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• The Deeper Dig: What’s next for Montpelier’s water system?

  02-12-2022 23:57 via vtdigger.org
  
  Water seeps through the road and flows down Bingham Street in Montpelier on Monday, November 7, 2022. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Deeper Dig is a weekly podcast from the VTDigger newsroom. Listen below, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
  Montpelier residents put up with an unusually high number of water main breaks, which, in recent years, have led to boil water notices, expensive emergency repairs and school
  
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•  Forests, Parks and Recreation Commissioner Michael Snyder to step down

  02-12-2022 23:22 via vtdigger.org
  
  Michael Snyder, commissioner of the Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. Photo by John Herrick/VTDigger
  After a quarter-century at the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation — and a dozen years as its commissioner — Michael Snyder is stepping down at the end of the year.His departure is effective January 1, 2023: his 60th birthday. “It's been a long time,” Snyder said in an interview Friday. “Kind of extraordinarily long in a role like this
  
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• Folk musician Pete Sutherland dies at 71 

  02-12-2022 22:54 via vtdigger.org
  
  Pete Sutherland. Photo by Arthur Hynes.Musicians from across Vermont and even Canada traveled to play their instruments by the bedside of Vermont folk musician and mentor Pete Sutherland before he died on Nov. 30.Others recorded themselves playing Sutherland’s music, uploading the videos as online tributes.Sutherland was known throughout Vermont and beyond as a multi-faceted singer, songwriter and musician who mastered the fiddle but also knew how to play the piano, banjo, the melodeon and
  
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• 66-year-old man fatally shot in Eden, police say

  02-12-2022 15:50 via vtdigger.org
  
  A 66-year-old man was shot and killed at a house in Eden on Thursday night, according to Vermont State Police.Troopers received a report of shots fired at a home on Griggs Road at around 10:20 p.m., state police said in a press release. When officers arrived, they found a man dead at the scene. Police have not released the man’s identity.Police said it appears that other people involved in the shooting fled the scene, and no one was in custody as of early Friday morning.The shooting appear
  
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• 66-year-old man fatally shot at house in Eden

  02-12-2022 15:50 via vtdigger.org
  
  Updated at 6:43 p.m.A 66-year-old man was shot and killed at a house in Eden on Thursday night, according to Vermont State Police.Troopers received a report of shots fired at 187 Griggs Road at around 10:20 p.m., state police said. When officers arrived, they found a man dead at the scene. At a press briefing Friday afternoon at the Lamoille County Sheriff's Department in Hyde Park, State Police Maj. Dan Trudeau said the shooting took place at the Peatman residence, but he did not release t
  
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• Thousands more Vermonters eligible for health insurance savings this year

  02-12-2022 13:51 via vtdigger.org
  
  A new federal rule expands access to Vermont Health Connect premium subsidies to family members of workers with employer-based insurance, and higher income eligibility for subsidies has been extended through 2025. Photo by Darko Stojanovic via PixabayThousands more Vermonters are poised to become eligible for health insurance savings this year after two recent changes to federal guidelines.For six more weeks, it is open enrollment season for Vermont Health Connect, the state health insurance mar
  
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• Will Eberle: What really keeps us safe

  02-12-2022 13:10 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Will Eberle, executive director of the Vermont Association of Mental Health and Addiction Recovery. He lives with his family in Northfield, where he coaches baseball and soccer and serves on his local school board.The New York Times recently published an article called “The Bike Thieves of Burlington, Vermont.” This portrayed a thriving community resplendent with Teslas and Cannondales and frothy milk drinks and well-trimmed mustaches and local boutiques marred
  
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• Paul Kendall: Health care reform needs to be reformed

  02-12-2022 13:07 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Paul L. Kendall of Braintree, a retired corporate and not-for-profit executive. He has been a director or trustee of several Vermont health care organizations and participated in the 2015-16 discussions leading to the designation of OneCare Vermont as Vermont’s only accountable care organization.Those seeking to reform Vermont’s health care delivery system need to focus on correcting two errors in past reform efforts. The first correction is recognizing tha
  
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• Joanne O’Meara: Public safety comes first, except for Newbury

  02-12-2022 13:04 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Joanne O’Meara, a resident of Newbury.In the governor’s Nov. 3 press release, he stated, “The primary responsibility of any government is public safety.” You can see this doesn’t apply to Newbury residents who will be left to fend for themselves, as he is determined to place a facility for adjudicated, violent youth in a town with no law enforcement, nor full-time emergency services. The administration and legislators have been inform
  
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• Offie Wortham: Is there any hope for a racist-free society?

  02-12-2022 13:01 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Offie C. Wortham, Ph.D., of Johnson, a retired college professor who last taught at Johnson State College and, prior to that, at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.After listening to every word of the announcement by Donald Trump of his decision to run for president in 2024, I considered the importance of this moment in history.
  Trump told his viewers that he had the answers to all their present problems and concerns. He took credit for past improvements in the e
  
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• Dartmouth Health sees financial losses mounting, cites staffing costs

  02-12-2022 12:00 via vtdigger.org
  Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center seen from the air in December 2017. File photo by Charles Hatcher/Valley News.
  Editor’s Note: This story by Nora Doyle-Burr was first published by the Valley News on Nov. 30.LEBANON — Driven largely by staffing expenses, costs are outstripping revenues at Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s largest private employer, according to filings with bondholders last week.The Lebanon-based Dartmouth Health saw a $22.1 million loss, less than 1%, on a $2.
  
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• ‘The consummate networker’: Longtime Burlington economic leader Bruce Seifer dies

  02-12-2022 00:41 via vtdigger.org
  
  Bruce Seifer. Photo courtesy of Brian Pine.Bruce Seifer, a man described by former Mayor Peter Clavelle as being “the face and voice of economic development in Burlington,” died Tuesday at the age of 71. Seifer worked at the city’s Community and Economic Development Office from its creation in 1983 until 2011. He also wrote books on the topic of sustainable economic development.“He was the consummate networker,” Clavelle said in an interview on Thursday. &ldquo
  
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• ‘The consummate networker’: Long-time Burlington economic leader Bruce Seifer dies

  02-12-2022 00:41 via vtdigger.org
  
  Bruce Seifer. Photo courtesy of Brian Pine.Bruce Seifer, a man described by former Mayor Peter Clavelle as being “the face and voice of economic development in Burlington,” died Tuesday at the age of 71. Seifer worked at the city’s Community and Economic Development Office from its creation in 1983 until 2011. He also wrote books on the topic of sustainable economic development.“He was the consummate networker,” Clavelle said in an interview on Thursday. &ldquo
  
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• U.S. Senate votes to avoid a rail strike, defeats Sanders-led amendment requiring paid sick leave for workers

  02-12-2022 00:34 via vtdigger.org
  
  U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a Vermont Democratic Party gathering in Burlington on Election Day on Nov. 8. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe U.S. Senate on Thursday afternoon overwhelmingly voted to force a labor agreement between the railroad industry and rail workers, avoiding a worker strike that could have had disastrous implications for the economy and an already strained supply chain.At the center of the contract dispute was the issue of paid sick leave. The rail workers’ unio
  
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