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• Keurig Green Mountain reaches $36.5M preliminary settlement with investors

  24-06-2018 21:15 via vtdigger.org
  Keurig Green Mountain. File Photo by Hilary Niles/VTDigger
  Keurig Green Mountain has preliminarily agreed to pay $36.5 million to investors who say the Vermont-based coffee company made misstatements about its growth in 2011, according to court documents.Attorneys for shareholders in the class-action lawsuit are asking a federal judge to approve the settlement to end the case, according to documents obtained by VTDigger.Get all of VTDigger's criminal justice news.You'll never miss our courts and
  
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• Then Again: When debt was practically a crime

  24-06-2018 20:00 via vtdigger.org
  An illustration from Charles Dickens’ “Pickwick Papers” shows the squalid conditions of a debtors prison, an institution that was adopted by the United States during its early decades. Wikimedia Commons image
  Editor’s note: Mark Bushnell is a Vermont journalist and historian. He is the author of “Hidden History of Vermont” and “It Happened in Vermont.”Debt haunted peoples’ dreams in early Vermont. They had ever reason to fear it. Not only was
  
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• Then Again: When debt was a crime

  24-06-2018 20:00 via vtdigger.org
  An illustration from Charles Dickens’ “Pickwick Papers” shows the squalid conditions of a debtors prison, an institution that was adopted by the United States during its early decades. Wikimedia Commons image
  Editor’s note: Mark Bushnell is a Vermont journalist and historian. He is the author of “Hidden History of Vermont” and “It Happened in Vermont.”Debt haunted peoples’ dreams in early Vermont. They had ever reason to fear it. Not only was
  
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• ‘Silent epidemic’ of tooth decay worsens

  24-06-2018 18:27 via vtdigger.org
  Drs. Richard Barbierri, Michael Brady and Russell O’Connell are staffing a dental practice in a new facility on the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center campus in Bennington. Provided photo
  When a dental clinic opened in January at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, administrators had no trouble attracting clients.
  The Bennington facility is on pace for 6,000 patient visits this year. That’s 20 percent more than expected.Get all of VTDigger's health care news.You'll never miss our h
  
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• State pushes ahead with mental health expansion

  24-06-2018 17:29 via vtdigger.org
  ​Al Gobeille, the secretary of the Agency of Human Services. VTDigger file photo
  State officials and hospital administrators have begun moving forward with a major expansion of Vermont’s mental health system, less than a month after Gov. Phil Scott signed two bills supporting the projects.
  Officials say planning is “well under way” for the upgrade’s centerpiece – an acute inpatient psychiatric facility to be built University of Vermont Health Network in Berlin
  
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• Welch: Congressional opiate package falls short

  24-06-2018 17:08 via vtdigger.org
  Rep. Peter Welch. Photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger
  WASHINGTON — A package to bolster the federal response to opiate addiction passed the House Friday with strong bipartisan support, though many Democrats — including Rep. Peter Welch — said the bill does not do enough to take on the nationwide crisis.
  The bill passed with overwhelming support from both sides of the aisle, on a vote of 396-14.Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll never miss a political story with our weekly
  
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• State conservation money boosts Prospect Mountain purchase

  24-06-2018 17:01 via vtdigger.org
  A nonprofit group that wants to purchase Prospect Mountain Nordic Ski Center in Woodford has secured a $285,000 state grant. Bennington Banner photoWOODFORD — Efforts by a nonprofit group to buy the Prospect Mountain Nordic Ski Center were energized this week with receipt of a grant from the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board.
  The board on Thursday authorized $285,000 toward the approximately $900,000 needed by mid-August for the purchase of the 144-acre site and trail grooming equipme
  
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• Howard Frank Mosher Book Prize win a story in itself

  24-06-2018 16:00 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont writer Jackson Ellis is author of the novel “Lords of St. Thomas.” Provided photo
  Vermont writer Jackson Ellis had never met Howard Frank Mosher when he asked the now late, legendary Northeast Kingdom author for a favor.
  Ellis had finished a first draft of a first novel, “Lords of St. Thomas,” in the fall of 2014 when the Plymouth native decided to share it with family, friends and publishing prospects.
  “I thought that perhaps it might be best for an un
  
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