Roger Garrity

NORTHFIELD, Vt. (WCAX) - Former Vermont Senator Bill Doyle spent much of his life serving Vermont. The longtime lawmaker died Thursday at the age of 98. Bill Doyle's life was all about civic involvement. It was the cornerstone of his history and government studies classes at Johnson State College, and his decades of service as a state senator from Washington County. "There's not a legislator I know that doesn't want to know how the people back home feel about the issues," Doyle told WCAX News.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - This weekend, Burlington is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Church Street Marketplace grand opening. We dug through the WCAX archives to take you on a walk through its history. Burlington architect Bill Truex is credited with the idea for the marketplace, having been inspired by a pedestrian mall he saw while traveling in Denmark in the 1960s. In 1979, Truex presented four plans for revitalizing Church Street to city officials.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - The abandoned Macy’s department store in Burlington will get a second chance to be a savior for the community. It was 21 years ago this week the building opened to shoppers, seen then as a critical piece of the city’s economic future. Now, it is playing a key role in the city’s educational future as it is transformed into a temporary high school.