John Companion, left, dumps a bucket of muddy water while helping his friend Scott Mackie, right, clear his flooded basement while cleaning up the remnants of Hurricane Beryl in Waterbury, Vt., on ...

Lauren Geiger has an ever-present reminder of why she is working toward building new housing in Plainfield, a town of 1,200 people just east of Montpelier. As she looks out of her window, she can see ...

Traffic flows across a temporary bridge after the original was washed away in this summer’s flooding on Mill Street in Plainfield on Monday, September 23, 2024. The floodwaters also swept away several ...

On July 10 and 11, exactly one year after Vermont suffered catastrophic flood damage, the remnants of Hurricane Beryl caused massive destruction to our state once again. The quaint village of ...

This “backstory” is a part of a collection of articles that describes some of the obstacles that Seven Days reporters faced while pursuing Vermont news, events and people in 2024. It had rained all ...

PLAINFIELD, Vt. — One year after flood waters swept through this village, the shattered remnants of a building known as the Heartbreak Hotel still loom over the brook that destroyed it. The ...

For some eight years now, the Plainfield Town Hall Opera House (Plainfield Opera House for short) has presented concerts that continually grow in stature. The Winter Series 2023 boasts three of ...

Exactly one year since historic flooding ravaged northern Vermont, heavy rains — remnants of Hurricane Beryl — triggered flash floods on Thursday that washed aways roads and bridges, toppled an ...