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items: Housing Authority seeks Hartford-area land donations
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items: Zizian member tied to border patrol agent killing in Vermont now charged in the deaths of her own parents
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Housing Authority seeks Hartford-area land donations
type: item
creator: Valley News
date: 2026-06-25T22:07:41Z
subject: Housing
subject: Hartford
subject: housing
subject: partner stories
subject: Vermont State Housing Authority
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Elizabeth “Leslie” Frydenlund
type: item
creator: VTD Obituaries
date: 2026-06-25T21:39:41Z
subject: Obituaries
subject: obituaries
description: <img width="250" height="167" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_9630-e1782427063719.jpeg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_9630-e1782427063719.jpeg 250w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_9630-e1782427063719-125x84.jpeg 125w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="650354" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/2026/06/25/obituary-elizabeth-leslie-frydenlund/screenshot-68/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_9630-e1782427063719.jpeg" data-orig-size="250,167" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"Screenshot","created_timestamp":"1782391865","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"Screenshot","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="Screenshot" data-image-description=" Screenshot " data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_9630-e1782427063719.jpeg" /> Leslie's legacy of warmth, mischief, and quick wit will be carried forward by those who had the privilege of knowing her. Her life will forever be an inspiration, a testament to the power of a heart that never hesitated to give itself fully. She will be greatly missed and forever remembered. Read the story on VTDigger here: Elizabeth “Leslie” Frydenlund.
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Don’t let Donald Sinex anywhere near Burlington’s downtown
type: item
creator: Ron Jacobs
date: 2026-06-25T21:09:43Z
subject: Commentaries
subject: Opinion
subject: Amazon
subject: Burlington
subject: CityPlace
subject: opinion
description: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> Converting the old Macy’s into an Amazon warehouse would worsen traffic and hand the city over to a company built on exploitation. Read the story on VTDigger here: Don’t let Donald Sinex anywhere near Burlington’s downtown.
encoded: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> This commentary is by Ron Jacobs, who lives in Winooski. Now that Burlington High School will be returning to its previous grounds in a new building, the question is what will happen to the building formerly known as Macy’s. Developers are proposing a variety of possibilities. One is a developer who contributed significantly to the failure of the former CityPlace mall project, Donald Sinex, the owner of the Macy’s building. In 2016, Sinex and then-Mayor Miro Weinberger persuaded voters to approve tax increment financing, a means whereby public funds are raised through a specific tax and then used to upgrade a particular area of a town or city. Usually, funds are loaned to the developers managing the project with an understanding that the money will be repaid once the project is completed. However, if something changes during development or construction is halted, taxpayers are often left footing th…

Creditors in Vermont Catholic bankruptcy case seek access to an estimated $500M in parish assets
type: item
creator: Kevin O'Connor
date: 2026-06-25T20:41:12Z
subject: Public Safety
subject: bankruptcy
subject: South Burlington
subject: Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese
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Zizian member tied to border patrol agent killing in Vermont now charged in the deaths of her own parents
type: item
creator: Alan J. Keays
date: 2026-06-25T20:07:19Z
subject: Northeast Kingdom
subject: Public Safety
subject: Regional
subject: Coventry shooting
subject: Teresa Youngblut
subject: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol
subject: Zizian
description: <img width="1024" height="576" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26175473470881-1024x576.jpg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A person in tan prison uniform, holding papers, is escorted by a sheriff’s deputy toward a white sheriff’s van." decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26175473470881-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26175473470881-300x169.jpg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26175473470881-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26175473470881-125x70.jpg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26175473470881-768x432.jpg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26175473470881-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26175473470881-780x439.jpg 780w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26175473470881-400x225.jpg 400w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26175473470881-706x397.jpg 706w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26175473470881.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="650373" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/2026/06/25/zizian-member-tied-to-border-patrol-agent-killing-in-vermont-now-charged-in-the-deaths-of-her-own-parents/prosecuting-zizians/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26175473470881.jpg" data-orig-size="1920,1080" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"AP Photo/Mark Scolforo","camera":"","caption":"FILE - In this image from video, Michelle Zajko, who is associated with a cultlike group known as Zizians that is linked to several deaths across the U.S., is escorted into court for a pretrial hearing on trespassing, gun and drug charges in Cumberland, Md., Friday, Jan. 1…
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Vermont utilizes food shelves to provide children with free meals during summer break
type: item
creator: Grace Bertrand
date: 2026-06-25T19:21:02Z
subject: Health
subject: child nutrition
subject: Feeding Champlain Valley
subject: Hunger Free Vermont
subject: Vermont Agency of Education
subject: Vermont Language Justice Project
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Vermont passed its education law. Now comes the hard part.
