grants

Library awarded grant

WHITINGHAM - The Whitingham Free Public Library will be awarded $3,549 from the Vermont Department of Libraries under American Rescue Plan Act grants.
The department had been awarded $2,135,819 in ARPA funding to help communities respond directly and immediately to the pandemic and to...

Year of the Book provides storytelling visits, workshops, and new books for schoolchildren.

Year of the Book engages students

VERMONT - The Children’s Literacy Foundation is now accepting applications for the Year of the Book program. The grant program provides $25,000 in author and storyteller visits and workshops; family literacy events; special literacy programs; new books for classrooms, school libraries, and public...

Readsboro business receives grant

SOUTHERN VERMONT – Three companies in southern Vermont will receive federal grants as part of a new initiative by the US Department of Agriculture, which is investing $633 million to reduce the impacts of climate change on rural communities.
With the enactment of the bipartisan...

Art Council grant supports study

VERMONT - The Vermont Arts Council is now accepting applications for its next round of Artist Development Grants. These grants support artists at all stages of their careers. Grants can fund activities that enhance mastery of an artist’s craft or skills or that increase the viability of an artist...

Revitalization grant for rural VT

VERMONT - The Preservation Trust of Vermont announces the opening of the 2022 Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization grant round. Awards of $50,000 to $100,000 will be made to preserve and restore nonprofit and municipally-owned buildings and community gathering spaces of economic and social...

Lawson’s Finest Super Sessions Grant Program

VERMONT - Lawson’s Finest Liquids announces that it is accepting applications for its Super Sessions mini-grant program.
Named after the brewery’s Super Session single-hop IPA series, Lawson’s Finest created the initiative to encourage their fans to become more active in their communities...

Marker for Caesar, a slave from 1750. Markers are meant to serve as recognition of America’s history in new project.

Recognizing history

BENNINGTON - The Stopping Stones project is a national effort intended to engage communities with the local and broader history of slavery by memorializing the names of enslaved persons with markers in the places they were once held. The organization works toward repairing inequality in education...

School board works on restarting pre-K program

READSBORO- The Readsboro School board met on Tuesday, June 15, to talk about the logistics of returning to an all-day pre-K for 4-year-olds next year, a plan for grant investments, and other matters.
The board discussed plans, first brought up in the previous meeting, to return to having...

Dover puts $20K into business plan contest

DOVER- Selectboard members reappointed town officers and approved more than a dozen business grants at their regular meeting Tuesday. The board also gave the go-ahead for a proposal from the economic development department to hold a business plan competition with an award of $20,000.
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Gov. proposes $90 million phase two recovery plan, admonishes Legislature for response

MONTPELIER- Gov. Phil Scott and other administration officials announced the second phase of their proposed COVID-19 recovery spending package, and expressed disappointment that legislators have not incorporated the administration's phase one proposals in their legislation.
Gov. Scott...