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• Jerry Ward and John Bossange: Hijacking the abundance myth

  03-01-2026 00:35 via vtdigger.org
  Jerry Ward lives in Randolph and is a retired physician. John Bossange lives in South Burlington and is a retired school principal. Both serve on the Board of Directors of Better (Not Bigger) Vermont.The panic stirred up by some of our leaders regarding the so-called housing crisis appears to be rooted in a loosely defined abundance narrative that has been adopted to justify rapid growth without fully accounting for its consequences.Recent commentaries published in VTDigger by Julie Moore, secr
  
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• Waterbury’s former dairy farm owners struggle to move on

  03-01-2026 00:30 via vtdigger.org
  George Woodard now raises beef cattle after closing his Waterbury dairy operation of 48 years. Photo by Sarah Andrews.Sarah Andrews is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program.
  WATERBURY — For 48 years, George Woodard woke up before dawn and milked his cows. His day would end the same way, in his barn with the herd. For many of those years, Woodard’s 200-acre farm was booming. Now, the
  
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• Ludlow police chief ID’d as shooter of man allegedly armed with knife in New Year’s Day incident

  03-01-2026 00:13 via vtdigger.org
  Ludlow Police Chief Jeffrey Warfle shot and injured a man on New Year’s Day after the man allegedly pulled a knife at a downtown hotel where he had been living, according to Vermont State Police. The wounded man, Jaime Gomez, 18, was taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, where he was continuing to receive care, Vermont State Police said in a press release Friday.Ludlow Police Chief Jeffrey Warfle. Courtesy Vermont State Police.State police, who are he
  
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