9+ hour, 38+ min ago  (123+ words) The Montpelier Bridge Beautiful Weather an No Injuries at Muddy Onion This year's Muddy Onion gravel grinder brought 550 riders and another 50 volunteers to Montpelier on April 25, according to Jen Roberts, co-owner of Onion River Outdoors, which organizes the annual spring…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (454+ words) The ground may still be covered in snow, but now is an excellent time to start planning to improve the soil in your vegetable gardens for the planting season ahead." Cover crops are effective tools in the gardener's toolbox for…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago  (454+ words) If you are like many home gardeners, you may be looking for ways to repurpose some of your turfgrass into perennial beds." The easiest and most efficient way to accomplish this is to use the sheet mulching method." Sheet mulching…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (542+ words) By'Roxy Vanderhoff via Community News Service, a University of Vermont journalism internship' "To grow food is a Vermont right," longtime South Burlington resident Cher Feitelberg told the House Committee on Agriculture, Food Resiliency and Forestry on Feb. 24. Feitelberg was testifying…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago  (693+ words) At Montpelier's Planning Commission meeting on Monday, April 13, it was noted that the city is woefully behind on its targets for new housing. The answer so far may be to deregulate zoning requirements in an effort to spur development. When…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (292+ words) Katie Swick is back in her Union Elementary School kindergarten classroom after spending two weeks touring New Zealand and visiting the local schools there, returning last month." Her journey began with a class at the University of Vermont: Experiencing New…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (303+ words) Affordable Housing Coming to Northfield Street Trees were cut down April 7 at a two-acre site on Northfield Street where developer Jacob Walker plans to build up to 28 affordable apartments, funded primarily by a state disaster recovery flood grant of $4 million....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (532+ words) As the snow recedes from the 133-acre Country Club Road (CCR) property that the city of Montpelier purchased in 2022 to support housing and recreation, a clearer picture of its future " and the future of housing on the site " is beginning…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago  (666+ words) Editorial note: To protect her safety and dignity, The Bridge is withholding the name of the taxi driver referenced in this story and is identifying her by a pseudonym. Barre will soon have its first-ever public nudity ordinance, which will…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago  (1039+ words) Via Community News Service, a University of Vermont internship with The Bridge Almost three years have passed since the July 2023 flooding in central Vermont. But for some of the homeowners affected, time has stood still. Water filled basements, then first…...