type: item
creator: Flor Diaz Smith
date: 2026-06-25T17:39:07Z
subject: Commentaries
subject: Opinion
subject: Education
subject: Phil Scott
subject: Vermont Legislature
subject: Vermont School Boards Association
description: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> Vermont's new education law settles questions of governance and structure. Now comes the harder task: building a long-term vision centered on students, not district maps. Read the story on VTDigger here: Vermont passed its education law. Now comes the hard part..
encoded: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> This commentary is by Flor Diaz Smith, president of the Vermont School Boards Association and eastern representative and chair of the legislative committee of the National School Board. On June 18, Gov. Phil Scott signed into law an education transformation bill that aims to strengthen Vermont public schools and districts, make efficient use of public funding, and ultimately ensure the success of all students and graduates. H.955, the final bill approved by the General Assembly and signed by the governor, represents the culmination of several years of deliberation, debate, advocacy and compromise among all involved. The Vermont School Boards Association has participated in the process every step of the way, amplifying the voices, ideas, questions and concerns of our members, more than 850 individuals who serve on local school boards across the state. Last November, VSBA released a position paper ou…

Seeking technical education, schools may be looking inward
type: item
creator: The Other Paper
date: 2026-06-24T23:26:57Z
subject: Education
subject: partner stories
subject: technical education
description: <img width="1024" height="664" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/center-for-technology-2-20191227.jpg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/center-for-technology-2-20191227.jpg 2000w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/center-for-technology-2-20191227-300x195.jpg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/center-for-technology-2-20191227-1200x778.jpg 1200w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/center-for-technology-2-20191227-125x81.jpg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/center-for-technology-2-20191227-768x498.jpg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/center-for-technology-2-20191227-1536x996.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="519292" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/center-for-technology-2-20191227/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/center-for-technology-2-20191227.jpg" data-orig-size="2000,1297" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.8","credit":"GLENN RUSSELL","camera":"NIKON Z 6","caption":"The Center for Technology Essex in Essex Junction on Friday, December 27, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger","created_timestamp":"1577449290","copyright":"GLENN RUSSELL","focal_length":"50","iso":"200","shutter_speed":"0.0025","title":"center-for-technology-2 20191227","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="center-for-technology-2 20191227" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" The Center for Technology Essex in Essex Junction on Friday, December 27, 2019. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger " data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/center-for-technology-2-20191227-1200x778.jpg" /> Demand for technical education is growing in Vermont at a pace that local caree…
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Vermont Attorney General will not prosecute state trooper who fatally shot unarmed Putney man
type: item
creator: Charlotte Oliver
date: 2026-06-24T22:35:25Z
subject: Public Safety
subject: Charity Clark
subject: police shooting
subject: Putney
subject: Vermont State Police
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Candidates backed by Vermont’s Bernie Sanders sweep House primaries in New York City
type: item
creator: Shaun Robinson
date: 2026-06-24T22:07:00Z
subject: Government & Politics
subject: Bernie Sanders
subject: Democratic Party
subject: Democratic primary
subject: New York City
description: <img width="1024" height="683" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26170035815473-1024x683.jpg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="An older man in a suit speaks passionately at a podium with a microphone on a dimly lit stage; a partially visible sign reads "THE YEAR." decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26170035815473-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26170035815473-300x200.jpg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26170035815473-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26170035815473-125x83.jpg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26170035815473-768x512.jpg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26170035815473-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26170035815473-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26170035815473-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26170035815473-780x520.jpg 780w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26170035815473-400x267.jpg 400w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26170035815473-706x471.jpg 706w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="650263" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/election-2026-new-york-mamdani/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AP26170035815473-scaled.jpg" data-orig-size="2560,1707" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"AP Photo/Ryan Murphy","camera":"ILCE-7M5","caption":"U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT., speaks during a Get Out The Vote rally ahead of New York's primary election, Thursday, June 18, 2026, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)","created_timestamp":"1781829847","copyright":"…
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‘A ray of hope’: A Franklin County dairy facility to reopen this fall amid a spate of shutdowns
type: item
creator: Tsehai Alfred
date: 2026-06-24T22:05:36Z
subject: Champlain Valley
subject: Economy
subject: Franklin County
subject: Regional
subject: Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets
subject: Anson Tebbetts
subject: Dairy Farmers of America
subject: Franklin Foods
subject: Vermont Dairy Producers Alliance
