Vermont
Vermont’s biggest Election Day winner? Phil Scott. – VTDigger
Vermont’s biggest election night winner was, by all accounts, Gov. Phil Scott.
The Berlin Republican was widely expected to cruise to a fifth two-year term — and cruise, he did. Scott won 71.6% of the gubernatorial vote on Tuesday, besting his Democratic challenger, South Burlington education consultant Esther Charlestin, by a more than 50-point margin.
That’s a new record for Scott, who has increased his margin of victory every two years since he was first elected in 2016. In 2022, he beat Democratic challenger and housing activist Brenda Siegel by 47 points.
Scott also exceeded his previous record for the greatest number of votes received: 266,438 this year, according to uncertified election results from the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office, compared to his previous record of 248,412 in 2020. Once again, he won at least a plurality of the gubernatorial vote in every Vermont municipality.
But Scott’s electoral success Tuesday night was not limited to his own contest. He also ushered a new class of down-ballot Republican allies into the Vermont Statehouse.
Frequently at odds with a Democratic supermajority in the House and Senate this past biennium, Scott hit the campaign trail this summer and fall to make the case to Vermont voters: For his agenda to succeed, they had to elect Republican allies to the Legislature.
“The governor made it clear right out of the gate that this campaign wasn’t about him. It was about the issues that he cares about, that we know Vermonters care about most: affordability, housing and public safety,” Scott’s campaign manager, Jason Maulucci, said after the election. “What we tried to do right from the get-go was convince voters that if they shared those priorities — which we were confident they did — it wasn’t enough just to vote for the governor. They needed to deliver him a more moderate and balanced Legislature.”
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It worked. On Tuesday, Republicans exceeded even their own highest expectations, flipping six of the Senate’s 30 seats from blue to red. They also flipped a net 17 House seats.
“We were overwhelmed by the response,” Maulucci said. Voters, he continued, “delivered to the governor his asks, and then some.”
Additionally, Vermonters made the rare move to oust a statewide incumbent. By a 1.6% margin, they elected Republican John Rodgers, a former Democratic state senator from Glover whom Scott had endorsed, over incumbent Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman, a Progressive/Democrat.
Rodgers largely worked from the same playbook as Scott, campaigning on affordability for average Vermonters. He was boosted — both in campaign appearances and with generous amounts of campaign cash — by Scott, who urged Vermonters to deliver him an ally in the Lieutenant Governor’s Office.
Again, it worked. When all was said and done, all but one down-ballot Republican Scott endorsed won on Tuesday.
“I think tonight’s success rests heavily on the shoulders of Gov. Scott and his willingness to spend political capital that he’s been building up for over a decade in a way that has been more generous than we’ve ever seen him before,” Paul Dame, the chair of the Vermont Republican Party, said Tuesday night.
From Scott’s election night party in Montpelier on Tuesday — even before the extent of Republicans’ success was fully realized — Dame said, “I don’t think we’ve had a night this good in 10 years.”
“In 2014, there was a backlash against a Democratic near-supermajority that pushed too far on single payer health without talking about the cost,” he said. “And I think we saw that mirrored almost identically in the clean heat standard, and we added on top of that property taxes.”
On the campaign trail, Scott and his endorsees hammered hard on Democrats for legislation like the clean heat standard, which Republicans said could raise heating bills for Vermonters, should it be fully enacted in 2025. And for this year’s ballooning property tax bills, Scott rested the blame on Democratic legislators for failing to rein in education spending.
Democrats pushed back on the governor’s rhetoric for months, saying this year’s annual yield bill — which raised property taxes statewide by an average rate of 13.8% — was must-pass legislation. To rewrite Vermont’s education funding structure would take more than one year, they argued. And as the governor railed against Democrats for failing to bring down tax rates, Democratic leaders asked of the governor: Where was his plan?
On Tuesday night, though, it became clear that Scott’s messaging prevailed, not theirs. David Glidden, the chair of the Vermont Democratic Party, said in an interview Wednesday that Scott “was very tightly on campaign messaging the entire time” when it came to talking about affordability.
