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Overview
The Burlington Free Press is Vermont's largest daily, and the Rutland Herald and the Times Argus in Barre and Montpelier cover central Vermont and the State House. The Brattleboro Reformer, the Bennington Banner, the Caledonian-Record in St. Johnsbury, the St. Albans Messenger, the Newport Daily Express and the Valley News across the river in Lebanon cover their regions, and VTDigger, a nonprofit online newsroom, is now the largest news organization in the state. Seven Days covers Burlington and state politics weekly.
Vermont newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for foreclosures, probate and town actions, publish obituaries for 14 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with the Vermont Judiciary's public portal.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
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Vermont Newspapers
Find local and statewide newspaper publications for Vermont. Access news, sports, classified, entertainment, and archived articles.
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Major Vermont newspapers and what they cover
The Free Press covers Burlington, Chittenden County and the federal court, with back issues from the 1820s onward in the digital archives. The Herald and the Times Argus cover Rutland, the capital, the legislature and the Vermont Supreme Court. The Reformer covers Windham County, the Banner covers Bennington County, the Caledonian-Record covers the Northeast Kingdom, and the Messenger covers Franklin County. Vermont's town weeklies, from the Addison Independent to the Manchester Journal, carry select board minutes, police logs and the probate division notices that Vermont's superior courts publish.
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Historic Vermont newspapers online
The Vermont State Archives and Records Administration and the Vermont Department of Libraries hold newspaper microfilm for the whole state, and Vermont titles from the 1780s onward appear in Chronicling America through the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project at the University of Vermont. The Fletcher Free Library in Burlington provides free access to the Free Press archive with a library card, and the Vermont Historical Society in Barre holds early titles and an obituary index.
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Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in Vermont
Vermont law requires foreclosure sale notices, probate notices to creditors, name changes, tax sales and town warnings, hearings and ordinances to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the town or county, and the Vermont Press Association collects them in a statewide search. Obituaries appear in most of Vermont's dailies and weeklies, and the Vermont Historical Society keeps an obituary index. Court coverage pairs with the Vermont Judiciary's public portal for criminal and civil division cases.
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Straight answers
Vermont Newspaper Directory, questions
What is Vermont's largest newspaper by circulation?
The Burlington Free Press is the largest daily, followed by the Rutland Herald and the Times Argus, while VTDigger is now the largest news organization in the state online.
Where are historic Vermont newspapers online?
Chronicling America carries Vermont titles from the 1780s onward through the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project, and the Department of Libraries holds the rest on microfilm.
Where are Vermont foreclosure notices published?
In a newspaper of general circulation in the town or county, collected in the Vermont Press Association's statewide public notice search.