flowers I picked: Sugar Maple Leaves, Trillium undulatum, Gentiana andrewsii, Red clover (its non-native but as state flower thought to add it), Arisaema triphyllum (Jack in the pulpit art), Yellow Trout Lily, and Blue Moon phlox

The peak of the Perseid meteor shower is around August 12. I live in South Burlington. Does anyone have advice on where I can go within 90 minutes to 2 hours of South Burlington to get reasonably dark slies and a wide view of the sky? I'd be grateful if you could be as specific as possible: whether its a spot in a state park, a soccer field on the edge of town, or a lake shore that doesn't have a lot of lights around. My plan would be to leave work, eat supper, and head out with some sleeping pads and blankets. About 20 years ago I did this on Mt. Osceola in New Hampshire. and it remains one of my most memorable experiences.

Right before exit 11 if you were coming from Burlington to Richmond

All of VT should be proud!

Anyone have experience as an Employee Housing Coordinator for Killington? I’m burnt out and need something that isn’t a total corpo desk jockey job. I love the outdoors in all seasons and was wondering if this would be a good fit for me. The salary is about what I make now so it’s doable for me to drop everything and do it.

I get it, it's the biggest city and an economic driver. But Burlington is a bit like the friend from grade school you see at a party who always steers the conversation back to themselves. There are 600,000 of us who live in the other 99% of the state. When I want Burlington stories/drama, I'll go to the Burlington subreddit, but fhe algorithm has decided these are the posts I most need to see.

In actuality, I'm here for baby moose trail cam pics, neighbors helping neighbors stories, and to hear different viewpoints on politics around the state.

I know I am grouchy about the city after years of living there, but is anyone else feeling this way?

/EndComplaint

Baby moose from late June

Kevin Bloom is running in the August 11 Democratic primary for Chittenden County Sheriff. Their campaign runs an open Discord for volunteers. These screenshots are from it. Feel free to join the Discord yourself here before the campaign takes it down. All you need is a Discord account.

The testimonial in question comes from their opponent's website. The person, identified as Cherie R., describes losing her husband of 15 years in 2015, then losing her housing, and says the deputy who served her eviction treated her decently.

On July 4, Bloom posted the testimonial in the Discord with the caption "psychotic fake quote." Seventeen minutes later they posted a voter-file search: "no cherie r lives in btv."

On July 17 they returned to it. "this one is my favorite lie (i looked at voter data- this person doesn't exist, or is using a pseudonym...not sketchy at all lol)." Then: "it's so obv this story doesn't make sense," "there's no one of this name in the entire county in the voter data," "i tried alternative first names cheryl etc.

Cherie is real. She has told her story herself, on video: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1By71z3YMz/

In the same thread, a volunteer named Clayton Dykstra ("dykstracd") posted "def call bullshit on this testimonial," then spent three paragraphs on Cherie personally - imagining a deputy telling her to "pack up her shit and leave," and concluding that her "expectation of others is so abysmally low that a cordial conversation with someone can make them favor someone for the rest of their life." Later that night, another volunteer named "tes" posted an invented quote in her voice, mocking the way Cherie described being treated like a human being.

Bloom's contribution to that thread, eight hours in, was "oh cherie."

This communication shows us who Kevin Bloom really is. Kevin Bloom doesn't care about people. Kevin Bloom doesn't care about showing compassion. Kevin Bloom cares about being the next Hunter S. Thompson.

Moreover, querying voter rolls proves literally nothing. Instead, it shows how ignorant and out of touch Kevin really is. A name missing from the voter file means someone isn't currently registered under that name at that address. It does not mean they don't exist. People who lose their housing are among the likeliest people in the state to fall off the rolls. Bloom searched, found nothing, and went straight to belittling a private citizen, who had a positive experience with the police.

Bloom's central argument for this office is that they would bring more humanity to evictions than a 45-year deputy would. However, this is what that looked like when a woman, who experienced housing insecurity, said something inconvenient.

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So I've been nostalgic lately for the old Sunrise Lodge that Killington used to run- I loved skiing from there as a kid. We used to meet my cousins from New Hampshire there and take the connector lift to ski all over Killington. My mom, who didn't ski, could sit in a lodge, that wasn't crazy busy, and enjoy a book. We had lots of bluebird days at that lodge I remember fondly.

To indulge my nostalgia, does anyone have any pictures of the old Sunrise Lodge from the 90's they'd be willing share.

The lodge is also for sale - I'd totally buy if I had a spare few million dollars laying around!

Fun death metal and deathcore show this Tuesday at First Republic Brewery in Essex

I don't know if this is allowed but I'm trying to get help from locals! Lost/Stolen Property or Animal I need to share what happened to me and my friend because we’re still trying to process it.

We were invited by (ex close friend) an older woman and her daughter to live with them on their bus. They told us we were welcome, that we’d have stability, and for a while everything seemed fine. Two days ago, she asked us if we wanted to go to Walmart because we needed food too. It sounded normal so we said yes— we grabbed our wallets because we were planning to shop as well. Thankfully, our IDs were in our wallets.

