The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded Burlington Housing Authority approximately $392,000 to help house low-income families living with AIDS/HIV.

Elsewhere in New England, $1.3 million is going to the Frannie Peabody Center in Portland, Maine; $1.4 million to the city of Portland; and more than $716,000 to the state of New Hampshire.

Judy Smith, left, pictured with VHFA's Erin Perrin, is VHFA’s top mortgage loan originator in Franklin County for 2009.

Judy’s a loan originator for Peoples Trust Co. in St. Albans. You can reach her at 802.752.1214.

The Vermont Division for Historic Preservation wants to know your thoughts on, well, historic preservation.

The division's working to revise its 10-year plan, and is soliciting the opinions of Vermonter through an online survey.

Take the survey now.

The deadline for Champlain Housing Trust's "What Home Means to Me" photo contest is approaching.

As part of CHT's 25th anniversary celebration they're giving away an Olympus 1020 camera, memory and camera bag to one 1st Prize winner.

Two 2nd Prize winners will receive photo books.