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• Narain Batra: Growth is pushing the Upper Valley to breaking point

  17-01-2026 02:35 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Narain Batra, a professor, historian, journalist and author whose work spans freedom, artificial intelligence, media and geopolitics. The Upper Valley, a most extraordinary economic and cultural heartbeat of the vast twin-state region, is currently at a turning point where outstanding institutional growth is colliding with a bucolic infrastructure that’s pushing against its limits and raising the question of affordability.The colossal footprint of Dartmouth Heal
  
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• Hartford justice center helps people get on their feet after prison

  17-01-2026 00:40 via vtdigger.org
  Isaiah Taylor, of White River Junction, rotates pizzas on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. Taylor is the assistant manager at the LISTEN Dining Hall in White River Junction. Taylor has been helped by the Hartford Community Restorative Justice Center. Photo by Jennifer Hauck/Valley NewsThis story by Sophia Langlois was first published in Valley News on Jan. 13, 2026.WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Isaiah Taylor recalls growing up in Woodsville in an extended family beset by violence and drugs. When he sough
  
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• Final Reading: It’s a bird, it’s a plane — it’s ‘unidentified anomalous phenomena’ Vermont lawmakers want to investigate

  17-01-2026 00:30 via vtdigger.org
  Rep. Troy Headrick, I-Burlington, speaks before the House Government Operations Committee at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Friday, Jan. 16. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerHe started with an apology.“If your inbox looks at all like mine since the introduction of this bill, I think I owe you all an apology,” Rep. Troy Headrick, I-Burlington, told the House Government Operations and Military Affairs Committee.Why had Headrick’s bill — one of more than 600 in play in the H
  
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