Winooski

Winooski High School junior Mapenzi Selemani is on to the national competition in Washington D.C. in May.

Saja Almogalli is the newest district liaison officer for Winooski's schools. Her background as a refugee from Iraq informs her work in one of Vermont's most diverse school districts.

“People need a place. And that’s what it really comes down to,” said Rutland Mayor Mike Doenges.

This weekend marks Waking Windows' third festival since taking two years off due to the COVID pandemic. Venues around Winooski will showcase musicians, comedians, local authors and more for the three-day event.

Three Vermont cities now allow non-U.S. citizens to vote on local issues, and one town allows 16- and 17-year-olds to vote.

On Sunday, the Winooski School District gym turned into something like a rainbow explosion. That’s where the Bhutanese Nepali Community of Vermont hosted Holi this year, moving it inside after the weekend's snow storm.

A Chittenden County judge granted the city's request to dismiss the case earlier this month, making it the third lawsuit challenging noncitizen voting in Vermont cities to be thrown out.

For the Winooski Gardening Group, the end of the season marks another year of a citywide project of growing in unusual and challenging spaces that has been volunteer-run for 26 years.

A Vermont fisheries biologist says the landlocked Atlantic salmon are doing well largely thanks to management of a long, skinny fish that feeds on them: sea lamprey.

Kitty Kitty, a beloved cat who lived Last Stop Sports Bar in Winooski for more than a dozen years, died this month. She was 16 or 17, according to Shayla Ruland, the bar's owner.