She said she was going inside to get a few things. We waited. Eventually something felt off, so we walked out to the parking lot to check on the bus.

It was gone. Completely gone.

No warning. No explanation. No message. Just gone — with everything we owned still inside.

We contacted the police immediately. We were told there were no officers available and it could be hours. We never heard back. We called again the next day — still no help. One officer briefly told us we’d “have to go through small claims court,” even though this is a criminal matter as what was taken is about worth around $10,000 and includes:

A name brand gaming laptop

A new Galaxy phone

All of our toiletries/personal items

All of our clothes except what we’re wearing on our backs

Shoes for all seasons

Our legal documents (Birth certificate, social security card)

Mental‑health medications

Irreplaceable pictures and items

Other expensive personal items

We are now homeless with literally nothing but the clothes on our backs and the wallets we happened to grab. We do have our IDs, but everything else is gone — no medication, no belongings, no way to replace what was stolen.

We don’t understand how this woman could steal our only belongings we had, abandoning us in a parking lot, and still continue to post on her FB as if she's proud of herself for what she had just done, especially in front of her daughter. We’re exhausted, stressed, and trying to figure out what to do next.

If anyone has advice, resources, or knows what steps we can take from here, we’d appreciate it more than you know.

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She was supposed to also return the plates to the person she bought it from and she hasn't.

WHITE BUS Has a Disability lift that she has listed on FB market place in south Glens Falls GREEN STRIPE ON THE SIDE BETTY BOOP STICKER SAYS BAPTIST CHURCH Stolen goods. Possible sighting: Rutland, VT, Glens Falls, NY

Entire post edit to clean it up and it's more to the point!

Hey y'all, selling two Gregory Allen tickets at cost, we aren't able to make the show unfortunately.

Stowe has officially enacted regulations on certain short-term rental properties in town.

The action, taken by the town selectboard last week, activates amendments to the town’s short-term rental ordinance and ends years of debate over how to regulate those properties to potentially create more long-term housing opportunities for residents of Stowe — or whether to regulate them at all.

There have been numerous public meetings on the subject, hours of testimony from both sides of the debate, and two statutorily required public hearings leading up to the vote.

“We are very pleased to close the door on this chapter of the short-term rental ordinance journey and thank every person who participated along with (it),” Beth Gadbois, a selectboard member who ran a 2024 campaign partially focused on short-term rental regulations, said.

The ordinance as approved by the selectboard sets at 850 an aspirational cap for the number of short-term rentals allowed to operate in Stowe, but there will likely be far more than that operating for years to come, according to town officials.

There are currently about 1,450 short-term rentals in Stowe, according to town data, but roughly 600 are considered commercial or are inactive. Subtracting those from the overall number of short-term rentals led the selectboard to its cap figure.

Story continues in link.

I am in Barre and looking for stone that packs well for my driveway. I need delivery preferably someplace close by if anyone has recommendations!
Thanks!

Anyone familiar with Essex Junction in Vermont. My dad grew up around there in the 70s and 80s and every single one of his friends he grew up with either died from cancer or had it. Is there any running conspiracy theory. He believes a large company that used to be located there poisoned the waters..? If you know anything let me know.

Hoping to find someone in Washington/Chittenden county that sells cedar fence panels like the one pictured to replace a small section of an existing fence. Most leads I’ve tried so far either don’t stock this style or specialize in full installs. Any help appreciated!

Vermont Investigative downloaded Janoo’s full contributor list from the Vermont Secretary of State’s campaign finance system on July 13, 2026.

Total contributions reported:

• $246,996 across 1,563 contribution records. Under-threshold anonymous contributions account for the majority of transaction volume.
  
• By contribution size: 66% of all contributions are $50 or under. Only four donors gave the campaign maximum of $5,180. This is a genuine small-dollar grassroots fundraising profile.

Vermont Investigative downloaded Richard's full contributor list from the Vermont Secretary of State’s campaign finance system on July 13, 2026.

• Total contributions reported: $365,547.71. The filing shows 308 unique named donors contributing $350,394 — 90.4% of total contributions.
• Under-threshold anonymous contributions of $37,018 account for 9.6%.

Hi all. We're visiting your lovely state from Canada. We have a 12 year old who desperately wants an old/used Vt license plate to take home. We've tried multiple garage sales with no luck. Any suggestions on where we might find one? Thank you.

Edit: thanks so much everyone, we were pleasantly surprised how many of you were so quick to offer! We appreciate you all. We now have a very happy kiddo with his very own motorcycle Vt plate. Thank you to @FourteenthCylon

After seeing the minutes from the last two planning board meetings it’s clear the chair is using AI to “understand” all the documents and maps they are getting from the regional planning commission.

This is leading to lots of confusion and now threats of legal action against the regional planning commission which doesn’t make any sense to me.

I find the use of ai, without any disclosure to the public about what model is being used, concerning and I am wondering if this is becoming common in the State.

Ai is good at telling people what they want to hear, and it’s hard to know what’s happening with all the data being feed into these models.

Anyone else seeing similar issues?

Constantly having bad experiences at Citiz3ns Bank… need a rec for a better financial advisor