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• Daniel Banyai arrested for violating conditions of release on pending aggravated assault charge

  10-09-2024 23:45 via vtdigger.org
  
  Daniel Banyai, owner of the Slate Ridge paramilitary training facility in West Pawlet, appears for his contempt hearing in Environmental Court in Rutland on November 4, 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerDaniel Banyai was arrested Monday for violating conditions of release on his pending felony charge of aggravated assault against a police officer, according to a press release by Pawlet Constable Thomas Covino. Covino is the same officer who Banyai is charged with assaulting.Accordin
  
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• “I want a career, not just a job”

  10-09-2024 19:48 via vtdigger.org
  
  Tommy Rosser knows he doesn’t want to be confined to a desk every single day. He’s lived overseas, traveled the world, and has always worked in fast-paced jobs that have taken him out into the community. He currently works as a ramp agent at Burlington Airport, where he turns planes over between flights, performing mechanical inspections and onloading and offloading baggage, fuel, and supplies. He’s previously worked as a delivery driver for UPS, GrubHub, and DoorDash, and he k
  
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• Burlington council moves to revisit controversial police officer cap

  10-09-2024 19:22 via vtdigger.org
  
  Burlington Police Department cruisers parked outside the department in Burlington on Monday, August 26, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Burlington City Council on Monday night agreed to revisit the controversial cap on the number of officers in the city’s police department. The measure was one of several public-safety-focused items on the council’s agenda last night in response to a rash of violent crime in the past several weeks.Passed by a 9-3 vote, the resolution cha
  
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• Springfield murder suspect pleads not guilty

  10-09-2024 18:47 via vtdigger.org
  
  Paul Lachapelle Jr., left, appears in court in White River Junction on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. Photo by Ethan Weinstein/VTDiggerWHITE RIVER JUNCTION—After a two-year investigation led to his arrest last month, Paul Lachapelle Jr. pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. Both charges carry the possibility of life in prisonLachapelle, 28, is accused of killing Justin Gilliam in Springfield in the spring of 2022. Documents in the case
  
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• Pro-Palestinian student group sues UVM over suspension during spring protests

  10-09-2024 18:14 via vtdigger.org
  
  Protesters occupy a Palestinian solidarity encampment at the University of Vermont in Burlington on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerIn May, amid pro-Palestinian protests on the University of Vermont’s campus, university administrators suspended a student activist group on what was supposed to be a temporary basis.Four months later, the temporary suspension of the group, UVM’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, has yet to be lifted. On Monday, the or
  
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• Ann Manwaring: What’s next for Vermont’s education system?

  10-09-2024 16:30 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Ann Manwaring of Wilmington, a former Democratic state representative who served from 2007-2017.For six of the 10 years I was in the Legislature, representing the Towns of Wilmington, Whitingham and Halifax, I was on the Appropriations Committee. We spent a good deal of our time in that Committee listening to state agency administrators present their financial needs for the ensuing fiscal year, beginning the next July 1. By the end of the budget process, when the Governor f
  
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• VTDigger launches Fall Member Drive

  10-09-2024 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  
  VTDigger reporting intern Graham Krewinghaus interviews U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, in Burlington on Primary Day, Tuesday, August 13, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerA recent study from UVM showed that Vermont has lost 75% of its journalism jobs over the past quarter century.1 Newspapers have closed, and many that remain are woefully understaffed. We’re seeing what happens as a result: In the vacuum, misinformation spreads rampantly, sowing the seeds of division.Today VTDi
  
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• Royalton police officer facing domestic violence charges placed on leave 

  10-09-2024 00:43 via vtdigger.org
  
  The Orange County Court House in Chelsea on August 22, 2024. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerCHELSEA — A Royalton police officer is facing criminal charges of domestic violence and has been placed on paid administrative leave from his job. Jakob Oliver, 30, of Woodstock, entered not guilty pleas Monday afternoon in Orange County Superior criminal court in Chelsea to charges of domestic assault, second-degree unlawful restraint and interference with access to emergency services.He was r
  
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• Vermont officials say voting systems are secure after potential vulnerabilities found in New Hampshire

  10-09-2024 00:15 via vtdigger.org
  
  Kyle Hartsfield casts his ballot at the polling station in Richmond on Primary Day,August 13, 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Vermont Secretary of State’s Office was warned earlier this year of potential vulnerabilities in new software being developed by the company that manages the state’s voter registration system, officials said. However, they maintained that staff there are confident that the issues — which were first reported last week by Politico &mdash
  
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