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- Sharon animal control officer resigns after allegedly shooting German shepherd in Tunbridge
Sharon animal control officer resigns after allegedly shooting German shepherd in Tunbridge -Damon Dyer, 31, of Tunbridge is scheduled to be arraigned June 29 in Orange Superior Court on one count of cruelty to animals following an investigation by the Vermont Warden Service into the April shooting death of an 11-year-old German shepherd.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Sharon animal control officer resigns after allegedly shooting German shepherd in Tunbridge.
- 10 UVM faculty members: Marginalized Abenaki voices were heard at UVM
10 UVM faculty members: Marginalized Abenaki voices were heard at UVM -Yes, the Abenaki of Odanak brought a controversial message to UVM. And they have watched with growing vexation and hurt over the last decades as their identity has been appropriated, their traditional territory claimed by others, and their market for Native crafts eroded.
Read the story on VTDigger here: 10 UVM faculty members: Marginalized Abenaki voices were heard at UVM.
- Geoffrey Pizzutillo: Lawmakers seek to block cannabis concentrates from adult-use market
Geoffrey Pizzutillo: Lawmakers seek to block cannabis concentrates from adult-use market -The Vermont Growers Association calls on lawmakers to regulate all cannabis concentrates for market viability, public health and safety.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Geoffrey Pizzutillo: Lawmakers seek to block cannabis concentrates from adult-use market.
- Nick Richardson: A generational change is under way in land conservation
Nick Richardson: A generational change is under way in land conservation -Climate change, persistent inequality, and economic trends in farming and forestry, among many other forces, are placing new pressures on Vermont’s land and communities — pressures that require all of us, and the work we do, to change.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Nick Richardson: A generational change is under way in land conservation.
- Michael Caldwell: Transitional lenses and transitional times
Michael Caldwell: Transitional lenses and transitional times -A weary world could awaken to a new way of being, a way that takes off dark glasses or rose-colored glasses and gets down to work in nations and neighborhoods full of opportunity for transitional behavior.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Michael Caldwell: Transitional lenses and transitional times.
- Vermont Nobel laureate Jody Williams eyes a new generation of peacemakers
Vermont Nobel laureate Jody Williams eyes a new generation of peacemakers -“Chatting with your friends is not a strategy for changing anything,” she told students during a visit to her alma mater, Brattleboro Union High School. “Change happens because we act.”
Read the story on VTDigger here: Vermont Nobel laureate Jody Williams eyes a new generation of peacemakers.
- Understaffed Springfield police department faces spate of shootings
Understaffed Springfield police department faces spate of shootings -The town experienced three shootings in one month on Valley Street. Meanwhile, the police department is down to five of a desired 12 patrollers. At least two more officers, including the chief, will leave by year’s end.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Understaffed Springfield police department faces spate of shootings.
- St. Albans changes course, won’t euthanize Moose the dog
St. Albans changes course, won’t euthanize Moose the dog -The city council opted to relocate Moose to Highgate, where a rescue worker will find the dog a more permanent home.
Read the story on VTDigger here: St. Albans changes course, won’t euthanize Moose the dog.
- Vermont hit especially hard by infant formula shortage due to state contract
Vermont hit especially hard by infant formula shortage due to state contract -Abbott Laboratories, whose plant was shut down by the Food and Drug Administration, was the biggest supplier of formula to Vermont’s Women, Infants and Children program.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Vermont hit especially hard by infant formula shortage due to state contract.
- Green Mountain Transit to stay fare-free for another year without reducing service
Green Mountain Transit to stay fare-free for another year without reducing service -Relying on a windfall of state and federal money, Vermont’s largest public transit provider will not charge riders for at least another year. But the agency still faces financial challenges.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Green Mountain Transit to stay fare-free for another year without reducing service.
- Vermont to wind down its state-run Covid-19 testing sites
Vermont to wind down its state-run Covid-19 testing sites -By late June, both take-home and PCR testing will be available only through pharmacies and health care providers.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Vermont to wind down its state-run Covid-19 testing sites.
- Bennington Battle Monument is undergoing assessment ahead of restoration work
Bennington Battle Monument is undergoing assessment ahead of restoration work -The $250,000 yearlong project seeks to determine the root causes of distress on the monument, which was completed in 1889.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Bennington Battle Monument is undergoing assessment ahead of restoration work.
- Jenna Peeler: Long Covid linked to ME/CFS. I never recovered.