While door-knocking around the state, Democrats found Vermont voters were still eager to talk about policies pertaining to the environment and reproductive health care, Glidden said. But on the top issue of affordability, he said, Democratic candidates failed to articulate an effective counterpunch to Scott’s rhetoric.
“The governor was really only ever hammering away at property taxes, and we didn’t have a strong counterpoint to that, which I think was one weakness,” Glidden said. “In the media environment, that one singular response from Democrats was never quite articulated.”
Addressing his staffers and political allies from the Associated General Contractors of Vermont’s warehouse in Montpelier Tuesday night, Scott delivered a victory speech that celebrated Republicans’ down-ballot success even more than his own personal victory.
“Vermonters voted and sent a clear message,” he said. “They voted for balance. They voted for moderation.”
They also voted, up and down the ballot, for Scott.
Vermont
Hundreds of housing units in the works at closely-watched project in Burlington’s South End – VTDigger
This story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.
A long-awaited housing development that could bring hundreds of new apartments to a series of empty lots in Burlington’s South End neighborhood is beginning to come together.
The first phase of the major public-private deal, called the South End Coordinated Redevelopment Project, got official sign-off from the Burlington City Council last month. The project’s backers have also scored key funding commitments from Treasurer Mike Pieciak’s office and state housing funding agencies.
The project on Lakeside Avenue is the beginning of “a neighborhood being born out of a big parking lot,” Burlington Mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak told city councilors in May.
City officials and developers hope the project could eventually include over a thousand homes, making it one of the largest developments in Vermont – and putting a considerable dent in the Queen City’s housing shortage. Regional planners estimate that Burlington needs to add between 3,500 and 10,500 homes by 2050 to get the housing market to a healthy state.
The development is possible, in part, because of a 2023 zoning change in the formerly industrial area that allows for some of the densest housing development in the state, according to local planners.
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A rendering of the South End Coordinated Redevelopment Project, courtesy of Andrew Foley, development director at Jonathan Rose Companies. Credit: GOA Architecture.
The South End project’s backers include Champlain College, Champlain Housing Trust and Ride Your Bike LLC, the investors behind the nearby Hula coworking campus. They have brought on Jonathan Rose Companies, an affordable housing developer with projects from New York to California, as the lead developer. The South End project is the company’s first in Vermont.
The development agreement signed by city councilors in May greenlights the South End project’s first 204 units, estimated to cost roughly $100 million.
Per Burlington’s inclusionary zoning policy and state rules, at least 20% of the first round of apartments will be set aside as affordable. But the developers hope to secure enough funding to allow them to earmark a third of the 204 apartments with income restrictions, said Andrew Foley, director of development at Jonathan Rose Companies, in an interview. The development agreement offers the developers reduced city fees if the affordable units are priced even more modestly than required.
The lion’s share of the new apartments will be studios and one-bedrooms, Foley said. The building would include common social spaces for neighbors to gather, he added.
Like any large-scale housing project, the developers of the South End apartments are piecing together financing from a wide array of sources. They recently scored an $8 million low-interest loan from Pieciak’s 10% for Vermont program, along with a $6.7 million award from the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board to support 67 affordable apartments – including 10 reserved for people experiencing homelessness.
To build out new roads – along with wastewater connections and stormwater infrastructure meant to cut down on sewer overflows into nearby Lake Champlain – city officials are going after funding from a new state program. The Community and Housing Infrastructure Program, a tax-increment financing tool created by the Legislature last year, would allow the city and the developers to borrow the funds needed to build out the infrastructure against the development’s future property tax revenue.
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City officials and the developers are working together to submit an application for this CHIP financing. The South End development could be the first project in the state to utilize the program after its launch in January.
“I think a lot of other potential applicants are kind of saying, ‘I wonder how that South End project works out’ – for us to maybe go first,” Foley said.
With an eye toward lowering the project’s carbon footprint, the development will be all-electric, Foley said. The developers are looking to use mass-timber construction techniques, he added – essentially using large, prefabricated wood panels in place of steel or concrete. They also want to construct a rooftop solar array, employ a geothermal heating and cooling system and promote a “car-light” neighborhood in close proximity to bike paths and transit routes.
