Darren Pronto is being held on first-degree-murder charges for slashing the throat of a woman as she was walking along a river in Bennington.

The junior senator from Bennington County will lead the Senate Education Committee - one of a few Senate committee leadership changes.

The Town of Stamford is talking with a lawyer about how to proceed with its termination of Phil Scott’s State of Emergency within town limits.

A Bennington housing and business development project built in part with funding from the federal Opportunity Zone program is now at “substantial completion,” developers said.

The stupid… it burns. The town fathers in Stamford, Vermont — population 824 — have had it up to here with Gov. Phil Scott’s dictatorial efforts to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Mad as Hell, not gonna take it anymore.

The tiny town of Stamford on the Massachusetts border says state law gives towns the right to overrule the governor’s emergency orders. The guv’s lawyer says that’s not so. Who’s right?

The Selectboard of the Bennington County Town of Stamford voted Dec. 17 to affirm the constitutions of Vermont and the United States, in response to the governor’s restrictions on gathering for worship, work and socializing.

Unlike the town of Stamford, no public brouhaha occurred over the public gathering for the town Christmas tree in Londonderry, perhaps because many people drove by in cars (unlike Stamford). Still, maskless Santa and his elves are seen interacting with the public - some of them also unmasked. No word on whether Londonderry has been reported to the Grinch Bureau.

A Christmas tree lighting in the tiny town of Stamford has stirred up concerns about Covid-19 safety and constitutional freedom in Vermont government, state police, and media.

Apparently the outdoor public lighting of a Christmas tree, with cocoa and marshmallows for the kids, was just too much of a public gathering for the State.