Jenna Peeler: Long Covid linked to ME/CFS. I never recovered. -With Covid, conservative estimates predict that 8 million more Americans will contract ME/CFS. And yet we hear little about this disease.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Jenna Peeler: Long Covid linked to ME/CFS. I never recovered..
- State’s 2nd-largest hospital reopens Covid unit amid increase in hospitalizations
State’s 2nd-largest hospital reopens Covid unit amid increase in hospitalizations -Rutland Regional Medical Center reopened its coronavirus unit late last week, and the 10-bed unit is already full.
Read the story on VTDigger here: State’s 2nd-largest hospital reopens Covid unit amid increase in hospitalizations.
- Sharon animal control officer resigns after allegedly shooting German shepherd in Tunbridge
Sharon animal control officer resigns after allegedly shooting German shepherd in Tunbridge -Damon Dyer, 31, of Tunbridge is scheduled to be arraigned June 29 in Orange Superior Court on one count of cruelty to animals following an investigation by the Vermont Warden Service into the April shooting death of an 11-year-old German shepherd.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Sharon animal control officer resigns after allegedly shooting German shepherd in Tunbridge.
- 10 UVM faculty members: Marginalized Abenaki voices were heard at UVM
10 UVM faculty members: Marginalized Abenaki voices were heard at UVM -Yes, the Abenaki of Odanak brought a controversial message to UVM. And they have watched with growing vexation and hurt over the last decades as their identity has been appropriated, their traditional territory claimed by others, and their market for Native crafts eroded.
Read the story on VTDigger here: 10 UVM faculty members: Marginalized Abenaki voices were heard at UVM.
- Geoffrey Pizzutillo: Lawmakers seek to block cannabis concentrates from adult-use market
Geoffrey Pizzutillo: Lawmakers seek to block cannabis concentrates from adult-use market -The Vermont Growers Association calls on lawmakers to regulate all cannabis concentrates for market viability, public health and safety.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Geoffrey Pizzutillo: Lawmakers seek to block cannabis concentrates from adult-use market.
- Nick Richardson: A generational change is under way in land conservation
Nick Richardson: A generational change is under way in land conservation -Climate change, persistent inequality, and economic trends in farming and forestry, among many other forces, are placing new pressures on Vermont’s land and communities — pressures that require all of us, and the work we do, to change.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Nick Richardson: A generational change is under way in land conservation.
- Michael Caldwell: Transitional lenses and transitional times
Michael Caldwell: Transitional lenses and transitional times -A weary world could awaken to a new way of being, a way that takes off dark glasses or rose-colored glasses and gets down to work in nations and neighborhoods full of opportunity for transitional behavior.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Michael Caldwell: Transitional lenses and transitional times.
- Vermont Nobel laureate Jody Williams eyes a new generation of peacemakers
Vermont Nobel laureate Jody Williams eyes a new generation of peacemakers -“Chatting with your friends is not a strategy for changing anything,” she told students during a visit to her alma mater, Brattleboro Union High School. “Change happens because we act.”
Read the story on VTDigger here: Vermont Nobel laureate Jody Williams eyes a new generation of peacemakers.
- Understaffed Springfield police department faces spate of shootings
Understaffed Springfield police department faces spate of shootings -The town experienced three shootings in one month on Valley Street. Meanwhile, the police department is down to five of a desired 12 patrollers. At least two more officers, including the chief, will leave by year’s end.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Understaffed Springfield police department faces spate of shootings.
- St. Albans changes course, won’t euthanize Moose the dog
St. Albans changes course, won’t euthanize Moose the dog -The city council opted to relocate Moose to Highgate, where a rescue worker will find the dog a more permanent home.
Read the story on VTDigger here: St. Albans changes course, won’t euthanize Moose the dog.
- Vermont hit especially hard by infant formula shortage due to state contract
Vermont hit especially hard by infant formula shortage due to state contract -Abbott Laboratories, whose plant was shut down by the Food and Drug Administration, was the biggest supplier of formula to Vermont’s Women, Infants and Children program.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Vermont hit especially hard by infant formula shortage due to state contract.
- Green Mountain Transit to stay fare-free for another year without reducing service
Green Mountain Transit to stay fare-free for another year without reducing service -Relying on a windfall of state and federal money, Vermont’s largest public transit provider will not charge riders for at least another year. But the agency still faces financial challenges.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Green Mountain Transit to stay fare-free for another year without reducing service.
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