David Delcore

BERLIN — The development review board is poised to shift its attention to what could be Berlin's next big thing — a five-story hotel that would literally cast a shadow on the neighboring Comfort Inn.

BARRE — In an effort to address sustained reports of troubling behaviors he says are escalating in “intensity,” if not frequency, City Manager Nicolas

BERLIN — The voter-approved merger of the town and its volunteer fire department has yet to be consummated even as the select board readies to recruit

BARRE — A dozen residents displeased with the city council's split decision to pledge $400,000 toward the potential purchase of a chronically vacant

BARRE — A budget cycle that got off to a promising start may end in another stalemate, as a school board, which required four tries to persuade voters

MONTPELIER Amid calls for cuts that could shrink the staff at City Hall, a budget with a to-be-determined bottom line will be the subject of the first of two public hearings next week.

MONTPELIER — A school board weighing how much to ask voters to spend on the operation of the Montpelier Roxbury Public School District was reminded

BARRE — Perception and reality collided in the second-floor meeting room of Alumni Hall on Monday night when a public safety forum turned into the mother of all conversation starters.

BARRE — There aren't enough votes on a short-handed city council to entertain an ordinance that would attempt to regulate behaviors that were just the subject of a well-attended public safety forum.

BARRE — It's déjà vu all over again in the Barre Unified Union School District, where a divided school board just narrowly adopted the $59.4 million