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• Lyman Orton: Don’t punish Burr & Burton for its success

  13-12-2025 00:42 via vtdigger.org
  Dear Editor,Among superintendents across Vermont and the establishment in Montpelier, the drumbeat against Burr & Burton Academy in Manchester is becoming more strident and punitive. The chorus demands that the school become a public institution and misleads Vermonters with fallacious charges. There are yowls from that establishment that Burr & Burton costs more.  Nonsense. The tuition rate is the average of all Vermont high schools for the many sending towns surrounding it, accord
  
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• Beta Technologies plans to roughly double its Vermont workforce in the next 18 months

  13-12-2025 00:21 via vtdigger.org
  A Beta Technologies employee works on equipment at the company’s production facility. Photo courtesy of Katherine Levasseur/Beta TechnologiesTheo Wells-Spackman is a Report for America corps member who reports for VTDigger.Beta Technologies has added 300 staff members to its Vermont-based workforce in recent months, and plans to add roughly 1,000 more in the next 18 months, company CEO Kyle Clark told reporters Friday.The announcement comes a month after the electric-aircraft company
  
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• Panels explore new approach to storing spent nuclear fuel

  13-12-2025 00:05 via vtdigger.org
  The deconstruction of the former Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, as seen on Oct. 10, 2023. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThis story by Olga Peters was first published in The Commons on Dec. 9, 2025.VERNON — On a chilly November afternoon, people representing organizations across Windham County filed through the door to Vernon’s Governor Hunt House Community Center. Inside, staff of the Good Energy Collective, a think tank and research organization based in Sacram
  
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• In Vernon, a panel explores a new approach to storing nuclear waste

  13-12-2025 00:05 via vtdigger.org
  The deconstruction of the former Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, as seen on Oct. 10, 2023. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThis story by Olga Peters was first published in The Commons on Dec. 9, 2025.VERNON — On a chilly November afternoon, people representing organizations across Windham County filed through the door to Vernon’s Governor Hunt House Community Center. Inside, staff of the Good Energy Collective, a think tank and research organization based in Sacram
  
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