description: <img width="1024" height="683" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rooney-dairy-farm-031422-RR-03-scaled.jpg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rooney-dairy-farm-031422-RR-03-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rooney-dairy-farm-031422-RR-03-300x200.jpg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rooney-dairy-farm-031422-RR-03-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rooney-dairy-farm-031422-RR-03-125x83.jpg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rooney-dairy-farm-031422-RR-03-768x512.jpg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rooney-dairy-farm-031422-RR-03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rooney-dairy-farm-031422-RR-03-2048x1365.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="532515" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/rooney-dairy-farm-031422-rr-03/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rooney-dairy-farm-031422-RR-03-scaled.jpg" data-orig-size="2560,1707" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"8","credit":"","camera":"Canon EOS 6D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1647219978","copyright":"","focal_length":"24","iso":"320","shutter_speed":"0.00125","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="rooney-dairy-farm-031422-RR-03" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" Colleen, one of the Rooneys&#8217; dairy cows, behind the barn March 14, 2022. Photo by Riley Robinson/VTDigger " data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rooney-dairy-farm-031422-RR-03-1200x800.jpg" /> The reopening is a promising sign for the local community and dairy industry after the loss of at least three dairy production plants in r…
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Vermont Conversation: Cartoonist Tillie Walden celebrates early American queer love in Vermont in new book
type: item
creator: David Goodman
date: 2026-06-24T21:45:50Z
subject: Life & Culture
subject: Center for Cartoon Studies
subject: LGBTQ+
subject: podcast
subject: Tillie Walden
subject: Vermont Cartoonist Laureate
subject: Vermont Conversation Podcast
description: <img width="1024" height="682" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-1024x682.jpg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Cover of "Charity & Sylvia" by Tillie Walden on the left, and on the right, an illustrated person drawing at a table with art supplies, drinks, and nature-themed borders." decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-300x200.jpg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-125x83.jpg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-768x512.jpg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-780x520.jpg 780w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-400x267.jpg 400w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-706x471.jpg 706w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="650279" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/2026/06/24/vermont-conversation-cartoonist-tillie-walden-celebrates-early-american-queer-love-in-vermont-in-new-book/authorbook-composite-7/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite.jpg" data-orig-size="2000,1333" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="AuthorBook Composite" data-image-des…
encoded: <img width="1024" height="682" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-1024x682.jpg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Cover of "Charity & Sylvia" by Tillie Walden on the left, and on the right, an illustrated person drawing at a table with art supplies, drinks, and nature-themed borders." decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-300x200.jpg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-125x83.jpg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-768x512.jpg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-780x520.jpg 780w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-400x267.jpg 400w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite-706x471.jpg 706w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="650279" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/2026/06/24/vermont-conversation-cartoonist-tillie-walden-celebrates-early-american-queer-love-in-vermont-in-new-book/authorbook-composite-7/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AuthorBook-Composite.jpg" data-orig-size="2000,1333" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="AuthorBook Composite" data-image-des…

Patriotism is not a dirty word
type: item
creator: Shawn Tester
date: 2026-06-24T21:10:13Z
subject: Commentaries
subject: Opinion
subject: Fourth of July
subject: opinion
description: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> Inflation, unrest, distrust in government — 1976 had all of it too, and Americans still found reasons for pride. Read the story on VTDigger here: Patriotism is not a dirty word.
encoded: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> This commentary is by Shawn Tester, the chief executive officer of Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital. A few months ago, rummaging through some old memorabilia, I came across a large bronze commemorative medallion my grandfather gave me during our nation’s bicentennial celebration in 1976. I was only 5 years old at the time, but I still remember the exuberance and pride that seemed to fill every corner of our community — flags waving from front porches, parades winding through town, and fireworks lighting up the summer sky. Even our little town of Kirby joined in the celebration. There was a parade and community events at Brookside School, our one-room schoolhouse. For a young boy, it was all tremendously exciting, made even more memorable when Gov. Tom Salmon arrived by helicopter to take part in the festivities. The school happened to sit next to my grandfather’s cornfield. In early July, the…

Vermont’s classrooms are a Big Tech sales pitch
type: item
creator: Laura Derrendinger
date: 2026-06-24T20:16:29Z
subject: Commentaries
subject: Opinion
subject: opinion
subject: schools
subject: technology
subject: Vermont Legislature
description: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> The groups Vermont schools trust to vet the safety of educational technology are funded by the companies they're supposed to be checking. Read the story on VTDigger here: Vermont’s classrooms are a Big Tech sales pitch.
