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Montpelier Walgreens to Close Nov. 6 The Montpelier Walgreens store and pharmacy will be closing for good on Nov. 6, employees were told on Sept. 27, leaving Kinney Drugs as the only pharmacy operating in the city’s downtown. The closure, which comes seven years after Walgreens purchased 31 Rite Aid stores in Vermont, including the […]

Fifteen-year-old Porter Perrin kept a diary in 1874 that describes his daily activities on his family’s farm in Berlin (located at the south end of where Knapp Airport is now). The diary has been transcribed and published by vermonthistoryexplorer.org. Perrin writes of working to set up, gather, boil, can, and clean up a maple sugaring […]

Knapp Airport Expansion Planned Improvements are planned for the Edward F. Knapp State Airport in Berlin. Archeological and environmental studies are underway in order to extend one runway, realign another, build more hangars, and complete other work, according to a Jan. 2023 document from the Vermont Agency of Transportation titled “Edward F. Knapp State Airport.” […]

Homelessness in central Vermont continues to increase, according to Rick DeAngelis, co-director of Good Samaritan Haven. In fact, he told the Montpelier City Council during its July 17 meeting, Vermont has the second highest per capita rate of homelessness in the U.S. As part of a discussion about the increasing homelessness, speaker David Swett indicated […]

Despite a second year in a row of major flooding in its downtown, Barre is going forward with a full four-day schedule for the Barre Heritage Festival from July 24 to July 27.  In 2023, the celebration had to be postponed from July to September because of a more destructive flood that occurred on the […]

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Savoy Theater, North Branch Café Seek Donations At least two downtown businesses, still reeling from the flood, have recently started new GoFundMe campaigns to help them stay in business. The Savoy Theater, a downtown fixture for 43 years, is still trying to pay for the repairs that were necessary to re-open its downstairs theater space […]

Montpelier’s Country Club Road property, former home of the Elks Club, would be a good place for a disc golf course according to two men who pitched the idea at a recent city council meeting. Recreation Director Arne McMullen and Efficiency Vermont Managing Director Peter Walke presented a proposal to install a disc golf course […]

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