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Vermont-based Burton Snowboards announces layoffs this week
Vermont-based company Burton Snowboards announced layoffs this week. NBC5 obtained copies of a companywide email from CEO John Lacy sent on Tuesday, where he said Burton will begin reducing jobs across the business this week. He said they are only cutting a "small percentage" of jobs. In the email, Lacy...
Work underway to expand access at Mascoma Lake
ENFIELD, N.H. (WCAX) - Public access to Mascoma Lake in Enfield, New Hampshire, is improving. Work crews are in the process of building out parking spaces and stormwater management at Mascoma Lakeside Park. Officials say there will be more than two dozen parking spots as well as handicapped access trails.
Burlington National Weather Service not expecting wildfire smoke in our region this summer
Burlington, VT– One of last summer’s big problems is already back this year. Wildfires are once again burning in Canada, and some states in the Midwest are on air quality alerts. You may remember, our region saw several days’ worth of thick smoke in the air last summer....
World Cup ski racing event set to return to Killington in 2024
Pending FIS confirmation, the popular Vermont event featuring Mikaela Shiffrin will go ahead for an eighth time. The Killington Cup, annually one of the highest-attended FIS World Cup events on the women’s ski racing schedule, is set to return for another year on Thanksgiving weekend. The Vermont-based ski area...
Gas prices fall slowly, but should keep falling
Vermont Business Magazine Average gasoline prices in Vermont are $3.61 per gallon, down 1 cent per gallon from last week, up 16 cents/g from last month and up 13 cents/g from last year. The lowest price in the state yesterday was $3.28/g in Rutland, while the highest was $3.84/g in South Royalton.
Border Patrol officers for Swanton Sector report record number of encounters with undocumented migrants
MANCHESTER, N.H. — The number of illegal U.S. border crossings in our region last month broke another record, according to officials. Members of the U.S. Border Patrol patrolling the Swanton Sector said in April alone, they encountered and apprehended "well over" 1,400 undocumented migrants. To put that number into...
Dartmouth’s leader called in police quickly. The fallout was just as swift.
Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, has stood out for its almost instantaneous response to a nonviolent protest. As police arrested student protesters at Dartmouth College, a 65-year-old professor ended up on the ground. Two student journalists, reporting that night, ended up arrested themselves. And a bystander, visiting his father...
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