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What we lose when we lose winter
New Hampshire Bulletin
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June 9, 2025
About 20 years ago, after a snowless, mild fall, graduate student researchers, hikers, snowmobilers, and antler-shed hunters began noticing something deeply disturbing: the bodies of dead moose calves lying on trails or in the woods, most of them...
Court Blocks Trump Administration’s Attempt To Dismantle AmeriCorps
CT News Junkie - Connecticut
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June 9, 2025
Attorney General William Tong speaks about online sales of non-approved weight loss products on May 21, 2025. Credit: Karla Ciaglo / CTNewsJunkie A coalition of attorneys general, including Connecticut’s William Tong, have won a court order that...
Can free money help people stay off drugs? These programs are trying it.
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Nothing stuck until Pagan, a 36-year-old personal caregiver from Revere, learned late last year of an innovative new program at Boston Medical Center that gave her a financial incentive to stay sober. Every time she took a drug test that was free...
Vermont cellphone ban in schools advances through Senate; what that means for your kids
NBC5 - Vermont
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May 28, 2025
Vermont may soon join the growing number of states banning cellphones in schools, as lawmakers work to pass a bill before the legislative session ends. The state Senate approved the measure Tuesday, and the House aims to push it through before the...
Danielle Marmer and Meghan Turner grew close as college teammates. Now, they’re rival GMs in the PWHL.
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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“I think those three months were great for me to kind of come to terms with making a pivot that I had not anticipated,” Turner said. “It was one of the things that really got me through a difficult experience down at basic training.” A letter from...
Vermont judge orders Harvard scientist freed from ICE custody, calling her detention unlawful
VTDigger - Vermont
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May 28, 2025
The Federal Building in Burlington houses the U.S. District Courthouse and the U.S. Postal Service. Photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDiggerA federal judge in Vermont has ordered the release of a Russian-born Harvard Medical School scientist from U.S....
Vermont Conversation: Jasper Hill Farm’s Mateo Kehler confronts Canadian boycott and Vermont’s affordable housing crisis
VTDigger - Vermont
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May 28, 2025
Get Vermont news sent to your inbox. Daily Digger is everything you need to know to start your day, delivered Monday-Saturday morning. The Vermont Conversation with David Goodman is a VTDigger podcast that features in-depth interviews on local and...
NBC 5 In Depth: Vermont State Parks open for season with new pilot program for entry
NBC5 - Vermont
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June 1, 2025
NBC 5 In Depth: Vermont State Parks open for season with new pilot program for entry First-in-nation program allows lower income Vermonters free entry into parks system Copy Link Copy {copyShortcut} to copy Updated: 10:49 AM EDT Jun 1, 2025 WHERE...
Women’s Soccer Drops 2025 Fall Schedule
BVM Sports
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May 28, 2025
Via Plattsburgh State Athletics, 6h ago By: Caleb Philips, Director of Athletic Communications 2025 Plattsburgh State Women’s Soccer Schedule PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. – The Plattsburgh State Women’s Soccer team has its sights set on the 2025 season, as...
Immigration arrests in Vermont expose vulnerabilities faced by dairy farmworkers
Prism
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May 28, 2025
Three dairy farmworkers detained in April, including during what advocates are calling the largest workplace immigration arrest in Vermont in recent history, were granted release on bond during hearings on May 13 and May 19 in Chelmsford,...
Education reform: Trust Vermont values
The Mountain Times - Vermont
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May 28, 2025
By David F. Kelley Editor’s Note: David Kelley is a Vermont attorney. He lives in Greensboro and is a former chair of the Hazen Union School Board. He was part of the legal team that represented more than two dozen rural elementary school...
Healing, joy and connection
The Mining Journal - Michigan
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Evan Premo of the Northwoods Music Collaborative with a Lullaby Project Participant. (Photo courtesy of Bette Premo) MARQUETTE — The Lullaby Project, a program out of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, is coming to Marquette. The international...
Education transformation
Rutland Herald - Vermont
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After a whirlwind finish to last week's activities in the Vermont Senate, progress on H.454 has been made to benefit our students and taxpayers. While there still is work to do, Governor Scott has stated he will veto anything that doesn't reduce...
Vermont Green dominates Providence City in friendly
WCAX - Vermont
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May 28, 2025
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont Green remained unbeaten in all competitions with a dominant 9-0 victory over Providence City Tuesday night in a friendly at Virtue Field. Jacob Labovitz was the hero for the Boys in Green, coming on in the second...
Vermont first responder saves drowning woman at Long Sands Beach in York
WGME - Maine
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YORK, Maine (WGME) -- A first responder from Vermont is the bystander who police say pulled a 20-year-old drowning victim out of the ocean at Long Sands Beach in York, performed CPR, and got her breathing again. York police say when officers and...
Bernie Sanders says Trump is rapidly moving the U.S. toward authoritarianism
The Mirror US
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June 9, 2025
Donald Trump has been accused of turning America toward authoritarianism after he deployed the National Guard in a bid to curb thousands of protesters. The clashes came on the third day of demonstrations against Trump’s immigration crackdown in...
Vermont refugee group launches language app
WCAX - Vermont
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May 27, 2025
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A Vermont group has launched a new app to assist in language translation. The Vermont Language Justice Project tries to help refugees, immigrants, and migrants adapt to daily life in the Green Mountain State. Over the last...
Vermont House calls for committee to review final version of Education Reform bill
NBC5 - Vermont
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May 27, 2025
Lawmakers were back in Montpelier on Tuesday to continue work on a last-minute Education Reform bill as the regular legislative session winds down.House lawmakers reviewed a new version of the bill they passed earlier this year. The Senate passed...
Vermont’s spelling bee veteran returns to the national spotlight
WCAX - Vermont
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May 27, 2025
WASHINGTON WCAX) - Vermont’s spelling bee champ is ready to show off her smarts in the nation’s capital. The preliminary rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee are underway, and 13-year-old Phoenix Newell from Riverside School in Lyndonville...
Rotary fighting food insecurity
The Inter-Mountain - West Virginia
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June 9, 2025
Submitted photos Just one of many deliveries to Heart and Hand House and the Barbour County Backpack Program. In 1905 a middle-aged attorney by the name of Paul Harris took a walk on a cold night in Chicago. He thought about his boyhood in the...