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• New legal opinion complicates Saturday vote on shuttering high school grades in Danville

  04-12-2025 22:53 via vtdigger.org
  The Danville School, seen on Tuesday, Oct. 7. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerSaturday’s referendum on whether to shutter high school grades at Danville School cannot compel the Danville School board to move forward with closure, according to a legal opinion the Caledonia Central Supervisory Union received Tuesday.The opinion, sent to Superintendent Matt Foster just days before a controversial vote to end Danville School’s high school grades, makes the results of Saturday’s tow
  
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• Brattleboro hospital projects $14.5M shortfall in current budget

  04-12-2025 21:46 via vtdigger.org
  The Brattleboro Memorial Hospital campus on Belmont Avenue. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDiggerBRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is projecting to end its current budget with a $14.5 million operating loss, potentially extending a string of annual shortfalls since 2020.“This is not the budget outcome we had hoped for,” Elizabeth McLarney, one of two acting co-CEOs, said in a written statement Thursday.The 500-worker hospital, the main health care provider for about
  
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• Act 73 explained: 10 things to know about Vermont’s education reform law

  04-12-2025 21:11 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont’s new education reform law, Act 73, sets in motion a multi-year effort to restructure how the state funds and governs its public schools. During a live conversation on Dec. 2, 2025, I sat down with VTDigger education reporter Corey McDonald to hear him break down the new law and answer reader questions about what it all means.
  Below is the full recording of our conversation and a summary of ten key points Vermonters should know. Watch the full recordingTen key takeaways1. Why
  
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• Internal affairs probe finds fellow Rutland officers violated policies in 2023 pursuit that killed new recruit

  04-12-2025 17:42 via vtdigger.org
  A procession travels under a huge U.S. flag as it arrives for the funeral for Rutland City Police Officer Jessica Ebbighausen in Castleton on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerAn internal affairs investigation into the actions of police in a motor-vehicle pursuit that resulted in the death of a young officer was “preventable” if police had followed proper procedures, recent court documents show. A Salisbury man driving the vehicle being pursued faces a murder ch
  
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• Bernie Gracy:  AI can be Vermont’s advantage

  04-12-2025 13:04 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Bernie Gracy. He is a technology executive who splits his time between Hollis, New Hampshire  and Averill, Vermont,  where he also serves as president of the Averill Lakes Association.Last month I attended my second “Rumble in the Kingdom” pitch competition — the annual gathering where entrepreneurs, students, technologists, community leaders and outdoor-industry innovators come together in the Northeast Kingdom to compete for seed funding. In a
  
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• ‘A costly unforced error’: Vermont Legislature’s top economist slams Trump’s trade war

  04-12-2025 00:45 via vtdigger.org
  MONTPELIER — The Vermont Legislature’s top economist called President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada and Trump’s disparaging rhetoric toward the country a “costly unforced error” that is putting pressure on the state’s budget at an already challenging time.Tom Kavet was speaking to members of the Vermont House and Senate at a briefing Wednesday in Montpelier on some of the major issues legislators will face when they reconvene for the 2026 legisla
  
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• Norwich farmers market secures approval for permanent all-season structure

  04-12-2025 00:31 via vtdigger.org
  An artist’s rendering of the proposed building for the new Norwich farmer’s market. Image courtesy of the Upper Valley Agricultural AssociationThis story by Clare Shanahan was first published in Valley News on Nov. 28, 2025.NORWICH — The town has granted permission to a nonprofit to build a permanent all-season structure for the Norwich Farmer’s Market on a property across Route 5 from the market’s current location.The Norwich Development Review Board approved
  
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