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The Bridge is central Vermont's source for real local news, community events, profiles of local folks, opinions and letters, food news, fantastic local ads and more.

TODAY!! Dragons! Fidgets! Ornaments! Check out these 3D-printed goodies and more at our board member and contributor Jen...
12/13/2025

TODAY!! Dragons! Fidgets! Ornaments! Check out these 3D-printed goodies and more at our board member and contributor Jenny Blair's birthday fundraiser for The Bridge. These treasures are printed fresh here in Montpelier and make great holiday gifts.

Find our table and pick out your favorite home-printed dragon Saturday, December 13, starting 10 AM, at the corner of State & Elm by the courthouse. Bid in a silent auction for the big dragon (it's 4.5 feet long!) Sale will go until we run out of dragons or get too cold.

All proceeds will go to The Bridge.

Washington Central Unified Union School District’s (WCUUSD) fiscal year 2027 budget faces some challenges. For one thing...
12/12/2025

Washington Central Unified Union School District’s (WCUUSD) fiscal year 2027 budget faces some challenges. For one thing, it is projected to exceed the state’s spending threshold by $2.2 million, which triggers a penalty of the same amount, levied on the taxpayers.

Follow link below to read more.

Montpelier Alive is bringing the cozy back to downtown this weekend with the return of the Downtown Montpelier Cocoa Cra...
12/12/2025

Montpelier Alive is bringing the cozy back to downtown this weekend with the return of the Downtown Montpelier Cocoa Crawl on Saturday, December 13th. Downtown shops and eateries will feature a variety of chocolate-themed specials throughout the day, from handcrafted cocoa and fresh-baked desserts to festive gifts and seasonal surprises.

Montpelier Alive

Central Vermont will soon have a new market option for fresh seafood with the arrival of State Street Seafood and Meat, ...
12/11/2025

Central Vermont will soon have a new market option for fresh seafood with the arrival of State Street Seafood and Meat, at 146 State Street in Montpelier. Chef Shannon Bates, proprietor of Enna and Enna Gelato, expects her most recent project to open sometime in December or early January.

Enna VT

12/11/2025

Members of the public will get a chance to meet the .three finalists for Montpelier’s city manager position on Monday, Dec. 15, at 5:30 p.m.

12/11/2025

Fire dancers, drumming, animals for kids to pet and Gov. Phil Scott reading of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" accompanied the 2025 lighting of the Christmas tree.

Santa was on hand in Barre on Saturday Dec. 6 as part of a larger “Merry Barre” holiday celebration in Barre City, which...
12/11/2025

Santa was on hand in Barre on Saturday Dec. 6 as part of a larger “Merry Barre” holiday celebration in Barre City, which included horse drawn wagon rides, decorations, visiting local shops, craft fairs and more, organized by the Barre Partnership. Photos by Terry J. Allen.

The Barre Partnership

Intentional communities have deep roots in Vermont, where people have long experimented with new ways of living together...
12/10/2025

Intentional communities have deep roots in Vermont, where people have long experimented with new ways of living together. While most of the back-to-the-land communes of the 1970s have disappeared, their ideals — connection, cooperation, conservation — still resonate. They have evolved into today’s cohousing communities — a structure where members own their homes but co-own the land, share infrastructure, and live collaboratively to varying extents.

Images by John Lazenby John Lazenby

Emergency shelters in Barre and Brattleboro opened Thursday, offering relief to people without housing.Temperatures rema...
12/10/2025

Emergency shelters in Barre and Brattleboro opened Thursday, offering relief to people without housing.

Temperatures remain bitterly cold across Vermont after extreme cold hit the region on Thursday.

VTDigger

The city of Montpelier announced on Friday that Sarah LaCroix will be stepping down from her position as the city’s fina...
12/09/2025

The city of Montpelier announced on Friday that Sarah LaCroix will be stepping down from her position as the city’s finance director to accept a position with Sullivan Powers & Company.

City of Montpelier, VT - City Government

The posting of land against hunting and fishing by putting up signs and registering with the town clerk is only effectiv...
12/07/2025

The posting of land against hunting and fishing by putting up signs and registering with the town clerk is only effective until the end of each calendar year and not until a year after the original posting, according to a letter sent to all town clerks this fall by the state’s Chief Warden, Colonel Justin Stedman.

Photo credit John Lazenby

Vermont Fish & Wildlife

“What does a personal plan mean to you” was the opening question on an otherwise quiet Dec. 1 evening, as Jillian Turcol...
12/06/2025

“What does a personal plan mean to you” was the opening question on an otherwise quiet Dec. 1 evening, as Jillian Turcola, an AmeriCorps VISTA service member with the Montpelier Commission for Recovery and Resilience led a small group of Montpelier, East Montpelier, and Barre residents attending the Personal Emergency Preparedness Workshop through introductions and an agenda for the evening.

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We are Montpelier, Vermont’s, free, independent and local newspaper, serving Central VT since 1993.

We publish every first and third Thursday on good old-fashioned newsprint and here online. We distribute our papers widely around Washington County, and third-Thursday issues are also mailed free of charge to every household with an 05602 zip code.

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