Vermont's most metropolitan area is not exactly what you'd think it would be. Overlooking the waters of Lake Champlain toward upstate New York and the peaks of the Adirondacks, Burlington has rightly gained a reputation as a great outdoor getaway. There are swimming, water skiing, sailing, kayaking, fishing and water sports on Lake Champlain; a seven-mile bike and hiking path on the shoreline and dozens of prospects for hiking,snow skiing, snowboarding and snow shoeing in the nearby Green Mountains.
Like most of Vermont, Burlington has quaint New England scenery, featuring rolling, wooded hills (breathtaking in the fall) dotted with white clapboard homes and tall-steepled churches.
No less than five colleges, including the University of Vermont, are located here, and with them (and the weekenders and transplants from large East Coast cities) comes a steady diet of very sophisticated visual, performing and fine arts: there is the Fleming Museum for fine arts, the Flynn Theatre which offers everything from contemporary dance and jazz to Broadway favorites, dozens of galleries and various festivals, such as the Mozart Festival and the Discover Jazz Festival.
History buffs can spend hours investigating the Native American, French and British heritage of the area and viewing such sites as Battery Park, which played a crucial part in the War of 1812. Other sites of historical interest include the Battery Street National Historic District, the Ethan Allen Homestead, the Green Mountain Cemetery and various monuments around town.
Lake Champlain Ferries offers three ferry crossings between Vermont and New York, along with a variety of excursion cruises. Crossings are between Grand Isle, VT and Plattsburgh, NY; Burlington VT and Port Kent, NY and Charlotte VT and Essex, NY.
Another challenge to mayoral authority over Burlington municipal affairs emerges tonight when the City Council-created Audit Task Force meets for the first time.
A coach and substitute teacher at Blue Mountain Union School in Wells River has been arraigned on charges he tried to solicit sex from a girl younger than 16, according to Vermont State Police reports.
C.P. Smith Elementary School students walk to buses outside the St. Mark's Church community center Wednesday to be bused to J.J. Flynn School in Burlington.
Pressed for dorm space to accommodate an unusually big entering class, Champlain College responded in a big way -- by leasing an entire apartment building in South Burlington.
Wednesday morning, hundreds of volunteers in each of Vermont's 14 counties will begin recounting the ballots cast for Democratic gubernatorial candidates in the Aug.
A delegation of Burlington officials will visit Yaroslavl, Russia, next week to participate in the Queen City's sister city's 1,000th anniversary celebration, according to a statement released Friday from the mayor's office.
Weezer wowed fans in a 75-minute show at the Champlain Valley Fair. That has a lot to do with Cuomo, the bespectacled geek-chic vocalist/guitarist who makes sure that, if you leave a Weezer concert without having fun, it's definitely not his fault.
The latest sandbox squabble at Burlington's City Hall again exposes the rift between the administration of Mayor Bob Kiss and the City Council over who should have what information when.
This is the season of abundance on Vermontvegetable farms. Nearly everything that can grow here is available in late summer which means farmers are in full swing with plenty on offer.
The Burlington Police Department announced Thursday the arrest of John J. Wick, 26, of Burlington in connection with an investigation into the sale of OxyContin.
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