Nearly two weeks after flash flooding ripped through central Vermont,
the American Red Cross says there are still about two dozen people
living in a shelter in Barre.
Some food systems in Vermont will receive $40,000 in grant funding, thanks to the state’s recent jobs bill. That funding will mainly go toward new equipment and infrastructure.
A
Barre granite company has won a contract to sell thousands of tons of waste
rock to the federal government. The contract promises a business boost for central Vermont, and possibly some traffic hassles.
A judge has blocked the city of Barre from enforcing an
ordinance that would have required a convicted sex offender to move. Twenty-nine-year-old Chris Hagan had been
ordered by city officials to move under an ordinance passed last year.