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At least two new Afghans and several hundred asylum seekers from Venezuela, Haiti and Ukraine who resettled in Vermont were set to lose their legal status this month due to recent federal orders.
Austyn Gaffney covers the environment for VTDigger and is an instructor for the Community News Service at the University of Vermont.
The $2.4 million in terminated Vermont grants funded positions that focused on “everything from housing placement services, food security, to job training, to after school programming” and flood ...
Mahdawi was detained earlier this month by federal immigration authorities after attempting to complete the process of becoming an American citizen.
Despite her mounting health challenges, Susan took pride in keeping her check book balanced, and her bedside table stacked high with books.
She is lovingly remembered for her fierce independent spirit, her love for children and for teaching, her commitment to social justice, her wry and playful sense of humor, her competitive Scrabble ...
BENNINGTON — A jury convicted Max Misch in Bennington Superior criminal court after a one-day trial on Tuesday for two misdemeanor charges of illegal possession of high-capacity firearm magazines. A ...
The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author is returning to Vermont to lead the nonprofit news organization’s next era of investigative journalism.
Pope Francis called on all of us to bring mercy, dignity and humanity to our criminal legal systems. This commentary is by Tom Dalton of Essex Junction, executive director of Vermonters for Criminal ...
This commentary is by Mary Dingee Fillmore of Burlington. She is author of the award-winning “An Address in Amsterdam,” an historical novel about a young Jewish woman who joins the anti-Nazi ...
This commentary is by Daniel Wick. He grew up in Burlington and is now a student at Syracuse University, studying for a degree in fashion design.