Officials say Kenneth Bailey Jr.,54, served a maximum sentence after he was convicted in 2010 of grooming a 14-year-old girl for sexual acts over the phone while in jail. 

The Chittenden County suburban town of Hinesburg is raising the BLM flag.

An economic development official for Burlington (pop. 43,000) will bring his skillset to a much bigger stage - the office of the President of the United States of America (pop. 331,000,000).

A spontaneous argument outside the food court escalated into a shooting. The South Burlington cops are looking for Tyshane Smith, age 18.

No word on whether the shooter outside the Gamestop store in the University Mall in South Burlington was an angry hedge fund operator…..Just kidding. But it’s no kidding matter when shots are fired and you are told to ‘shelter in place.’ Metaphor for the New American Reality - except in the latter, there is really nowhere else to go.

Opportunity Vermont, a registered 501c4 organization, announced Feb. 1 a comprehensive effort to inform Burlingtonians about the dangers of the “Burner Ban” resolution. In addition, Opportunity Vermont has released a petition calling on the Mayor and City Council to abandon any proposal that taxes residents who need gas for heat, hot water, or cooking.

Even as people from all over our troubled country throng to safer, healthier Vermont, new apartment construction is way down. The same pandemic that brought ‘em here also held up construction. Vermont’s housing shortage disaster got even worse.

Did police use excessive force when tasering a teenager trying to jimmy a car door with a screwdriver? You be the judge….

No need to ask those pesky voters what they think about not having enough police coverage thanks to last June’s “Defund the Police” vote, the Burlington City Council decided - with just one dissenter.

Her painful journey of being trafficked began with addiction.