The Bridge

10/30/2025

Emergency responders found a deceased 38-year-old Northfield man on Friday, Oct. 24, just after dousing the fire consuming his home. The Northfield Fire Department responded to a report of a fire around 5 a.m. to 346 Water Street.

10/30/2025

Eager to receive a share of the $67.9 million in match-free Community Development Disaster Recovery grants that the state will be handing out to flood-ravaged communities, applicants submitted requests by the Sept. 30 deadline totalling $121 million, almost double the amount of available funds.

Eager to receive a share of the $67.9 million in match-free Community Development Disaster Recovery grants that the state will be handing out to flood-ravaged communities, applicants submitted requests by the Sept. 30 deadline totalling $121 million, almost double the amount of available funds. Appl...

10/29/2025

In case you didn't see this! Penzo Pizza Co. started in 2021 as a wood-fired pizza truck in Essex Junction. They sold the truck and opened a brick-and-mortar location in Montpelier on Feb. 9 (which is coincidentally National Pizza Day) in 2023.

Local pizza restaurant Penzo Pizza Co. announced it is closing its Montpelier location and moving to Essex Junction sometime in December. Nov. 1 will be the final day the pizzeria on Main Street is open in Montpelier.

Photos by Chris Therrien, and Terry J. Allen.

10/28/2025

Scouting America volunteers from left: Braelyn Delmas (Troop 1709), Izik Currier, Brandis Wheeler, and Gideon Kass (all Troop 709) performed some community service staining the benches in the Christ Church courtyard on State Street in Montpelier on Sunday, October 25. The benches were rebuilt after being damaged in the flood of July 2023.

Photo story by John Lazenby

Scouting America

https://thebridgevt.org/2025/10/community-service-highlight-scouts-spruce-up-christ-church-benches/

10/28/2025

The wheels have been set in motion to find a developer to create housing on a 20-acre buildable parcel at the Country Club Road property in Montpelier for the land price of $1. The Montpelier City Council met on Oct. 22 and voted to authorize Acting City Manager Kelly Murphy to issue the request for qualifications (RFQ) on Monday, Oct. 27, instead of immediately, after lengthy discussion.

Image: Montpelier City Councilor Cary Brown addresses the Council during its Oct. 22, 2025 meeting. ORCA screenshot.

City of Montpelier, VT - City Government

https://thebridgevt.org/2025/10/montpelier-council-to-offer-20-city-owned-acres-for-1-to-a-developer-for-housing/

10/25/2025

Dave Keller was not an overnight success and he seems fine with that.

The award winning blues/soul musician is open about his long road to stardom. “I was not a prodigy. I think some people take longer for their talent to develop. Most of the musicians I know, they just stuck with it,” he said.

Dave Keller

https://thebridgevt.org/2025/10/dave-keller-cuts-his-11th-album-la-brea/

10/24/2025

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10/23/2025

When Barre City resident Mary LaRock’s car broke down, she immediately worried about how she would get to work and keep her job. She soon found Community Rides Vermont, also called “Gopher,” a ride service for central Vermonters based in Barre.

Photo caption: Gopher passenger Dana J. dropping her daughter off at daycare before she gets dropped off at work. Photo by Ben DeFlorio.

CommunityRides

https://thebridgevt.org/2025/10/gopher-works-to-build-community-and-independence-through-transportation/

10/23/2025

As a special meeting convened on Oct. 20 to address an open meeting law complaint, the Montpelier City Council denied all four parts of the complaint, filed by local council critic Stephen Whitaker referring to an Oct. 8 city council meeting in which the city voted to once again contract with real e...

10/22/2025

“We love America, work, community,” said Vermont’s U.S. Sen. Peter Welch to the crowd gathered for a “No Kings” demonstration at the Statehouse lawn in Montpelier on Saturday, Oct. 18, in a show of opposition to the policies and actions of President Donald Trump and his administration, whom many of the signs held above the crowd declared a tyrant, king, and fascist.

Photos by Terry J. Allen and Cassandra Hemenway



https://thebridgevt.org/2025/10/we-dont-hate-america-we-hate-what-youve-done-vermonters-push-back-on-trump/

10/22/2025

Local pizza restaurant Penzo Pizza Co. announced it is closing its Montpelier location and moving to Essex Junction sometime in December. Nov. 1 will be the final day the pizzeria on Main Street is open in Montpelier.

Photo by Chris Therrien.




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10/21/2025

Of over 650 Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in Vermont, about 50 have settled in Montpelier, including more than 30 children; they comprise a dozen families who have made Montpelier home since the Taliban seized power in 2021.

Afghan evacuees board the final flight to the United States from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Oct. 30, 2021. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Philip Bryant, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Central Vermont Refugee Action Network

https://thebridgevt.org/2025/10/montpelier-afghans-are-facing-increasingly-challenging-times/