American Rescue Plan Act

How to spend $1.2 billion? State officials are asking around

WILMINGTON- Agency of Commerce and Community Development Secretary Lindsay Kurrle, along with nearly a dozen other state officials, visited Wilmington’s Old School Community Center Monday to discuss American Rescue Plan Act funding with local and regional representatives.
“We’re making...

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...

Searsburg says “No thanks” to fed funds

SEARSBURG - This week, Gov. Phil Scott announced that funds received by the state through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Local Fiscal Recovery (LFR) had been distributed to local governments throughout the state and would be available to towns within the week. Locally, numbers ranged from...

Towns will receive federal funds

DEERFIELD VALLEY - Towns throughout the country will be receiving federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, with some local towns each receiving over $100,000.
The amount of money a town receives is based on its population...