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• Twinfield teacher charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly drawing on student’s throat

  13-09-2024 22:48 via vtdigger.org
  
  A teacher at Twinfield Union School is facing a charge of aggravated disorderly conduct for allegedly using a permanent marker to draw around a student’s throat, according to Vermont State Police.Kathleen Wheelock, 48, of Montpelier, allegedly drew on the student after that student used a permanent marker on a whiteboard, police said. The incident occurred Sept. 5, according to a state police press release, although authorities began investigating on Sept. 10. “The student was n
  
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• Where Democrats lost ground in Vermont’s House

  07-11-2024 00:29 via vtdigger.org
  
  In Tuesday’s election, Vermonters voted to change the balance of power in the state’s House of Representatives during the next legislative biennium. Republicans picked up 17 seats, bringing their ranks to 55 in the 150-member chamber. Democrats held 105 seats alone by the end of the 2023-2024 session, but now will be left with just 88, meaning they’ve lost their supermajority. Their numbers are bolstered by alliances with Progressives and independents, who will occupy the
  
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• Trailing by more than 6,000 votes, Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman has yet to concede to John Rodgers

  06-11-2024 23:43 via vtdigger.org
  
  David Zuckerman, left, and John Rodgers. Photos by Riley Robinson and Mike Doughtery/VTDiggerThough unofficial results show that he lost Tuesday’s election for lieutenant governor of Vermont, Progressive/Democratic incumbent David Zuckerman had yet to concede the race as of Wednesday evening — even as his opponent, Republican John Rodgers, was all but declaring victory.“Vermont, we have a new lieutenant governor,” Rodgers wrote on his campaign Facebook page Wednesday morn
  
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• OneCare Vermont to shut down

  06-11-2024 23:08 via vtdigger.org
  
  Abe Berman, CEO of OneCare Vermont. Courtesy OneCare VermontOneCare Vermont, an accountable care organization aiming to reform how health care in Vermont is paid for, will shut down at the end of 2025, the organization announced Wednesday.The University of Vermont Health Network subsidiary was the lead organization running the state’s “all-payer” model, a health care reform program that seeks to improve Vermonters’ health and decrease costs. The all-payer model, a federal
  
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• Vermont’s federal delegation reflects on a new reality in Washington

  06-11-2024 23:05 via vtdigger.org
  
  From left: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Becca Balint and Sen. Peter Welch. Photos by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThough Vermont’s congressional delegation didn’t face much in the way of a challenge on Election Day, their role in Congress will look different with Republicans taking control of the White House and the Senate.U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt, and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, easily bested their opponents on Tuesday. But along with U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt, who wasn’t up f
  
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• Town-by-town election results: How Vermonters voted in key races on Tuesday

  06-11-2024 23:00 via vtdigger.org
  
  All 247 Vermont municipalities have reported their results, and the 2024 election is over. But what about your town? Or the next one over? How did those residents vote? The Green Mountain State chose a Democrat for president and Republicans for governor and lieutenant governor. Find out how each town in Vermont voted in those races with our interactive maps below.Shortly after the polls closed, media outlets began calling Vice President Kamala Harris’ unsurprising win in Vermont, wher
  
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• Republican gains in Vermont House cast new spotlight on speaker’s race

  06-11-2024 22:40 via vtdigger.org
  
  Laura Sibilia, left, and Jill Krowinski. Photos by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerDemocrats’ Election Day loss of their supermajority in the 150-member Vermont House is casting a new spotlight on the coming race for the chamber’s top leadership post.Incumbent Speaker Jill Krowinski, D-Burlington, is set to run for a third term at the podium in January against at least one challenger: independent Rep. Laura Sibilia of Dover.Sibilia, who just won an uncontested race for her Windham-2 district s
  
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• Vermont Conversation: Former Gov. Madeleine Kunin on the next Trump presidency

  06-11-2024 21:56 via vtdigger.org
  
  
  Former Governor Madeleine Kunin speaks at a campaign event for democratic candidate for Lt. Governor Molly Gray in Burlington on February 27, 2020.File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and national issues with politicians, activists, artists, changemakers and citizens who are making a difference. Listen below, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spot
  
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• Mickey Nowak: Even early on, the Long Trail welcomed female hikers

