All the headlines from our Vermont Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 20 2012 // The Caledonia County Sheriff’s Department and St. Johnsbury Police Department are going to teach young Vermont drivers about the dangers of distracted driving.The departments have been awarded an educational grant...
Sep 10 2012 // Union Mutual of Vermont Companies has promoted Debra Squairs to vice president of claims.Debra SquairsSquairs joined Union Mutual of Vermont Companies in 1999 as a claims processor. She also worked as a claims adjuster,...
Sep 10 2012 // Vermont is well-known for, among many other things, its leading captive insurance industry — home to more than 900 captives.The state’s captive insurance advocacy group, the Vermont Captive Insurance Association,...
Aug 28 2012 // Antonia Schreiber is taking no chances on the next big storm.The remnants of Hurricane Irene turned the 200-year-old building that housed her Catskill Mountains spa boutique into a muddy mess a year ago in Windham, N.Y....
Aug 20 2012 // Insurance professionals who do not like it when customers go bare are about to get even. The National Insurance Professionals (NIP) announced it would hold its 2013 annual convention in Brattleboro, Vermont. The...
Aug 17 2012 // Vermont Mutual Insurance Group, based in Montpelier, Vt., announced two manager appointments. The insurer said it hired Susan Chicoine as the human resources director and promoted Lu Gambero to project manager in its...
Aug 8 2012 // The town offices and police department in a small southern Vermont town have reopened this week in their original home nearly a year after flooding from Tropical Storm Irene forced them to move. The Wilmington town offices...
Aug 6 2012 // Vermont will be hosting a major conference this week for the nation’ captive insurance industry.The Vermont Captive Insurance Association will be holding its annual conference from Tuesday through Thursday. Some...
Jul 31 2012 // Nearly a year after flooding from Tropical Storm Irene devastated villages up and down Vermont’s rivers, hundreds of volunteers are continuing to work with residents trying to rebuild.In Moretown last week, members...
Jul 24 2012 // Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin is asking Vermonters to share their best photographs of Vermont since Tropical Storm Irene to celebrate the state’s recovery.Shumlin and the Department of Tourism have launched a photo...
Jul 23 2012 // A top state official stunned lawmakers last Friday with the announcement that the Federal Emergency Management Agency apparently was backing away from funding assurances to help replace the Vermont State Hospital and...
Jul 23 2012 // Some of Vermont’s estimated 3,700 flood insurance customers could see their premiums increase by up to 20 percent. Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the National Flood Insurance Program has been operating at a loss...
Jul 23 2012 // Healthcare Ruling Brings Cheers…“It’s a victory for the American people because it sustains a law that gives families security, holds insurers accountable and helps Americans get the care they...
Jul 18 2012 // Spring was gloomy in the Vermont ski town of Wilmington, following a winter with little snow on top of the damage and despair caused by Tropical Storm Irene that pummeled the town last August.Photo credit: Dot's Restaurant...
Jul 17 2012 // Motorists across Vermont have been slowing down and following traffic laws since the state launched a summer traffic enforcement program designed to counter a rash of fatalities in the first half of the year, said the...
Jul 16 2012 // A Vermont woman says she’s been forced from her home by mold that Tropical Storm Irene left behind, and she’s had trouble getting help for the problem. Thirty-nine-year-old Chandar Hall of Northfield says...
Jul 9 2012 // Some of Vermont’s estimated 3,700 flood insurance customers could see their premiums increase by up to 20 percent. Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the National Flood Insurance Program has been operating at a loss...
Jul 5 2012 // The state can assert it is immune from a lawsuit by more than 700 state employees, a judge has ruled, in a case where the workers say they were paid hourly rates when they worked more than 40 hours a week but should have...
Jul 2 2012 // Vermont’s push for universal, publicly funded, single-payer health care is going ahead no matter what, Gov. Peter Shumlin said, but he hailed the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the federal Affordable Care Act...
Jun 28 2012 // Mental health advocates and civil libertarians are calling for a moratorium on police use of stun guns in Vermont following the death of man last week. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Mental Health Law Project...