, her name is forever in those stars.
For years, the late Lu French looked to the stars with the members of the Burr and Burton Academy Astronomy Club. Now, her name is forever in those stars.
BENNINGTON — Meetings of the MAU school district and elementary school district boards were hit by offensive Zoom “bombing" interruptions this week — each briefly displaying pornographic images and racist language.
BENNINGTON — Elementary School Board members learned this week that Bennington Elementary and Molly Stark Elementary now have principal vacancies.