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• Hermitage Club seeks to use loan to avert foreclosure

  02-05-2018 20:02 via vtdigger.org
  The Hermitage Club in Wilmington. Photo by Kristopher Radder/Brattleboro ReformerThis story by Chris Mays was published by the Brattleboro Reformer on May 1.
  NEWFANE — A court will decide whether a receiver will be appointed to run the Hermitage Club in response to a foreclosure filing, or if the company can use a $26 million loan it says it has been offered to continue operations and pay off its debt.RELATED STORIESLawyer seeks to withdraw as Hermitage counselBank moves to appoint a recei
  
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• Feds approve $31.7 million in disaster aid for flood-hit Vermont farmers

  11-06-2026 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  
  The flooded greenhouse at the New Farms for New Americans farm in the Intervale. File photo by Hannah Cho/VTDiggerVermont farmers impacted by sweeping floods in 2023 and 2024 will receive more than $30 million in specialized relief funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the office of U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., confirmed Wednesday. In a Senate committee hearing Wednesday with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Welch asked for an update on the status of the more than $62 mill
  
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• Vermont’s media has a rural blind spot

  10-06-2026 23:43 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Neil Ryan, a third-generation Vermont farmer and consultant helping brands and nonprofits in Corinth. A cross-partisan grassroots movement of many thousands rises from nowhere, forces the reversal of large parts of a gargantuan law months before its rules take effect, and offers a hyper-articulate set of underrepresented economic, cultural and policy interests. In an objective newsroom, that is the story of the year. At Vermont Public, VTDigger and Seven Days, coverag
  
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• ‘Like Christmas’: For Vermont’s Congolese community, a historic World Cup bid is cause for celebration

  10-06-2026 23:14 via vtdigger.org
  
  Muyisa Mutume, owner of the M Square Market in Winooski, is rooting for the Leopards soccer teams of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the upcoming World Cup. Seen on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerWINOOSKI — Muyisa Mutume’s neighborhood grocery store here is always stocked with food and drinks popular in his native Congo. But in recent months, he’s also been selling something else: soccer jerseys.That’s because, for the first time in more than h
  
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• Vermont Conversation: Are smartphones birth control? Economist Caitlin Myers on sex, abortion access and talking across divides

  10-06-2026 22:45 via vtdigger.org
  
  The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues. Listen and subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts.Caitlin Myers is the John G. McCullough Professor of Economics at Middlebury College. Courtesy photoThe birth rate in the U.S. has dropped by an astonishing 22% since 2007. Are smartphones to blame?Yes, according to a groundbreaking new study by Middlebury econom
  
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• Facing hard truths is the only way to save Vermont’s rural schools

  10-06-2026 16:38 via vtdigger.org
  
  Dear Editor,The challenges facing Vermont voters who believe in the value of public education are many. Vermont has many small, remote schools, and the population of school-age children and tax-paying parents is decreasing. The burden from income tax, sales tax and property tax hits everyone hard.But the education problem is also a housing and healthcare problem. Housing is scarce and expensive, and health insurance premiums are among the highest in the country.There are no easy or quick soluti
  
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• Marjorie Sugar

  10-06-2026 15:56 via vtdigger.org
  
  Born: 09/14/1942Danvers, MADied: 05/30/2026Hanceville, ALDetails of service:A service and shiva was held on June 2 in Birmingham, Alabama.With great sadness, we announce the passing of Marjorie Suanne Sugar, who died on May 30, 2026, at the age of 83. Margy grew up in the greater Washington, DC area, followed by 30 years in Vermont (Brattleboro, Johnson and Jericho), and finally 25 years in Birmingham, Alabama.Marjorie was preceded in death by her beloved parents, Samuel J. Sugar and Naomi V. S
  
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• Vermont Green FC plays Canada’s national soccer team in World Cup tuneup

