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• Audit finds more Vermont voters assigned to wrong state House, Senate districts 

  05-12-2025 23:07 via vtdigger.org
  MONTPELIER — An audit of local voter rolls prompted by the error-plagued race for a Vermont House seat in Bennington County last year uncovered 100 more cases across the state in which people had been assigned to vote in the wrong legislative district.As a result, the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office, which conducted the review, is calling for additional checks of town-managed voter rolls each time the state conducts the decennial process of redrawing legislative districts after
  
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• State panel permanently bans ex-deputy sheriff from police work following road rage conviction 

  05-12-2025 22:46 via vtdigger.org
  The Orange County Sheriff’s Department in Chelsea on Aug. 22, 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerA former Orange County Sheriff’s deputy has been permanently banned from working as a law enforcement officer in Vermont nearly three years after he was sentenced to jail following his criminal convictions in a road rage case. The Vermont Criminal Justice Council voted at its most recent meeting last month to take the action against William Pine, according to Christopher Bric
  
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• Former state rep John Morley appointed to Orleans County Senate seat

  05-12-2025 22:39 via vtdigger.org
  John Morley. Photo via the Vermont Public Power Supply Authority websiteJohn Morley, a longtime village of Orleans employee and former state representative, will fill Orleans County’s vacant seat in the Vermont Senate. Gov. Phil Scott announced his appointment in a press release on Friday.Morley replaces Sam Douglass, who resigned in scandal this fall when his involvement in a national Young Republicans group chat replete with racist and bigoted messages was revealed in a Politico ex
  
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• As bitter cold hits Vermont, new shelters open for the first time this season

  05-12-2025 22:31 via vtdigger.org
  Cold settles in on Pearl Street in St. Johnsbury on Jan. 11, 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerTemperatures remain bitterly cold across Vermont after extreme cold hit the region on Thursday.Tyler Danzig, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Burlington, said temperatures dropped into the negative teens on Thursday night, with negative 20s across the central and northern areas of Vermont. Wind chills reached -25 degrees Fahrenheit in parts of Caledonia County and -13 degre
  
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• Tyler Baker: Why Putney is an epicenter of progressive education in America

  05-12-2025 18:20 via vtdigger.org
  Tyler Baker is an assistant professor of history at Landmark College in Putney. He is the author of a forthcoming history of Landmark College, published by the University of Vermont Press.Putney is, on the surface, another rural Southeastern Vermont town, but there is more going on in the town than meets the eye — and has been for nearly a century.  The dirt roads, the rolling hills, and the single general store — they do not give the impression of a place that would reshape Am
  
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• In Lamoille County, property buyout process offers little solace for some flood survivors

  05-12-2025 12:55 via vtdigger.org
  Matt Lacefield surveys the wreckage of his home in Johnson after a flooding event on July 11, 2023. Courtesy photoThis story by Aaron Calvin was first published in News & Citizen on Dec. 4, 2025.Nearly two and a half years ago, Mandy Lacefield and her husband, Matt, woke in the night as dark water seeped into their home in Johnson.Lacefield and Matt, trapped in their home on River Road West overlooking the confluence of the Lamoille and Gihon rivers, had to be evacuated the night the river
  
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• Transitional housing in Vermont, in transition

  05-12-2025 00:18 via vtdigger.org
  
  
  Dinner is served at Dismas House in Burlington on Friday, November 21, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerOver the past few months, VTDigger and Vermont Public reporter Carly Berlin has been looking into the changing landscape of transitional housing in Vermont. We’re excited to be able to share the results of that reporting in this podcast, produced by the Brave Little State team at Vermont Public.Note: Brave Little State is made for the ear. We recommend listening to the audio. We&rsq
  
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