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• Emergency medicine responders meet with Becca Balint to talk rural health bottlenecks

  22-10-2026 01:42 via VTDigger
  
  U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., speaks during a discussion the challenges faced by first responders at Milton Rescue in Milton on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerMILTON — U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., wanted to see how heavy a stretcher is. She got some help lifting it out of the back of one of Milton’s retired ambulances as part of her Wednesday visit with the Chittenden County town’s emergency medicine providers.The ambulance was old and without the now-stand
  
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• Another approval, another appeal in long-running fight over private airstrip in Lincoln

  22-10-2026 00:29 via VTDigger
  
  A 900-foot airstrip at the home of BETA founder Kyle Clark in Lincoln seen on Wednesday, July 29, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerLINCOLN — A controversial private airstrip got the stamp of approval from the Vermont Transportation Board this month in what could have been one of the final steps in a years-long process.But two Lincoln residents are pushing back — as they have for years. Residents Marilyn Ganahl and Sarah Laird filed an appeal Monday to the Vermont Supreme Court, asking
  
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• Budget cuts are hurting patients

  22-10-2026 00:02 via VTDigger
  
  Dear Editor, We are practicing clinicians, trainees and recently retired doctors who serve on the Vermont Medical Society’s board and are deeply concerned about healthcare affordability and access in the state. Despite sharing these goals with state regulators and lawmakers, we believe many current strategies unwittingly threaten the very access they seek to improve. As hospitals are required to quickly and dramatically reduce costs without increasing income, they have limited tools to bala
  
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• Essex failed to warn voters about a tax vote. Now the November result might not count.

  21-10-2026 23:21 via VTDigger
  
  Poll workers await the next voters at the Essex Town polls on Town Meeting Day in March 2023. File photo by Auditi Guha/VTDiggerEssex residents will vote on whether to add new local taxes this November — but the matter is far from settled. A yes vote in a few days would need another sign-off by voters in March, due to a missed deadline for alerting the town. A no vote, on the other hand, means the measure fails.“In this case, ignorance is not bliss,” Bruce Post, a former Essex selectboa
  
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• Children who witness domestic violence are victims too

  21-10-2026 23:19 via VTDigger
  
  This commentary is by Meghan Masterson, executive director of KidSafe Collaborative, and Lauren Porell, director of program services for Steps to End Domestic Violence, who are writing on behalf of the Chittenden County Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Committee.Domestic and intimate partner violence doesn’t just affect the adults directly involved, as became tragically evident recently when a Burlington man was accused of killing his wife with a flashlight in front of three children. Na
  
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• State panel sanctions ex-Rutland officer for violations of anti-bias policing and other policies

  21-10-2026 22:52 via VTDigger
  
  The Rutland City Police Department seen on Thursday, September 10, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Vermont Criminal Justice Council disciplined a second officer who worked for the Rutland  Police Department for violating the Vermont Fair and Impartial Policing Policy.The council, which oversees police officer conduct in the state, voted Tuesday to issue a written warning to Nicholas Fontana for improperly seeking identification of people in a vehicle at a traffic stop and turning
  
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• Vermont Conversation: ‘We can’t solve our problems with the same thinking that created them.’ Amanda Janoo would ‘lead a different way.’

  21-10-2026 22:30 via VTDigger
  
  
  Candidate for governor Amanda Janoo speaks during a Democratic Party unity rally in Burlington on Wednesday, August 12, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues. Listen and subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get podcasts.Who is Amanda Janoo? And how is this political novice polling closely with Vermont Gov. Phil Scot
  
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• Picture future you: How young teens can explore their potential at VSAC’s career and STEM fairs 

  21-10-2026 15:14 via VTDigger
  
  Think back to middle school. Maybe you hadn’t thought much about life beyond high school, or maybe you hadn’t spent much time outside of your community or home state. What if someone encouraged you to think bigger and more broadly about your possibilities? What if you could find a way to reach out of your comfort zone and into your curiosities? That’s the experience LaKysha Patnode had when she was a student, and exactly what she’s hoping to pay forward for other Ve
  
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• Advocates for homeless Vermonters say new rules put ‘process over people’

  21-10-2026 11:15 via VTDigger
  
  Motel 6 in Colchester on Oct. 20, 2026. Carly Berlin/Vermont PublicCarly Berlin covers housing and infrastructure for Vermont Public, in partnership with VTDigger. At a series of heated meetings, advocates for unhoused Vermonters called on Gov. Phil Scott’s administration to reverse course on its implementation of a sweeping homelessness law passed earlier this year.The architects of the legislation and others have argued that the Department for Children and Families’ new rules
  