  10-06-2026 12:45 via vtdigger.org
  
  Vermont Green FC plays a friendly match against the Canadian men’s national soccer team on June 6 in Montreal ahead of the 2026 World Cup. Photo courtesy of Vermont Green FCVermont Green FC, a semi-professional soccer club based in Burlington, played the Canadian men’s national team in a pre-FIFA World Cup scrimmage Saturday. The game, held in Montreal, served as one of Canada’s final training sessions before competing in this year’s World Cup, which starts Thursday
  
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• Vermont students are losing a critical learning tool

  09-06-2026 23:30 via vtdigger.org
  
  Dear Editor,As a reading interventionist at a Vermont public middle school, I witness daily how technology shapes our students’ futures. We use Google Chromebooks for statewide testing, diagnostic testing and even for daily instruction.  As a Vermont teacher, I am expected to have all my work available through the web-based learning management system, Google Classroom, to regularly check my Gmail and to use only Google tools in my job. Generally, this helps Vermont schools move
  
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• Burlington-area rental market cools off, bringing some relief for tenants

  09-06-2026 23:09 via vtdigger.org
  
  Signs advertising apartments and houses for rent in Burlington’s Old North End seen on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThis story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.Ally Quirk loved her Winooski apartment, with its scenic river views, proximity to restaurants, and amenities like in-unit laundry. But the monthly rent of $2,450 for a one-bedroom was straining her budget. So Quirk, a t
  
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• Top court rules in favor of Green Mountain Power in lawsuit over child injured at substation

  09-06-2026 22:38 via vtdigger.org
  
  The Vermont Supreme Court building on State Street in Montpelier in June 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Vermont Supreme Court has sided with Green Mountain Power in a lawsuit stemming from a child who suffered severe burns after entering a fenced and locked substation in Springfield more than a decade ago.The state’s highest court in its decision Friday ruled that Green Mountain Power was not liable for the child’s injuries. Windsor County Superior Court Judge H.
  
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• UVM Health cuts 142 jobs — an estimated $9.5 million in staff positions

  09-06-2026 20:07 via vtdigger.org
  
  The University of Vermont Medical Center complex. Photo courtesy of UVM Health NetworkUpdated 4:21 p.m.The University of Vermont Health cut 142 positions across its Vermont and New York hospitals and hospice care network Tuesday. The positions affected are largely administrative, a spokesperson for the hospital told VTDigger.UVM Health laid off 76 staff members and is reassigning the remaining 66 in new roles. UVM Health, which consists of three hospitals in Vermont, three in New York and a hom
  
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• UVM Health cuts 142 jobs — an estimated $9 million in staff positions

  09-06-2026 20:07 via vtdigger.org
  
  The University of Vermont Medical Center complex. Photo courtesy of UVM Health NetworkThe University of Vermont Health cut 142 positions across its Vermont and New York hospitals and hospice care network Tuesday. The positions affected are largely administrative, a spokesperson for the hospital told VTDigger.UVM Health laid off 76 staff members and is reassigning the remaining 66 in new roles. UVM Health, which consists of three hospitals in Vermont, three in New York and a home health and hosp
  
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• Vermont is talking. Is Montpelier listening?

  09-06-2026 19:58 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Loralee Tester, the executive director of the Northeast Kingdom Chamber of Commerce.A few weeks ago, my 17-year-old son published a commentary in VTDigger. His high school assignment was to write about something overrated. He chose Vermont.He wrote about the beauty, and then about everything behind it: the cost, the lack of opportunity, the missing infrastructure. He is a straight-A student, a competitive swimmer, a Poetry Out Loud finalist — exactly the kind of youn
  
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• A career as an art gallery curator is in Rose’s future

  09-06-2026 19:42 via vtdigger.org
  
  A career in art as a gallery curator is Rose’s calling. She’s creative, thoughtful, and observant, and is interested in inspiring others.  And she knows she can do a lot in the art world with the bachelor’s degree she just got from Vermont State University, and the master’s degree she is pursuing next year. “I know how to do every job,” she says. “My professors here taught me all of it. And I’m able to aspire to this dream because of the
  
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• Pleading for routine purchases: Inside the chaos at the Forest Service in Vermont.

