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• Local group expected to acquire Burke Mountain ski resort

  02-04-2025 23:22 via vtdigger.org
  
  Burke Mountain Ski Resort. Photo by Patrick McCaffrey via Wikimedia CommonsA local group that includes longtime Burke Mountain benefactors and community stakeholders is on the cusp of acquiring the Northeast Kingdom ski resort, according to people familiar with the deal. The group, Bear Den Partners LLC, includes members of the Graham family, who have previously invested heavily in the mountain, as well as Willy Booker, head of Burke Mountain Academy, an elite training school for skiers in
  
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• Legislative lawyer calls Phil Scott’s executive order on motels unconstitutional 

  02-04-2025 23:22 via vtdigger.org
  
  Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Baruth, D/P-Chittenden Central, urges senators to move the budget adjustment act forward without amendment at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThis story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.The Legislature’s chief lawyer has deemed Gov. Phil Scott’s move to extend motel voucher eligibility for a narrow segment o
  
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• Vermont Conversation: Retiring Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine on the state of public health in Vermont

  02-04-2025 22:23 via vtdigger.org
  
  
  Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine briefs a joint meeting of the House Agriculture, Food Resilience and Forestry Committee and the House Health Care Committees on bird flu at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Tuesday, February 11. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues. Listen below and subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcas
  
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• Hundreds of Vermont schools and child care facilities do not meet herd immunity threshold for measles

  02-04-2025 20:29 via vtdigger.org
  
  The United States is in the midst of a surge in measles cases driven by unvaccinated children. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 483 measles cases so far in 2025. If the current pace of spread were to continue, it would make this year the worst for measles in the 21st century. About 97% of cases have been in unvaccinated people or people with unknown vaccine status, the CDC reported. Three-quarters of cases have been in people under the age of 20. Seventy
  
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• Learning to use art, to heal

  02-04-2025 18:11 via vtdigger.org
  
  In the 12 years Lydia Littwin worked as an educator at a South Burlington art studio, she taught hundreds of children in afterschool classes and summer camps. But the adult students intrigued her the most: the retired professional feeling adrift in retirement, the man recovering from a catastrophic injury.“They weren’t there only to learn art. Yes, they wanted to paint, but on the foundation of an entire life already lived,” Lydia says. While children follow an intrinsic desire
  
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• Tufts PhD student was transported to Vermont after arrest in Massachusetts by immigration officials, court records show

  02-04-2025 18:00 via vtdigger.org
  
  Hundreds of people gather in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 26, 2025, to demand the release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student at Tufts University, who was arrested by federal agents. Photo by Michael Casey/APA Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University who was detained by federal agents in Massachusetts last week — and whose case has since drawn national attention — was later taken to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in St. Albans and held there overnight
  
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• Tufts graduate student was held in Vermont after arrest in Massachusetts by immigration agents, feds say

  02-04-2025 18:00 via vtdigger.org
  
  Hundreds of people gather in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 26, 2025, to demand the release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student at Tufts University, who was arrested by federal agents. Photo by Michael Casey/APUpdated at3:26 p.m.A Turkish graduate student at Tufts University who was detained by federal agents in Massachusetts last week — and whose case has since drawn national attention — was later taken to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Vermont and held
  
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• Mental health professionals support law enforcement to build safer communities

  02-04-2025 17:44 via vtdigger.org
  
  Crisis Intervention Specialist Rob Condolora of UCS talks with Cpl. David Faden of the Bennington Police Department.Bridging the GapA mental health professional and a law enforcement officer may seem an unlikely partnership, but the practice of pairing these professionals together has been in existence in Vermont for over a decade and is more recently gaining increased traction in Bennington County and across Vermont. United Counseling Service of Bennington County (UCS) embeds crisis interv
  
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• Kathleen (Katra) Faust

  02-04-2025 17:15 via vtdigger.org
  
  Born June 1, 1949Jamestown, New YorkDied March 30, 2025Keene, New HampshireDetails of servicesA celebration of life will be held to honor her vibrant spirit. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in her memory.Kathleen (Katra) Marie Faust, born June 1, 1949, passed away peacefully on March 30, 2025 at Covenant Living in Keene, New Hampshire, after a courageous journey with Alzheimer’s disease.Born to Helen Peterson Faust and Kenneth Faust, Katra
  
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• Brady Fox: Let’s expand employee stock ownership programs

  02-04-2025 13:05 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Brady Fox of Winooski. He is an engineer in the leadership development program at PC Construction in South Burlington.I recently heard about a report from Gallup that found overall job satisfaction across America has matched a record low and employees are seeking new jobs at the highest rate since 2015. Workers have grown so frustrated by their jobs that Gallup has even given this moment a name — the “Great Detachment.”I have a lot of sympathy for my peers
  
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• Rep. Mike Mrowicki: Know who believes in climate change?

  02-04-2025 13:01 via vtdigger.org
  
  This commentary is by Rep. Mike Mrowicki, D-Putney.The costs of climate change keep growing and any mention of making Vermont more affordable without addressing the climate chaos we’re experiencing is shortsighted.So, for those still in denial that climate change is real and that it requires action: know who believes in climate change? Your insurance company! Rates all over are rising to cover nationwide losses. And in some places companies are packing up and leaving states to fi
  
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• Final Reading: Some important changes to your favorite Vermont Statehouse newsletter 

  02-04-2025 00:30 via vtdigger.org
  
  Photo illustration by Natalie Williams. Photos by Mike Doughterty/VTDigger and Ketut Subiyanto/Pexels Step aside, policy nerds: This is now a basketball newsletter.Emboldened by my top-10 ranking — at least for now — in the Statehouse’s March Madness NCAA Championship bracket pool, I’ll be shifting from covering the ins and outs of Vermont politics to the happenings on and off the court, finally getting a chance to show the world my exhaustive, intricate knowledge of ball
  
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• Winhall to revote on selectboard seat expansion after decisive Town Meeting Day vote

  02-04-2025 00:05 via vtdigger.org
  
  Residents listen to discussion during town meeting on Tuesday, March 4. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerIn the small town of Winhall in the northeast corner of Bennington County, beneath the shadow of Stratton Mountain, a debate has ensued over the number of residents who should serve on the selectboard and steer the town forward. On Town Meeting Day last month, Winhall residents, after a lengthy dialogue on the meeting floor, voted 47-27 to expand the three-seat selectboard to a five-member
  
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