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• Beta seeks approval for master build plan

  21-10-2026 01:22 via VTDigger
  
  The floor of Beta Technologies’ production facility in South Burlington. Photo courtesy of Katherine Levasseur/Beta TechnologiesThis story by Briana Brady was first published in The Other Paper on Oct. 15, 2026.Beta Technologies’ master plan is heading toward approval from South Burlington’s Development Review Board.For the next 10 years, the plan aims to provide a flexible framework for how the company will build out over 100 acres off Williston Road. In its plans for growth,
  
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• Layoffs announced at Vermont Information Processing in Colchester

  21-10-2026 00:57 via VTDigger
  
  Vermont Information Processing in Colchester seen in August 2023. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerTheo Wells-Spackman is a Report for America corps member who reports for VTDigger.Vermont Information Processing, a beverage industry software firm based in Colchester, announced layoffs to employees Tuesday. The cuts come less than two years after the previously employee-owned company was acquired by private equity firm Warburg Pincus for roughly $1 billion. Last month, Vermont Informatio
  
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• Attorneys seek spring trial for man facing murder charge in Rutland deadly police chase

  21-10-2026 00:03 via VTDigger
  
  Supporters of Rutland City police officer Jessica Ebbighausen attend a hearing for Tate Rheaume in Rutland County Superior criminal court in April 2024. Rheaume is charged in the crash that killed Ebbighausen in 2023. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe driver accused of crashing his pickup truck and killing a Rutland police officer during a motor-vehicle pursuit more than three years ago is expected to stand trial next spring with the case to be heard in Rutland County.Attorney David Sleig
  
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• Brattleboro shelter resident pleads guilty in 2023 killing

  20-10-2026 23:58 via VTDigger
  
  Zaaina Mahvish-Jammeh, 42, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder during a hearing at Windham Superior Court, Criminal Division, on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026. Mahvish-Jammeh admitted to killing Leah Rosin-Pritchard, a shelter coordinator with Groundworks Collaborative, on April 3, 2023. Photo by Kristopher Radder/Brattleboro ReformerThis story by Chris Mays was first published in the Brattleboro Reformer on Oct. 20, 2026.BRATTLEBORO — The shelter resident accused of killing shelter coordinat
  
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• What do foul-mouthed candidates think they’re gaining?

  20-10-2026 23:42 via VTDigger
  
  Dear Editor,What the heck do the few people running for office who use bad language in public think they gain? I know two things they don’t gain: the admiration of Vermont’s older voters who see that language as shocking or, at the very least, in bad taste. And they don’t gain the admiration of younger voters because even though, unfortunately, they are used to hearing bad language, they don’t say, “Wow, I’d like that person a lot more if they used the F-word
  
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• Vermont experts say bats need our help. How do we get over our fear of them?

  20-10-2026 23:33 via VTDigger
  
  Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department staff and TNC partners conduct an annual hibernaculum bat count for a partner university’s white-nose research in 2024. Photo courtesy of Vermont Fish & Wildlife Dept.“There’s some bats in the freezer over there.”That’s what Alyssa Bennett remembers her boss saying to her when she was starting her job as a small-mammal biologist at the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department 15 years ago.Bats are elusive creatures, so whene
  
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• Vermont taxpayers can’t compare school budgets. The state could fix that.

  20-10-2026 22:29 via VTDigger
  
  This commentary is by Matt Rkiouak, founder of Hunger Mountain Intelligence, a growth and automation consultancy for small and mid-sized businesses.Every March, Vermonters vote on school budgets they cannot compare with the district next door. Each district lays out its budget differently. What one district calls “special education shared services” is three separate lines in the next. When a budget goes up, the explanation is a list of pressures: health insurance, special education,
  
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• Lewis M. Holmes

  20-10-2026 01:19 via VTDigger
  
  Born: 04/16/1938Troy, New YorkDied: 10/17/2026South BurlingtonDetails of service:Lewis Meredith Holmes lived an engaged life as both a scientist and a humanist, with respect for the mind, the earth and the many people with whom he shared his life. He worked professionally in research, editing and teaching in Europe and the United States.Lewis was born on April 16, 1938, in Troy, New York to Lynn C. and Caroline Kosegarten Holmes and grew up in Fairport, a suburb of Rochester, with older brother
  
