Vermont’s flood-prone hub for vehicle maintenance is getting a new home — on higher ground

BERLIN — David Thurber was helping clean up the Vermont Agency of Transportation’s Central Garage in Berlin, days after flooding inundated the facility in July 2023, when he came across a drawer full of photos. The images gave him pause, he recalled in a recent interview. They showed the same location, decades prior, also flooded over.It was a timely reminder, Thurber said, of something he and other agency leaders had long known to be true: The Central Garage, which has sat on the s