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• The saga of a sweet turnip

  30-10-2026 21:51 via VTDigger
  
  A turnip dressed as a baby seen as it vies for “best dressed” in theTurnip Contest during the Gilfeather Turnip Festival in Wardsboro on Saturday, October 24, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerJess Shapiro sports a turnip cap during the Gilfeather Turnip Festival in Wardsboro on Saturday, October 24, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerPatrons line up for turnip-based offerings at the Turnip Cafe during the Gilfeather Turnip Festival in Wardsboro on Saturday, October 24, 2026. Photo by
  
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• Community nurse programs are getting a lot of airtime this election. Here’s how they work.

  30-10-2026 21:40 via VTDigger
  
  Hartford Community Nurse Katie Williams talks with Joan Ponzoni in Jan. 2025, at the Bugbee Senior Center in White River Junction. File photo by Jennifer Hauck/Valley NewsJodi Hoyt’s office is a nurse’s bag and an accordion file folder in a rainbow of colors.She totes those items from house to house while checking on patients in her role as the community nurse for the towns of Chelsea and Tunbridge. It’s a role that’s gotten a fair amount of airtime recently as the Democratic/Progressi
  
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• Tax the rich to spare the rest of us

  30-10-2026 21:15 via VTDigger
  
  Dear Editor,There is one single, fundamental issue underlying the election next week, and many people speak a partial truth about it: Our taxes are too high. Agreed; for most Vermonters, they are.  But some people’s taxes are too low. The wealthiest among us have not paid their fair share to properly support our society in generations, if ever. Not in Vermont, and not in the U.S.  According to data from the Vermont Department of Taxes, the number of Vermont income tax filers earning more
  
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• Pranks, parties and prognostication: The history of Halloween in Vermont

  30-10-2026 21:13 via VTDigger
  
  A postcard postmarked Oct. 31, 1921, in Burlington. The reverse side includes a woman’s note to a friend, reminiscing about the Halloween pranks they’d done the year before. Courtesy of Elizabeth A. AllenThis story by Kyle Neece was first published by Community News Service, a University of Vermont journalism internship, on Oct. 29, 2026.On Halloween, Vermonters will don costumes and hand out candy as the phrase “Trick or treat!” will be repeated many times over.But decades ago, typical
  
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• High schoolers start podcast to center young transgender Vermonters

  30-10-2026 20:59 via VTDigger
  
  Rafaela Botti, second from right, host of the “Transmission of Truth”podcast, speaks during a podcast release celebration at Outright Vermont in Burlington on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — The voice of Ace, a 15-year-old transgender Vermonter, broadcasted through a large speaker to a room of about 40 people gathered to listen to a group rarely heard from: trans youth. “In middle school I would be scared to go to school every day. I would be wo
  
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• Voter voices from Milton’s Bombardier Park

  30-10-2026 20:32 via VTDigger
  
  Bombardier Park in Milton as seen on Oct. 29, 2026. Photo by Charlotte Oliver/VTDigger.MILTON — Troves of adults clutching soccer balls and sporting T-shirts came and went from Bombardier Park on a warm Sunday afternoon. Ahead of the Nov. 3 election, those out for a stroll or showing up for a game shared how they plan to vote. Shosawna Mastin, 43, of Milton, said she plans to vote in person next week because she doesn’t believe in mail-in voting. Mastin, who works doing highway constructio
  
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