Having started his fourth term in office earlier this month, Gov. Phil Scott addressed a joint session of the Vermont General Assembly Friday afternoon to deliver his seventh budget address.

The Vermont Air National Guard announced that it will conduct night training flights this week through Friday and again next week, Tuesday-Friday, Jan. 24-27. 

Duxbury voters proved recently that they could have their Town Meeting pies, presentations and discussions – and their Australian ballot voting, too.

With the promise of pie and socializing, town officials and community members in Duxbury have planned a special pre-Town Meeting Community Gathering for Saturday morning at Crossett Brook Middle School. 

With his mother at his side, Gov. Phil Scott on Thursday took the oath of office for the fourth time at a ceremony in the Vermont House before members of the General Assembly, the state Supreme Court, and numerous guests. 

On Tuesday, Dec. 20, Vermont’s senior U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy gave his farewell address on the Senate floor as he soon ends his term and a 48-year career in the Senate. 

Last Friday’s Nor’easter might have been just a warm-up for some wild weather forecast for Vermont starting late Thursday night, through Friday and into Saturday. 

Tonight’s Select Board meeting has a full agenda running the gamut with visits with representatives of the Vermont State Police and the Harwood Unified Union School District, a report on the recent community survey on how to spend federal economic stimulus funding, and a start to preparing a draft budget for 2023. 

A ceremony last weekend at the Waterbury National Guard armory brought together several dozen soldiers along with their commanders including the Vermont Adjutant General. All traveled to Waterbury for a solemn ceremony that would add one more line to the storied history of Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion, 101st Field Artillery Regiment, 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain). The unit has been reassigned to Massachusetts as part of nationwide National Guard troop realignments.

A follow up analysis of objects found along the Winooski River between Duxbury and Waterbury has determined that bone fragments turned over to investigators are not human remains, according to Vermont State Police. 

The Canadian folk-rock band Barenaked Ladies sings “If I Had $1,000,000.” The Waterbury Select Board has a similar exercise ahead and would like the community’s input in a survey or at a meeting Monday evening.