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• Barre wins flood recovery funds for long-awaited North End housing

  15-10-2026 23:13 via VTDigger
  
  The playground at Wobby Park in Barre City’s North End will be redeveloped into 17 townhomes. Photo by David Littlefield / Vermont Public
  Carly Berlin covers housing and infrastructure for Vermont Public, in partnership with VTDigger.A few months after flooding devastated Barre City in 2023, Gov. Phil Scott unveiled a bold vision for redeveloping his hometown. Buildings near the river in the city’s hard-hit North End neighborhood would be demolished and converted back to a floodplai
  
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• Expenses for EB-5 mop-up total $14 million as judge OKs $1 million more in fees

  15-10-2026 22:54 via VTDigger
  
  Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver in the EB-5 fraud case, speaks at a Statehouse news conference in 2017. File photo by Michael Dougherty/VTDiggerMore than $14 million in legal and financial expenses have been rung up over 10 years since the largest investor fraud scandal in Vermont’s history, according to an Oct. 9 court filing by the receiver overseeing properties in the Northeast Kingdom that were engulfed in the scheme.Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver, submi
  
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• Expenses for EB-5 mop up total $14 million as judge OKs $1 million more in fees

  15-10-2026 22:54 via VTDigger
  
  Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver in the EB-5 fraud case, speaks at a Statehouse news conference in 2017. File photo by Michael Dougherty/VTDiggerMore than $14 million in legal and financial expenses have been rung up over 10 years since the largest investor fraud scandal in Vermont’s history, according to an Oct. 9 court filing by the receiver overseeing properties in the Northeast Kingdom that were engulfed in the scheme.Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver, submi
  
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• Don’t pour more money into a broken healthcare system

  15-10-2026 22:28 via VTDigger
  
  Dear Editor,Every attempt at public involvement in healthcare in Vermont in the last 25 years has not only failed, but left Vermont with some of the highest-cost healthcare and insurance in the world — though not the best outcomes.The public explanations for this situation appear to be tired bull: We are older and sicker and get less money from the government. Until we can publicly explain this train wreck and get some accountability, I would be extraordinarily reluctant to shovel more mo
  
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• After a stormy week, cold arrives and much of Vermont passes peak foliage

  15-10-2026 22:15 via VTDigger
  
  Fallen leaves cover a picnic table in Jericho Center on Wednesday, October 14, 2026. . Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
  This year, VTDigger is teaming up with Henry’s Weather Channel to help answer the annual question of when and where peak foliage will make its appearance across the state.Each week, we’ll bring you an updated look at how foliage is unfolding statewide, paired with a weekend forecast, so you can plan your drive, hike or porch-sitting accordingly. Henry brings meteoro
  
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• Vermont’s land laws should incentivize people who heal the land

  15-10-2026 21:26 via VTDigger
  
  This commentary is by Ben Falk, a land planner and the founder of Whole Systems Design. He lives in Moretown.“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community,” the conservationist Aldo Leopold wrote in “A Sand County Almanac,” his classic account of restoring a worn-out Wisconsin farm. For 25 years, I’ve tried to put Leopold’s “land ethic” into practice at my beat-up, abandoned sheep pas
  
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• English programs face rising anxiety amid fears of immigration enforcement

  15-10-2026 20:15 via VTDigger
  
  Helene Rassias-Miles, Executive Director of the Rassias Center for World Languages and Cultures, leads a training session with her team while refining future lesson plans in Hanover, Nh., on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. Photo by Sophia Sahni/Valley NewsThis story by Sophia Sahni first appeared in the Valley News on Oct. 12, 2026.Across the Upper Valley, a network of free English language learning programs serves immigrants at every level.In Hanover, New Hampshire, the Supporting Refugees Club, crea
  
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• Robert A. Burley, FAIA

  15-10-2026 00:25 via VTDigger
  
  Born: 12/11/1927Buffalo, New YorkDied: 09/23/2026Shelburne, VermontDetails of service:There will be a memorial event to honor Bob’s life at the Mad River Glen Basebox on Saturday, October 24, at 2:00 p.m. All are welcome. Please bring memories and stories to share.Bob Burley read The New York Times nearly every day of his adult life, and would have appreciated us starting in Times style:Robert A. “Bob” Burley, a longtime resident of Waitsfield, who started his brilliant 60-yea
  
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