  09-06-2026 14:30 via vtdigger.org
  
  Photo illustration by Greta Solsaa/VTDigger. Photo by Ellen Bartlett/VTDiggerHundreds of pages of records obtained by VTDigger reveal internal confusion in the U.S. Forest Service in Vermont during the first months of President Donald Trump’s second term, with federal cutbacks and budget slowdowns leaving research and conservation projects hanging in the balance.  The documents provide a look inside the agency as staff responsible for the Green Mountain National Forest — h
  
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• Hybrid town meeting benefits to be studied in Charlotte

  09-06-2026 01:24 via vtdigger.org
  
  Jack Grossman, Lauren Ecock and Kristen Lupini at Town Meeting in Charlotte. Photo by Sophie MacMillan/VTDigger
  This story by Liberty Darr was first published in The Citizen on June 4, 2026.Since Charlotte’s Town Meeting Day in March, folks have wondered how to keep the annual event at least somewhat traditional.The topic of a traditional in-person Town Meeting Day has largely been one of the most debated topics in town in recent months, particularly since 106 people voted by paper ballot
  
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• New roadside marker celebrates Ann Story, ‘Mother of the Green Mountain Boys’

  09-06-2026 00:48 via vtdigger.org
  
  The new Ann Story marker will go up at the intersection of Story Drive and Shard Villa Road in Salisbury. Photo by Kyle Neece/Community News ServiceKyle Neece is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program.SALISBURY — On the morning of May 30, Vermonters gathered at the site of a cabin belonging to Revolutionary War hero Ann Story. Known as the “Mother of the Green Mountain Boys,” Story
  
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• The state can’t fix Vermont’s hospitals by telling them what to do

  08-06-2026 23:47 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by James Hodge, who is a member of the board of trustees of Copley Hospital.In a recent article, VTDigger reported on the lack of progress by two lead state agencies, the Green Mountain Care Board and the Agency of Human Services, in developing a consistent, workable hospital transformation plan. The reason for the problem is simple. The approach the state is following will not work. The state wants to implement a top-down plan in which AHS coordinates all transformation
  
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• Montpelier’s former post office is up for auction this month. Its lead contender has doubts about the property’s condition.

  08-06-2026 22:39 via vtdigger.org
  
  The buidling that used to house the U.S.Post Office in Montpelier is up for auction. Seen on Monday, June 8, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe former Montpelier post office, vacant since the July 2023 flood, will go up for federal auction starting June 15, finally putting within reach the fate of one of downtown’s most prominent buildings.The most interested buyer, however, still has major questions about what could be hidden inside.“We’re talking about a stone’s
  
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• Spent fuel is the nuclear elephant in the room

  08-06-2026 19:18 via vtdigger.org
  
  Dear Editor,Over the past months, there have been several letters to the editor advocating nuclear power’s return to Vermont. Various reasons are given for this view.Not one of these letters has addressed the issue of what to do with the spent fuel. The casks of spent fuel — otherwise known as high-level nuclear waste — from the decommissioned Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant are still lining the bank of the Connecticut River in Vernon. If anything were to cause one to ruptu
  
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• When Vermonters want more from their careers, The Curtis Fund helps make it happen

  08-06-2026 15:12 via vtdigger.org
  
  Nikki Howard could see the kind of work she wanted long before she had the certification to do it. At Vermont Orthopedic Clinic, she was working as a licensed nursing assistant, close to patients every day, and watching the medical assistants do tasks she hoped to learn herself someday. She liked the job she had, but she also knew she wanted more.That next step meant going back to school for a medical assistant certification, and that is where things got hard. Nikki was working full-time and ba
  
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• Vermont’s public lands are costly to maintain. And soon, many may be more expensive to visit.