  06-11-2024 13:15 via vtdigger.org
  
  Dear Editors,As a Long Trail hiker for the last 50 years I enjoyed the essay, “Then Again: Treasuring the trail” about the “Three Musketeers” — Catherine Robbins, Hilda Kurth andKathleen Norris — hiking the Long Trail together in 1927.It’s a great story about a great adventure, but I would like to take issue with one topic. The author, Mark Bushnell, makes the statement that, “Womanhood wasn’t widely seen as being compatible with such rigors
  
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• PHOTOS: Winners, losers and election night watchers

  06-11-2024 08:37 via vtdigger.org
  
  Supporters of Gov. Phil Scott applaud as he delivers his victory speech at the Associated General Contractors of Vermont building in Montpelier on Tuesday. Photo by Josh Kuckens/VTDiggerThroughout the state on Tuesday night, Vermonters waited as the results of the 2024 election trickled in — whether huddled around the TV at election watch parties or glued to their phones for updates. Photographers Glenn Russell and Josh Kuckens followed candidates and voters as the results were called.Need
  
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• Vermont GOP knocks off two Democratic House chairs

  06-11-2024 05:49 via vtdigger.org
  
  Diane Lanpher, left, and Mike McCarthy. Photos by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Democratic chairs of two House committees were unseated Tuesday by Republican challengers — as was an assistant majority leader of the party — ensuring major changes to the chamber when lawmakers return to Montpelier in January.Their losses came as Republicans appeared to pick up multiple seats in the Vermont Senate. Rep. Diane Lanpher, D-Vergennes, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, came in
  
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• Democrats lose supermajority in the Vermont House — and a pair of committee chairs

  06-11-2024 05:49 via vtdigger.org
  
  Rep. Diane Lanpher, left, and Rep. Mike McCarthy lost their bids for reelection Tuesday. Photos by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerUpdated Nov. 6 at 2:12 a.m.The Democratic supermajority in the Vermont House is no more. Republicans picked up 18 seats in the 150-member chamber on Tuesday, dramatically reshaping power dynamics in the House. They’re set to hold 55 seats in the next biennium — enough to prevent Democrats and Progressives, who will hold 92 seats together, from overriding Repub
  
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• Democrats lose supermajority — and a pair of committee chairs — in the Vermont House

  06-11-2024 05:49 via vtdigger.org
  
  Rep. Diane Lanpher, left, and Rep. Mike McCarthy lost their bids for reelection Tuesday. Photos by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerUpdated Nov. 6 at 2:12 a.m.The Democratic supermajority in the Vermont House is no more. Republicans picked up 18 seats in the 150-member chamber on Tuesday, dramatically reshaping power dynamics in the House. They’re set to hold 55 seats in the next biennium — enough to prevent Democrats and Progressives, who will hold 92 seats together, from overriding Repub
  
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• Burlington residents approve police oversight item as Vermonters cast their votes for town ballot items

  06-11-2024 04:04 via vtdigger.org
  
  Hardwick residents cast their ballots at the Municipal Building on Tuesday afternoon as Vermonters head to the polls for the 2024 General Election. Photo by Josh Kuckens/VTDiggerAmid a presidential election and several statewide races, Vermont residents also had several ballot items to cast their votes for on Tuesday.The items include several multimillion-dollar projects — including what’s been dubbed the largest infrastructure project in Shelburne’s history — as well as
  
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• Vermonters on edge as they await presidential election results

  06-11-2024 03:41 via vtdigger.org
  
  People follow election results during a Democratic Party election night gathering in South Burlington on Tuesday, November 5. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThis story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.Huddled around the TV at election watch parties, or glued to their phone screens for updates, Vermonters on Tuesday night waited as the results of the 2024 presidential race trickled in. Without many suspen
  
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• John Rodgers unseats David Zuckerman as lieutenant governor of Vermont

  06-11-2024 03:20 via vtdigger.org
  
  David Zuckerman, left, and John Rodgers. Photos by Riley Robinson and Mike Doughtery/VTDiggerUpdated Nov. 6, at 1:37 a.m.John Rodgers, a Republican from Glover, was elected lieutenant governor of Vermont Tuesday, unseating Progressive/Democrat Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman in a rare ouster of a statewide incumbent. The dramatic conclusion came at the end of a highly competitive — and at times highly personal — contest for the state’s second highest-ranking office. READ MOREThe
  