encoded: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> This commentary is by Laura Derrendinger, who co-leads the Vermont Coalition for Independence, Reconnection and Liberation. With the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding approaching, it is time to declare Vermont’s schools independent of so-called Big Tech. The online and digital product companies — Google and Apple chief among them — are this era’s mercenaries, hired to maximize profits by putting their products directly in front of a captive audience of schoolchildren. In March, a jury in California found Meta and Google, which owns YouTube, liable for harming children. An investigation in The New York Times exposed how both companies planned to capture students’ attention at school. Yet we’ve allowed Google’s products to become standard issue in nearly all Vermont schoolchildren’s hands. Google’s own internal documents show it deliberately places Chromebooks in schools to provide access to…

A federal judge orders an ICE detainee with mental illness released, finding her six-month detention unconstitutional
type: item
creator: Emma Green
date: 2026-06-24T00:53:09Z
subject: Public Safety
subject: Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility
subject: Department of Corrections
subject: ICE
subject: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
description: <img width="1024" height="676" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/correctional-facility-1-20240827-1024x676.jpg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A view through a glass door marked "REC" into a hallway with a yellow cleaning cart, white walls, and another door labeled "BOOKING." decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/correctional-facility-1-20240827-1024x676.jpg 1024w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/correctional-facility-1-20240827-300x198.jpg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/correctional-facility-1-20240827-1200x792.jpg 1200w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/correctional-facility-1-20240827-125x83.jpg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/correctional-facility-1-20240827-768x507.jpg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/correctional-facility-1-20240827-1536x1014.jpg 1536w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/correctional-facility-1-20240827-2048x1352.jpg 2048w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/correctional-facility-1-20240827-1568x1035.jpg 1568w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/correctional-facility-1-20240827-2000x1320.jpg 2000w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/correctional-facility-1-20240827-400x264.jpg 400w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/correctional-facility-1-20240827-706x466.jpg 706w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="593195" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/correctional-facility-1-20240827/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/correctional-facility-1-20240827.jpg" data-orig-size="2500,1650" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"Glenn Russell","camera":"NIKON Z 6_2","caption":"A view inside the Chittenden Regional Correc…
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Drunken driving case may linger for Addison state’s attorney due to new disciplinary action
type: item
creator: Charlotte Oliver
date: 2026-06-23T21:40:42Z
subject: Addison County
subject: Champlain Valley
subject: Public Safety
subject: Regional
subject: Eva Vekos
subject: Vermont Superior Court
description: <img width="1024" height="681" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eva-vekos-1-20251216-1024x681.jpg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Two people in suits stand in a room; one faces forward with hands behind back, while the other faces sideways with a hand near their mouth." decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eva-vekos-1-20251216-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eva-vekos-1-20251216-300x200.jpg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eva-vekos-1-20251216-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eva-vekos-1-20251216-125x83.jpg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eva-vekos-1-20251216-768x511.jpg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eva-vekos-1-20251216-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eva-vekos-1-20251216-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eva-vekos-1-20251216-2000x1330.jpg 2000w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eva-vekos-1-20251216-780x519.jpg 780w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eva-vekos-1-20251216-400x266.jpg 400w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eva-vekos-1-20251216-706x470.jpg 706w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="637958" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/eva-vekos-1-20251216/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/eva-vekos-1-20251216.jpg" data-orig-size="2500,1663" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.8","credit":"Glenn Russell","camera":"NIKON Z 6","caption":"Addison County States Attorney Eva Vekos pleads no contest to a DUI charge in Chittenden County Superior criminal court Burlington on Tuesday, December 16, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger","created_timest…
