Grand Isle News

The Vermont Small Business Development Center is offering no-fee 1.5-hour workshops to learn about basic business financial literacy: understanding Cash Flows, Profit & Loss Statements and Balance Sheets.

A funny thing happened after Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee Chairman Robert Hartwell told me last week that he planned to delay the shoreland protection bill for a year and shop the proposal around the state in the interim.

A fire has damaged a home in South Hero, Vt., affiliated with a therapeutic horseback riding program.

In the morning Tuesday, the deal on the budget bill for transportation -- and a package of fuel tax changes -- seemed close.

Five Senators, troubled, they said, by who would be burdened by an increase in the taxes on gasoline and diesel, voted against a $632 million transportation project bill Friday.