Town Meeting Day in Vermont was busy as always, and now that voters have made their opinions known, the Free Press has all ...

As the state’s 247 municipalities decided local and school leaders and spending, Kirby moderator John McClaughry won for his 60th time, and at least a half-dozen communities debated President Donald ...

Nearly three years ago, Vermont passed a landmark law that aimed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by shifting residents away from using fossil fuels to heat their homes and businesses. Last month, that ...

Typically concerned with local issues, residents at town meetings in Vermont and elsewhere increasingly use the forum to debate polarizing national and international events.

Vermont is home to one of the oldest and most cherished forms of local election in the country: town meetings, a day-long ...

Vermont has adopted new guidance eliminating a requirement that foster parents embrace LGBT ideology and has restored the ...

A resident scans his Town Meeting Day ballots inside the Barre Municipal Auditorium on March 1, 2022. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Vermont’s secretary of state says it could get more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bernie Sanders, then the mayor of Burlington, greets Jesse Jackson backstage at a 1988 Vermont rally where he endorsed Jackson's ...

Jesse Jackson’s two campaigns for president, in 1984 and 1988, were unsuccessful but historic. The civil rights activist and ...