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VTDigger · Winooski, VT
Nearby: Winooski, VTThis commentary is by Caitlin MacLeod-Bluver, a teacher at Winooski High School. She is the 2025 Vermont Teacher of the Year and the 2026 Vermont History Teacher of the Year. In the WCAX debate on Oct. 28, Gov. Phil Scott incorrectly claimed that the Winooski School District offers 17 languages, unlike smaller, more rural districts that may offer only one or two. This is false. Winooski offers one language, French. Elementary school students have no language opportunities, middle school students take French for one quarter, and high school students are offered French I or French II. When Scott claims that Winooski offers 17 languages, it is not just a curriculum mistake. It is a remark that serves to pit our rural, largely white communities against our more urban, more diverse communities. This misinformation fuels anti-immigrant, xenophobic thinking that hurts our students, our families and our communities. Collectively, our student body does speak at least 17 languages.
Seven Days · Burlington, VT
Nearby: Burlington, VTThe past six years were bumpy ones for the students and staff of Burlington High School. In 2020, the pandemic shifted students to remote learning. Later that fall, the New North End campus closed due to PCB contamination, and BHS moved into a former Macy’s department store downtown. The high-school-in-a-mall story went viral, capturing attention around the world. Downtown Burlington High School was windowless and noisy, and some students struggled to adapt. Finally, this past August, students returned to a brand-new, 256,000-square-foot, $204 million building on the site of the old BHS. This month, the BHS Drama Club stages its first musical in the state-of-the-art auditorium. Guys and Dolls, which runs November 19 through 21, represents an exciting new chapter for the club, which has built an impressive legacy over the past 30 years but faced a change in leadership and dwindling participation during the mall years.
VTDigger · Plattsburgh, NY
Nearby: Plattsburgh, NYThis story by Mari Huglin was first published in the Shelburne News on Nov. 5, 2026. On Oct. 2, Shelburne resident Lucille Malaney began a journey she would never forget. The 83-year-old, a United States Air Force veteran who served during the Vietnam War, joined around 30 other veterans for a flight from Plattsburgh, New York, to Washington, D.C. North Country Honor Flight, based in New York and Vermont, is an organization that celebrates veterans by giving them a flight to honor their service fully free of charge. Once Malaney arrived in Plattsburgh, the organization gathered the veterans before sunrise for patriotic music and a celebration of each veteran’s military biography and speeches. Sent off by first responders and members of the community, veterans then boarded a plane and flew to Virginia. Malaney said she and some of the other veterans were getting embarrassed with all the attention so early in the morning.
NYT > World News · Peru, NY
Nearby: Peru, NYGPS-linked devices have been insisting that Ukrainians are in Lima, the Peruvian capital. The culprit is a jamming system built to thwart Russian airstrikes.
NYT > World News · Peru, NY
Nearby: Peru, NYIn Peru, where Leo XIV lived for two decades and became a citizen, the pope was met by President Keiko Fujimori, whose father’s policies he had protested.
NYT > World News · Peru, NY
Nearby: Peru, NYPope Leo spent nearly two decades in Peru, rising to bishop and becoming a citizen. But many Peruvians have turned to evangelical churches, seeking a more expressive and direct connection to God.
VTDigger · Montpelier, VT
Nearby: Montpelier, VTDear Reader, Today, you can support two worthy causes with one donation. Make a year-end gift to VTDigger and you will also provide 10 meals to the Vermont Foodbank. Donate and send 10 meals Last fall, when the government shutdown disrupted food assistance, I spoke with Vermonters flooding to the state’s food shelves, and watched leaders in Montpelier approve emergency funding to restore benefits. Since then, provisions in the federal budget law known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act have further tightened access to SNAP. The Vermont Foodbank says about 5,000 people in Vermont have lost their benefits since the changes took effect. VTDigger has worked this year to track the impacts of those federal changes, as well as following state-level shifts in food assistance and the struggles of local service providers. Will you make a gift today to support reporting on these issues? Every gift during VTDigger’s year-end drive will also send 10 meals to the Vermont Foodbank.
VTDigger · Montpelier, VT
Nearby: Montpelier, VTMONTPELIER — Four years after buying a 138-acre former golf course to help solve its housing crisis, Montpelier finally has its most detailed development blueprint to date for Country Club Road. Under a non-binding letter of intent approved unanimously by the Montpelier City Council, developer DEW Properties has proposed building an initial 108 housing units on roughly 20 buildable acres along the site’s lower ridge. The agreement represents the most concrete vision produced for the Country Club Road property since city voters authorized its purchase in 2022. “We were just eager to get involved if they wanted us involved,” Robert Wells, development coordinator for DEW Properties, told VTDigger Monday. “So happy that the (selection) process is done now, and we can get started.” Shovels aren’t set to hit dirt until around 2028, though, Wells said.
White River Valley Herald · Orleans, VT
Nearby: Orleans, VTThe Vermont Department of Health has confirmed a “small number” of connected measles cases in Orleans County, it said Monday. An investigation and response are ongoing, according to a release. The department is asking health care providers to maintain a heightened awareness and report suspected cases immediately, even if there is not yet laboratory confirmation of infection. “The risk presented […] You must be an online subscriber to view this story. Please subscribe or buy this week's issue here or login below. The full version of this story will be available to all readers after 1 week. Full versions of news stories from the current week are available to online subscribers only. Access to full versions of news stories from issues older than 1 week are available to all readers for free in our archive of all issues. Forgot Password The post Measles Cases Found in Orleans County, Officials Warn first appeared on The White River Valley Herald.
VTDigger · Orleans, VT
Nearby: Orleans, VTThe Vermont Department of Health has confirmed a “small number” of connected measles cases in Orleans County, it said Monday. An investigation and response are ongoing, according to a release. The department is asking healthcare providers to maintain a heightened awareness and report suspected cases immediately, even if there is not yet laboratory confirmation of infection. “The risk presented to most Vermonters by the current situation is low,” department spokesperson Kyle Casteel wrote in an email. He said the department’s epidemiologists are in the field responding to the situation but will be able to provide further detail soon. The Health Department released a health advisory to providers Monday followed by formal confirmation of the disease later in the day.
wdtimes.com · Danville, VT
Nearby: Danville, VTHave you ever heard a sermon that changed your life? Some sermons I have heard in church or read online have stuck with me and have been transforming over time. They have usually included a personal witness like this one.The late Alan Parker told this vision story in a sermon about the Transfiguration at his church in Danville, Vermont on Feb. 19, 2012.“I was a confused, self-absorbed, often-obnoxious little twit when I was a kid. I’d spent the first five years of my life in Heaven, on our family’s farm in North Danville, being a farmer kid with my father’s undivided attention in the barn and fields.“Then, suddenly, I was a preacher’s kid in Hardwick. And I had no idea how to act in community; among kids my own age. I turned into a liar, a petty thief, and a wise guy. I never seemed to be able to make and keep friends. Oh, I had my good times and moments, but I was pretty miserable.“After five years in Hardwick, my family moved to Newport when my father was called to the church there.
