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• Brattleboro shelter resident pleads guilty in 2023 killing

  20-10-2026 23:58 via vtdigger.org
  
  Zaaina Mahvish-Jammeh, 42, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder during a hearing at Windham Superior Court, Criminal Division, on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026. Mahvish-Jammeh admitted to killing Leah Rosin-Pritchard, a shelter coordinator with Groundworks Collaborative, on April 3, 2023. Photo by Kristopher Radder/Brattleboro ReformerThis story by Chris Mays was first published in the Brattleboro Reformer on Oct. 20, 2026.BRATTLEBORO — The shelter resident accused of killing shelter coordinat
  
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• What do foul-mouthed candidates think they’re gaining?

  20-10-2026 23:42 via vtdigger.org
  
  Dear Editor,What the heck do the few people running for office who use bad language in public think they gain? I know two things they don’t gain: the admiration of Vermont’s older voters who see that language as shocking or, at the very least, in bad taste. And they don’t gain the admiration of younger voters because even though, unfortunately, they are used to hearing bad language, they don’t say, “Wow, I’d like that person a lot more if they used the F-word
  
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• Vermont experts say bats need our help. How do we get over our fear of them?

  20-10-2026 23:33 via vtdigger.org
  
  Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department staff and TNC partners conduct an annual hibernaculum bat count for a partner university’s white-nose research in 2024. Photo courtesy of Vermont Fish & Wildlife Dept.“There’s some bats in the freezer over there.”That’s what Alyssa Bennett remembers her boss saying to her when she was starting her job as a small-mammal biologist at the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department 15 years ago.Bats are elusive creatures, so whene
  
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• Vermont taxpayers can’t compare school budgets. The state could fix that.

  20-10-2026 22:29 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Matt Rkiouak, founder of Hunger Mountain Intelligence, a growth and automation consultancy for small and mid-sized businesses.Every March, Vermonters vote on school budgets they cannot compare with the district next door. Each district lays out its budget differently. What one district calls “special education shared services” is three separate lines in the next. When a budget goes up, the explanation is a list of pressures: health insurance, special education,
  
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• Lewis M. Holmes

  20-10-2026 01:19 via vtdigger.org
  
  Born: 04/16/1938Troy, New YorkDied: 10/17/2026South BurlingtonDetails of service:Lewis Meredith Holmes lived an engaged life as both a scientist and a humanist, with respect for the mind, the earth and the many people with whom he shared his life. He worked professionally in research, editing and teaching in Europe and the United States.Lewis was born on April 16, 1938, in Troy, New York to Lynn C. and Caroline Kosegarten Holmes and grew up in Fairport, a suburb of Rochester, with older brother
  
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• Local businessman donates $4 million to financially ailing Brattleboro Memorial Hospital

  20-10-2026 00:23 via vtdigger.org
  
  The Brattleboro Memorial Hospital campus on Belmont Avenue. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDiggerBrattleboro Memorial Hospital, seeking to recover from a multimillion-dollar budget deficit, announced Monday that a local businessman has offered a $4 million infusion.Willy Buhlmann, who emigrated from Switzerland in 1970 to found and recently sell his Swiss Precision Turning machine shop, is donating the money to the southeastern Vermont healthcare hub’s depleted investment account, the ho
  
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• Clement “Ted” Meunier

  20-10-2026 00:07 via vtdigger.org
  
  Born: 04/06/1937Burlington, VTDied: 10/12/2026Richford, VTDetails of service:A service to honor Ted’s remarkable life will be held on October 25, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. at the Fairfax United Church in Fairfax, Vermont. Following, there will be a military remembrance held at the Underhill Rod and Gun Club, refreshments provided, starting at 3 p.m.Clement “Ted” Meunier, beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, passed away peacefully on October 12, 2026, with h
  
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