MONTPELIER, Vt. >> Two of the Vermont communities hardest hit by last summer’s catastrophic flooding have requested $3.5 million in state funding to elevate 20 homes in Barre and the capital ...
But things have changed since the event the National Weather Service dubbed the Great Vermont Flood of 2023. Close to 100 buildings in the capital, many of them businesses, were damaged.
President Joe Biden has authorized the federal cost share to be increased from 75% to 90% to help those with damage from the ...
Vermont is no stranger to the deluge and destruction intense flooding has wrought on the region over the past year. A number of extreme floods once only thought possible every 100 years or so ...
Funding was increased to 90 percent, from 75 percent, for public assistance to rebuild after the July 2023 flooding, the ...
Plainfield is not alone. For towns across Vermont ravaged by two years of unprecedented flooding, the onus of rebuilding and hardening downtowns is falling largely on volunteers with limited ...
Vermont recovery projects were paused in August when FEMA restricted disaster assistance to response and urgent recovery ...
Flood resiliency was on the agenda at the barre city council meeting Tuesday night.Councilors detailed a plan to update the ...
In the wake of two consecutive summers during which Vermont towns were hammered by flooding, state policymakers are confronting a longstanding question: Is Vermont’s tradition of hyper-local ...
Vermont launched a program on Nov. 1 to help low- and middle-income Vermonters who lost their homes to flooding buy new ...
Amber Gray-Fenner covers individual and crypto taxation and IRS news. Victims of recent catastrophic flooding in Vermont have additional time to file (and in some cases ... [+] pay) their federal ...
With some of Vermont's iconic covered bridges washed away, 250 roads closed and a fatality, Governor Peter Shumlin said the damage brought by Hurricane Irene is the worst in 75 years.