Here's your local news at a glance for Thursday, the 3rd of September.
Good morning, Burlington.
Vermont food shelves face high demand a year after SNAP benefits ended as Williston serves 375 families and Grand Isle reaches 60 households; volunteers expect numbers to rise with winter.
Donors can bring items to Champlain Valley Fair this Thursday, Sept. 3, for free entry from 12 to 2 p.m.
The Lloyd Family donated $10,000 to support CCTV Archives’ work preserving Burlington community recordings from the 1980s through the 2000s.
The gift will help catalogue + digitize hundreds of archival tapes for public access.
Radio Bean announced Wednesday night that it will close next week due to a nearly $30,000 liquor liability insurance premium coming due - the owner said after 26 years he lacks the funds needed to cover the payment.
Franklin County Cheese celebrated its reopening on Sept.
1 at the former Franklin Foods site in Enosburg Falls. The locally owned company, led by John & Kathy Ovitt, resumed operations with former employees to produce Baker’s Cheese, plant-based cream cheese, and sour cream.
Community College of Vermont expands access with flexible programs for high school students, adult learners, veterans and others as fall enrollment is projected to increase by 9-percent.
President Joyce Judy and her team adapt courses to meet local workforce needs amid a changing demographic landscape.
Community College of Vermont named the vestibule at its Winooski academic center the Lois McClure Atrium in honor of the late philanthropist, with a dedication held on Aug.
25 (recognizing her support for education and community programs).
VTrans invites drivers to test a new diverging diamond interchange at I-89 Exit 16 in Colchester at the Champlain Valley Fair (running through Sunday) to learn the new traffic pattern, which is set to open mid-September.
A Bankruptcy Court judge in Burlington questioned a proposal by the Vermont Catholic Diocese on Tuesday to sell Rice Memorial High School in South Burlington to its supporters for $4.3 million (14% of a $30.5 million valuation) as part of its Chapter 11 reorganization.
UVM Cancer Center and the FDA approved a new oral medication for pancreatic cancer in a trial that included 12 local patients — the treatment will soon be available to Vermont and New York patients.
Pieter Bultman scored a goal as UVM men's soccer won against Holy Cross at their Burlington home game, boosting the team's record to 3-0-1.
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