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• John Rodgers poised to unseat David Zuckerman as lieutenant governor of Vermont

  06-11-2024 03:20 via vtdigger.org
  
  David Zuckerman, left, and John Rodgers. Photos by Riley Robinson and Mike Doughtery/VTDiggerUpdated at 1:11 a.m.John Rodgers, a Republican from Glover, was on the verge of winning Vermont’s lieutenant gubernatorial race early Wednesday morning, almost certainly unseating Progressive/Democrat David Zuckerman in what would be a rare ouster of a statewide incumbent. The dramatic conclusion came at the end of a highly competitive — and at times highly personal — contest for the st
  
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• David Zuckerman, John Rodgers locked in tight race for lieutenant governor

  06-11-2024 03:20 via vtdigger.org
  
  David Zuckerman, left, and John Rodgers. Photos by Riley Robinson and Mike Doughtery/VTDiggerUpdated at 9:41 p.m.Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman, a Progressive/Democrat, and John Rodgers, a Republican, were locked in a tight race for Vermont’s second-highest office as of 9:40 p.m. on Tuesday with more than 60% of Vermont’s towns and cities reporting.Neither candidate was clearly ahead of the other as statewide results continued to trickle in.Rodgers led with 49% of the vote to Zuckerma
  
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• Republicans flip six seats in the Vermont Senate, shattering Democratic supermajority

  06-11-2024 03:14 via vtdigger.org
  
  The Senate meets at the Statehouse in Montpelier on March 23, 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerUpdated at 1:31 a.m.The Vermont Republican Party has dismantled Democrats’ supermajority in the Vermont Senate, unseating four incumbents and dominating races for open seats.Republicans toppled Democratic incumbents in the Addison, Orange, Chittenden-North and Grand Isle districts, according to unofficial results provided by the Secretary of State’s Office, and they picked up anoth
  
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• Republicans flip seats in Vermont Senate

  06-11-2024 03:14 via vtdigger.org
  
  Patrick Brennan, left, and Chris Mattos. Photos by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerUpdated at 10:03 p.m.The Vermont Republican Party has had its eyes on the state Senate as its best option for disrupting the supermajority Democrats have held in both legislative chambers.Early results Tuesday night suggested it was making progress toward that goal. By around 9 p.m., the GOP had flipped its first seat, with Rep. Patrick Brennan, R-Colchester, ousting recently appointed Democratic Sen. Andy Julow in the
  
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• Republicans flip multiple seats in Vermont Senate, shattering Democratic supermajority

  06-11-2024 03:14 via vtdigger.org
  
  The Senate meets at the Statehouse in Montpelier on March 23, 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerUpdated at 12:36 a.m.The Vermont Republican Party has disrupted Democrats’ supermajority in the Vermont Senate, unseating multiple incumbents and dominating races for open seats.Republicans toppled Democratic incumbents in the Addison, Chittenden-North and Grand Isle districts, according to Tuesday night results, and were poised to pick up another two open seats that are being vacated by
  
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• Republicans flip multiple seats in Vermont Senate

  06-11-2024 03:14 via vtdigger.org
  
  Patrick Brennan, left, and Chris Mattos. Photos by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerUpdated at 10:38 p.m.The Vermont Republican Party has had its eyes on the state Senate as its best option for disrupting the supermajority Democrats have held in both legislative chambers.Early results Tuesday night suggested it was likely to achieve that goal. By around 9 p.m., the GOP had flipped its first seat, with Rep. Patrick Brennan, R-Colchester, ousting recently appointed Democratic Sen. Andy Julow in the Gran
  
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• Republicans flip Grand Isle Senate seat

  06-11-2024 03:14 via vtdigger.org
  
  Patrick Brennan, seen at home in Colchester on Tuesday, September 24. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerThe Vermont Republican Party has had its eyes on the state Senate as its best option for disrupting the supermajority Democrats have held in both legislative chambers.And around 9 p.m., the GOP had flipped its first seat, with Rep. Patrick Brennan, R-Colchester, ousting recently appointed Democratic Sen. Andy Julow in the Grand Isle district.Brennan carried the seat with 51% of the vote to Julow&
  
