John Gallagher

The town of Lyndon could be getting some needed repairs to Route 5 within the coming years. Town officials have begun to revisit plans for reconstruction that have been on the table for many years now.

The National Weather Service in Burlington has declared this week National Severe Weather Awareness Week.

Since severe weather doesn't occur in the northeast usually until the summer months, meteorologists from offices all across the Northeast and New York thought it would be best to use this week in early May to prepare families for potentially severe weather down the road.

Nineteen-year-old Trevor Piper from Derby Vermont, remains in critical condition Wednesday morning at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, NH after a Monday afternoon car accident on Interstate-91.

With snow blanketing our area last night and this morning, one has to wonder what all this winter weather means for early planting and greenhouses that have already sprung up in the Northeast Kingdom.

The verdict is in. White Nose Syndrome, a disease that is deadly to bats, is still going strong, and spreading.This comes after a confirmed case of White Nose Syndrome in a cave in Missouri, a full 300 miles from the closest infection in Tennessee.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders spoke on the senate floor Tuesday about ways the government can prevent more economic hardships for Americans from banks that are too powerful.

Mike Welch resigned as the St. Johnsbury Town Manager at a special meeting on Tuesday night. "It's a personal decision", says Select board member Jim Rust, "But it is a huge loss to the town and some huge boots to fill."

The months of April and May are the most prone to wildfires here in Vermont; and with the unusually dry winter that just passed, the fire danger this season is particularly high.

Scott Hubbard, the Fire Warden out of Sheffield, says, "Dry wood and grass can be found in many places this time of year, and can easily catch on fire and spread on a dry, windy day."

Last Monday night the St. Johnsbury School Board approved a revised budget totaling $197,759 in cuts.  Among those cuts were several full and part time teaching positions adding up to just over $60,000, and a $65,000 reduction in the high school tuition budget next year.