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• Young Writers Project: ‘Kindness, accidentally’

  04-05-2025 13:16 via vtdigger.org
  
  “The Beginning of Life,” by Jaquira Earley, 17, of West RutlandYoung Writers Project is a creative, online community of teen writers and visual artists that started in Burlington in 2006. Each week, VTDigger publishes the writing and art of young Vermonters who post their work on youngwritersproject.org, a free, interactive website for youth, ages 13-19. To find out more, please go to youngwritersproject.org or contact Executive Director Susan Reid at&nb
  
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• Then Again: Ethan and Ira’s Canadian debacles

  04-05-2025 13:13 via vtdigger.org
  
  American General Richard Montgomery was honored with poems, pamphlets, monuments and paintings after his death at the Battle of Quebec in 1775. John Trumbull’s romanticized depiction of Montgomery’s death is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery. Photo via Wikimedia CommonsIf Ethan and Ira Allen had their way, Canada would have been America’s 14th colony. The Allen brothers were hardly alone in pushing to have Canada join the United States. In 1774, delegate
  
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• Secretary Julie Moore and Commissioner Kerrick Johnson: Unfunded laws have only theoretical benefits

  04-05-2025 13:11 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Julie Moore, secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, and Kerrick Johnson, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Service.Vermont’s Global Warming Solutions Act and Climate Superfund Act (Act 122) have created legal mandates, but — so far — the Legislature has not provided the necessary funding for this work. Without action from the Legislature in the near term, it is not clear how these laws can be implemented effectively, with pote
  
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• Sec. Julie Moore and Commissioner Kerrick Johnson: Unfunded laws have only theoretical benefits

  04-05-2025 13:11 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Julie Moore, secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, and Kerrick Johnson, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Service.Vermont’s Global Warming Solutions Act and Climate Superfund Act (Act 122) have created legal mandates, but — so far — the Legislature has not provided the necessary funding for this work. Without action from the Legislature in the near term, it is not clear how these laws can be implemented effectively, with pote
  
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• Leslie Burg: Rutland can’t afford to lose Head Start, or the programs that keep us together

  04-05-2025 13:09 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Leslie Burg of Manchester. She is a community member of the Rutland Head Start Policy Council and an emerita professor of literacy and disabilities at Northeastern University.Rutland is a city that represents the best of what it means to be American: hardworking, community-minded and resilient. But right now, we are facing a crisis that could upend the lives of hundreds of local families — and leave an already stretched community reeling. The Trump administration
  
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• Family’s bookbinding business a page turning story of resistance, resilience

  04-05-2025 13:06 via vtdigger.org
  
  Marianna Holzer demonstrates the bookbinding process with her father’s old tools. Photo by Ian Kreinsen/The CitizenThis story by Ian Kreinsen was first published in The Citizen on May 1.Marianna Holzer leafed through a carefully bound photo book that tells her family’s story.On one side of her family, her Swiss grandfather passed the bookbinding tradition on to his son, who passed it on to her. On the other side, her German mother’s family resisted Hitler’s regime.Today,
  
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• 92% of Vermonters have REAL ID-compliant licenses ahead of national deadline

  04-05-2025 13:03 via vtdigger.org
  
  Travelers move through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ahead of Memorial Day, Friday, May 24, 2024, in Atlanta. Photo by Mike Stewar/APDespite many other states still lagging behind, 92% of Vermonters already have a REAL ID — which will be required under federal law for domestic air travel starting May 7.After the deadline, U.S. air travelers 18 and older will need a REAL ID or another TSA-acceptable form of identification — such as a passport or Enhanced Driver&rsqu
  
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• Ethan Allen has an image problem. Is the internet and present-day polarization to blame?

  04-05-2025 12:48 via vtdigger.org
  
  Ethan Allen, as portrayed in a 1927 advertisement for Ticonderoga pencils. Photo courtesy Vermont Historical SocietyAs Revolutionary War leader of the Green Mountain Boys militia, Ethan Allen had seemingly no sooner captured Fort Ticonderoga from British troops on May 10, 1775, when he put quill pen to parchment to chronicle his effort.“I have,” Allen wrote, “taken the greatest care and pains to recollect the facts and arrange them; but as they touch a variety of characters and
  
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