MIDDLEBURY, Vermont, Oct. 13 -- Middlebury College issued the following statement on Oct. 12, 2023: * * * The following statement from President Laurie L. Patton to students was read aloud at a community gathering on Wednesday, Oct. 11. "I am so sorry I can't be with you today at the vigil. Our hearts go out to all who have been affected by the deeply painful, destructive, and unacceptable violence we have seen in Israel and Gaza, which must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. "St  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Oct. 14 (TNSres) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news: * * * And they walk * * * UVM and Northwestern team creates robots on a laptop and 3D printer * * * One has three legs and rear fins. No engineer would come up with such a robot. But in seconds, an AI running a new algorithm did--and it walks. A team of scientists from the University of Vermont, Northwestern University, and MIT created this new approach: the first artificial intelligence that can  more

MONTPELIER, Vermont, Oct. 14 -- The Agency of Natural Resources Department of Environmental Conservation issued the following news on Oct. 13, 2023: The Agency of Natural Resources Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced today that Ascutney Fire District #2 (Fire District), the owner and operator of a public water system in Weathersfield, was fined $4,000 for violations of the Vermont Water Supply Rule (VWSR) and has been directed to bring the water system into compliance. Man  more

BERLIN, Vermont, Oct. 13 -- Gov. Phil Scott, R-Vermont, issued the following news release: Governor Phil Scott and the Vermont Outdoor Recreation Economic Collaborative (VOREC) today announced $6 million in funding will be available to support communities across the state to strengthen their local outdoor recreation economies, including support for communities to recover flood impacted outdoor recreation resources and projects to expand outdoor equity. The VOREC program - established by Govern  more