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National Weather Service classifies West Woodstock storm as EF1 tornado
type: item
creator: Valley News
date: 2026-06-23T21:25:46Z
subject: Environment
subject: Regional
subject: Southern Vermont
subject: Windsor County
subject: Bridgewater
subject: National Weather Service
subject: partner stories
subject: tornado
subject: Woodstock
description: <img width="1024" height="684" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260618-vn-storm-jmp-349-copy-1024x684.webp" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A modern house with a metal roof and parked car sits on a grassy lawn at the edge of a dense, green forest with hills in the background." decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260618-vn-storm-jmp-349-copy-1024x684.webp 1024w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260618-vn-storm-jmp-349-copy-300x200.webp 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260618-vn-storm-jmp-349-copy-125x83.webp 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260618-vn-storm-jmp-349-copy-768x513.webp 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260618-vn-storm-jmp-349-copy-780x521.webp 780w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260618-vn-storm-jmp-349-copy-400x267.webp 400w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260618-vn-storm-jmp-349-copy-706x471.webp 706w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260618-vn-storm-jmp-349-copy.webp 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="650231" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/20260618-vn-storm-jmp-349-copy/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260618-vn-storm-jmp-349-copy.webp" data-orig-size="1200,801" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="20260618-vn-storm-jmp-349-copy" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" Broken trees stand on the hill across the Ottauquechee River from the home of Bryon and Jen Lockhart in West Woodstock after a powerful storm swept across the Upper Valle…
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Calling nuclear power clean doesn’t make it true
type: item
creator: Deb Katz
date: 2026-06-23T21:18:18Z
subject: Letters to the editor
subject: Opinion
subject: H.601
subject: nuclear energy
subject: nuclear waste
subject: opinion
subject: Phil Scott
description: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Letters-to-the-editor_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Image with text: "Letters to the editor. Responses to VTDigger stories and opinion." Features a stylized blue feather icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615529" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/letters-to-the-editor_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Letters-to-the-editor_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Letters to the editor_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Letters-to-the-editor_featured-image-25.png" /> Vermont can change the definition of clean energy. It can't change what nuclear power actually is. Read the story on VTDigger here: Calling nuclear power clean doesn’t make it true.
encoded: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Letters-to-the-editor_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Image with text: "Letters to the editor. Responses to VTDigger stories and opinion." Features a stylized blue feather icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615529" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/letters-to-the-editor_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Letters-to-the-editor_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Letters to the editor_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Letters-to-the-editor_featured-image-25.png" /> Dear Editor, Gov. Phil Scott selling Vermont the nuclear kool-aid is unacceptable. The governor insists that nuclear power is clean. He supports developing small modular nuclear reactors in Vermont. In an attempt to meet Vermont’s carbon commitments, the state wants to substitute the definition of “clean” for “renewable” to justify nuclear’s inclusion with H.601. Nuclear energy is neither clean nor green. We must do better. We need solutions that are truly sustainable and protect our communities. Scott is a nuclear cheerleader who ignores the problem of the radioactive waste already sitting on the banks of the Connecticut River. He supports policies that will make it possible to store more deadly waste at the site. Supporting an industry that has yet to solve its waste problem is irresponsible. Given climate disruption and the …

Vermont needs better housing, not just more of it
type: item
creator: John Bossange
date: 2026-06-23T18:40:10Z
subject: Commentaries
subject: Opinion
subject: CHIP
subject: housing
subject: opinion
description: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> New developments are scarring the landscape and shortchanging Vermonters on design, location and affordability. Read the story on VTDigger here: Vermont needs better housing, not just more of it.
