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• It’s lights out on Tomasi Meadow

  03-12-2025 23:55 via vtdigger.org
  Back country skiing in Stowe’s Sterling Valley. Photo by Wilson Ring/APTomasi Meadow, a wide field at the base of Mount Mansfield, is beloved by Underhill residents.  It’s so popular that in October, the Mansfield Nordic Club, a ski group that voluntarily grooms  the trails, asked: Why not make it better by adding lights that could extend the hours along the trail two evenings a week? Not so fast. Dozens of people turned up at an October town meeting about the lights
  
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• Vermont Conversation: Israel banished a rabbi’s daughter. Now they’re both speaking out.

  03-12-2025 22:59 via vtdigger.org
  
  
  Leila Stillman-Utterback. Courtesy photoThe 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.Leila Stillman-Utterback graduated from Middlebury Union High School in June and decided to take a gap year to pursue a dream. The 18-year-old Vermonter traveled to Israel to participate in a solidarity program that i
  
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• Vermont Conversation: A Vermont Jewish student banished from Israel speaks out

  03-12-2025 22:59 via vtdigger.org
  
  
  Leila Stillman-Utterback. Courtesy photoThe 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.Leila Stillman-Utterback graduated from Middlebury Union High School in June and decided to take a gap year to pursue a dream. The 18-year-old Vermonter traveled to Israel to participate in a solidarity program that i
  
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• Vermont Conversation: A Jewish student banished from Israel and her mother, a rabbi, speak out

  03-12-2025 22:59 via vtdigger.org
  
  
  Leila Stillman-Utterback. Courtesy photoThe 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.Leila Stillman-Utterback graduated from Middlebury Union High School in June and decided to take a gap year to pursue a dream. The 18-year-old Vermonter traveled to Israel to participate in a solidarity program that i
  
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• Dreaming big, diving deep: Ailyn Langley’s road to college

  03-12-2025 17:39 via vtdigger.org
  Raised in the hills of rural West Fairlee, Ailyn Langley has always gravitated toward nature—woods, water, and everything in between. As she grew older, her interest turned seaward, sparked by a school trip to the Boston Aquarium with her class at Rivendell High School. Her job in the fish and reptile department at the West Lebanon Aquarium Center deepened that curiosity.Now a first-year student at Dartmouth College, Ailyn hasn’t declared her major quite yet—but time around sa
  
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• Mary E Brace

  03-12-2025 15:45 via vtdigger.org
  Born Aug. 31, 1931Hinesburg, VermontDied May 27, 2025Berlin, VermontDetails of servicesServices were private per her wishes.  She is buried in Resurrection Park next to her husband Ruford in South Burlington VT.Mary was the eldest daughter of Earl Emmons Sr. And Mary Conway Emmons of Hinesburg VT. She married Ruford L Brace of Starksboro VT December 23, 1949. Ruford pre deceased her on February 1, 1996. Together they owned a dairy farm in Starksboro then started an angus beef farm, Braces
  
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• Montpelier’s acting city manager resigns in the middle of search for new city manager

  03-12-2025 14:45 via vtdigger.org
  Acting City Manager Kelly Murphy speaks during a city council meeting. ORCA screenshotThis story by Cassandra Hemenway was first published in The Bridge on Dec. 1, 2025.With the Monday announcement that Montpelier’s Acting City Manager Kelly Murphy is leaving her role by the end of the year, the urgency has picked up for the City Council to fill the vacancy left by long-time City Manager Bill Fraser, who’s 30-year tenure ended in June.The council has plans to announce finalists for
  
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• Rep. Troy Headrick: In response to the recent opinion piece, ‘Respect the process, honor the people’

  03-12-2025 13:04 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Rep. Troy Headrick, I-Burlington, sponsor of H.362, a bill relating to State recognition of Native American tribes and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.In response to the piece “Respect the process, honor the people” —The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is not an optional or peripheral document. It is the global consensus on how governments must engage with Indigenous peoples when decisions involve their lands, histor
  
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• Data breach at Dartmouth College exposes personal information of 40,000 people

  03-12-2025 00:28 via vtdigger.org
  A student walks on the campus of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, on March 5, 2024. Photo by Robert F. Bukaty/APThis story by Clare Shanahan was first published in the Valley News on Dec. 1, 2025.HANOVER — More than 40,000 people in Vermont and New Hampshire may have been impacted by a data breach in a system used by Dartmouth College. Last week, Dartmouth started mailing letters to the people whose personal information was included in data stolen over three days in early
  
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• Hartford’s Mike Hoyt appointed to vacant House seat in Windsor County 

  03-12-2025 00:15 via vtdigger.org
  Mike Hoyt. Courtesy photoMike Hoyt, a Hartford selectboard member, will fill a vacant House seat representing Barnard, Bridgewater and Pomfret, as well as part of Hartford. Gov. Phil Scott announced the appointment Tuesday. Hoyt replaces Heather Surprenant, a Barnard Democrat who stepped down in September, according to a press release from Scott’s office. In an interview on Tuesday, Hoyt, who lives in West Hartford, said he was excited to build on his prior experience working in
  
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• Trump administration sues Vermont secretary of state for failing to turn over voter data

  03-12-2025 00:04 via vtdigger.org
  Secretary of State Sarah Copeland-Hanzas at the Statehouse in Montpelier on June 18, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Trump administration has taken Vermont’s secretary of state to court, asking a federal judge to force the state to turn over information on registered voters. Filed on Monday in Vermont’s U.S. District Court, the lawsuit argues Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas violated federal election law when she refused to share registered voters’ addres
  
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