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Montpelier, Vermont, United States, receives extensive flooding after the Wrightsville Dam exceeds capacity.
2023-07-11

Vermont becomes the first U.S. state to vaccinate 70% of people aged 12 to 17.
2021-07-29

Vermont will become the 11th state to legalize marijuana for recreational use after Governor Phil Scott said that he wouldn't veto a law passed by the state legislature.
2020-10-9

Vermont governor Phil Scott vetoes a bill legalizing marijuana in the state.
2017-05-24

Jeff Weaver, presidential campaign manager for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, says the DNC's suspending access to the Democratic voter file is part of a "pattern" of actions that suggest the DNC is not impartial. The campaign, which had notified the DNC of software problems, threatens to take the DNC to federal court if the party organization doesn't restore the campaign's access.
2015-12-18

Authorities from the Marshal's Service, the FBI, Customs, state and local police, and the Forest Police searching for 6 days in northeastern New York (about 25 miles south of the Canadian border, near Lake Champlain and Vermont, in the Adirondack Forest area, in Dannemora, New York and Plattsburgh, New York) for two high-risk murderers who staged an elaborate escape from the high-security Clinton Correctional Facility- the first there- the night of Friday, June 5, 2015 (it was discovered the next morning), using bloodhounds, find a scent and leftover evidence that could be from the two, Richard Matt and David Sweat.
2015-06-11

Voters in Alaska, Oregon and the District of Columbia vote to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes.
2014-11-4

With governor Peter Shumlin signing the law, Vermont becomes the 17th state to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of cannabis.
2013-06-8

A study suggests that marijuana may improve blood sugar by decreasing insulin resistance.
2013-05-16

The New England state of Vermont suffers its worst flooding in 100 years.
2011-08-30