WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: FEMA announced that federal emergency aid has been made available for the state of Vermont to supplement the state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic beginning on January 20, 2019 and continuing. Public Assistance federal funding is available to the state and eligible local governments and cert  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The White House issued the following news release on April 8: Today, President Donald J. Trump declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Vermont and ordered Federal assistance to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic beginning on January 20, 2020, and continuing. Federal funding is available to State and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations for em  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million grant to the town of Hardwick, Vermont, to restore the historic Yellow Barn Accelerator facility and construct a new building for the local agricultural and forestry industries. The EDA grant will provide opportunities to leverage th  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, April 9 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont, Christina E. Nolan, issued the following news release: Christina E. Nolan, the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, announced that the public document repository required by the January 27, 2020, Deferred Prosecution Agreement ("DPA") between her office and electronic medical record vendor Practice Fusion, Inc. is now live. The DPA provisionally resolved Practice Fusion's criminal conspiracy and violat  more