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Abroad for 16 years, this is the first time Auran Hashimi, Wazir Hashimi’s brother, has celebrated Nowruz with the Afghan community in Vermont.
Source: https://vtdigger.org/2023/03/19/vermont-afghans-celebrate-nowruz-hope-for-a-sweet-future/
“Advocates” say that Vermont has the highest homeless rate in the nation and that there are more people seeking emergency housing now than before the pandemic.
Source: https://vtdigger.org/2023/04/05/tom-evslin-legislators-have-squandered-money-and-opportunity/
After getting people through the gate, Vermont Green strives to not only entertain, but educate them.
Source: https://grist.org/culture/how-one-soccer-team-makes-climate-progress-its-goooal/
After hours of debate this week, the Vermont House approved legislation on Thursday that would increase legislators’ pay by 2027 — a move supporters have argued will make serving in Montpelier more accessible for people from diverse backgrounds.
Source: https://vtdigger.org/2023/05/11/final-reading-legislature-oks-another-2-years-of-to-go-cocktails/
A full third of the Vermont Legislature recently co-sponsored H.111, authored by Rep. Katherine Sims, a Democrat from Craftsbury, and Rep. James Harrison, a Republican from North Chittenden.
Source: https://vtdigger.org/2023/02/19/ted-brady-local-officials-eager-to-partner-to-build-more-housing/
Agents in the sector that covers the Canadian border in eastern New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire apprehended more than 1,000 migrants in the first month of FY24.
Ahmad’s parents are expected to arrive in Vermont on Saturday.
Source: https://www.denver7.com/far-from-the-west-bank-vermont-shooting-victims-face-new-fear
A home at 3164 Vermont Dr. in Lower Burrell on Saturday morning after it was damaged by fire the night before.
All told, if the same storm had shifted 50 miles to the west — where there were 4 to 6 inches of rain, and in some places, as much as 8 inches — Vermont could have seen July-level flooding along the stem of its main rivers, Whittier said.
Amid record levels of overdoses in Vermont, advocates have called for more addiction recovery services, including residential beds.
Among the bill’s most steadfast supporters was James Lyall, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont.
Source: https://vtdigger.org/2023/06/20/after-whirlwind-day-vermont-lawmakers-adjourn-veto-session-early/
And here in Vermont, in 2023, some among us find renewable energy ugly.
Source: https://vtdigger.org/2023/01/25/henry-kronk-what-if-renewable-energy-was-beautiful/
Andrew Chalnick and Tyler Barnes were this month elected to three- and two-year terms on the board, respectively, replacing Vermont Sen. Thomas Chittenden and Matt Cota.
Source: https://vtdigger.org/2023/03/19/south-burlington-city-council-looks-at-expansion-wards/
A Notice of Violation from the Vermont Cannabis Control Board cites video evidence of Deyhle delivering cannabis to the business on the Tall Truck Instagram profile.
Apart from Colorado, only nine states — Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont, California, Hawaii, New Jersey, Maine and New Mexico — and the District of Columbia currently allow it.
A separate memorandum of understanding between the department and the Vermont organization referred to in the order also states that the latter will not terminate or lay off employees without the former’s consent.
As four corrections commissioners have reminded me (Con Hogan, Jim Baker, Lisa Menard, and current Commissioner Nick Deml), the Vermont Department of Corrections does not put people in jails.
Source: https://vtdigger.org/2023/03/12/bill-schubart-a-new-vermont-prison-build-it-and-they-will-come/
As much as 10 inches could fall in western Massachusetts, northwest Connecticut and southern Vermont.
As of now, schooling is not mandatory in Vermont until age 6, even as public schools are required to offer kindergarten to children age 5. But for many parents, child care is mandatory, given that most parents work for a living.
Authorities say he shot and seriously wounded Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ali Ahmad in Burlington on Saturday evening as they were walking near the University of Vermont.