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BlueCross BlueShield of VT pulls its proposed lower-cost, higher-deductible health plans

29-06-2026 23:59 via vtdigger.org

BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont headquarters in Berlin, pictured in October 2025. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerBlueCross BlueShield of Vermont has withdrawn a proposal for cheaper insurance plans that it had intended to offer on Vermont Health Connect for 2027.Supporters saw the plans as expanding health insurance options for Vermonters, while critics worried it left people with little coverage and potentially high bills.
Earlier this spring, the state’s largest commercial health i

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Burlington’s Champlain Parkway, a project 60 years in the making, opens to the public

29-06-2026 23:02 via vtdigger.org

Burlington Mayor Emma-Mulvaney-Stanak waves from the passenger seat of a 1965 Ford Mustang driven by Dan Nolin of Georgia during the opening ceremony for the Champlain Parkway in Burlington on Monday, June 29, 2026. Nolin’s Mustang was built in the year the road was conceived of 61 years ago. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — After more than six decades of starts and stops, legal fights and revisions to plans already revised, the final segment of Burlington’s Champla

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Finding our way back to the fireworks

29-06-2026 22:11 via vtdigger.org

This commentary is by Rich LaMonica, a retired U.S. Army veteran, leadership advocate and founder of the podcast The MisFitNation.America turns 250 this Fourth of July. Across Vermont, families will unfold lawn chairs along parade routes. Community bands will tune their instruments on village greens. Volunteer firefighters, veterans groups and civic organizations will make their way down Main Streets. Children will chase candy tossed from floats while neighbors who may not have seen each other

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Plastic in our water isn’t going away

29-06-2026 20:18 via vtdigger.org

Dear Editor:I read the recent commentary in VTDigger by Peggy Stevens, which barely scratches the surface of the issue. We are facing a problem with no solution. Plastics are already in our air, soil and water and will remain there for up to 1,000 years. They are being consumed by every living thing on Earth, from zooplankton in the Arctic to the food we eat. Plastics flow in the ground like ink in water. One only has to look at Bennington — where a former Teflon plant contaminated d

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Imminent closure of Fair Haven manufactured home park leaves residents with few options

29-06-2026 12:01 via vtdigger.org

Hope Turi resides in the Green Mountain Mobile Manor in Fair Haven. Seen on Wednesday, June 17, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThis story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.FAIR HAVEN — When Hope Turi moved her family into a manufactured home at the Green Mountain Mobile Manor one year ago, it felt like everything clicked right into place. Turi’s family of seven had been living in northe

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