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St. Johnsbury voters gave a thumbs up to all spending requests during Town Meeting voting Tuesday and elected Brittany Benoit Petty to the school board in the only contested race on the ballot. In results provided by Town Clerk Stacy Jewell shortly after polls closed, the school budget passed by a vote of 663 to 483. In the race for a 2-year seat on the school board, Petty defeated Callahan Beck by a vote of 558 to 453. She will join Kelsey Stavseth, who was the only candidate for a 3-year seat, as new members on the school board. 

Traffic was snarled in Irasburg Wednesday after an overturned tractor-trailer blocked part of the road. A witness says it happened at the intersection of Guyette Road and Lake Region Road. There was no immediate word from police on what caused the crash or if anyone was injured.

The court-assigned receiver tasked with selling Burke Mountain Resort said a group that went public this week with its desire to buy the resort couldn’t seal the deal last year because of their “bad faith” and “last minute” attempt to renegotiate terms. The resort is under the control of Goldberg, of Florida, and has been since 2016 through a court order. Goldberg reported to the North Star Monthly that he had a “viable buyer” for the resort. Green Mountain Ski Partners Todd Firestone and Mark Greenberg knew that he wasn’t referring to them, and they were concerned that the process of a public auction was being lost to Goldberg’s negotiation of a private sale.

A two-vehicle crash on February 28 on I-89 South in Brookfield totaled a car driven by an Albany man. The 9:38 a.m. accident occurred as State Police troopers from the Berlin barracks and members of the Brookfield Fire Department were at the scene of an unrelated motor vehicle crash at the location. According to State Police, a flatbed wrecker operated by Tyson Wescot, 21, of Wilder, entered the area at reported highway speeds and failed to follow the direction of emergency personnel, who had their emergency lights activated in the right lane of I-89 South. The flatbed wrecker rear-ended a vehicle operated by Gerald Peters, 75, of Albany. Peters’ Subaru Outback then struck a parked Brookfield fire engine before resting in the median.

A Newport Center woman pled guilty to a charge of DUI and providing false information to officers. Taylor Bernier, 32, appeared in Court and pled guilty to the charges from a traffic violation stop in Lyndon. On February 14, State Trooper Riley Fenoff stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation while traveling North on US Route 5.