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• ICE looks to boost staffing at intelligence hubs in Vermont

  19-10-2026 23:43 via VTDigger
  
  Graffiti was visible on the outside of a U.S. Department of Homeland Security building in Williston in Oct. 2025. File photo by Shaun Robinson/VTDiggerU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could hire more workers at its offices in Vermont as part of a $100 million plan to boost intelligence-gathering for the branch of the agency that carries out arrests and deportations, federal records show. The plan, which is not final, calls for 24 positions evenly split between ICE’s Law Enfor
  
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• Portion of I-91 in northern Vermont named for border agent killed in line of duty

  19-10-2026 23:19 via VTDigger
  
  FILE – In this undated and unknown location photo released by the Department of Homeland Security shows Border Patrol Agent David Maland posing with a service dog. (Department of Homeland Security via AP, File)A state panel has approved a measure to name a northern portion of Interstate 91 in honor of David Maland, a U.S. Border Patrol agent who authorities say was shot and killed while conducting a traffic stop on that roadway more than a year ago.The Vermont Transportation Board issued
  
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• Windsor, no longer a prison town, still maintains a connection to people who die in state custody

  19-10-2026 21:52 via VTDigger
  
  Two flat granite stones engraved with the names of men who died while incarcerated at Southern State Correctional Facility are set in the grass at the end of a row of white crosses. Photo by Noel Clark/VTDiggerWINDSOR — Tucked behind a Windsor neighborhood and marked only by a small green-and-white sign sits a nearly 60-acre expanse of the state’s incarceration history going back 150 years.In the shadow of a forested band of pines at the back of Ascutney Cemetery stand four rows of
  
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• PHOTOS: First snowflakes fly around Vermont

  19-10-2026 21:40 via 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 meteorological experience and on-the-ground reporting with photos and videos from across the region.
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• Fewer Vermont retailers are accepting food assistance benefits. Here’s why.

  19-10-2026 21:24 via VTDigger
  
  This commentary is by Johanna Doren, the direct markets and local food access director at the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont. In 2025, 619 Vermont food retailers accepted Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits from customers. By August 2026, just 574 were authorized to do so. Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows that the number of Vermont retailers that can accept SNAP declined during this period at more than double the rate of the previous five
  
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• Rural Vermont needs the young to choose this place

  19-10-2026 20:31 via VTDigger
  
  This commentary is by Neil Ryan, a third-generation Vermont farmer and consultant helping brands and nonprofits in Corinth.Vermont is bleeding its young. A University of New Hampshire poll in July found that almost two-thirds of Vermonters ages 18 to 34 plan to leave this state. In September, Vermont Public asked Vermonters what they’d tell an 18-year-old about building a life here. About half said the young should move away.This is a tragedy. And it is a disgrace. Our state government sh
  
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• What can we do? An answer from Vermont’s premiere theater.

  19-10-2026 18:35 via VTDigger
  
  By Leslie Swackhamer, Executive Director, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and Jay Wahl, Executive Director, the FlynnWe began with an impossibly large question: What is the current state of democracy in America?But underneath it was a smaller and much more personal one: What can we do? What should we do?What can a couple of Vermonters who run a performing arts organization and a playwriting prize do? Some days, hiding under the bed seems like a reasonable option. The world feels frightening. The 2
  
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