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Rolling tribute honors Vermont vet who battled PTSD

17 May, 202317 May, 2023 Joel Hooper

ST. ALBANS, Vt. (WCAX) – The Veterans Administration estimates round 17 veterans die by suicide every day and a few researchers say the quantity may very well be even larger than that. Vermonters rode in a funeral procession Friday to honor a veteran who misplaced his battle with Submit-traumatic stress dysfunction, and to assist others who is perhaps struggling.

Veterans and members of the family gathered Friday in St. Albans for a rolling procession to recollect one in all their very own who died by suicide, however to additionally let different veterans know that they aren’t alone.

The 80-mile motorbike

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Oakledge Park set to open an all accessible playground

7 May, 2023 Joel Hooper

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – Burlington is constructing a brand new possibility for folks of all skills and ages to play at Oakledge Park.

it’s the realm’s first universally accessible area of its sort.

“When you concentrate on playgrounds it’s not simply the youngsters that wish to play it’s the dad and mom that wish to play with their youngsters” mentioned Nathan Besio, of Vermont Heart for Impartial Dwelling Peer Advocate Coordinator.

Nathan Besio is an advocate on the Vermont Heart for Impartial dwelling, he additionally makes use of a motorized wheelchair as a bilateral amputee.

He’s waited years to have

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Burlington serial automobile theft suspect arrested

19 March, 2023 Joel Hooper

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – Police on Thursday arrested a Burlington man who faces a slew of expenses after authorities say he repeatedly stole vehicles and violated courtroom circumstances over the previous month.

Burlington Police say it began February 24 when Jeffrey Leduc, 36, hopped into an idling automobile whereas the sufferer walked their little one into a faculty. They are saying Leduc then eluded police, ultimately crashing right into a parked automobile and making an attempt to flee from officers on foot. He was arrested and launched on circumstances.

On March 12, officers noticed one other stolen automobile that they

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GMUSD adopts grievance course of for mascot considerations

18 March, 2023 Joel Hooper

CHESTER, Vt. (WCAX) — The Inexperienced Mountain Unified College District held one other public assembly Thursday
about their controversial mascot — the ‘Chieftains’ — which violates Vermont Company of Training coverage.

Whereas the title was beforehand ditched by the college board, that call was later reversed to get extra public opinion. Due to its return, the NAACP and Gedakina filed complaints with the district beneath the state’s nondiscriminatory mascot coverage.

Thursday, the board authorized a coverage for dealing with complaints. Complainants will now need to request to be heard by the college board. In the event that they disagree with

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Vt. Supreme Courtroom upholds Montpelier noncitizen voting

25 January, 2023 Joel Hooper

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) – The Vermont Supreme Courtroom says noncitizens in Montpelier can vote in native elections.

The state’s highest court docket issued a call Friday, upholding a decide’s choice to dismiss a lawsuit that claimed the capital metropolis’s 2018 constitution change that allowed noncitizens to vote in native elections was unconstitutional.

The court docket dominated that the constitution change doesn’t violate the Vermont structure, as a result of whereas it does limit voting in statewide contests to U.S. residents, it doesn’t deal with native elections.

The Vermont Legislature gave the inexperienced mild to 2 constitution adjustments in Montpelier and

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Sanders provides speech on state of working center class

19 January, 2023 Joel Hooper

WASHINGTON. (WCAX) – Sen. Bernie Sanders outlined the financial disparities between rich and working-class Individuals in a speech on Tuesday evening, warning of the risks of what he calls an rising oligarchy.

Vermont’s senior senator is the incoming chair of the Well being, Schooling, Labor and Pensions Committee.

In Tuesday’s speech on the U.S. Capitol, he confused the significance of elevating the federal minimal wage from $7.25 an hour. He additionally says he helps the rising union motion as a result of unions present higher pay, advantages, and dealing situations for his or her members.

“So that you inform me,

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