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• Local businessman donates $4 million to financially ailing Brattleboro Memorial Hospital

  20-10-2026 00:23 via VTDigger
  
  The Brattleboro Memorial Hospital campus on Belmont Avenue. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDiggerBrattleboro Memorial Hospital, seeking to recover from a multimillion-dollar budget deficit, announced Monday that a local businessman has offered a $4 million infusion.Willy Buhlmann, who emigrated from Switzerland in 1970 to found and recently sell his Swiss Precision Turning machine shop, is donating the money to the southeastern Vermont healthcare hub’s depleted investment account, the ho
  
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• Clement “Ted” Meunier

  20-10-2026 00:07 via VTDigger
  
  Born: 04/06/1937Burlington, VTDied: 10/12/2026Richford, VTDetails of service:A service to honor Ted’s remarkable life will be held on October 25, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. at the Fairfax United Church in Fairfax, Vermont. Following, there will be a military remembrance held at the Underhill Rod and Gun Club, refreshments provided, starting at 3 p.m.Clement “Ted” Meunier, beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, passed away peacefully on October 12, 2026, with h
  
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• ICE looks to boost staffing at intelligence hubs in Vermont

  19-10-2026 23:43 via VTDigger
  
  Graffiti was visible on the outside of a U.S. Department of Homeland Security building in Williston in Oct. 2025. File photo by Shaun Robinson/VTDiggerU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could hire more workers at its offices in Vermont as part of a $100 million plan to boost intelligence-gathering for the branch of the agency that carries out arrests and deportations, federal records show. The plan, which is not final, calls for 24 positions evenly split between ICE’s Law Enfor
  
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• Portion of I-91 in northern Vermont named for border agent killed in line of duty

  19-10-2026 23:19 via VTDigger
  
  FILE – In this undated and unknown location photo released by the Department of Homeland Security shows Border Patrol Agent David Maland posing with a service dog. (Department of Homeland Security via AP, File)A state panel has approved a measure to name a northern portion of Interstate 91 in honor of David Maland, a U.S. Border Patrol agent who authorities say was shot and killed while conducting a traffic stop on that roadway more than a year ago.The Vermont Transportation Board issued
  
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• Windsor, no longer a prison town, still maintains a connection to people who die in state custody

  19-10-2026 21:52 via VTDigger
  
  Two flat granite stones engraved with the names of men who died while incarcerated at Southern State Correctional Facility are set in the grass at the end of a row of white crosses. Photo by Noel Clark/VTDiggerWINDSOR — Tucked behind a Windsor neighborhood and marked only by a small green-and-white sign sits a nearly 60-acre expanse of the state’s incarceration history going back 150 years.In the shadow of a forested band of pines at the back of Ascutney Cemetery stand four rows of
  
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• PHOTOS: First snowflakes fly around Vermont

  19-10-2026 21:40 via VTDigger
  
  This year, VTDigger is teaming up with Henry’s Weather Channel to help answer the annual question of when and where peak foliage will make its appearance across the state.Each week, we’ll bring you an updated look at how foliage is unfolding statewide, paired with a weekend forecast, so you can plan your drive, hike or porch-sitting accordingly. Henry brings meteorological experience and on-the-ground reporting with photos and videos from across the region.
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• Fewer Vermont retailers are accepting food assistance benefits. Here’s why.

  19-10-2026 21:24 via VTDigger
  
  This commentary is by Johanna Doren, the direct markets and local food access director at the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont. In 2025, 619 Vermont food retailers accepted Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits from customers. By August 2026, just 574 were authorized to do so. Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows that the number of Vermont retailers that can accept SNAP declined during this period at more than double the rate of the previous five
  
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• Rural Vermont needs the young to choose this place

  19-10-2026 20:31 via VTDigger
  
  This commentary is by Neil Ryan, a third-generation Vermont farmer and consultant helping brands and nonprofits in Corinth.Vermont is bleeding its young. A University of New Hampshire poll in July found that almost two-thirds of Vermonters ages 18 to 34 plan to leave this state. In September, Vermont Public asked Vermonters what they’d tell an 18-year-old about building a life here. About half said the young should move away.This is a tragedy. And it is a disgrace. Our state government sh
  
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• What can we do? An answer from Vermont’s premiere theater.

