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• PHOTOS: A River of Light spreads in Waterbury

  04-12-2022 23:58 via vtdigger.org
  
  The 13th annual River of Light parade was held in Waterbury on Saturday. This year’s theme was “Marvelous Magic.”The event involves circus arts, music and colorful lanterns displayed in a community procession.  This year's parade started at 5 p.m. from the Brookside Primary School
  to Stowe Street and Dac Rowe Park.
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• Photo Gallery: A River of Light spreads in Waterbury

  04-12-2022 23:58 via vtdigger.org
  
  The 13th annual River of Light parade was held in Waterbury on Saturday. This year’s theme was “Marvelous Magic.”The event involves building lanterns followed by a community procession showcasing the crafts.  The parade started at 5 p.m. from the Brookside Primary School
  to Stowe Street and Dac Rowe Park.
  Read the story on VTDigger here:Photo Gallery: A River of Light spreads in Waterbury.
  
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• Inflation is stretching Vermont’s nonprofits

  04-12-2022 22:44 via vtdigger.org
  
  Kalie Wolf helps a youngster with their lunch at a Capstone Community Action daycare in Barre on Monday, December 1, 2022. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe people Capstone Community Action seeks to help are feeling the impact of inflation acutely. And that pressure, in turn, is felt at Capstone Community Action. “With the level of inflation especially for food and for fossil fuels, we have far more demand and we’re very worried that we won’t be able to meet that demand,&
  
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• Man stabbed to death in fifth Burlington homicide of the year

  04-12-2022 22:34 via vtdigger.org
  
  A Burlington police cruiser is seen outside City Hall on Thursday, May 19, 2022. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerA 23-year-old man was stabbed to death in downtown Burlington early Sunday morning, according to authorities.The Burlington Police Department identified the victim as Abubakar Sharrif of Burlington. No suspects were immediately detained. At about 3:08 a.m., dispatchers received calls about a disturbance and assault at Piesanos Burlington, a restaurant near the intersection of Main
  
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• Man stabbed to death in 5th Burlington homicide of the year

  04-12-2022 22:34 via vtdigger.org
  
  A Burlington police cruiser is seen outside City Hall on Thursday, May 19, 2022. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerA 23-year-old man was stabbed to death in downtown Burlington early Sunday morning, according to authorities.The Burlington Police Department identified the victim as Abubakar Sharrif of Burlington. No suspects were immediately detained. At about 3:08 a.m., dispatchers received calls about a disturbance and assault at Piesanos Burlington, a restaurant near the intersection of Main
  
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• On the menu this legislative session: A bill to raise Vermont servers’ hourly tipped wages

  04-12-2022 21:56 via vtdigger.org
  
  Patrons enjoy an evening at The Reservoir in Waterbury on Friday, Feb. 11, 2022.Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerBefore she became one of Vermont’s youngest serving state legislators, Rep. Becca White, D-Hartford, worked for a short period as a restaurant server.Like countless servers in Vermont, White’s hourly wage was lower than that of Vermont’s standard minimum wage. Currently, Vermont’s tipped minimum wage, $6.28 per hour, is half that of the standard minimum wage, $12
  
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• Vermont Agency of Education reaches settlement with religious schools

  04-12-2022 21:05 via vtdigger.org
  
  Dan French, secretary of the Agency of Education, speaks at a Covid-19 press conference in September 2021. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDiggerVermont’s Agency of Education reached a final settlement in two lawsuits seeking to allow public money to pay for tuition at religious schools. A group of families sued the state in 2020, alleging that their children had been discriminated against because they were denied public money to attend religious schools. The suits were largely decided
  
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• After spinal injury, Windsor man created his own robotic leg brace

  04-12-2022 13:59 via vtdigger.org
  
  Kiel Alarcon tries out his motorized leg brace in his Windsor apartment in October. He began building it last year. “The first few times I took a step with it it was like, oh my god, it was weird. But it felt good — not just physically, but I was making progress,” he said. Photo by James M. Patterson/Valley NewsWINDSOR — In 2013, Kiel Alarcon was working as a communication assistant at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and commuted to work daily by bicycle from
  
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• Bill Schubart: Keep private investors away from nonprofits in health care, journalism, corrections

  04-12-2022 13:42 via vtdigger.org
  
  An old stone wall in the Marshfield town forest. File photo by Cate Chant/VTDiggerThe incursion of private-equity investors into nonprofit health care, journalism and corrections is doing untold societal and economic damage in the service of high-speed profiteering.Private equity investors, usually limited partnerships, seek the right mix of equity and debt and typically buy and restructure companies that are not publicly traded. With few regulatory barriers or constraints, they’re in
  
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• Dr. Richard Bernstein: Health care at UVM Medical Center – the long wait

  04-12-2022 13:10 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Richard Bernstein, M.D., of North Ferrisburgh, who practiced family medicine at the Charlotte Family Health Center between 1975 and 2013. During that time, he was an attending physician in the Department of Family Practice at the University of Vermont Medical Center and a clinical assistant professor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, teaching medical students at his office in Charlotte. Back in my pre-retirement days, when I was a practicing family phys
  
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• Don Keelan: Maybe it is time to slow down and take a second look 

  04-12-2022 13:07 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Don Keelan of Arlington, a retired certified public accountant.Recently, numerous media stories have covered the troubles at many of the country’s top tech companies. Christopher Mims’ recent Wall Street Journal piece, “The Myth of the Tech God Is Crumbling,” notes, “America’s biggest tech companies have collectively lost more than $2 trillion in value on the stock market.” Mims notes that things are not going well at Twitter f
  
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• Johnson & Clark: Efficient solar permitting can benefit communities and environment

  04-12-2022 13:04 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Sonia Johnson and Jake Clark, vice presidents of construction and development, respectively, at Encore Renewable Energy in Burlington, which focuses on sustainable and cost-effective community-scale solar and large-scale energy storage projects.The Vermont solar industry can help advance the energy transition away from polluting energy sources and toward clean sources of renewable energy for our state. And in doing so, we can grow our local economy, create jobs and provide
  
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• Norm Vandal: Should Article 22 foe be on House Health Care Committee? No way.

  04-12-2022 13:01 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Norm Vandal, a resident of Roxbury.Voters in the town of Northfield, a place that votes for politicians more like the state of Mississippi than a small town in Vermont, surprisingly voted almost three to one in support of Article 22, an amendment to the Vermont Constitution that guarantees women the right to reproductive health care, and yet, unsurprisingly, they elected two right-wing Republicans to the Vermont House by a combined vote of 70%, one of whom is Anne Donahue.&
  
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• Young Writers Project: First snow

  04-12-2022 12:42 via vtdigger.org
  
  Young Writers Project is a creative online community of teen writers, photographers, and artists, based in Vermont since 2006. Each week, VTDigger features the writing and art of young Vermonters who publish their work on youngwritersproject.org, a free, interactive website for youth 12-18 years old. To find out more, visit youngwritersproject.org, or contact Executive Director Susan Reid at [email protected]; 802-324-9538.“Snow!” by Amelia Van Driesch
  
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