Hojun Choi

Tom Labinski is the Communities/Suburban editor for the American-Statesman and the editor of its four weeklies: the Round Rock Leader, Bastrop Advertiser, Lake Travis View and Pflugerville Pflag.

Montpelier residents who stood in the way of ICE officers to prevent a raid in South Burlington last week say they’re left with questions about what more can be done locally in response to federal immigration enforcement activity. Carly Abrams, who lives in Montpelier, said the experience broke her trust in local law enforcement. “Any hope I had that Vermont police would be different, that things would be different because it’s Vermont, was just shattered,” Abrams said. The hours-long faceoff on March 11 was the most public and direct confrontation activists in the state have had with law enforcement. On

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A budding nonprofit in central Vermont wants to be a unique resource for people who are passionate about dog training, care, and ownership. “All we’re trying to do is build the community,” said Rebecca Davison, a founding board member of Montpelier-based Canine Collaborative Vermont. The group is a small pack, but it’s looking to grow, Davison said, adding that the organization is looking to add new faces to its board of directors. The Canine Collaborative got its nonprofit status about a year and a half ago and is in the middle of forming its membership model, Davison told The Bridge. To

The site redesign of Barre City’s Prospect Heights development will reduce the number of new homes the much-anticipated project can support by at least 20%, according to multiple people closely involved with the project. After sitting on ice for more than three decades, the project has gained significant momentum in recent years, including about $9 million in state and federal funding. Last year, city officials learned they needed to redesign the project after a feasibility study showed that existing site plans, dating back to the early 1990s, were incompatible with current wetland regulations. Original plans for the development envisioned up

As part of examining the challenges and opportunities facing Vermont’s Capital City, The Bridge put together a list of past and current city projects, some taking decades to come to fruition, and others approved by voters that died on the vine anyway. The list that follows is incomplete, but it includes some of the more high-profile examples of what Montpelier has tried to achieve, with both successes and failures. Confluence Park: Costs Kept Rising Behind Christ Church, west of where the North Branch River meets the Winooski, a quarter acre of brownfield testifies to funding shortfalls and changing priorities in

City officials as well as their critics agree that the Homelessness Committee plays an important role as an advisory body to the city council.

Managers of the community Garden at 485 Elm in Montpelier, donate extra harvest to the food pantry and work with gleaners.

The Democratic primary in Vermont’s Washington-4 state House district is picking up steam, with two candidates running.

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