  19-10-2026 18:35 via VTDigger
  
  By Leslie Swackhamer, Executive Director, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and Jay Wahl, Executive Director, the FlynnWe began with an impossibly large question: What is the current state of democracy in America?But underneath it was a smaller and much more personal one: What can we do? What should we do?What can a couple of Vermonters who run a performing arts organization and a playwriting prize do? Some days, hiding under the bed seems like a reasonable option. The world feels frightening. The 2
  
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• Then Again: Hoff overcame opponent and power of incumbency to make history

  18-10-2026 16:56 via VTDigger
  
  The Times Argus newspaper of Nov. 7, 1962 announces Phil Hoff’s stunning victory. Via Newspapers.comHistory is not destiny. That said, historically speaking, if you want to get elected governor of Vermont, it helps to already be governor of Vermont. Incumbency has historically offered a tremendous electoral advantage. In fact, it has been 64 years since an incumbent governor has lost an election. That’s 23 times in a row that an incumbent governor has stood for re-election and won.&
  
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• Vermont colleges should recruit closer to home

  18-10-2026 14:51 via VTDigger
  
  Dear Editor,If Vermont schools hadn’t overlooked the current pool of stateside kids looking for a quality Vermont college, enrollment at those places wouldn’t have collapsed as it has. Until college administrators get smart, they’ll have a parade of international students using Vermont as an entryway to America and not for higher learning. 
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  Why weren’t students from northern New England, where I lived for 42 years, and other stateside locations tapped for
  
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• After upsets in 2024, parties focus on key races for balance of power in Vermont Senate

  18-10-2026 14:27 via VTDigger
  
  Democratic incumbent Sen. Ruth Hardy, left, speaks during an Addison County Senate candidates forum in Addison on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Seated next to her are Republican challenger Andrew Klein, Republican incumbent Sen. Steve Heffernan, and Democratic challenger Hannah Sessions. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerTheo Wells-Spackman is a Report for America corps member who reports for VTDigger.On election night in November 2024, a red wave crashed over the Vermont Senate. In a singl
  
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• ‘Hollywood, VT’ project spotlights the Green Mountain State’s movie history

  18-10-2026 13:27 via VTDigger
  
  A movie crew films Alfred Hitchcock’s comic mystery “The Trouble with Harry” in the Northeast Kingdom town of Craftsbury in the fall of 1954. Photo courtesy Paramount Pictures/Vermont Life magazine
  Alia Quart Khan can pitch her “Hollywood, VT” project in 25 words: Los Angeles film publicist moves to small-town Vermont during the Covid-19 pandemic, only to strike upon, study and share the state’s movie history.Ask the 45-year-old for more specifics — tak
  
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• To tax or not to tax: Two towns consider a local option tax this November

  18-10-2026 12:44 via VTDigger
  
  Hinesburg Town Hall seen in November 2021. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerStowe’s highway foreman was driving this summer when he came upon an unpleasant sight: a hole in the deck of the Weeks Hill Road bridge.Many Vermont towns would need to wait a long time to access state funding for bridge repairs, Will Fricke, Stowe’s assistant city manager, said.But Stowe had a revenue source tucked away.“Because of local option taxes, we were lucky enough to, you know, have those c
  
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• Coffee for the community

  17-10-2026 14:30 via VTDigger
  
  Debbie Scherrer greets visitors to Saturday’s pop-up café on the porch of Rochester’s Kimball building. Photo by Tim Calabro/White River Valley HeraldThis story by Tim Calabro was first published in the White River Valley Herald on Oct. 8, 2026.When the Rochester Café closed early this summer, residents worried about losing more than a place to get breakfast. The café had been a gathering spot in the village center, and its closure came just before hundreds of v
  
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• Pro-Phil Scott super PAC launches ad buy, another signal Vermont governor’s race could be close

  17-10-2026 00:03 via VTDigger
  
  Democratic nominee for governor Amanda Janoo, left, and Republican Gov. Phil Scott. Photos by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerWith Election Day around the corner, big bucks are rolling into Vermont from a pro-Phil Scott super PAC tied to the Republican Governors Association. His challenger, Amanda Janoo, hasn’t received the same support from the analogous Democratic organization — and says she doesn’t want it — though her campaign has raised more money than Scott’s, the late
  
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• Addison County lands $3 million grant to fight addiction

  16-10-2026 22:49 via VTDigger
  
  These officials represent organizations that will deploy the $3 million grant, recently won by United Way of Addison County, to boost services for people struggling with substance use disorder. Pictured from left are Chelsea Delisle of the Charter House Coalition, Jubilee McGill and Danielle Wallace of the Peer Revery Center; United Way’s Celia Heath, Heidi Melbostad of Mountain Community Health, Helena Van Voorst of United Way, and Taylor Morley of the Counseling Service of Addison Count
  
