‘Swatting’ incidents becoming more common for school districts, law enforcement officials
“This is not the business of schools, but it feels like it’s become the business of schools,” one superintendent said. “And that’s kind of sad and frightening all at the same time.”
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center birthing pavilion to establish drug treatment program for patients
The hospital has introduced programs and training over the years to help providers treat pregnant patients who have substance use disorder.
Musical chairs: Many Vermont House and Senate leaders won’t seek reelection
Come January, new faces are set to fill many of the key roles dictating which bills receive attention and who gets to testify on them.
Burlington officials defend police actions during ICE raid, but Police Commission pushes back
In a series of reviews, city officials determined officers didn’t use excessive force against protesters or violate the Fair and Impartial Policing policy at the March 11 immigration enforcement action.
Ex-deputy accused of short-circuiting murder trial now faces obstruction charge
The former Lamoille County sheriff’s deputy pleaded not guilty this week to three felony charges, with at least one of them directly related to the Seth Brunell trial.
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Vermont House Speaker Jill Krowinski won’t run for reelection
The Burlington Democrat’s decision comes as a surprise.
Vermont enacts the country’s first ban on herbicide linked with Parkinson’s disease
The law gives apple and other fruit farmers, who account for most of the herbicide’s use in the state, until the end of 2030 to fully phase it out.
Vermont Conversation: ‘Action is the antidote to despair.’ Ben Cohen fights to save the soul of Ben & Jerry’s.
The Vermont ice cream company co-founder reflects on what’s become of his company’s social mission and the socially responsible business movement that he spearheaded, how he and Jerry Greenfield are trying to take back their company, and his activism.
Ex-Lamoille County Sheriff’s Department deputy accused of making ‘trading cards’ of suspects
James Griffin faces an upcoming hearing before the Vermont Criminal Justice Council where he faces up to a permanent ban from police work.
80-hour weeks and drowning in debt: UVM Medical Center resident doctors rally for a new contract
The union of 400 resident doctors and interns have been negotiating with the hospital for a contract since January, asking for higher wages, childcare provisions and broader immigration protection.
Vermont eyes South Burlington for new youth facility. A state advocate calls it a ‘detention center.’
The state plans to build a 14-bed facility for youth in state custody that it says will provide treatment services.
Opinion
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Why Vermonters who leave can’t stay away
The Green Mountains have a pull that Connecticut plates and decades away can’t quite break.
Vermont’s governing class is destroying the state it claims to serve
Working Vermonters are paying for an ideology the ruling class will never have to live with.
Vermont’s proposed school mergers aren’t really voluntary
Vermont’s new education law keeps the language of local control, but the financial penalties make the outcome all but predetermined.
The moral purpose of education
We measure educational success in test scores and workforce readiness. We’ve forgotten that schools were built to form free people.
Affordable housing complex opens in downtown Waterbury
Three of the 26 new apartments are reserved for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, and five are set aside for people exiting homelessness.
Ex-sheriff’s deputy banned from police work over ‘trading cards’ of suspects
The Vermont Criminal Justice Council also issued a written warning in the separate case of a Rutland City Police corporal accused of violating the state’s required Fair and Impartial Policing Policy.
At Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, curator Jason Moran turns spotlight to youth musicians
“To play a style of music that is not even remotely in style — that takes a level of bravery,” said the jazz trailblazer who learned piano at age 6.
Vermont Conversation: Celebrating and defending protest, America’s founding principle
Annie Leonard and André Carothers are co-authors of “Protest: Respect It, Defend It, Use It.” The activists have each spent over a decade with Greenpeace USA and on June 6 will offer a nonviolent resistance training in Vermont.
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