The developers hope to close on their construction financing by the end of the year.
“Everyone’s eager to see the construction start and housing built, so we’re trying to move as fast as we can,” Foley said.
Powerball, Mega Millions jackpots: What to know in case you win
Here’s what to know in case you win the Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot.
Just the FAQs, USA TODAY
The Vermont Lottery offers several draw games for those willing to make a bet to win big.
Those who want to play can enter the MegaBucks and Lucky for Life games as well as the national Powerball and Mega Millions games. Vermont also partners with New Hampshire and Maine for the Tri-State Lottery, which includes the Mega Bucks, Gimme 5 as well as the Pick 3 and Pick 4.
Drawings are held at regular days and times, check the end of this story to see the schedule.
Here’s a look at June 2, 2026, results for each game:
Winning Vermont Mega Millions numbers from June 2 drawing
15-26-43-48-60, Mega Ball: 12
Check Vermont Mega Millions payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Gimme 5 numbers from June 2 drawing
03-05-16-32-37
Check Gimme 5 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 3 numbers from June 2 drawing
Day: 2-5-2
Evening: 5-8-6
Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 4 numbers from June 2 drawing
Day: 6-9-7-0
Evening: 3-4-1-3
Check Pick 4 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Millionaire for Life numbers from June 2 drawing
16-33-41-50-52, Bonus: 01
Check Millionaire for Life payouts and previous drawings here.
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Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your lottery prize
For Vermont Lottery prizes up to $499, winners can claim their prize at any authorized Vermont Lottery retailer or at the Vermont Lottery Headquarters by presenting the signed winning ticket for validation. Prizes between $500 and $5,000 can be claimed at any M&T Bank location in Vermont during the Vermont Lottery Office’s business hours, which are 8a.m.-4p.m. Monday through Friday, except state holidays.
For prizes over $5,000, claims must be made in person at the Vermont Lottery headquarters. In addition to signing your ticket, you will need to bring a government-issued photo ID, and a completed claim form.
All prize claims must be submitted within one year of the drawing date. For more information on prize claims or to download a Vermont Lottery Claim Form, visit the Vermont Lottery’s FAQ page or contact their customer service line at (802) 479-5686.
Vermont Lottery Headquarters
1311 US Route 302, Suite 100
Barre, VT
05641
When are the Vermont Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 10:59 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Mega Millions: 11 p.m. Tuesday and Friday.
- Gimme 5: 6:55 p.m. Monday through Friday.
- Lucky for Life: 10:38 p.m. daily.
- Pick 3 Day: 1:10 p.m. daily.
- Pick 4 Day: 1:10 p.m. daily.
- Pick 3 Evening: 6:55 p.m. daily.
- Pick 4 Evening: 6:55 p.m. daily.
- Megabucks: 7:59 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
- Millionaire for Life: 11:15 p.m. daily
What is Vermont Lottery Second Chance?
Vermont’s 2nd Chance lottery lets players enter eligible non-winning instant scratch tickets into a drawing to win cash and/or other prizes. Players must register through the state’s official Lottery website or app. The drawings are held quarterly or are part of an additional promotion, and are done at Pollard Banknote Limited in Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a Vermont editor. You can send feedback using this form.
BRIDGEWATER CORNERS, Vt. (WCAX) – A Vermont brewery is living up to its name to help celebrate the outdoors.
Long Trail Brewing Company is unveiling its “Reallllly Long Trail Ale Pack” in honor of National Trails Day this weekend. They believe it will be the largest single-unit commercially available beer package in the country.
The design for the packaging is 273 centimeters long, reflecting the 273-mile Long Trail that cuts through the length of Vermont. It also holds 168 beers and needs three people just to carry it. The brewery’s Jordan Kellem hopes it can encourage people to, as they say, “Take a Hike!”
“We’ve been brewing beer for a long time, and it’s increasingly more difficult to stand out. And at the end of the day, we have to remind ourselves we’re in the beer industry and it’s a fun industry to be a part of, so we want to have some fun and do what we do,” Kellem said.
They’re also giving back with $15,000 in donations to local trail systems across the state.
National Trails Day is Saturday, June 7.
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