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Montpelier and Barre saw a deluge of rain and flooding in July 2023, damaging many homes and businesses. ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý’s Bob Kinzel remembers watching floodwaters rise in downtown Montpelier. Guests and listeners also share their recollections from the Wrightsville Dam and Barre.

After being swept away during July 2023 flooding, the yurt was relocated to North Branch Nature Center and will be used as a space for people of color to gather in nature.

Roxbury leaders believe that the circumstances of an informational meeting contributed to a failed budget vote on March 5 and set up the closure of their school.

State and local officials had grown increasingly frustrated by USPS failing to restore mail services to the city.

Three Vermont cities now allow non-U.S. citizens to vote on local issues, and one town allows 16- and 17-year-olds to vote.

For months, residents and businesses have had to travel to East Montpelier or Barre to access most postal services. Sen. Peter Welch says the failure to reopen the facility is part of a much bigger mismanagement crisis at the U.S. Postal Service.

Capital City Farmers Market leaders and market vendors plan to ask members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture to help them reclaim their spot at 133 State Street, which suffered severe flood damage last July and is scheduled to undergo major construction this summer.

Montpelier could join the list of Vermont municipalities attempting to strengthen tenants� rights. But even if voters approve the “just cause� proposal, it’s likely to languish at the Statehouse.

That is welcome news to city officials, who have pinned longer-term housing hopes on FEMA’s commitment to help fund infrastructure improvements at the site.

Flames and heavy smoke engulfed the lumberyard of rk MILES on Stone Cutters Way on Wednesday evening. The city lost a fire engine in the blaze.