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• After gas station raid, Jeffersonville detainees’ lawyer denied access to clients

  26-11-2025 23:49 via vtdigger.org
  A federal agent wears a badge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Photo by Yuki Iwamura/APThist story by Aaron Calvin was first published in News & Citizen on Nov. 26, 2025.As one of three men detained by immigration police in Jeffersonville on Nov. 7 was granted bond, their lawyer has been denied access to the other two men after allegedly violating Department of Corrections policy around the use of translators.Last Thursday, a virtual bond hearing held in Massachusetts state court mor
  
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• From all of us at VTDigger, a note of gratitude

  26-11-2025 23:25 via vtdigger.org
  Dear Readers,During this time of gratitude, all of us at VTDigger want to say thank you. Thank you for reading, for sharing your tips and perspectives with us and for supporting a newsroom that works every day to help Vermonters understand the world around them. Your trust is the reason we can keep doing this work.Thanksgiving also reminds us how many neighbors may be experiencing the holiday very differently. Food insecurity has continued to rise in Vermont since 2020. The Vermont Foodbank now
  
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• Vermont Conversation: VTDigger Editor-in-Chief Geeta Anand on rebuilding trust through local news

  26-11-2025 23:01 via vtdigger.org
  
  
  VTDigger Editor-in-Chief Geeta Anand speaks during a conversation with David Goodman at the Manchester Community Library in Manchester on Tuesday, November 11, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues. Listen below and subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts.
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• Vermont Conversation: Geeta Anand on rebuilding trust through local news

  26-11-2025 23:01 via vtdigger.org
  
  
  VTDigger Editor-in-Chief Geeta Anand speaks during a conversation with David Goodman at the Manchester Community Library in Manchester on Tuesday, November 11, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues. Listen below and subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts.
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• Sophie Bowater: The Fish & Wildlife Department should give us a seat at the table

  26-11-2025 13:03 via vtdigger.org
  Dear Editor,
  I’m writing in response to VTDigger’s recent article about the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department’s proposal to charge a public access license in recognition of declining hunting, fishing and trapping licenses.I would support this proposal if Fish & Wildlife were also willing to reexamine and reform the outdated and unrepresentative Fish & Wildlife Board. As VTDigger has noted, in this article, S.258 would modernize the Board’s composition and de
  
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• Activist’s surprise $1M gift has Vermont family shelter giving thanks

  26-11-2025 12:52 via vtdigger.org
  Nancy Braus, a longtime Vermont social justice activist, protests outside the Brattleboro post office. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger
  BRATTLEBORO — Activist Nancy Braus has protested nearly a half-century on area streets to tax the rich and feed the poor. But townspeople here still did a double take when they learned she was giving a local family shelter her recent inheritance of $1 million.“It was a bit of a shock and really takes your breath away,” said Chloe Learey,
  
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• Traffic restrictions continue at Quechee Gorge Bridge as project faces further setbacks

  26-11-2025 01:30 via vtdigger.org
  A crew from Harrison and Burrowes Bridge Constructors work to add temporary guard rails to the Quechee Gorge Bridge’s eastbound lane, which is closed for construction, in Quechee on March 27, 2025. Construction resumed on the bridge on March 10. Photo by Alex Driehaus/Valley NewsThis story by Lukas Dunford was first published in Valley News on Nov. 25, 2025.QUECHEE — Traffic on the Quechee Gorge Bridge will continue to be limited to one alternating lane this winter due to delays in
  
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• Federal employee charged with DUI after crash embedded his car in side of Waitsfield building

  26-11-2025 00:43 via vtdigger.org
  A speeding car ran off Main Street, hit a building and embedded itself into the first floor of a second building in Waitsfield in the early hours of Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, authorities said. Photo courtesy of Nicole Alexandra
  A federal employee who drove into two buildings in Waitsfield early Sunday morning was charged with drunken driving and negligent operation of a vehicle, according to Vermont State Police.Eric McCarthy, 45, of Essex, was driving a 2016 3-series BMW that went off the road, h
  
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• Rewilding burial at the Vermont Forest Cemetery

  26-11-2025 00:09 via vtdigger.org
  This story by Will Lindner was first published in The Bridge on Nov. 25, 2025.She lies at the head of a path into the woods, deceased, supported by a low table and swathed in a white shroud adorned with images of nature. A homemade wreath of autumn leaves, ferns and flowers has been placed upon her. Loved ones gather under a gray October sky, their conversation subdued, but not darkened, by the task before them. They are resolute. In a moment they’ll shepherd her — their mother, gra
  
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