Middlebury

Days after violent wind gusts damaged property and knocked down trees across Vermont, a nonprofit animal sanctuary in Addison County is in recovery mode. Kinder Way Farm Sanctuary in Middlebury is home to animals including a blind goat and a cow with dwarfism. At the sanctuary, farm animals get a second chance after neglect or abandonment — or maybe their...

Kinder Way Farm Sanctuary in Middlebury lost farm structures and fencing to vicious winds ahead of Christmas weekend.

Vermont this weekend became the latest state in New England where people can legally buy marijuana in stores.

For the first time, the winner of the Powerball jackpot is in the Green Mountain State. And Vermont’s first-ever Powerball winner will soon have a whole lot more money in their bank account — if they claim the prize, that is. It’s worth $366.7 million. That’s about one-twentieth of Vermont’s entire annual budget. However, if the winner takes the...

A cemetery in Middlebury is the final resting place of someone unlike anyone else in any other Vermont cemetery. “It’s a great Vermont story,” observed Tom Giffin of the Vermont Old Cemetery Association. In the West Cemetery, located across Route 30 from the Middlebury College Center for the Arts, the ashes of an actual mummy from ancient Egypt are buried….

A program that has helped food-insecure Vermonters access nutritious meals, while directing revenues to local restaurants, has been extended through the end of 2021. Vermont Everyone Eats operates in each of the state’s 14 counties, and announced the extension on its website. FEMA is currently covering chef-made meals $10 at a time, with the concept addressing people’s food needs and…