Category: A Month in the Hills
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Issue: November 2024
A month in the hills
Vermont plans new shelters as motel stays end State officials were racing in late October to set up three new emergency shelters for homeless families being evicted from motels across Vermont. Officials of the state Department of Children and Families said the new shelters in Waterbury and Williston, and a third planned for Montpelier, will read more
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Issue: May 2024
A month in the hills — Birthing center to stay open with state aid
The only remaining maternity ward in Rensselaer County will stay open after receiving a promise of $5 million in new state grants. St. Peter’s Health Partners announced April 29 that it will keep the Burdett Birth Center in Troy open for at least five years while the hospital system works to improve the center’s economic read more
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Issue: May 2023
Local ‘wrong house’ killing adds to national outcry
The shooting death last month of a 20-year-old Schuylerville woman who turned up the wrong driveway stunned people across Washington and Saratoga counties and quickly became part of a national outcry over gun violence. Kaylin Gillis was killed after she and several friends were searching for another friend’s house about 10 p.m. Saturday, April 15, read more
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Issue: April 2023
Voters pick new mayor, new course for Rutland
The city of Rutland has a new mayor after voters chose Mike Doenges over three-term incumbent David Allaire in the March 7 Town Meeting Day election. Doenges, who had been president of the city Board of Aldermen for the past year, won decisively with 56 percent of the vote. His victory capped a campaign in read more
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Issue: February-March 2022
Spa City’s new leaders push for police accountability
In a case of elections having consequences, a newly sworn-in City Council moved swiftly at its first meeting of the year to pursue two longtime goals of police reform advocates in Saratoga Springs. The new council scheduled a Feb. 1 public hearing to start the process of creating a new Civilian Review Board that would read more
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Issue: May 2021
Analysis tracks pandemic flight to local counties
Columbia and Berkshire counties are among the top destinations in the United States for people who relocated in the pandemic. By Fred Daley read more
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Issue: November 2020
Push for police reform roils Williamstown
Officials in Williamstown, Mass., say they want to commission an independent review of policies and procedures at the town police department, which in recent months has been rocked by allegations of racial and sexual harassment. But some critics, including members of a town advisory panel, say the Select Board needs to move more swiftly and read more
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Issue: June 2020
Region moves to reopen as virus spread slows
Two months after the coronavirus thrust the region’s economy into a deep freeze, public health officials began to give the OK in May for the first steps toward reopening. With new cases of Covid-19 on the decline across Vermont, Massachusetts and New York, the governors of the three states began to roll back restrictions that read more
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Issue: April 2020
Virus arrives in region, upending all plans
The coronavirus crept into the region stealthily, probably sometime in late February, then burst into public view on the weekend of March 7-8. That weekend, Vermont officials announced that a patient being treated at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington had the state’s first confirmed case of Covid-19. A patient at Berkshire Medical Center in read more
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Issue: February-March 2020
Vermont towns offer ‘sanctuary’ for gun rights
Borrowing the language of cities that offer sanctuary to undocumented immigrants, some towns in southwestern Vermont are proclaiming themselves sanctuaries for gun rights.As of late January, select boards in seven towns around the state had adopted resolutions declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries, while voters in at least a dozen others were expected to take up read more