From the Shelburne News: Matt Lawless, one of six “local celebrities” who performed in Dancing with the Burlington Stars, says it gave him a chance to “be in public in a different kind of way.”

The distribution of the more than $20 million to the 121 foreign investors who put at least $500,000 in the resort means each one gets back roughly 36% of their investment.

Three Democratic and two Republican members of the Vermont House were among hundreds of state legislators from the U.S. who visited Israel last week on a trip sponsored by the Israeli government.

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BREAKING: The suspect who sustained injuries is receiving medical care in police custody, while the unidentified Burlington Police Department officer who fired at the suspect has been placed on paid administrative leave.

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Many northerners were outraged that the law compelled them, under threat of a prison sentence or stiff fine, to work in support of slavery.

This week’s Young Writers Project entry is “Trees talk” by Isla Segal, 14, of Woodstock. Artwork is “Light Tree,” by Chloe Deliso.

OPINION — "If we allow ourselves to stop listening to one another, if we refuse to find common ground, then the very freedoms we cherish are at risk of slipping away," Sen. Major writes.

From the Montpelier Bridge: “Holding: Mementos Kept, Memories Kindled,” this year’s Art at the Kent exhibit at Kents Corner in Calais, opened Sept. 12.

From the Williston Observer: The Commerce Street location can be an all-encompassing headquarters: a rehearsal space, performance theater, prop storage and board meeting room.

“Vermont will bear the burdens of this facility but might not directly reap the environmental benefits that it provides,” wrote a commissioner in a concurring opinion.

From the Valley News: Meanwhile classrooms in the Hartford Area Career and Technical Center remain off limits for the second school year in a row due to air quality testing results.

After superintendent warns of harm to students from “slurs, symbols, and discriminatory behavior,” parents and community members criticize administration for inaction.

State and county reviews found that Capt. Jason Gray was justified in his use of force in the incident that has resulted in a suspect facing attempted murder charges for firing on him.

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OPINION — "How many millions would have been saved had the high-priority flood mitigation measures been implemented?" Stockwell writes.

Though still below pre-pandemic levels and its 2000s peak, Vermont’s growing prison population has caused overcrowding across the system. The state is assessing its options.

On Thursday, Executive Director Don Stevens said he received a pledge “out of the blue” of up to $43,600 to guarantee the pantry would make it through the winter.

Ahead of a CDC meeting expected to restrict access to vaccines, the department’s leaders said they will follow independent medical associations’ recommendations.

Water levels in Berlin Pond dropped just below the threshold to warrant conservation efforts, according to Kurt Motyka, director of Montpelier’s public works department.

Patients will no longer need to travel out of state for ongoing pre- and post-operative care.

On Thursday, 16 employees were set to receive formal notice they were losing their jobs.

The health network announced that Stephen Leffler, who leads the University of Vermont Medical Center, will serve as the network’s interim president and CEO.

Union members will vote on whether to ratify the contract in the coming days, the union president said.

No one had published a full accounting of the extraordinary amounts of public money spent on housing since 2020. We pieced it together.

As the state attempts to provide clarity for those who will lose benefits, advocates say the Vermont food assistance network is under increasing pressure.

“Two young, handsome Friesians have joined my herd,” the media personality wrote on social media last week.

The men scheduled to be sentenced next week for their roles in a 2018 fatal shooting in Danville include a Turkish magician and a former detention officer for a Colorado sheriff’s department.

A new legislative campaign aims to make it easier to export Germany’s successful portable solar installations to the U.S.

“Whatever label is used — a war crime, or crimes against humanity, or ethnic cleansing, or genocide — one thing is clear. This must end,” U.S. Sen. Peter Welch said on the Senate floor Wednesday.

“The beauty of free speech is it ensures that no single person or administration can declare by fiat what’s true or false, what’s right or wrong and make it illegal to disagree.”

She replaces Jessica Zaleski, who stepped down this summer.

“We need relief right now,” the governor said Wednesday, speaking about the order, which comes when legislators are out of session for the year.

“Standing up for the values of justice, equity, and our shared humanity has never been more important,” Jerry Greenfield said in a statement on social media.

During fall, trees gear up for winter by recycling nutrients from their leaves. And while experts are seeing the effects of drought on fall foliage, changes aren’t uniform across the state.

“When I’m told — or scolded — that this is too big of a problem, ‘You can’t save everybody’ — that’s true. I can’t. But I can save the person in front of me,” said Rev. Dr. Walter Brownridge.

“Everybody just needs to dial it down. Be civil,” one town selectboard member said.

In a new motion for summary judgment, the U.S. Department of Justice insists Vermont cannot make polluters pay for harm caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

The bus transportation company claims a strike would negatively affect the school community, while the union president said the company is not bargaining in good faith.

“It looks good but without any investigatory powers it lacks engines. And without any enforcement authority, it lacks landing gear. And so it might look like a plane that could get you someplace but this plane is never going to get off the ground.”

The agreement largely mirrors the state’s previous memorandum of understanding, but the feds will pay Vermont more for the use of state prisons and the arrangement has no set expiration date.

A Vermont Department of Human Resources investigation determined a misconduct allegation against Michaela Merrill was unfounded.

From the Archive: Journalist Edwin Burrage Child describes a blasting operation in which the foreman and an assistant take red-hot irons, which were heated by a blacksmith, and use them to ignite a series of 18 fuses. Then the men run for their lives to seek refuge with Child and the other men.

OPINION — "Effective wildfire prevention starts by funding and staffing key agencies and investing in proven fire-mitigation techniques like home hardening and science-based forest management. The Fix our Forests Act does neither," Parenteau, Deen, DesMeules and Cliburn write.

School officials from Stowe and Morristown said a merger is the best possible scenario for what they called a likelihood of district consolidation under H.454.

Residents say the tower violates their local zoning rules and would harm the scenic view from state-protected Tinmouth Channel, among other concerns.

UVM Health Network, the parent company of the state’s largest hospital, is “physically and spiritually distant” from its mission and from Vermonters’ needs, said the chair of the Green Mountain Care Board.

The vote was the result of a procedural error — town officials had failed to correctly warn the initial bond votes.

OPINION — "Why does Vermont keep choosing an all-payer approach to health care reform, as if bringing in — and regulating — the payers will be the solution?" Tatum writes.