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• Hundreds of layoffs announced at the two largest healthcare networks Vermonters rely on

  15-09-2026 23:37 via vtdigger.org
  
  TeleED hub: Alison Kapadia, MD, and Daryl Holthoff, RN, providing emergency care to patients via the TeleED hub. Photo courtesy of Dartmouth HealthHundreds of layoffs are underway at the two major healthcare networks Vermonters rely on.Facing similar financial challenges, both Dartmouth Health and the University of Vermont Health network announced the cuts Tuesday ahead of the Oct. 1 start to hospitals’ fiscal year. UVM Health is in the process of laying off 199 staffers, according t
  
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• Hundreds of layoffs announced at the 2 largest healthcare networks Vermonters rely on

  15-09-2026 23:37 via vtdigger.org
  
  TeleED hub: Alison Kapadia, MD, and Daryl Holthoff, RN, providing emergency care to patients via the TeleED hub. Photo courtesy of Dartmouth HealthHundreds of layoffs are underway at the two major healthcare networks Vermonters rely on.Facing similar financial challenges, both Dartmouth Health and the University of Vermont Health network announced the cuts Tuesday ahead of the Oct. 1 start to hospitals’ fiscal year. UVM Health is in the process of laying off 199 staffers, according t
  
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• My friend is being crushed for one sentence spoken to a president

  15-09-2026 23:19 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Benjamin Hoffer, an environmental engineering master’s student at École Polytechnique de Paris.On Sept. 8 I traveled to a tribunal in Paris to testify in a criminal case brought on behalf of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, against a 22-year-old student. I never got the chance. I was sequestered with the other nine witnesses, waiting to be called one at a time — and the next thing we knew, the courtroom was emptied. We were physically forced out of
  
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• Stowe man sentenced to life in NEK double murder

  15-09-2026 23:14 via vtdigger.org
  
  The Federal Building in Burlington in Sept. 2025. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerA Stowe man who avoided the death penalty was handed two consecutive life sentences in the 2023 fatal shootings of two men in the Northeast Kingdom.“This crime shocked Vermont in its callousness and left the families of two young men with a grief that will never end,” Vermont State Police Criminal Division Commander Major Ashley Barnes wrote in a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s office
  
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• Prosecutors present gun, cellphone evidence they say links Burlington man to shooting of three Palestinian students

  15-09-2026 22:42 via vtdigger.org
  
  Harry Jeppe, a firearms examiner with the Vermont Forensic Laboratory, testifies in Chittenden Superior criminal court in Burlington on Tuesday, September 15, 2026. Pool photo by Paul Heintz/Boston GlobeBURLINGTON — The state rested its case against the Burlington man accused of shooting and wounding three Palestinian students, presenting law enforcement and forensic witnesses whose testimony prosecutors say tied him to the crimes. The move by the state comes on the second day of the
  
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• Vermont’s largest hospital needs to further cut its revenue and spending next year

  15-09-2026 19:57 via vtdigger.org
  
  The University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington on Monday, November 23, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerUVM Medical Center will need to take on even more austerity measures this coming fiscal year, the Green Mountain Care Board ruled late Monday.The board ordered the hospital to cut what it charges commercial insurers by 4.4%, a $32.4 million decrease from last year. Commercial insurance will bring in $1.054 billion in revenue for the medical center — the majority of the
  
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• The housing fix hiding in Vermont’s spare bedrooms

  15-09-2026 19:42 via vtdigger.org
  
  Dear Editor,Vermont has the highest share of households unable to afford the median-priced new home, according to the National Association of Home Builders, with approximately 92% of its households falling short of the income requirement. So how can Vermont create the housing Vermonters need and can afford and do it promptly? The cost of new construction is prohibitive, and it takes too long because of the time required to design, approve and finance it.Currently, 70% of Vermont households
  
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• VTDigger launches 2026 Vermont general election guide

  15-09-2026 13:18 via vtdigger.org
  
  Illustration by Taylor Haynes/VTDiggerVTDigger has launched its 2026 Election Guide ahead of this year’s general election.There’s no presidential race on the ballot, but all of Vermont’s state and county-level offices, our lone U.S. House seat and two other ballot items are up for Vermonters to vote on. Your vote will determine the balance of power in Montpelier and who occupies Vermont’s highest offices. 
  Go to the Election Guide
  The race for governor between polit
  
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• How to vote in Vermont’s 2026 general election

  15-09-2026 13:18 via vtdigger.org
  
  Vermont’s general election is Tuesday, Nov. 3.There are two ways to vote:
  Early voting by mail or in person, from when ballots are available to Nov. 2.In person at your polling place on Nov. 3. Bring the ballot mailed to you if you have one.
  All U.S. citizens who are residents of Vermont and will be 18 or older for the general election on Nov. 3, 2026, are eligible to register to vote in the election.Voter registrationTo vote in the general election, you must be registered to vote in Verm
  
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• Directed by voices or acting on his own? Mental state of man accused of shooting Palestinian students is focus of trial

  15-09-2026 00:36 via vtdigger.org
  
  Jason Eaton watches as Hisham Awartani arrives to testify in Eaton’s trial inChttenden Superior criminal court in Burlington on Monday, September 14, 2026. Eaton is accused of shooting three Palestinian students, including a now-paralyzed Awartani, in November of 2023. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — An attorney said his client was hearing voices directing him through the radio and was legally insane when he is alleged to have shot and wounded three Palestinian students
  
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• New tech policy takes shape at Lamoille South Supervisory Union

  15-09-2026 00:26 via vtdigger.org
  
  Buses pick up students at the end of the day at the Westford School in Westford on Thursday, April 17, 2025. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThis story by Liberty Darr was first published in the News & Citizen on Sept. 10, 2026.When Stowe parent Molly Triffin Gaines attended “meet the teacher night” for her daughter’s third grade class just ahead of the new school year, she was surprised and thrilled to find that cursive writing was back on the curriculum.Parents acros
  
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