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• Young Writers Project: ‘Words slipping through my grasp’

  12-05-2024 14:01 via vtdigger.org
  
  “A Library of Secrets,” by Ace Lafountain, 16, of Montpelier
  Young Writers Project is a creative online community of teen writers, photographers and artists, which has been 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 12- to 18-year-olds. To find out more, visit youngwritersproject.org, or contact Executive Director Susan Reid at sreid@youngwritersp
  
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• Stowe Mountain Resort reaches parking lot agreement after lengthy appeal

  12-05-2024 14:01 via vtdigger.org
  
  Stowe Mountain Resort. File photo by the Stowe Reporter
  This story by Tommy Gardner was first published in the Stowe Reporter on May 9.Two years after Stowe zoning officials denied Stowe Mountain Resort a permit for a 286-space parking lot and neighbors to the proposed site opposed it, the sides have come to an agreement that essentially splits the difference.A settlement reached in Vermont Environmental Court on March 14 will allow the resort to construct a 150-space paved parking lot in its H
  
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• Bill Schubart: Can we get our legislative act together?

  12-05-2024 13:02 via vtdigger.org
  
  I don’t know whether it’s the natural wariness of Vermont’s early immigrants who succeeded the native peoples who had foraged and hunted here for millennia but were largely driven north into Canada by the colonial newcomers, or whether it was the Milton Friedman neoliberalism that swept American politically when Reagan came to power in 1981 and told us that government itself was the problem, not the solution, but Vermonters seem to have a natural wariness of government. Vermont
  
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• This soup kitchen volunteer is feeding more people than ever. Those being served aren’t who you’d think.

  12-05-2024 12:01 via vtdigger.org
  
  Carolyn Pieciak is the retiring founding leader of St. Brigid’s soup kitchen in Brattleboro. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger
  BRATTLEBORO — Carolyn Pieciak can tell you how she made peanut butter, jelly and Fluff sandwiches for her son, state Treasurer Mike Pieciak, long before he sunk his teeth into Vermont’s financial ledgers.But the 78-year-old Brattleboro resident would rather chew over the smorgasbord of meals she has coordinated as founding leader of one of this re
  
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• Rep. Michelle Bos-Lun: Vermont has a state mushroom!

  12-05-2024 12:01 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Rep. Michelle Bos-Lun, D-Westminster. She is a second-term state representative for Westminster, Rockingham and Brookline. She is a teacher, gardener, hiker and forager. She enjoys discovering, photographing, cultivating and cooking mushrooms.
  Vermont has a new state symbol: Hericium americanum, also known as bear’s head tooth, a white, long-toothed mushroom indigenous to Vermont. Students from kindergarten through eighth grade helped move forward this legislation to
  
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• Phil Scott to seek 5th term as governor

  12-05-2024 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  
  Gov. Phil Scott speaks during his weekly press conference at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Wednesday April 3, 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
  Gov. Phil Scott isn’t ready to hang up his hat.In a press release issued Saturday evening, the four-term Republican governor announced that he will seek another two-year term in this year’s election cycle. Throughout his political career, the 65-year-old Berlin resident has staked out a position as a moderate Republican. As g
  
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