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• Carolyn Van Vleck: How ideology helped derail Burlington

  29-12-2025 22:52 via vtdigger.org
  Dear Editor,I am honestly astonished that Burlington, our former Queen City, is now demanding help from the state to clean up its own mess. What went wrong? Too many bad decisions by local government, driven by ideology rather than common sense.I’ve lived in the Burlington area several times and worked on Church Street. It was once a great city — a wonderful place to people-watch, shop and eat. Vermont has always been expensive, and I don’t begrudge anyone who wants to move he
  
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• Vermont Department of Corrections staff vote to stay with state employees union

  29-12-2025 22:43 via vtdigger.org
  A security and operations supervisor at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington on Aug. 27, 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerVermont Department of Corrections staff will stick with their existing union. Prison workers and probation and parole staff voted 132-116 to stay with the Vermont State Employees’ Association rather than join the National Correctional Employees Union, which represents more than 50 local branches in the Northeast and Mid-Atlant
  
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• Year ends in ice, outages and tricky travel    

  29-12-2025 22:38 via vtdigger.org
  A town plow keeps roads clear in Underhill during an ice and rain storm on Monday, Dec. 29. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerVermonters woke up Monday to roads covered in ice and sleet, thousands of homes without power and warnings that conditions may persist overnight.      Burlington-based National Weather Service Meteorologist Conor Lahiff said northern and central Vermont east of the Green Mountains were hit hardest by the ice storm and outages. The western porti
  
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• Triple your impact for Vermont news before year’s end

  29-12-2025 21:58 via vtdigger.org
  VTDigger’s Shaun Robinson and Ethan Weinstein at an event with historian Jill Lepore at the Manchester Community Library on Thursday, September 5, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerDear Reader,VTDigger relies on reader support to fund the nonprofit reporting Vermonters depend on. As we close out 2025, we’re working to reach our year-end goal by New Year’s Eve.Right now, your gift in any amount up to $500 will be tripled by a group of generous Vermont donors. 
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• Vermont’s agriculture exports to China surge 80%, defying U.S. trade slump

  29-12-2025 21:50 via vtdigger.org
  Paul Doton, left, talks with milk truck driver Dewey Fischer, of K. Pope and Sons, right as he unloads the bulk tank at Doton’s Barnard dairy farm on Wednesday, Dec. 24. Doton ships his milk to the Agri-Mark’s cheese plant in Middlebury and is on the milk co-op’s board of directors. Vermont agricultural producers have bucked a trend of declining export income from China with an increase of just over $2.5 million in the first eight months of 2025 over the previous year. The inc
  
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• Economic development leader hit with embezzlement charge

  29-12-2025 21:04 via vtdigger.org
  Melissa Bounty. Photo courtesy of Central Vermont Economic Development CorporationThe former executive director of the Central Vermont Economic Development Corporation has been charged with embezzling more than $70,000 from the organization. Melissa Bounty, 42, of Waitsfield, is expected to appear in Washington County Superior criminal court on Jan. 15 for an arraignment on the felony charge, according to a Saturday press release from the Montpelier Police Department.The charge against Bou
  
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• To hasten housing permits, lawmakers consider moving appeals out of a courtroom 

  29-12-2025 12:53 via vtdigger.org
  Contstruction of a housing development on Park Road in South Burlington seen on Monday, Dec. 15. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThis story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.Thirty-two new homes will soon be built adjacent to a nature preserve in South Burlington — but only after a drawn-out legal battle launched by neighbors stalled the project for three years. Shortly after the developers secured
  
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