East Montpelier News

Long before he became entangled in a messy land dispute with an East Montpelier neighbor , Gov. Peter Shumlin spent three decades building a real estate empire from his hometown of Putney.

Attorney General Bill Sorrell confirmed his office was looking into the matter this week on the Mark Johnson Show on WDEV radio.

The first meeting of a special legislative committee on Vermont's energy future Thursday featured a continuation of differences between the House and Senate during the 2013 legislative session.

Governor Shumlin is certainly getting some press as a result of the land transaction with his neighbor in East Montpelier, and I am certain the governor would be happy if it were to just go away.

When you have your photo taken at the Vt. Department of Motor Vehicles you may worry about how you look, not so much who will be looking at that photo.

The state surplus vehicle auction brought in much more money than expected. Final sales from the event in Berlin last Saturday totaled about $784,000-- nearly $200,000 more than state officials were hoping for.

Jeremy Dodge, the East Montpelier man who sold his land to Gov. Peter Shumlin then regretted it, now has a lawyer.

The crash happened last Thursday on Route 4 -- near exit one on Interstate 89. Police say 72-year-old Ingrid Neuwirt of West Lebanon crossed the center line and crashed into 43-year-old Shirley Adams of White River Junction.

The birds are singing sweet songs in East Montpelier, and there's one woman who's in harmony with them.

We've resisted the temptation to weigh in with a comment or two about Gov. Peter Shumlin's unfortunate property acquisition in East Montpelier so far, and it hasn't been easy.

The Middlebury College Athletics bubble dome has been deflated. The dome has been in use by the College since 2002, but was deflated Wednesday morning.

"It's a scary thing to think about because I've grown up in this area all my life," said Berlin resident Brenda Searle-Spratt.

Danilo Lopez, 23, a native of Chiapas, Mexico, took part Wednesday in a celebration that was nearly two years in the making.

A controversial land deal between Governor Peter Shumlin and his neighbor, Jerry Dodge, will soon be battled out between lawyers.

Soon after the successful real estate investor built his McMansion on a rural dirt road here outside Vermont's capital, he began throwing his wealth around, striking a deal to bail out his neighbor from a looming tax sale by buying the man's property for a quarter of its appraised value.

Friends and family of Vermont man are wondering whether Gov. Peter Shumlin took advantage of him in a real estate deal the two struck last year.

Governor Peter Shumlin is breaking his silence about a controversial land deal with his East Montpelier neighbor.

VERMONT ROUTE 2A AT EXIT 12 TO WALKER HILL IS CLOSED DUE TO WATER ON THE ROAD WAY Many Vermont roads turned to rivers Thursday night.

Steve Stitzel is a lawyer with three decades of tax sales experience. His firm represents towns from Bennington to Newport.

The Mohawks operate a state-sanctioned casino on the Akwesasne reservation. But the tribe has withheld $60 million in payments to the state over the last three years in a dispute over the exclusive rights of the casino.