encoded: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> This commentary is by John Bossange, the president of the board of directors of Better (not Bigger) Vermont. Few would deny that we have a shortage of lower and moderately priced housing available for hardworking Vermonters. Sadly, what is being constructed now is often pitched at wealthy second-home and out-of-state buyers rather than local Vermont families. Worse, the new housing is often poorly located and is either an unsightly scar on the natural landscape or a depressing blight along a major road, in a commercial development or in a village center. Vermonters need a place to live, but it’s disheartening to watch developers clear-cut to build new housing, removing all the trees and vegetation from a site rather than working around existing growth and attempting to preserve the original landscape. This type of development exemplifies putting profit for investors and developers before aesthetics…

Court says it might dismiss Vermont Catholic diocese bankruptcy case if progress isn’t made soon
type: item
creator: Kevin O'Connor
date: 2026-06-23T17:57:02Z
subject: Champlain Valley
subject: Chittenden County
subject: Economy
subject: Regional
subject: bankruptcy
subject: South Burlington
subject: Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese
description: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-1024x768.jpg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A marble sign reading "Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington" is mounted between two brick pillars in front of a building and landscaped area." decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-300x225.jpg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-1200x900.jpg?crop=1 1200w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-125x94.jpg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-768x576.jpg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-800x600.jpg?crop=1 800w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-600x450.jpg?crop=1 600w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-400x300.jpg?crop=1 400w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-200x150.jpg?crop=1 200w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-780x585.jpg 780w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-706x530.jpg 706w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="650222" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/vtd-catholic-22/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/VTD-Catholic-22-scaled.jpg" data-orig-size="2560,1920" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_tim…
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Jimmy ‘The Iceman’ De Pierro
type: item
creator: VTD Obituaries
date: 2026-06-23T14:23:38Z
subject: Obituaries
subject: obituaries
description: <img width="1024" height="682" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-1024x682.jpg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A man with a mustache and curly hair sits with arms crossed over his knees in front of a cooler labeled with various drink flavors." decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-300x200.jpg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-125x83.jpg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-768x512.jpg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-780x520.jpg 780w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-400x267.jpg 400w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-706x470.jpg 706w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506.jpg 1166w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="650208" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/2026/06/23/jimmy-the-iceman-de-pierro/dad-1998/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506.jpg" data-orig-size="1166,777" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="Dad-1998" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506.jpg" /> Jim was a founding member of the Vermont Blues Society, ran for Secretary of State, owned Jimmy’s Rack & Roll Pool Hall and Jimmy’s Italian Ices, and was known for…
encoded: <img width="1024" height="682" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-1024x682.jpg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A man with a mustache and curly hair sits with arms crossed over his knees in front of a cooler labeled with various drink flavors." decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-300x200.jpg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-125x83.jpg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-768x512.jpg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-780x520.jpg 780w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-400x267.jpg 400w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506-706x470.jpg 706w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506.jpg 1166w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="650208" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/2026/06/23/jimmy-the-iceman-de-pierro/dad-1998/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506.jpg" data-orig-size="1166,777" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="Dad-1998" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dad-1998-e1782222894506.jpg" /> Born: 07/30/1946 New York City, NY Died: 06/18/2026 Colchester, VT Details of service: A celebration of life is being planned for next summer. Jimmy “The Iceman” D…

Across Vermont, networks of volunteers push back on Trump’s immigration enforcement
type: item
creator: Emma Green
date: 2026-06-22T22:46:48Z
subject: Government & Politics
subject: Donald Trump
subject: ICE
subject: immigration
subject: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
description: <img width="1024" height="681" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ice-protest-2-20260311-1024x681.jpg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A group of people wearing winter clothes and face masks stand arm-in-arm along a building; one person holds a cardboard sign reading "ICE OUT." decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ice-protest-2-20260311-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ice-protest-2-20260311-300x200.jpg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ice-protest-2-20260311-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ice-protest-2-20260311-125x83.jpg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ice-protest-2-20260311-768x511.jpg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ice-protest-2-20260311-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ice-protest-2-20260311-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ice-protest-2-20260311-2000x1330.jpg 2000w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ice-protest-2-20260311-780x519.jpg 780w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ice-protest-2-20260311-400x266.jpg 400w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ice-protest-2-20260311-706x470.jpg 706w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="643539" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/ice-protest-2-20260311/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ice-protest-2-20260311.jpg" data-orig-size="2500,1663" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4","credit":"Glenn Russell","camera":"NIKON Z 6_2","caption":"Protesters surround a house as they demonstrate against an attempted stop by ICE agents in South Burlington on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger","created…
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‘Vermont that still feels wild’: 3 waterways proposed for the ‘National Park System for rivers’
type: item
creator: K. Fiegenbaum
date: 2026-06-22T22:44:05Z
subject: Environment
subject: conservation
subject: Missisquoi River
subject: Northeast Kingdom
subject: Vermont River Conservancy
description: <img width="1024" height="682" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image0-1024x682.jpeg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A winding river flows through a dense green forest, surrounding a small sandy patch and dark swirling water, viewed from above." decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image0-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image0-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image0-1200x799.jpeg 1200w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image0-125x83.jpeg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image0-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image0-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image0-2000x1332.jpeg 2000w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image0-780x519.jpeg 780w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image0-400x266.jpeg 400w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image0-706x470.jpeg 706w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image0.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="650176" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/image0-8/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image0.jpeg" data-orig-size="2048,1364" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="The Nulhegan River ONE TIME USE" data-image-description=" ONE TIME USE 06/22/2026 " data-image-caption=" The Nulhegan River is a proposed addition to the federal Wild and Scenic River System. Photo courtesy of Caleb Kenna. " data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06…
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Gov. Scott vetoed the Legislature’s latest attempt to lower health insurance costs. What’s next?