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• In his third congressional race, Republican Gerald Malloy is looking for middle ground

  16-10-2026 22:37 via VTDigger
  
  Gerald Malloy, Republican candidate for Vermont’s U.S. House of Representatives seat. Photo by Emma White/VTDiggerIt’s been six years and two big losses since “Deploy Malloy” first entered Vermonters’ vocabulary — but this time he’s taking a different tack.    The slogan belongs to Gerald Malloy, a U.S. army veteran, former defense contractor at Lockheed Martin, Bowhead and Raytheon, and perennial congressional candidate in the Green
  
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• A free press under pressure: New York Times’ Eric Lipton speaks in Vermont

  16-10-2026 21:55 via VTDigger
  
  Eric Lipton, a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and investigative reporter for The New York Times, talks to an audience at the Delta Hotel in South Burlington on 9 October 2026. Photo by Daria Bishop for Vermont Digger.Eric Lipton, an investigative journalist for the New York Times, spoke Friday, Oct. 9, at Delta Hotels in South Burlington about his reporting on profiteering within the Trump administration. More than 180 people attended the sold out event, hosted by VTDigger and Seven Days.Lipto
  
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• Popular Brousseau Mountain trail in Essex County conserved for peregrine falcons and future generations

  16-10-2026 21:32 via VTDigger
  
  The view looking southeast from Brousseau Mountain in Norton on September 4, 2021. Photo by K. Fiegenbaum/VTDiggerA remote, scenic hike in the border town of Norton has been permanently preserved for public access.Ann Sage, who grew up in the tiny Essex County town, and her husband, Victor Peters, sold a 21-acre parcel to the town of Norton this summer, Vermont Land Trust announced earlier this month. The town conserved the parcel, which hosts a quarter mile of the popular Brousseau Mountain Tr
  
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• Rural Vermont is losing its say over its own land

  16-10-2026 21:09 via VTDigger
  
  This commentary is by Loralee Tester, executive director of the Northeast Kingdom Chamber of Commerce.In 1989, the Galick family sold its farm in West Haven to The Nature Conservancy. The family believed this well-established organization would protect the generations of labor they had given to the land they loved.The conservancy now plans to demolish it. The farmhouse, cow barn, creamery, sheep barn and machine shop are all slated to be torn down, even though some of the buildings date back to
  
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• Vermonters relieved and conflicted after Trump backs off execution livestream

  16-10-2026 00:50 via VTDigger
  
  An armed guard walks around the fortified Lawrence William Judicial Center as the sentencing phase for Maj. Nidal Hasan continues, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013, in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan was convicted of killing 13 of his unarmed comrades in the deadliest attack ever on a U.S. military base. Photo by Eric Gay/APNancy Welch was driving to the barn to see her horses when news of a planned livestreamed execution came over her car stereo. The barn is where she normally goes for an escape. This time, she
  
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• Barre wins flood recovery funds for long-awaited North End housing

  15-10-2026 23:13 via VTDigger
  
  The playground at Wobby Park in Barre City’s North End will be redeveloped into 17 townhomes. Photo by David Littlefield / Vermont Public
  Carly Berlin covers housing and infrastructure for Vermont Public, in partnership with VTDigger.A few months after flooding devastated Barre City in 2023, Gov. Phil Scott unveiled a bold vision for redeveloping his hometown. Buildings near the river in the city’s hard-hit North End neighborhood would be demolished and converted back to a floodplai
  
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• Expenses for EB-5 mop-up total $14 million as judge OKs $1 million more in fees

  15-10-2026 22:54 via VTDigger
  
  Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver in the EB-5 fraud case, speaks at a Statehouse news conference in 2017. File photo by Michael Dougherty/VTDiggerMore than $14 million in legal and financial expenses have been rung up over 10 years since the largest investor fraud scandal in Vermont’s history, according to an Oct. 9 court filing by the receiver overseeing properties in the Northeast Kingdom that were engulfed in the scheme.Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver, submi
  
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• Expenses for EB-5 mop up total $14 million as judge OKs $1 million more in fees