  08-06-2026 13:16 via vtdigger.org
  
  Anglers travel the water near the Lamoille River fishing access in Milton on Saturday, May 30, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerTheo Wells-Spackman is a Report for America corps member who reports for VTDigger.MILTON —  Standing on a dock at a Lamoille River fishing access last week, Andrea Shortsleeve said that ballooning expenses and high demand are making state land and infrastructure harder and harder to manage.Moments later, Shortsleeve, who is the Vermont Fish and Wild
  
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• One UVM lab’s surprise discovery led to flu science breakthrough

  07-06-2026 14:23 via vtdigger.org
  
  Emily Bruce, assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, at the University of Vermont in Burlington in April 2026. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerIt was by accident that Emily Bruce’s lab upended a long-held understanding of how the flu virus infects humans and stumbled across a finding that could set the stage for better prevention.That chance discovery evolved into a paper out this week in the Journal of Virology that details how different flu viruses enter and infe
  
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• Down the tubes: Vermont volunteers crawl culverts to outsmart the next flood

  07-06-2026 13:38 via vtdigger.org
  
  UVM students help clear leaves from a culvert as part of the Culvert Crawlers program. Photo courtesy Charis BokeA tube of corrugated metal running under a road might not look like much. But when the rain comes, these structures can mean the difference between a road that survives and one that washes out. Vermont has over 100,000 culverts doing the quiet daily work of protecting a vast network of state and town roads, including many gravel and dirt byways. Small towns in particular can str
  
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• Waiting for prior authorization almost killed me

  07-06-2026 13:28 via vtdigger.org
  
  Dear Editor,The recent commentary in VTDigger regarding prior authorization was spot on. Prior authorizations are indeed “prior aggravations” for both patients and physicians. As a patient who nearly lost his life from such aggravations 20 years ago, I know firsthand what this means.  Thousands of other Vermonters know it too: Insurance companies are practicing a very real form of healthcare rationing, not based on medical need, but on corporate profits, even as they try to con
  
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• Notch-blocker fines to increase tenfold

  07-06-2026 13:17 via vtdigger.org
  
  From 2009 to 2021, an average of 8.6 trucks have gotten stuck in the Notch each year, according to data from the Vermont Agency of Transportation. That number decreased in 2021 to only five stuck semis. File photo by Greg Popa/Stowe ReporterThis story by Tracy Brannstrom was first published in The News & Citizen on June 4, 2026.A new Vermont law will sharply increase penalties for oversized vehicles that illegally travel through Smugglers Notch.S.326, a wide-ranging motor vehicle bill passe
  
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• Play it again, Sam: A Vermont picture palace reels in new money with old movies

  07-06-2026 12:43 via vtdigger.org
  
  A coming-attractions poster for the 1950 film “Sunset Boulevard” looks over the lobby of Brattleboro’s historic Latchis Theatre. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDiggerBRATTLEBORO — Ever since the Latchis Theatre debuted the day after the Great New England Hurricane of 1938, its operators have aimed to take the town by storm with one splashy film premiere after another.Consider “That Certain Age,” a now forgotten musical comedy “rushed from Hollywood by
  
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• South Burlington Planning Commission discusses data centers

  06-06-2026 12:53 via vtdigger.org
  
  This story by Liberty Darr was first published in The Other Paper on  June 4, 2026.As the conversation around digital data centers stirs strong emotions across the entire country, Vermont and some of its municipalities, including South Burlington, have hopped onto the conversation to get at least a bit of a handle on the rapidly evolving industry.That’s at least the initial approach South Burlington is taking. The city’s planning commission has outlined some initial land use re
  
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• Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center birthing pavilion to establish drug treatment program for patients

  06-06-2026 00:01 via vtdigger.org
  
  The Patient Pavilion at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, in May 2025. Photo by James M. Patterson/Valley NewsThis story by Clare Shanahan was first published in the Valley News on June 4, 2026.LEBANON, N.H. — Dartmouth Health recently announced plans to use $900,000 in federal funds to establish an inpatient substance use treatment program in the birthing pavilion at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.More babies born at DHMC have been exposed to substances in
  
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