type: item
creator: Olivia Gieger
date: 2026-06-22T22:00:17Z
subject: Health
subject: Affordable Care Act
subject: health insurance
subject: health insurance rates
subject: Phil Scott
subject: S.190
subject: Vermont Legislature
description: <img width="1024" height="681" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/phil-scott-1-20251113-1024x681.jpg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A middle-aged man with short gray hair is speaking, with blurred people and objects in the foreground." decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/phil-scott-1-20251113-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/phil-scott-1-20251113-300x200.jpg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/phil-scott-1-20251113-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/phil-scott-1-20251113-125x83.jpg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/phil-scott-1-20251113-768x511.jpg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/phil-scott-1-20251113-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/phil-scott-1-20251113-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/phil-scott-1-20251113-2000x1330.jpg 2000w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/phil-scott-1-20251113-780x519.jpg 780w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/phil-scott-1-20251113-400x266.jpg 400w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/phil-scott-1-20251113-706x470.jpg 706w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="635467" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/phil-scott-1-20251113/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/phil-scott-1-20251113.jpg" data-orig-size="2500,1663" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.8","credit":"Glenn Russell","camera":"NIKON Z 6","caption":"Gov. Phil Scott speaks after a meeting of the Emergency Board at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Thursday, November 13, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger","created_timestamp":"1763062072","copyright":"Glenn Russell","focal_length…
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Dartmouth Health reports $63.5 million deficit over 6 months
type: item
creator: Valley News
date: 2026-06-22T21:33:28Z
subject: Health
subject: Dartmouth Health
subject: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
subject: partner stories
subject: UVM Health
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Karen Ann Warren
type: item
creator: VTD Obituaries
date: 2026-06-22T21:11:15Z
subject: Obituaries
subject: obituaries
description: <img width="1024" height="682" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Karen-Ann-Warren-e1782162336227-1024x682.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Karen-Ann-Warren-e1782162336227-1024x682.png 1024w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Karen-Ann-Warren-e1782162336227-300x200.png 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Karen-Ann-Warren-e1782162336227-125x83.png 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Karen-Ann-Warren-e1782162336227-768x512.png 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Karen-Ann-Warren-e1782162336227-780x520.png 780w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Karen-Ann-Warren-e1782162336227-400x267.png 400w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Karen-Ann-Warren-e1782162336227-706x470.png 706w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Karen-Ann-Warren-e1782162336227.png 1040w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="650155" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/2026/06/22/obituary-karen-ann-warren/karen-ann-warren/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Karen-Ann-Warren-e1782162336227.png" data-orig-size="1040,693" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="Karen-Ann-Warren" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Karen-Ann-Warren-e1782162336227.png" /> Karen was a woman whose warmth, humor, and steady presence made life gentler for everyone fortunate enough to know her. Read the story on VTDigger here: Karen Ann Warren.
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Don’t gamble with our drinking water
type: item
creator: Peggy Stevens
date: 2026-06-22T17:31:48Z
subject: Commentaries
subject: Opinion
subject: Environmental Protection Agency
subject: Lake Champlain
subject: Lake Memphremagog
subject: PFAS
subject: Vermont Legislature
description: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> Treated or not, landfill leachate carries forever chemicals into water that hundreds of thousands of people drink. Read the story on VTDigger here: Don’t gamble with our drinking water.
encoded: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> This commentary is by Peggy Stevens, a retired teacher who lives in Charleston. On June 10, a panel of five experts in environmental pollutants, including PFAS, presented evidence of contamination in Lake Memphremagog’s water and fish to a packed crowd of 70 gathered at the North Country Career Center, with a further 95 people joining online. As the scientists laid out their concerns about what that means for the lake’s future, the question driving the meeting was whether landfill leachate, treated or not, should be permitted to be discharged into the Memphremagog watershed. Lake Memphremagog is a drinking water reservoir for 200,000 Quebec residents in the municipalities of Sherbrooke and Magog, Potton and St. Benoit du Lac. Elected officials in nine municipalities around the international lake, including Derby, Newport City and Newport Town, have voted unanimously to support a joint statement and…

Extortion and pollution killed the data center bill
type: item
creator: Alison Despathy
date: 2026-06-22T17:17:53Z
subject: Commentaries
subject: Opinion
subject: Act 250
subject: data center
subject: Phil Scott
subject: renewable energy standard
subject: Vermont Legislature
subject: Vermonters for a Clean Environment
description: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> A last-minute fee opposed by state regulators and an unresolved water pollution loophole sank a once-popular data center bill in the Senate. Read the story on VTDigger here: Extortion and pollution killed the data center bill.
