Winooski News

Cigarettes in Vermont cost a quarter more a pack and $2.50 more a carton, and the 6 percent state sales tax applies for the first time to liquor, all the result of legislation that took effect Wednesday.

"Unfortunately, I need it for the business," he concedes. He takes comfort, though, from the fact that since April 2005, his company, True North Construction, has built exceptionally detailed and environmentally-friendly homes throughout northern Vermont.

For a week he'd been meaning to get to the DMV office on North Avenue to register his new baby -- a '67 Mustang convertible -- but John Hoehl of South Burlington didn't walk through the door until Wednesday morning and found he'd be forced to pay a little more for the delay.

Double dutch and even 'rump rope' were on a long list of rope jumping styles taught at the Girl Scouts summer day camp Jump In at the Robert E. and Shirley A. O'Brien Community Center in Winooski on June 22.

Milton police have cited 17 people on suspicion of dealing and possessing illegal drugs, in and around town.

Seventeen people have been arrested in connection with a massive drug bust in Milton.

WINOOSKI -- Toni Companion spent Saturday afternoon throwing stones into the cool waters of the Winooski River with her 4-year-old granddaughter Kaia.

NIGHT WORK: Winooski: • Crews will continue repairing the existing concrete roadway in Winooski on U.S. 7 at Mansion Street and work south towards the rotary, weather permitting.

How people react to adversity says a lot about a community, and by that measure, Richmond's response to the closing of its Bridge Street Bridge reflects a town looking to work together and try innovative approaches to get through a tough stretch.

It's summer, so everyone is getting into Festival mode. Winooski is no exception.

ST. ALBANS -- John Fisher, now 69, became interested in his genealogy in his late 30s.

Winooski, VT a ' BioTek Instruments continues to expand its gold-standard ELx405 Microplate Washer product line with the introduction of the ELx405 Magnetic Bead Washer.

Part of that fertile Portland, Ore., music scene that has produced The Decemberists and M. Ward, indie-folk musician Laura Gibson visits another riverside city, Winooski, to play at The Monkey House at 9 p.m. June 12 with fellow Portlanders Musee Mecanique.

A $114,000 federal grant will help improve the energy efficiency of the O'Brien Community Center in Winooski.

By Julie Czesnowski The Winooski watershed and Mad River watershed are infected with Didymosphenia geminata, also known as Didymo or rock snot, which is a type of freshwater algae.

Road repair on Route 7 in Winooski will be conducted as follows: Work week schedules have been changed to include Sunday nights through Thursday nights with Friday night work when necessary to remain on schedule.

A federal judge is sending a lawsuit against the city of Winooski by former manager Joshua Handverger back to state court.

Trial has started for a millionaire crack dealer from Colchester charged with sexual assault.

Neither the Free Press editorial of May 27 nor the My Turn by the president of the Winooski teachers union reflects the situation as seen by the Winooski School Board in regard to our current contract negotiations.

Unionized workers in Winooski have agreed to a pay freeze in order to avoid layoffs.