Vermont News

ALSO: Gov. Phil Scott vetoed the Legislature’s opioid response bill on Tuesday; Former Jay Peak CEO and President Bill Stenger has reported to a federal prison in Massachusetts; Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale’s shuttered congressional campaign keeps fundraising to pay off debt.

ALSO: The Burlington City Council voted to bring back ranked choice voting; A cryptocurrency mogul’s flirtation with a U.S. Senate run in Vermont could cost him a generous tax decree in Puerto Rico; A former city councilor was injured in a shooting at Burlington’s Roosevelt Park Sunday evening.

Also: Green Mountain Transit is making adjustments to its two-year MyRide pilot project; A Colchester-based startup specializing in mRNA manufacturing plans to expand; The Vermont Legislature requested nearly 100 new studies this year.

Also: Five White River Valley towns plan to formalize a regional group in hopes of sharing municipal resources; Vermont’s most powerful state Senate delegation is set for a major overhaul next year; Gov. Phil Scott's veto of a bill that would have set conservation goals has drawn criticism.

Also: According to the Vermont Department of Health, May was the deadliest month of the Covid-19 BA.2 surge; Gov. Phil Scott has vetoed a bill that would have updated Act 250; The Green Mountain Care Board is about to gain some new faces.

Also: Vermont officials are asking the South Hero Selectboard to do more investigation of the extent of PFAS contamination at the town’s closed landfill; The governor signed bills Tuesday that will create a meal program for Vermont students and ban offensive school mascots; Two groups of communities in northwestern Vermont are close to an agreement with Google Fiber.

Also: It’s been almost five years since officials declared Lake Carmi the state’s first “lake in crisis"; The Vermont Huts Association is working to create a network of backcountry huts; A federal grant will support study of a petroglyph site in Bellows Falls by the Elnu Abenaki.

Also: Police are seeking the public’s help in solving the murder of a New Hampshire couple with Vermont ties; Some primary races will see remarkably little competition come August, while others will be heated; The Rutland mayor has nominated Republican state Representative Peter Fagan to fill a vacancy on the school board.

Also: Two young boys report being sexually harassed at a trampoline park in Williston; Montpelier police said they have seized firearms but made no arrests during an investigation into a potential threat against Montpelier High School; The University of Vermont plans to build more dormitories on Trinity Campus.

Also: Gov. Phil Scott has appointed three new members of the state’s Fish and Wildlife Board; Experts and high-risk Vermonters tell VTDigger that they’re worried about the loss of state-run Covid testing; Michael Schirling is stepping down as Vermont’s public safety commissioner, and is taking a job at the University of Vermont.