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• Central Vermont Medical Center names new president

  16-07-2026 23:11 via vtdigger.org
  
  The Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin in June 2025. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerCentral Vermont Medical Center has named Marc Kosak, a hospital executive from Connecticut, to serve as its new president and chief operating officer, the hospital announced Wednesday. Kosak plans to start at the Berlin-based medical center on July 20. He most recently served as executive vice president and chief operating officer at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut, and as senior vic
  
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• Shuttered Vermont colleges: reincarnated and repurposed.  

  16-07-2026 22:29 via vtdigger.org
  
  An aerial view of the Everett Mansion at Southern Vermont College in Bennington. Photo by SVC/Wikimedia CommonsWhere do Vermont colleges go when they die? They are resurrected as a Christian school, a luxury resort or an arts hub, if recent developments are any clue.  Facing deaths by a thousand cuts due to declining enrollment, debt and loss of accreditation, seven colleges — Green Mountain College, Southern Vermont College, College of St. Joseph’s, Marlboro College, New
  
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• Vermont faces an emergency blood shortage from summer donation lull

  16-07-2026 22:16 via vtdigger.org
  
  Donors give blood in Rutland, Vt., Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)Alex Blair received so many blood transfusions during her leukemia treatment that she lost count after 100. The Cambridge, Vt., native received multiple types of blood products daily just to survive before her stem cell transplant in 2019.“By the time that you need the blood, you usually feel pretty crappy,” she said. “You kind of feel super tired all the time. And then right after you get th
  
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• When the day job disappears

  16-07-2026 14:54 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Colin McKaig, a retired Vermont schoolteacher, poet and freelance writer.  There is a town in Vermont where people go to cultivate their stories. Some are written, but many are painted or carved from iron and wood. Two of the most stunning that I saw were made from clay. In this time of divisive challenge, creating art is more important than ever.  The Vermont Studio Center, an internationally recognized institution in Johnson, gave me and 29 other Verm
  
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• Expedited judicial process coming to Windham County court

  16-07-2026 01:01 via vtdigger.org
  
  State’s Attorney Steve Brown shows some of the drug evidence with Brattleboro Police Officer Seth Wild as he takes the stand during a trial in August 2024. File photo by Brattleboro ReformerThis story by Chris Mays was first published in the Brattleboro Reformer on July  14, 2026.BRATTLEBORO — Defendants in criminal court in Windham County will soon be resolving cases and receiving immediate services through the Rapid Accountability Docket.“Recidivism can only be reduced
  
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• Ben & Jerry’s Foundation says it will shut down amid legal dispute with parent company

  16-07-2026 00:39 via vtdigger.org
  
  Two patrons enter the Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream shop on Church Street in Burlington. File photo by Charles Krupa/APThe Ben & Jerry’s Foundation says it will shut down at the end of the year after its corporate parent cut off funding and evicted its three staffers Wednesday. The move leaves $600,000 a year in grants to Vermont organizations, and 40 years of the ice cream brand’s progressive mission, hanging on a judge’s future ruling.“This is the other foot dr
  
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