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A potentially harmful bacteria closed Burlington’s busiest beach to swimmers Thursday.

Swimmers in Vermont’s largest city were crestfallen Thursday after a natural, but possibly dangerous, substance was spotted near the shore of Lake Champlain — closing a busy beach for the day. Health and environmental experts are now urging people in Burlington and beyond to read up on cyanobacteria. “We’re definitely disappointed,” said Tessa Santarpia of Buffalo, New York, who...

The neighboring Vermont cities of Winooski and Burlington are working toward creating even more welcoming spaces for all residents and visitors. Winooski raised the Pride Progress flag Monday, aiming to show the city is a welcoming place for LGBTQ+ people, as well as for members of other historically marginalized groups. “Hate has no place in our communities,” insisted Rep. Taylor…

A project in Burlington, Vermont, is using art to uplift a hard-working charity, while helping that nonprofit with a job its own tight budget wouldn’t otherwise have had room for. “It’s popping out now,” said Midhat Hadzic of Feeding Chittenden, Vermont’s largest provider of direct emergency food support, referring to how the nonprofit’s formerly drab and gray building is...

A boil water order for Burlington, Massachusetts, was lifted Saturday after multiple tests confirmed there is no E. coli present in the town’s water system. The determination was made by Burlington’s Department of Public Works (DPW) and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) following 37 confirmatory tests of samples taken throughout town, officials said in a release. “We...

The determination was made by Burlington’s Department of Public Works (DPW) and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) following 37 confirmatory tests of samples taken throughout town, officials said in a release.

E. coli was found Thursday in the water in Burlington, leading the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to issue a boil water order. The town said the bacteria had been found in three of 11 samples from its drinking water system. “These bacteria can make you sick and are a particular concern for people with weakened immune systems,” the town…

People who live in Burlington, Massachusetts, are being ordered to boil water after traces of E. coli were found.

Vermont nonprofit organizations and municipalities are hosting Juneteenth observances this weekend—putting Black art, culture, heritage, and history center stage on June 19, the date in 1865 when the final slaves in Texas learned about their overdue freedom. Burlington, Montpelier, Winooski, and Hartford are among the Vermont communities hosting Juneteenth celebrations. Congress and President Biden authorized the date as a new…

A small Vermont charity is bouncing back for the start of a busy summer after the coronavirus pandemic limited its ability to reach as many people as normal last year.   “We are going to be very busy this summer,” predicted Sylvia Oblak, the executive director of Healing Winds. The nonprofit uses donations to take cancer patients and their loved ones…

A small Vermont charity is bouncing back from the pandemic, expanding its reach by offering excursions to sick people at no cost.

Honoring the memory of our fallen heroes, one step at a time. Army Veteran and Burlington Police Officer Jacob DeSantis made it his mission this Memorial Day to spend every minute – from midnight Monday through midnight Tuesday – in a ruck march around the high school track, to remember and raise money for Massachusetts Fallen Heroes. “I lost two…

Jacob DeSantis is honoring the memory of our fallen heroes, one step at a time.

Gov. Phil Scott proclaimed Tuesday, the anniversary of the death of George Floyd, “George Floyd Remembrance Day” in Vermont, and asked people across the state to acknowledge systemic racism in order to work toward full equality for everyone. In Burlington’s City Hall Park, participants in a silent remembrance service knelt, laid with their cheeks against the ground, closed their...

After the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to take a season off, and following a Major League Baseball realignment that almost left Burlington without high-level baseball, the Vermont Lake Monsters have returned this week to Centennial Field. Monday saw the team’s first workout and practice. “I love Vermont,” said pitcher Evan Stewart, who is on the roster for the Vermont...

As COVID-19 vaccination rates rise, the return of in-person events like large outdoor concerts, festivals, fairs and celebrations is good news for an arts group in Vermont’s largest city, the Burlington Burn Club.

A fire flow performing arts club known as “Burn Club” meets twice a week in Burlington, Vermont.

North Beach in Burlington, where the temperature hit 90 Thursday, was the place to cool off in Lake Champlain, play some games and even get your COVID-19 vaccine.

A COVID-19 vaccination clinic was held in Vermont Thursday — at a beach.