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• Beds are back: Recovery center reopens Vergennes location for people needing low level treatment

  19-12-2025 23:37 via vtdigger.org
  Valley Vista’s headquarters in Bradford. The organization maintains 99 inpatient treatment beds for substance use disorder at two locations in Vermont. Courtesy photoOn Wednesday, Valley Vista reopened the doors of its previously shuttered Vergennes facility and nearly doubled the state’s capacity for low-level substance use residential treatment services. The 27 new beds at the Vergennes location will offer less-intensive treatment for people who do not need around-the clock m
  
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• Federal judge orders release of Afghan trucker detained 104 days in ICE custody

  19-12-2025 23:28 via vtdigger.org
  Enayettullah Walizada and members of his legal team walk out of the Federal Building in Burlington on Friday, December 19, 2025. Walizada, a refugee from Afghanistan, has been released after spending 104 days in detention after being arrested by ICE in Derby Line. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerUpdated at 7:49 p.m.BURLINGTON – An Afghan man held for 104 days without access to counsel or family was released Friday after a federal judge granted bond.A long-haul truck driver living in Oregon
  
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• Afghan man released after 105 days in ICE custody

  19-12-2025 23:28 via vtdigger.org
  Enayettullah Walizada and members of his legal team walk out of the Federal Building in Burlington on Friday, December 19, 2025. Walizada, a refugee from Afghanistan, has been released after spending 105 days in detention after being arrested by ICE in Derby Line. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — An Afghan man held for 105 days without access to counsel or family was released Friday after a federal judge granted bond.A long-haul truck driver living in Oregon, Enayetullah Waliza
  
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• Afghan man released after 104 days in ICE custody

  19-12-2025 23:28 via vtdigger.org
  Enayettullah Walizada and members of his legal team walk out of the Federal Building in Burlington on Friday, December 19, 2025. Walizada, a refugee from Afghanistan, has been released after spending 104 days in detention after being arrested by ICE in Derby Line. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — An Afghan man held for 104 days without access to counsel or family was released Friday after a federal judge granted bond.A long-haul truck driver living in Oregon, Enayetullah Waliza
  
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• Pediatric asthma worsened in Vermont following Canadian wildfires, UVM study finds

  19-12-2025 21:54 via vtdigger.org
  Smoke billows from the Donnie Creek wildfire burning north of Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada on July 2, 2023. File photo by AP Noah Berger/APWhen deciding where to live when beginning her PhD, Anna Maassel was drawn to UVM for Vermont’s relative respite from climate catastrophes. Then, the summer before she moved here, the state was slammed with historic flooding and coated in a hazy smoke from Canadian wildfires. Just over two years after the fires of 2023, Maassel, a docto
  
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• Madeleine Connery: What it feels like to realize your country won’t protect you

  19-12-2025 13:01 via vtdigger.org
  Madeleine Connery is a junior at Brown University and lifelong resident of Shelburne.At 4:05 p.m. on December 13, I received the text that every American student fears yet none predict. My 21-year-old roommate sent a message to our group chat “guys I just ran out of the engineering building there were sounds like gunshots.” Over the course of the next 17 hours, my life unraveled.At 20 years old, I became a school shooting survivor, along with my 7,800 peers who hunkered do
  
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• Centers for children with autism fear proposed Medicaid changes may threaten ability to operate 

  19-12-2025 12:55 via vtdigger.org
  Teachers work with kids at the Bounce ADA Preschool in Essex Junction on Tuesday, Dec. 16. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerTo get himself ready to leave the house each morning, Kingston Emilo goes through a series of to-dos outlined in little pictures on a story board. When he puts his socks on, he moves the velcro square from “To-Do” to “Done.” He repeats the ritual when putting on his shoes, his coat, his backpack. Transitions are hard for the 5-year-old with autis
  
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• Burlington School District reaches $475K settlement in former athletic director’s lawsuit alleging gender pay discrimination

  19-12-2025 00:38 via vtdigger.org
  Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Burlington School District has reached a $475,000 settlement with a former female athletic director who accused the district of gender-based wage discrimination.Jeanne Hulsen, who worked at Burlington High School for 22 years, told VTDigger in a telephone interview that she filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in 2020 after the school district redefined the athletic director position and hired a younger and less experienced man at a starting salary that dwar
  
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