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The U.S. state of Vermont is divided into 247 municipalities, including 237 towns and 10 cities. Vermont also has nine unincorporated areas, split between five unincorporated towns and four gores. As of 2024, Vermont has 30 incorporated villages, which are municipal governments operating within a town and providing additional services.
Jan 18, 2024 · For the first time in four years, none of Vermont’s 247 municipalities have publicly announced plans to cancel in-person March Town Meetings due to Covid-19 concerns, according to a...
Dec 19, 2023 · Just over 1,200 households in Vermont are without power as of 4:20 pm today, after a peak of about 10,000 outages this morning. Outages were largely due to strong winds, especially across high terrain.
Nov 21, 2023 · More than 100 of the 247 towns in Vermont have no town manager or town administrator, according to data from the state Agency of Administration. Officials there say those communities...
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Burlington, a city of 44,000 nestled on the shore of Lake Champlain, is the home of the University of Vermont and a beacon of progressive politics. It’s where Sen. Bernie Sanders launched his political career, and City Council divisions aren’t between Republicans and Democrats, but between Democrats and Progressives. Historically, the city’s proper...
George Floyd died under the knee of Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020. In Burlington, the reaction was swift. Protesters marched through the city and rallied outside the police department, demanding defunding and termination of officers involved in past use-of-force incidents. “We had all these issues leading up to the pandemic and...
The unintended consequences appeared quickly. Slashing the police force through attrition, which some councilors assumed would take years, instead took months. Police officers began to leave in droves. Before defunding, Burlington averaged about 95 effective, or active-duty, police officers. Today, the department hovers around 64. Often only five o...
It’s hard to tell whether crime has risen in Burlington as officers have left the force, in part because there are no solid numbers yet. The best year-to-year comparisons would come from FBI data — which won’t be available until next year. For now, the Burlington Police Department has incident data for 2021, which show that the total number of inci...
Since 2020, nearly a dozen communities across the U.S. have significantly altered their law enforcement budgets. But the movement to defund has faced a backlash — especially in the face of a soaring nationwide homicide rate. Some have increased police budgets to pay for reforms, while others have reversed defunding decisions. In Austin, Texas, slas...
Jul 16, 2024 · A year after floods devastated many municipalities across Vermont, there’s an urgent need for towns to take on projects to limit damage from future disasters. But that work will take years and cost millions of dollars.
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Jul 11, 2024 · A year after floods devastated many municipalities across Vermont, most of the damage has been repaired — culverts and roads have been replaced, and homeowners have dried out their basements and...
