This commentary is by Alis Headlam of Rutland ... on my own harrowing journey through flood recovery and the urgent need for climate action. Voters in Vermont may have hope that their vote ...
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.
Vermont recovery projects were paused in August when FEMA restricted disaster assistance to response and urgent recovery ...
President Joe Biden has authorized the federal cost share to be increased from 75% to 90% to help those with damage from the ...
Vermonters over the past few years have seen flooding and other severe weather events ravage homes and businesses, including damaging property and displacing residents. Hazardous weather ...
Vermont Governor Phil Scott spent most of his weekly briefing today providing an update on ongoing recovery efforts following two July floods in the state. Scott began by nothing that the state ...
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 ...
Funding was increased to 90 percent, from 75 percent, for public assistance to rebuild after the July 2023 flooding, the ...
Vermont launched a program on Nov. 1 to help low- and middle-income Vermonters who lost their homes to flooding buy new ...
A recent Vermont Public investigation found that after the flooding in July 2023, FEMA spent $78.3 million in administrative costs to distribute about $43 million in assistance. Several victims ...