Grand Isle County News

Severe thunderstorms slugged the Champlain Valley on Friday afternoon, skirting greater Burlington but hammering northern counties.

Hundreds of people remained without power around mid-day today in the wake of severe thunderstorms that tore through northern Vermont yesterday - and meteorologists said more storms could be brewing.

The U.S. Census Bureau released new statistics today. It showed over the past year more people are moving to Northwestern Vermont, and people are packing their bags and leaving the southern part of the state.

New U.S. Census population data to be released today show familiar trends in Vermont are continuing: The state's cities and southern counties are slowly losing people, while suburban Chittenden County and other ...

The Vermont State Police along with other local agencies will be conducting a DWI checkpoint in Grand Isle County over the Forth of July holiday weekend.

Comcast announced plans Monday to wire another 300 miles of Vermont with fiber optic and coax cable next year, adding high-speed Internet and television service to seven communities.

Parts of Grand Isle County are looking forward to faster internet service next year.

ST. ALBANS -- When Bobbi-Jo Perreault arrived at Samaritan House last summer, she didn't care what happened to her.

Governor Jim Douglas and Comcast officials Monday will announce Comcast's proposal to extend its network by another 300 miles in 2009 in communities not already served by wire line providers offering high-speed ...

In many ways, Vermont is already paying to house and care for its homeless. Visits to local shelters, hospital emergency rooms, local prisons or jails by the state's homeless population are being paid for ...

“The congressional folks have always gone to bat for this.”

Four Vermont communities were awarded a total of $1 million on Tuesday to clean up old polluted industrial sites in Bennington, Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle and Windsor counties. via Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus

“The working forest will remain. The public access will remain. The roads will stay open”

Essex Timber Co. is selling more than 86,000 acres of former Champion land, the largest private landholding in Vermont. via Burlington Free Press

“Accidents and crime, poor academics, and just all of the things that alcohol causes, directly or indirectly, it's really important to the health of communities and to our society as a whole”

Several Vermont towns are taking part in a nationwide initiative to combat underage drinking. via WCAX-TV Burlington

“After that I'm sure he'll give us our marching orders”

The judge who withdrew unexpectedly from a Grand Isle County murder case is under no legal obligation to explain his actions, state court personnel said Friday. via Burlington Free Press

Ahuntsic woman is accused of drowning her 8-year-old son in Lake Champlain The Gazette Published:A 24 minutes ago The Vermont judge presiding over the trial of Louise Desnoyers, the Ahuntsic woman accused of ... via Montreal Gazette

- A court official says a Vermont District Court judge has recused himself from the case of a Montreal woman charged with drowning her eight-year-old son.

Sherry Briton, the manager of the Vermont District Court in Grand Isle County, says Judge Ben Joseph has also issued a gag order in the case.

Fifty-year-old Louise Desnoyers is charged with first-degree murder in the 2006 drowning death of her son in Lake Champlain.

Police say she was distraught over an impending breakup with the boy's father and wanted to spare her son the pain of the separation she expected.

Briton says she does not know why Joseph recused himself from the case or issued the gag order, applicable to all lawyers and law enforcement officials involved in the case.

“Senior centers play an extremely important role in enabling seniors to socialize, travel, exercise, and get access to health care professionals”

BURLINGTON - U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., this morning plans to announce $196,000 for senior centers in Addison, Chittenden, Grand Isle and Franklin counties, said officials for the senator. via BurlingtonFreePress.com

Published: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 By J. Churchill Hindes Each day over a thousand of our neighbors, friends and family members look to their Visiting Nurse Association to get the care Medicaid rates do not ... via Burlington Free Press

“At some point in the future, the finite earth will not satisfactorily accommodate more human beings - ' nor will the United States . . . [N]ow is the time to confront the question: "Why more people?”

George Plumb grew up in Massachusetts, but he has been a Vermonter since 1963. Some years ago, after settling in Washington, Vermont, he began wondering: Why did every bucolic place he'd ever lived eventually ... via Seven Days

“It's been hard for people to put all this behind them”

Rusty Spaulding, the longtime Isle La Motte town moderator, says he doesn't know what's going to happen when the island community stages its annual town meeting Saturday morning. via Burlington Free Press