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• Young Writers Project: ‘The Brave’

  18-01-2026 12:55 via vtdigger.org
  “Above the Clouds,” by Juniper Franks, 14, of FairfieldYoung Writers Project is a creative, online community of teen writers and visual artists that started in Burlington in 2006. Each week, VTDigger publishes the writing and art of young Vermonters who post their work on youngwritersproject.org, a free, interactive website for youth, ages 13-19. To find out more, please go to youngwritersproject.org or contact Executive Director Susan Reid at srei
  
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• Hinesburg and new police union agree to three-year contract

  18-01-2026 12:54 via vtdigger.org
  The Hinesburg Community Police Department seen on Thursday, February 20, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThis story by Briana Brady was first published in The Citizen on Jan. 15, 2026.The Hinesburg police union, recognized by the town last June, has officially inked a contract with the town of Hinesburg.The contract, which will go into effect in July, is set to last until June 2029 and outlines a slew of worker protections and benefits along with a step system for annual pay raises. The co
  
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• Hinesburg and new police union agree to 3-year contract

  18-01-2026 12:54 via vtdigger.org
  The Hinesburg Community Police Department seen on Thursday, February 20, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThis story by Briana Brady was first published in The Citizen on Jan. 15, 2026.The Hinesburg police union, recognized by the town last June, has officially inked a contract with the town of Hinesburg.The contract, which will go into effect in July, is set to last until June 2029 and outlines a slew of worker protections and benefits along with a step system for annual pay raises. The co
  
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• Capping a historic career, Stratton-trained skier Jessie Diggins is anything but retiring

  18-01-2026 12:53 via vtdigger.org
  Jessie Diggins meets with members of the Bill Koch Youth Ski League this past summer at Stratton Mountain. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger
  Many teenagers wallpaper their bedrooms with pinups of hot celebrities. Jessie Diggins, the most-awarded U.S. cross-country skier in history, instead tacked up an “Endless Winter” poster of a less-recognized hero: Vermonter Bill Koch, the first American Nordic racer to win an Olympic medal.“He looked like he was having fun,” Di
  
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• In Lamoille, school enrollment projected to decline by decade’s end

  18-01-2026 12:50 via vtdigger.org
  The one-room Elmore School. Courtesy photoThis story by Patrick Bilow was first published in News & Citizen on Jan. 15, 2026.A study commissioned by the Lamoille South Supervisory Union predicts that school enrollments in Stowe, Morristown and Elmore will decline 10% by the 2030 school year, reflecting trends in rural towns throughout Vermont as the state ages and grows increasingly expensive.At recent Stowe and Elmore-Morristown school board meetings, Lamoille South Supervisory Union Super
  
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• Emilie Tenenbaum and Sharron Harrington: Why Vermont must stay committed to child care

  18-01-2026 12:00 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Emilie Tenenbaum, the executive director of Let’s Grow Kids Action Network, and Sharron Harrington, the executive director of the Vermont Association for the Education of Young Children.Across political lines and communities, most Vermonters agree that young families should be able to afford to live and work here. The good news is that the long-term investments in child care arising from Act 76 (Vermont’s landmark child care law passed in 2023) are moving
  
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