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Builders and Environmentalists Stopped Fighting Over the Wetland Rule. Five Lawmakers Wouldn't Take the Deal
12+ hour, 54+ min ago (711+ words) The Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules voted 5-3 Thursday against the Scott administration’s revised wetlands rule, declining the Agency of Natural Resources’ request to withdraw the objection the committee lodged in May. It is the second time this year the committee…...
Is the Penny Drawer Empty at Your Local Store?
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1424+ words) You’re at the counter with a coffee and a sandwich. The total is $8.62. You hand over a ten. The clerk gives you back $1.40 instead of $1.38, or maybe $1.38 exactly, or maybe there’s a handwritten sign taped to the register saying the…...
Compass Points: 270 Acres in Cabot and Peacham returned to Nulhegan Abenaki
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (167+ words) Compass Points is our curation file. No reporting of our own — just the Vermont stories we read this week that we think are worth your time, a short note on why, and a link straight to the people who did…...
Vermont Farmers See Robotic Weeders in Action — Here’s What It Takes to Put One in the Field
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (742+ words) They’re bumblebee yellow, about the size of a ride-on mower, and since May they’ve been humming up and down crop rows on farms in northern Vermont with nobody driving them. More than 45 people came out to Henry Bros. Wolfridge Dairy…...
BETA Lands Its First European Airline Agreement — Here’s What We Know So Far
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (752+ words) On July 20, at the Farnborough International Airshow, BETA Technologies and Loganair announced a signed term sheet under which the UK’s largest regional airline would purchase five all-electric ALIA CTOL aircraft — the CX300 — with options for five more. The aircraft are built…...
BETA Joins a New Consortium to Build Up to 250 Electric-Aircraft Charging Sites
1+ week, 1+ day ago (471+ words) On Thursday, BETA Technologies — the South Burlington manufacturer that has become one of Vermont’s most closely watched employers — joined Archer Aviation and Macquarie Capital to announce America’s Consortium for Electric Skyways, or ACES: a plan to build charging for up…...
ICE Looked at Derby for Office Space. Vermonters in the Kingdom Are Asking What That Means
1+ week, 2+ day ago (193+ words) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has identified Derby as a possible site for office space, according to federal procurement records — one of two Vermont locations, alongside Williston, in a nationwide search underway since at least March. No office has been confirmed,…...
A Hiker Never Lost Hold of His iPhone. It Told Vermont a Plane Had Crashed
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1750+ words) ANALYSIS - The alert that pulled three dozen emergency responders onto a mountain in Westmore last Monday said this: It arrived at the Vermont State Police at about 1 p.m. on July 13, routed through the state’s 911 system as an automated text. It placed…...
Vermont's AI Election Law Is Not an AI Law. It's Broader Than That — and Narrower Than Its Critics Think
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1214+ words) Act 75 reaches any digitally created or manipulated image of a candidate that injures the candidate’s reputation. It contains no requirement that the image be false. It also expressly protects satire — which raises the question at the center of a federal…...
Everybody Stops for the Whale Tails. Almost Nobody Knows the Mountains Behind Them
1+ week, 5+ day ago (946+ words) Get off I-89 at Exit 4 in Randolph and there is a McDonald’s, and there is a field, and rising out of that field are two bronze whale tails, sixteen feet tall, diving into the grass. The sculpture is called Whale Dance....