“We started basically something new and innovative, honestly without really knowing what the heck we were doing at that time, but we kept our eyes open and our ears open, listening to people that had some experience, that could see what we were doing.”

In an email announcing the opening of three new family shelter apartments in August, Lamoille Community House director Kim Anetsberger expressed her complicated feelings as her organization continues its expansion to meet the needs of homeless people in the county.

The deadline for the town of Belvidere to decide whether to acquire its former school building draws nearer, and an informational meeting was held in that very building last week to update voters on both the cost and potential involved in making the building a public asset.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services, in coordination with the Vermont Department of Health and the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, has begun an annual rabies vaccine bait drop to help combat rising rabies rates in wildlife.

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says Vermonters are logging onto the wild turkey brood survey to report their observations, but the department is urging people to continue to do so through the end of August.

Lamoille County’s new affordable housing nonprofit has spent the last seven months settling into its new role as some towns look for assistance in addressing the ongoing housing crisis.

Morristown residents used to purchase new Chevys at the old McMahon auto dealership in Morrisville, and if an application to renovate the property clears the development review board, it could become a spot for chain pizza and cellphones.

Johnson Selectboard member Duncan Hastings resigned last week, citing general health concerns, the board’s decision-making process and dissatisfaction over the board’s relationship with its town administrator.

Despite an increasingly threatened habitat and dwindling population, the annual banding of a rare songbird in its Mt. Mansfield habitat this year saw the return of many adults, a positive sign of the population’s endurance.

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