VLCT Develops Handbook To Fight Embezzlement

Policymakers say it’s unclear whether more Vermonters are actually embezzling money, but there are certainly more media reports of the white-collar crime affecting cities and towns.So they’re working to provide a set of standards for small town governments to thwart it themselves.

Isle La Motte Uses Restitution For Tax Cut

 Isle La Motte residents voted overwhelmingly Saturday to use one-hundred-thousand-dollars that had been paid as restitution by former Town Clerk and Treasurer Suzanne LaBombard to cut the property tax rate.