Next Wednesday, May 1, Stowe voters will decide the fate of the town’s nascent short-term rental ordinance at a special meeting held at Stowe High School at 6 p.m.

Lamoille County Cannabis and its associated cannabis gummy manufacturing operation, Lindies Kitchen, have been shut down by the Vermont Cannabis Control Board after its owner’s domestic troubles severely disrupted the business, resulting in an unsanctioned change in management, an unsecured supply of drugs and allegations of theft.

As interest has grown in ranked choice voting in the Legislature, towns, interest groups and voters, the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office and the League of Women Voters of Vermont is hosting a two-part virtual to “inform debate and raise the profile of this system of voting.”

At the final of four monthly legislative breakfasts hosted Monday by the Lamoille Economic Development Corporation, it was perhaps fitting that, as folks munched on pastries, the biggest pastry of all was the central topic of the day.

After December flooding forced the closure of a bridge that effectively bisected Stowe’s Quiet Path, town employees scrambled to build a new one a few hundred feet away instead of waiting a much longer time to go through local and state permitting processes.

Bob Burley, a tenant at the Morrisville-Stowe Airport, said the airport was packed last week with planes, passengers and pilots who flew in to catch the sight of the total solar eclipse on April 8. He said all northern Vermont airports reported similar attendance.

A sizable crowd gathered on the summit of Mt. Mansfield Monday to bear witness as a dark moon slowly obstructed the sun, plunging northern Vermont, along with a wide swath of North America, into a strange mid-day night.

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