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#1 Driver Pleads Not Guilty in Vermont Crash That Killed Actor Treat Williams
Sep 27 2023 // A Vermont driver pleaded not guilty to a charge in the June crash that killed actor Treat Williams. Ryan Koss, 35, could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison if he`s convicted of gross negligent operation with death...
#2 Vermont’s Flooded Capital Ponders Rebuild With an Eye on Climate Change
Aug 7 2023 // A beloved bookstore in Vermont`s small capital city moved across the street to a new spot farther from the Winooski River after an ice jam sent river water into the store in 1992. A nearby office supply and gift store did...
#3 Vermont Prepared for Epic Flooding. It Wasn’t Enough.
Jul 17 2023 // In Windham, Vermont, a wooden A-frame house that normally evokes blustery winters sits on a roadway transformed by record rainfall into a river. Twenty miles away in Bridgewater, a man wades through waist-high waters...
#4 Vermonters Race to Find Housing As Flood Recovery Continues and Winter Approaches
Sep 5 2023 // Seven weeks after catastrophic flooding in Vermont destroyed their mobile home, Sara Morris and her family don`t yet know what they will do for housing long-term. She and her husband, their three kids and his mother have...
#5 Rain Eases After Flooding Vermont, Other Northeast States But More Expected
Jul 12 2023 // A storm that left up to two months` worth of rain in Vermont and saturated other parts of the Northeast was moving out Tuesday, but more flooding was expected after already cutting off access to some communities, including...
#6 Vermont Workers’ Comp Changes, Including for Children and Firefighters, Now in Effect
Jul 5 2023 // Vermont’s workers’ compensation benefits for temporary total disability and for dependent children, as well as the work search requirement for injured workers returning to the job market, changed starting July...
#7 Slow-Moving Storm Puts New York City, East Coast Under Flood Threat
Jul 10 2023 // New York City and the eastern US braced Sunday for severe thunderstorms as a creeping weather front drags across the region and raises the risk of flooding from Vermont to North Carolina. The slow-moving line of showers...
#8 Rising Flood Risks Threaten Many Water and Sewage Treatment Plants
Aug 14 2023 // The crack of a summer thunderstorm once comforted people in Ludlow, Vermont. But that was before a storm dropped eight inches of rain on the village of 2,200 in two days last month. And it was before the devastation of...
#9 Heavy Rains Swamp Northeast Again; Floods Claims 5 Lives; Others, Including 2 Children, Missing
Jul 17 2023 // Heavy rains pounded an already saturated Northeast on Sunday for the second time in a week, spurring another round of flash flooding, cancelled airline flights and power outages. In Pennsylvania, a sudden flash flood late...
#10 Vermont Residents, Businesses Turn to Recovery From Flooding Amid Mud, Debris
Jul 13 2023 // Floodwaters receded in Vermont cities and towns pummeled by a storm that delivered two months of rain in two days, allowing officials to focus on recovering from a disaster that trapped residents in homes, closed roadways...
#11 OSHA Orders Vermont Firm to Rehire Environmental Whistleblower, Pay Damages
Aug 29 2023 // In early June 2022, an employee of a Vermont agricultural equipment company observed the company pumping wastewater from the facility’s service bays onto the ground bordering the Winooski River in Berlin and was...
#12 Rare New England Tornado Damages Homes, Floods Roads, Topples Trees
Aug 21 2023 // A rare Rhode Island tornado lifted a car off an interstate highway Friday as severe weather swept already storm-weary New England, damaging homes, flooding roads and toppling trees. Tornadoes were reported in several spots...
#13 Flash Floods Rage in Vermont, New York; Woman Killed; Economic Impact Could Hit $5B
Jul 11 2023 // Torrential downpours unleashed flash floods on the U.S. Northeast on Monday that washed out roadways, overwhelmed rivers, prompted 50 swift boat rescues and killed a woman who was swept away in front of her fiancé,...
#14 First Amendment Does Not Protect Social Media Retaliation Against Employees
May 29 2024 // A federal court in Vermont recently ruled that the First Amendment does not protect a construction firm and its officials using social media to retaliate against employees who exercise their rights under federal labor...
#15 Medical Cannabis User Fired After Failing Drug Test Appeals Denial of Job Benefits
Jun 3 2024 // A Vermont man who lost his job after he said a random drug test showed he had used medical marijuana off duty for chronic pain has appealed to the Vermont Supreme Court saying he should not have been denied a portion of...
#16 Storm in Northeast Take 5 Lives; Causes Power Outages, Floods, Road Damage
Dec 21 2023 // Just days before the Christmas holiday, people across the northeastern U.S. were mopping up Tuesday after a major storm dumped torrential rains and brought damaging winds from Pennsylvania to Maine, as some rivers in the...
#17 ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ Show Went On Despite Flooding of Theater
Aug 25 2023 // Members of a beloved Vermont acting company were sleeping in theater housing when torrential rains and flooding forced them to flee, with water inundating the playhouse’s vast basement of dressing rooms, costumes and...
#18 Vermont Farms Still Recovering From Flooding As Growing Season Begins
Apr 19 2024 // Hundreds of Vermont farms are still recovering from last July’s catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather as they head into this year’s growing season. Dog River Farm, in Berlin, Vermont, lost nearly all...
#19 Northeast Warned to Expect More Floods Like This Winter’s
Feb 20 2024 // After back-to-back storms lashed the Northeast in January, rental properties Haim Levy owns in coastal Hampton, New Hampshire, were hammered by nearly two feet of water, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in...
#20 Brown & Brown to Acquire Wholesale Broker New England Excess Exchange
Jul 25 2023 // Florida-based global insurance broker Brown & Brown, Inc. has agreed to acquire Vermont-based wholesale broker New England Excess Exchange (NEEE). The acquisition will be through Bridge Specialty Group, the wholesale...