encoded: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> This commentary is by Alison Despathy, the community and environmental health director for Vermonters for a Clean Environment. This past legislative session, Vermonters for a Clean Environment participated in the development of a responsible data center bill, H.727. Despite these efforts, Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of the bill was justified because of the Senate’s massive fumble. Many people believe data centers are wreaking havoc across the country: guzzling power, contaminating water and land, destroying aquifers, causing droughts, increasing electric rates, and disrupting communities with noise pollution. Some argue that Vermont won’t attract data centers because of its high electric rates and heavy regulation and permitting. However, with increases in the use of artificial intelligence and data-generating technology in every sector expanding the digital grid, demand is real — whether we like it or …

Williston library expansion revote pushed to November
type: item
creator: Williston Observer
date: 2026-06-21T13:31:00Z
subject: Champlain Valley
subject: Chittenden County
subject: Regional
subject: partner stories
subject: Williston
subject: Williston Selectboard
description: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dorothy-Alling-Memorial-Library-redesign-1024x768.jpg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A person walks on a paved path toward the Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, a building with white and red brick sections under a partly cloudy sky." decoding="async" srcset="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dorothy-Alling-Memorial-Library-redesign-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dorothy-Alling-Memorial-Library-redesign-300x225.jpg 300w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dorothy-Alling-Memorial-Library-redesign-125x94.jpg 125w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dorothy-Alling-Memorial-Library-redesign-768x576.jpg 768w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dorothy-Alling-Memorial-Library-redesign-800x600.jpg?crop=1 800w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dorothy-Alling-Memorial-Library-redesign-600x450.jpg?crop=1 600w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dorothy-Alling-Memorial-Library-redesign-400x300.jpg?crop=1 400w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dorothy-Alling-Memorial-Library-redesign-200x150.jpg?crop=1 200w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dorothy-Alling-Memorial-Library-redesign-780x585.jpg 780w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dorothy-Alling-Memorial-Library-redesign-706x530.jpg 706w, https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dorothy-Alling-Memorial-Library-redesign.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="650083" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/dorothy-alling-memorial-library-redesign/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Dorothy-Alling-Memorial-Library-redesign.jpg" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-i…
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How Vermont’s new pharmacy law could change rural healthcare
type: item
creator: Steven Simpson
date: 2026-06-21T13:18:00Z
subject: Commentaries
subject: Opinion
subject: opinion
subject: pharmacy
subject: Phil Scott
subject: Vermont Legislature
description: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> H.588 lets pharmacists test and treat common conditions — and new state funding could make that access permanent for rural Vermonters. Read the story on VTDigger here: How Vermont’s new pharmacy law could change rural healthcare.
encoded: <img width="1024" height="768" src="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Text reading "Commentaries" and "Opinion pieces by community members" with a speech bubble icon." decoding="async" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="615530" data-permalink="https://vtdigger.org/commentaries_featured-image-25/" data-orig-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" data-orig-size="1200,900" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Commentaries_featured image 25" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://vtdigger.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Commentaries_featured-image-25.png" /> This commentary is by Steven Simpson, the northern regional healthcare manager at Kinney Drugs. One of the things I’ve always valued most about community pharmacy is the chance to serve people close to home. In towns across Vermont, the local pharmacy is often one of the most familiar and trusted places in the community, a place where people stop in for prescriptions, ask questions and see someone they know. Sometimes that means offering reassurance, helping someone think through what to do next, or simply being available when care feels harder to reach. And sometimes it means seeing a patient walk in on a weekend, hoping for help that simply isn’t easy to access at that moment. Until recently, the best I could do was offer guidance and ask them to follow up when their doctor’s office reopened. That is why the signing of H.588 matters so much. Gov. Phil Scott and the Legislature have taken a practi…