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• Trouble in the stacks: Pawlet divided over rehiring of library director and resignation of staff

  25-11-2025 23:51 via vtdigger.org
  Libraries are normally an oasis of calm but the Pawlet Public Library lately has been the center of a yearslong drama.The community rift is centered around a former library director Lyndsi Barnes’ tenure,  which ended in 2023 after the Library Board of Trustees decisively voted to dismiss her. Two years later, the Pawlet Library Board of Trustees voted three to two on Sept. 16 to offer Barnes back her job, the Manchester Journal first reported.At issue is whether Barnes was wrongfull
  
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• Match active: All gifts will be doubled and send 3 meals

  25-11-2025 16:51 via vtdigger.org
  Today, you have the chance to double your impact for Vermont. A family in South Burlington has generously pledged to match all donations up in the final days of  VTDigger’s Thanksgiving Drive. That means your gift today will go twice as far, supporting local journalism and helping send meals through the Vermont Foodbank.
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  Each donation funds the fact-based, independent reporting Vermonters count on and also sends 3 meals to neighbors in need.There are only two
  
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• Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale: Vermont’s return to office order hurts working families

  25-11-2025 13:04 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Sen. Kesha Ram Hinsdale, D-Chittenden Southeast, the Vermont Senate majority leader.
  As a mom of a two-and-a-half-year-old and a one-year-old, I’ve learned the universe laughs at your best-laid plans.When I was pregnant with my first child, Mira, my due date coincided with the last day of session. I imagined triumphantly passing a child care bill on that final day and then being rushed to the hospital.Instead, my water broke seven weeks early. I spent a month in the h
  
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• Community members protest Hannaford grocery chain over migrant labor conditions

  25-11-2025 01:28 via vtdigger.org
  Community members joined immigrant rights advocates and farmworkers on Saturday, Nov. 15 in Morrisville, and called on Hannaford and its Dutch parent company Ahold Delhaize to guarantee rights for workers by joining Migrant Justice’s Milk with Dignity program. Photo by Gordon Miller/News & CitizenThis story by Aaron Calvin was first published in News & Citizen on Nov. 20, 2025.For the second time in just over a year, farm workers and immigrant rights advocates last Saturday s
  
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• Mastermind of murder-for-hire plot sentenced to life despite pleas of innocence 

  25-11-2025 00:10 via vtdigger.org
  Serhat Gumrukcu in 2014. Photo via Instagram
  BURLINGTON — Calling his crimes “brutal” and “brazen,” a judge ordered a former California man to spend the rest of his life behind bars for leading a cross-country murder-for-hire plot that led to the death of a Vermont man.The sentence handed down Monday by Judge Christina Reiss in federal court in Burlington came after 43-year-old Serhat Gumrukcu maintained his innocence and claimed he played no role in the events lea
  
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• In Charlotte, ‘No hunting’ signs cause kerfuffle

  25-11-2025 00:03 via vtdigger.org
  One of the few remaining Posted signs placed around Burn’s Meadow. Photo by Liberty Darr/The CitizenThis story by Liberty Darr was first published in The Citizen on Nov. 20, 2025.“No hunting” signs posted around Charlotte’s 50-acre Burn’s Meadow have stirred contention between an elected official and volunteer, resulting in the co-chair of the trails committee leaving his post after saying he was “harassed” by a selectboard member earlier this month.Jac
  
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