A much-loved sportscaster and UVM Medical Center volunteer has died of natural causes after several months in hospice care.

The risk of caring for the sick is getting sick yourself. Now at least three dozen health care workers are off the front lines and are in isolation or treatment for Covid-19.

The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday walked back from the proposal to release Vermont inmates during the pandemic.

Every day it seems there are fewer and fewer places to spend money in person. Government is urging - no, mandating - Vermonters to buy at curbside and by delivery.

City Market - a unionized grocery store - has reached an agreement with employees to pay them more during the State of Emergency.

The April 15 teacher contract renewal deadline is approaching, and school boards should act now to avoid RIFs, a board chairman says.

The combined benefit of state and federal unemployment maxes out at more than $1100/week. Some senators are saying employers are telling them that workers don’t want to get back to work.

As the doors to local music, theater and art shows have slammed shut, they are swinging wide open on the internet. The Burlington Free Press will keep an ongoing list.

A non-lethal, non-controversial teddy bear scavenger hunt is underway in Newport. It’s somewhere to go and something to do!

A Vermont museum dedicated to the history of the Underground Railroad that delivered slaves to freedom has lost its director.

As Gov. Phil Scott issues an unprecedented call for Vermonters to financially support local media, VT Digger and the chain that owns the Burlington Free Press become the latest in a long, long line of VT media to announce staff cutbacks.

Officials hope it won’t be necessary, but determined non-compliance with Gov. Scott’s ban on all internet lodgings and any lodgings of non-essential workers could result in fines or even jail time.

Legislative leaders have created an ad-hoc committee to keep abreast of the fast-paced changes in unemployment and state and federal resources and be ready with plans to help Vermont’s small businesses survive April and beyond.

The seedlings are growing, but will Vermont’s produce farmers have markets to sell to? Or immigrant workers to pick the crop?

A skilled, committed band of volunteers has made 100 masks for the local hospital, with 400 more on the way.

To accommodate the difficulty in gathering petitions and going to polls during a pandemic, the Legislature has made selected changes to election law and has empowered the Secretary of State and the governor to further change election procedures.

Perhaps you’ve heard that Phil Scott cancelled hunting season through next year? Uh, no…. And it’s also not true that busloads of infected New Yorkers are being sent to Plattsburgh. So don’t be fooled - on April 1, or any other day.

Anyone who read children’s books to their kids probably has held in their hands a book written or illustrated or both by Tomie DePaola. Now the New London, NH resident is gone, dying yesterday from complications from surgery, after taking a bad fall last week.

From her ‘news desk’ in front of her living room window, “Chester Chatter” columnist Ruthie Douglas is still covering what’s happening to people sheltering in place - starting with herself.

In Washington and in Vermont, partisan politicians pick at doing-something incumbents at their own risk, says Emerson Lynn in the St. Albans Messenger.