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• Staffing costs drove $90 million loss for UVM Health Network

  23-11-2022 23:46 via vtdigger.org
  
  After a brutal fiscal year, the leaders of Vermont's largest health care provider have a strategy for digging out in 2023. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe University of Vermont Health Network ended its fiscal year on Sept. 30 with a $90 million loss, despite receiving $55 million in one-time federal and state funds to cover pandemic-related expenses.The network’s operations in Vermont — University of Vermont Medical Center, Central Vermont Medical Center, Porter Medical Cente
  
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• Police say Vermont man injured 2 people in 48-hour ‘crime spree’

  23-11-2022 23:38 via vtdigger.org
  
  David Oleson. Photo courtesy of the Williston Police DepartmentA Vermont man was arrested in Burlington Wednesday morning after he injured two people in a 48-hour “crime spree” of car thefts and break-ins across the area, the city’s police department said. David Oleson, 38, was lodged at Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans and has been charged with aggravated operation of a vehicle without the owner’s consent, leaving the scene of an accident that res
  
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• Police say person killed in Newfane house explosion was the homeowner

  23-11-2022 23:10 via vtdigger.org
  
  Police have identified the man who was found dead inside a residence destroyed by a fire and explosion in Newfane last week as the homeowner.The cause and manner of 56-year-old Russell A. Buzby’s death remain under investigation, according to a press release Wednesday from Vermont State Police.The explosion last week at the home in Newfane resulted from a fire in the residence that ruptured an oxygen tank, Adam Silverman, a Vermont State Police spokesperson, said this week.The cause of the
  
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• Vermont Conversation: A new Santa Claus is coming to town and ‘he is a uniter’

  23-11-2022 22:34 via vtdigger.org
  
  Santas Fin Ciappara, left, and Chris Kennedy. Contributed photosThe Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues with politicians, activists, artists, changemakers and citizens who are making a difference. Listen below, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify to hear more.
  Santa Claus is coming to town. But the person shimmying down the chimney may not be the rotund,
  
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• Covid levels ‘low’ on eve of holiday gatherings

  23-11-2022 20:40 via vtdigger.org
  
  Vermont’s Covid-19 levels remain “low,” according to the latest weekly surveillance update from the state Department of Health.Most Vermont counties also have low Covid levels, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only Bennington County, which hit “high” Covid levels in October, reported “medium” Covid levels in the past week.Covid levels are measured by a combination of hospital admissions, case rates and the percentage of h
  
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• Judge tosses charge that off-duty state trooper gave false information to another officer during traffic stop

  23-11-2022 19:52 via vtdigger.org
  
  Vermont State Trooper Dylan LaMere appears in Chittenden Superior Court in Burlington on July 19. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerA judge has thrown out a charge against an off-duty Vermont State Police trooper who was accused of providing false information to another police officer during a traffic stop.The ruling issued Tuesday by Judge John Pacht in Chittenden County Superior criminal court stated that, while Vermont State Police Trooper Dylan LaMere may not have provided truthful information
  
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• Non-Covid respiratory viruses are this year’s holiday concern

  23-11-2022 17:59 via vtdigger.org
  
  An entrance to the emergency department at the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington on Dec. 13, 2021. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerRebecca Bell, a critical care pediatrician at the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital, has a message for people visiting infants this Thanksgiving that is going to be difficult to hear: “Admire the baby from afar.”By all indications, Covid-19 is on the decline for now in Vermont. But cases of respiratory syncytial virus, kn
  
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• 350 members left to go

  23-11-2022 17:11 via vtdigger.org
  
  Dear Reader,We are only one day away from our goal of sending 10,000 meals to the Vermont Foodbank by Thanksgiving Day. Please join us with a donation that’s meaningful to you. Whether that’s $5 or $500, every bit helps and you’ll be sending 10 meals to the Foodbank.
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  Two in five Vermonters have faced food insecurity in 2022, more than in either 2021 or 2020. Every winter here means paying for fuel to keep warm, but this season the cost of heating the ho
  
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• Anson Tebbetts: For the holidays, Vermont food will be at the center of the table 

  23-11-2022 13:10 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Anson B. Tebbetts, secretary of the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets.As autumn winds down and our Green Mountain fields and forests prepare to rest, we give thanks for the bounty of the seasons.In the coming weeks, Vermont food will be at the center of the table as many of us celebrate with family and friends. Maybe the meal will begin with an appetizer plate arranged with Vermont’s award-winning cheeses, crackers, pickles, jams and jellies; perhaps sta
  
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• Joe Benning: To succeed, Vermont Republican Party must be center/right

  23-11-2022 13:07 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Joe Benning, outgoing state senator from Caledonia County and a candidate for lieutenant governor this year. In the early 1990s, I joined the Vermont Republican Party. I did so because the VTGOP recognized five core principles: a free market economy; a local and efficient government that kept taxes within reason; an educational system that enabled our graduates to compete in a global marketplace; individual liberty; and personal responsibility. Those five core pri
  
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• Duane Sherwood: Faith, reason, and the Supreme Court

  23-11-2022 13:04 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Duane E. Sherwood, a retired nurse and erstwhile technical writer who lives in Winooski. He received a bachelor’s degree in linguistics from Binghamton University and an associate’s degree in nursing from the University of Alaska.
  Skeptic though I am, I admit that faith is a beautiful thing. For me, it begins in the heart with feelings too delicate to be called emotions. For example, if something good happens, I have an impulse to offer thanks. If I have tr
  
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• Alison Despathy: Science and technology — the double-edged swords

  23-11-2022 13:01 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Alison Despathy, a resident of Danville.Science and technology have offered so much to the world. They are often associated with progress, convenience and lifesaving products and developments. However, it is absolutely essential that we acknowledge and remember that science and technology are double-edged swords and they have also brought destruction, damage, despair and abuse as well. Ethics must be the guiding force with science and technology because advances c
  
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• Franklin County legislators weigh impeachment for newly elected sheriff

  23-11-2022 12:17 via vtdigger.org
  
  John Grismore speaks during an interview on Northwest Access TV on Sept. 21, 2022. ScreenshotSeveral Franklin County state legislators say they’re weighing whether to support impeaching the county’s newly elected sheriff next year and removing him from office.John Grismore, who was charged with assault after he kicked a suspect in custody in August, won about 44% of the vote for sheriff this month. Leaders of Franklin County’s Democratic and Republican committees said Gris
  
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• New board to take closer look at citizens’ experience with Bennington police

  23-11-2022 00:52 via vtdigger.org
  
  Members of Bennington's Community Policing Advisory Review Board held its second formal meeting on Thursday, Nov. 17, at the Bennington firehouse. ScreenshotBennington’s Community Policing Advisory Review Board has gotten off the ground, making initial plans to learn more about residents’ experiences with town police.The six-member board of civilians formed Thursday an internal committee for community outreach. It aims to gather information about residents’ interactions with th
  
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