Vermont News

Also: Who should run Burlington International Airport; What started as a bill to ban qualified immunity has been gutted; Windham County will likely have its first competitive state Senate race since 2014.

Also: The Sharon Academy receives taxpayer money to educate students from towns with no middle or high school; Police reform bill runs into opposition in a hearing before a House panel; Gov. Phil Scott on Thursday signed into law a medical monitoring bill.

Also: Gov. Phil Scott and state legislators honored Sen. Patrick Leahy for his 47 years in the Senate; Lawyers for a White River Junction publisher and Sen. Elizabeth Warren laid out their cases in a First Amendment lawsuit; William Kelly has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Also: Travelers using transportation systems across Vermont can shed their masks; Peter Welch is receiving donations from industry groups that frequently lobby Congress; Federal authorities have charged a second man in the kidnapping of a Danville resident who was found shot to death in 2018.

Also: Judge makes final approval of a $34 million settlement in Bennington-area PFOA lawsuit; UVM Health Network pauses plans for an inpatient psychiatric unit for children and adolescents in Burlington; Visionary architect behind Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace dies at the age of 85.

Also: Senate plans to shrink the House’s proposed child tax credit to include other kinds of credits; Department of Corrections announced it plans to end its Covid-19 intake quarantine measures; A man charged with killing a transgender woman pleaded not guilty to a second-degree murder charge.

Also: Two Burlington school administrators have agreed to step down; Peter Welch was in eastern Europe to get a closer look at Russia’s war on Ukraine; Vermont’s Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations continued to tick up over the past week.

Also: Some health care officials say warning signs of future Covid-19 surges may arrive too late; 2 U.S. House candidates voiced their support for The University of Vermont staff union; Proposed Champlain Parkway is projected to be considerably more expensive than city officials expected.

Also: Legislative committee approves bill that would provide free school meals to students for the upcoming school year; Slate Ridge owner has paid the town of Pawlet nearly $53,000 in fines; Officials say the 93-mile Lamoille Valley Rail Trail is entering its final phase of construction.

Also: As the Cannabis Control Board moves ahead with licensing and pre-approval, many applicants are struggling to find reasonable banking options; Gov. Phil Scott has signed into law the Legislature’s redrawn district maps; Lawyers for Bill Stenger are arguing he should serve no jail time for his role in the failed EB-5 project