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• Body of New York man recovered from Lake St. Catherine

  07-07-2018 14:01 via vtdigger.org
  POULTNEY — Friday afternoon Vermont State Police Dive Team recovered the body of Thomas Flood, 61, of Schenectady, New York.
  Flood and his wife were staying at a camp on Lake St. Catherine when, on Thursday, they went out boating under choppy water conditions with large gusts of wind.Get all of VTDigger's criminal justice news.You'll never miss our courts and criminal justice coverage with our weekly headlines in your inbox.Daily
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• Barre woman’s death was fifth domestic violence related homicide in 2018

  07-07-2018 01:20 via vtdigger.org
  Courtney Gaboriault, 29, a Vermont Department of Public Safety employee, was killed Wednesday in Barre by a former boyfriend, police say. Courtesy photo
  The killing of 29-year-old Courtney Gaboriault in Barre earlier this week was the fifth domestic violence related homicide in Vermont this year, the state attorney general’s office said on Friday.
  “Right now,” said Auburn Watersong, policy director at the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, “we’re
  
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• Sanders rails against ‘inflated’ executive pay at UVM Medical Center

  07-07-2018 01:13 via vtdigger.org
  Julie MacMillan, a registered nurse at UVM Medical Center and the nurses’ union lead negotiator, speaks Wednesday at a press conference outside the hospital. Photo by Mike Faher/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — Nurses at the state’s largest hospital who have threatened to strike over a pay dispute got a boost from U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders Friday.Sanders stood with union negotiators at a press conference in a show of support for nurses with the University of Vermont Medical Center who are s
  
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• Rachel Siegel: Justice causes on many fronts need allies

  07-07-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Rachel Siegel, of Burlington, who has been the executive director of the Peace & Justice Center since 2013. She was a Burlington city councilor representing the Old North End from 2011-14.
  It is important for non-immigrants, especially white non-immigrants, to show up as aspiring allies and put ourselves on the line. Since the first European colonizers set foot on this continent, children have been torn from their parents. It is not new but that doe
  
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• Walt Amses: Trump’s supreme chaos doctrine

  07-07-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: Walt Amses is a writer and former educator who lives in North Calais.
  For most progressives, liberals and anyone else who still sees America as the proverbial land of opportunity, last week was like waking from a nightmare only to find out that not only was it was real, but that you’ll very possibly be living it the for rest of your life. With several sweeping Supreme Court decisions going his way, including approval of the controversial travel ban, coupled with the re
  
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• Joanna Colwell: A flag that symbolizes racial hatred

  07-07-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Joanna Colwell, of East Middlebury, who is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher who founded and directs Otter Creek Yoga, in Middlebury’s Marble Works. She is on the board of WomenSafe and works with the Middlebury chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice. This piece was first published by the Addison Independent.
  A pickup truck drives around Middlebury, with giant Confederate flags flapping in the wind. A house on Schoolhouse Road displays the same f
  
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• Groups join Welch in call for major immigration reform

  07-07-2018 00:43 via vtdigger.org
  Thelma Gomez of Migrant Justice speaks Friday at an immigration roundtable in Burlington. Will Lambek, at left, translated. Photo by Alexandre Silberman/VTDigger
  BURLINGTON – Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., renewed his call for major immigration reform Friday at a City Hall roundtable with leaders of community groups.
  Welch recounted his recent experience visiting a detention facility along the southwest border and meeting children who had been separated from their parents as a result of the Trum
  
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