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• Teen food pantry tackles food insecurity

  25-10-2026 15:39 via VTDigger
  
  Stock photo by Antoni Shkraba via PexelsThis story by Sophia Keshmiri was first published in the Addison Independent on Oct. 22, 2026.VERGENNES — Just under a year since Martha DeGraaf and her Commodore Club participants launched a teen food pantry, what was intended to be a supplement for kids in the after-school program has grown into a resource run by those very students for their peers throughout the community. As the cost of food and other basic needs rises, wages fail to keep up with i
  
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• Second-home taxes aren’t fair

  25-10-2026 14:48 via VTDigger
  
  Dear Editor,In our state, we care deeply about community and equity. There is now a clear battle over state identity when it comes to proposals to create a second-home tax. Is Vermont still Vermont if we remove the incentive for second homes? There seems to be a prevailing notion that most second homes belong to wealthy out-of-staters, driving up housing prices and pushing out Vermonters from Vermont. The emotional truth of this tax is to remove these out-of-staters so we can lower costs. 
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• What’s behind the Vermont Catholic Church’s ever-evolving bankruptcy case — and what’s next

  25-10-2026 14:22 via VTDigger
  
  St. Charles Church in Bellows Falls is one of more than 60 Catholic parishes in Vermont. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDiggerLeaders of the Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese said filing for Chapter 11 financial protection in the fall of 2024 promised the church stability amid a rising number of payouts to resolve priest misconduct lawsuits.So why, two years later, is the state’s largest religious denomination seeking to withdraw its request?The church’s explanation remains the same: escalating c
  
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• ‘Anti-homelessness landscaping’ in Middlebury raises questions over approaches to rural encampments

  25-10-2026 13:33 via VTDigger
  
  Middlebury officials placed a layer of uneven rock beneath a bridge where unhoused residents used to camp. Photo by Theo Wells-Spackman/VTDiggerTheo Wells-Spackman is a Report for America corps member who reports for VTDigger.For Josh Simon, who lived outdoors in Middlebury for a time until finding a new place to stay last fall, a spot under the large concrete supports of the town’s Cross Street Bridge had been a frequent resting place. A combination of relative quiet, shelter from the eleme
  
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• Turning tragedy into baskets: One partnership brings conservation and craft together

  25-10-2026 12:56 via VTDigger
  
  Joanne Garton, community forester with the Vermont Urban & Community Forestry Program, in a stand of black ash trees in Hardwick on Sept. 25, 2026. The trees marked with an orange ribbon have been treated with an insecticide, which will help protect it from an emerald ash borer infestation. Photo by Bear Savage/A slab of bark from a recently-harvested black ash tree covered one of the big picnic tables at Atkins Field in Hardwick in late September, where a basketmaking workshop was unfoldin
  
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