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• Most statewide officeholders in Vermont heading to victory

  06-11-2024 02:17 via vtdigger.org
  
  Clockwise from top left: Doug Hoffer, Charity Clark, Mike Pieciak and Sarah Copeland Hanzas. File photos by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerUpdated at 8:33 p.m.Vermonters appeared certain to reelect the state’s attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer and auditor of accounts by comfortable margins Tuesday, sending a slate of incumbent Democrats (and one Democrat/Progressive) back to office. Unofficial results from the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office just after 8:30 p.m. indicat
  
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• Most statewide officeholders in Vermont cruise to victory

  06-11-2024 02:17 via vtdigger.org
  
  Clockwise from top left: Doug Hoffer, Charity Clark, Mike Pieciak and Sarah Copeland Hanzas. File photos by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerBy Peter D’AuriaUpdated at 9:40 p.m.Vermonters reelected the state’s attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer and auditor of accounts by comfortable margins Tuesday, sending a slate of incumbent Democrats (and one Democrat/Progressive) back to office. Unofficial results from the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office just after 9:40 p.m. sho
  
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• Vermont easily reelects Gov. Phil Scott for his fifth two-year term

  06-11-2024 01:44 via vtdigger.org
  
  Governor Phil Scott speaks with the media after casting his ballot in Berlin on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Photo by Josh Kuckens/VTDiggerVermonters want two more years of Gov. Phil Scott.The Associated Press called the four-term Republican’s victory just after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night, less than an hour after the polls closed. The Associated Press called the four-term Republican’s victory just after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night, less than an hour after polls closed in Vermont. Scott faced a cha
  
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• Gov. Phil Scott easily wins reelection to a fifth term leading Vermont

  06-11-2024 01:44 via vtdigger.org
  
  Governor Phil Scott speaks with the media after casting his ballot in Berlin on Tuesday. Photo by Josh Kuckens/VTDiggerUpdated at9:08 p.m.Vermonters want two more years of Gov. Phil Scott.The Associated Press called the four-term Republican’s victory just after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night, half an hour after polls closed in Vermont. Scott, of Berlin, faced a challenge from Democratic nominee Esther Charlestin, a political newcomer and education consultant who lives in South Burlington.Scott an
  
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• Gov. Phil Scott easily wins reelection to a fifth term — and carries fellow Republicans to the Legislature

  06-11-2024 01:44 via vtdigger.org
  
  Governor Phil Scott delivers his victory speech at the Associated General Contractors of Vermont building in Montpelier on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Photo by Josh Kuckens/VTDiggerUpdated at12:19 a.m.Vermonters overwhelmingly backed Gov. Phil Scott in his bid for reelection on Tuesday — and many answered his call to elect new Republican lawmakers to help him combat the Democratic majority in Montpelier.That the Berlin Republican won his fifth two-year term, defeating Democratic nominee Esther C
  
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• Gov. Phil Scott easily wins reelection to a 5th term — and breaks the Democratic supermajority  in the Legislature

  06-11-2024 01:44 via vtdigger.org
  
  Governor Phil Scott delivers his victory speech at the Associated General Contractors of Vermont building in Montpelier on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Photo by Josh Kuckens/VTDiggerUpdated Nov. 6 at 1:47 a.m.Vermonters overwhelmingly backed Gov. Phil Scott in his bid for reelection on Tuesday — and answered his call to elect new Republican lawmakers to help him combat the Democratic majority in Montpelier.That the Berlin Republican won his fifth two-year term, defeating Democratic nominee Esther
  
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• Sen. Bernie Sanders coasts to reelection

  06-11-2024 01:06 via vtdigger.org
  
  U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, pictured with his spouse, Jane O’Meara Sanders, speaks to members of the press after casting his ballot in Burlington on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Photo by Klara Bauters/VTDiggerUpdated at 7:19 p.m. Vermonters handily reelected Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. on Tuesday. The Associated Press called the race for Sanders the moment the polls closed in Vermont at 7 p.m. Sanders, 83, served as mayor of Burlington in the 1980s and first won election to the U.S.
  
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