  15-10-2026 22:54 via VTDigger
  
  Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver in the EB-5 fraud case, speaks at a Statehouse news conference in 2017. File photo by Michael Dougherty/VTDiggerMore than $14 million in legal and financial expenses have been rung up over 10 years since the largest investor fraud scandal in Vermont’s history, according to an Oct. 9 court filing by the receiver overseeing properties in the Northeast Kingdom that were engulfed in the scheme.Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver, submi
  
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• Don’t pour more money into a broken healthcare system

  15-10-2026 22:28 via VTDigger
  
  Dear Editor,Every attempt at public involvement in healthcare in Vermont in the last 25 years has not only failed, but left Vermont with some of the highest-cost healthcare and insurance in the world — though not the best outcomes.The public explanations for this situation appear to be tired bull: We are older and sicker and get less money from the government. Until we can publicly explain this train wreck and get some accountability, I would be extraordinarily reluctant to shovel more mo
  
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• After a stormy week, cold arrives and much of Vermont passes peak foliage

  15-10-2026 22:15 via VTDigger
  
  Fallen leaves cover a picnic table in Jericho Center on Wednesday, October 14, 2026. . Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
  This year, VTDigger is teaming up with Henry’s Weather Channel to help answer the annual question of when and where peak foliage will make its appearance across the state.Each week, we’ll bring you an updated look at how foliage is unfolding statewide, paired with a weekend forecast, so you can plan your drive, hike or porch-sitting accordingly. Henry brings meteoro
  
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• Vermont’s land laws should incentivize people who heal the land

  15-10-2026 21:26 via VTDigger
  
  This commentary is by Ben Falk, a land planner and the founder of Whole Systems Design. He lives in Moretown.“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community,” the conservationist Aldo Leopold wrote in “A Sand County Almanac,” his classic account of restoring a worn-out Wisconsin farm. For 25 years, I’ve tried to put Leopold’s “land ethic” into practice at my beat-up, abandoned sheep pas
  
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• English programs face rising anxiety amid fears of immigration enforcement

  15-10-2026 20:15 via VTDigger
  
  Helene Rassias-Miles, Executive Director of the Rassias Center for World Languages and Cultures, leads a training session with her team while refining future lesson plans in Hanover, Nh., on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. Photo by Sophia Sahni/Valley NewsThis story by Sophia Sahni first appeared in the Valley News on Oct. 12, 2026.Across the Upper Valley, a network of free English language learning programs serves immigrants at every level.In Hanover, New Hampshire, the Supporting Refugees Club, crea
  
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• Robert A. Burley, FAIA

  15-10-2026 00:25 via VTDigger
  
  Born: 12/11/1927Buffalo, New YorkDied: 09/23/2026Shelburne, VermontDetails of service:There will be a memorial event to honor Bob’s life at the Mad River Glen Basebox on Saturday, October 24, at 2:00 p.m. All are welcome. Please bring memories and stories to share.Bob Burley read The New York Times nearly every day of his adult life, and would have appreciated us starting in Times style:Robert A. “Bob” Burley, a longtime resident of Waitsfield, who started his brilliant 60-yea
  
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• Vermont Conversation: Stealing Elections, American Style: Voting rights attorney David Walbert on how the 2026 election could be hijacked — and saved

  14-10-2026 23:47 via VTDigger
  
  The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues. Listen and subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get podcasts.Author David Walbert and his latest book, “Stealing Elections, American Style.” Courtesy photoElection deniers, egged on by President Donald Trump, are now running elections in numerous locales across the country. The playbook for stealing el
  
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• Feds issue warning on grant funds after Vermont identifies own mistakes

  14-10-2026 23:11 via VTDigger
  
  Education Secretary Zoie Saunders, left, and Tammy Kolbe, acting State Board of Education chair. Photos by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerVermont spent nearly eight years incorrectly choosing schools that needed state resources to address widening achievement gaps, according to Zoie Saunders, Vermont’s secretary of education. The state caught the error itself this spring and reported the mistake to the federal government within hours — then heard nothing for months.Then, in September, offici
  
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• ‘Fuck the Flock cameras’: On big tech, Vermont’s candidates for governor differ on style and substance

  14-10-2026 22:48 via VTDigger
  
  A license plate reader camera on VT Route 7A in Manchester seen on Thursday, June 11, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger“Fuck the Flock cameras, dude. Let’s ban ‘em.”Amanda Janoo, the Democratic nominee for governor of Vermont in this fall’s election, left no room for doubt about her feelings on the controversial license plate readers used by police in Vermont and around the country in a social media video last week. In the same post, Janoo also said Vermon
  
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