Shaun Robinson

Gov. Phil Scott submitted the appeal Friday and believes the state has bolstered its case for why it needs federal assistance, his office said.

The legal challenges mark a significant escalation in the monthslong fight between the union and the administration over the plan to have state workers return to the office at least three days a week.

Bill Hunsinger of Ripton, the party’s new leader, says he wants to focus on bolstering its presence at the local level and is taking aim at the state’s education reform law.

Gov. Phil Scott’s administration has agreed to pay $2.3 million over a five-year term to rent three privately owned office spaces in the Pilgrim Park complex.

The state has roughly doubled its estimate of recovery costs following the July storm — the third of its kind in three years in Vermont.

Paul Dame of St. George was reelected as party leader by just three votes over Sen. Russ Ingalls, R-Essex, at the state GOP’s biennial convention Saturday.

The state wants to boost voting access for people who are incarcerated or are experiencing homelessness, among other groups, as President Donald Trump is pushing to eliminate widely-used mail-in voting.

The goal? To “kind of push the public transit system to its limits,” Kellen Appleton said of the daylong, seven-vehicle odyssey.

“We need to tell ICE our message that their surveillance will not slow us down. It will not stop us. It will only bring us out stronger,” one organizer said.

The graffiti, which local police said was painted early Satuday morning, included phrases such as “kill yourselves,” “shoot yourselves” and “hang yourself,” as well as “not safe” and “die.”