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BREAKING: While teaching a class to high school students on Wednesday, Burlington police officers staged a surprise demonstration in which a masked gunman burst into the room and pretended to open fire. The lack of warning sent students diving for cover
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Burlington resident Colin Burch was driving home last Saturday afternoon when he says a bullet fired by a police officer nearly hit him in the head #btv
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The mother of a transgender volleyball player at Randolph Union High School says her daughter was harassed and bullied by teammates, despite a TV news story last week that told the story differently — and went viral on right-wing media outlets
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A @VCFA student helped solve a 37-year-old California cold case murder by blogging about the teen victim. Police made an arrest Monday
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Vermonters who follow the positivity teachings of @GurdeepPandher saw their worlds collide in February. That's when Pandher posted a video featuring a handmade quilt sent to him by a fan from the tiny Northeast Kingdom town of Wheelock.
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Republican Vermont Gov. Phil Scott called on President Donald Trump to "resign or be removed from office" for inciting Wednesday's riot at the U.S. Capitol. In a statement, Scott accused the president of blatantly trying to spark an "insurrection"
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Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $20 million to Vermont’s largest affordable housing owner and manager, Champlain Housing Trust
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Fans around the world know him as @nothingnowhere , the boundary-pushing emo/hip-hop artist. But his Vermont friends just call him "Joe." "For so long I feel like I've been living almost a double life," he said.
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Slam poets Muslim Girls Making Change were invited to dine and perform last week at the Burlington Elks Lodge — where a club officer called the police on them. #BTV
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Booking video shows Madelyn Linsenmeir, a Vermonter whose obituary went viral for its frank depiction of her struggle with drugs, begging officers for medical care in the days before her death
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On Friday, Meagan Downey got a text from her daughter, Fiona, who had just started at Champlain Valley Union High School. “MOM,” read Fiona’s message, “I FLIPPED OFF THE ANTI-MASKERS AND SHE FLIPPED ME OFF BACK” photo by @GlennVermont / @vtdigger
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. @AOC and @BernieSanders dined together Saturday morning at Burlington's Penny Cluse Café #btv
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Lady Glaucomflecken aka Kirstin Flanary and one half of the Dr. Glaucomflecken comedy team, gives the keynote address at The University of Vermont Cancer Center Women's Health and Cancer Conference on Friday, Sept. 29.
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Responding to a wave of Fox News-fueled criticism, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott on Monday defended his decision to make all Black, Indigenous and people of color eligible for a vaccine, regardless of age
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Vermont Senate votes to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 by 2024:
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On Wednesday, after a third woman accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, Sen. Patrick Leahy called on President Trump to "immediately withdraw the nomination" #vtpoli
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Vermont Senate Votes to Increase the Legal Age for Gun Buyers to 21
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Naked and unafraid: Vermont women strip down for a photo shoot to #grabthembytheballot #vtpoli
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The Vermont Foodbank has received the largest gift in its history — $9 million — as part of a $4.2 billion blast of charitable giving announced this week by MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
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Gubernatorial candidate Cris Ericson wants to pardon Vermont prisoners on live TV based on the recommendation of a booing or cheering crowd:
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Three Needs bar in Burlington will require proof of COVID-19 vaccination; the new policy begins at 4 p.m. today.
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Vermont students from households that earn up to $60,000 a year will soon be eligible for free tuition for all four years at the University of Vermont
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Middlebury College is considering revoking an honorary degree it conferred upon Rudy Giuliani, citing his role in "fomenting" the storming of the U.S. Capitol, college president Laurie Patton announced Sunday
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The angry swarm of anti-maskers who descended on Burlington City Hall tried their hardest to convince city councilors to vote down a new masking ordinance. But the belligerent crowd failed: The council unanimously approved an indoor mask mandate #btv
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Matt Thorsen captured an enormous cross-section of Vermonters — from politicians to skateboarders, from dairy farmers to punk rockers. It was his way of communicating, and communing, with the world. We will miss him very much.
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UPDATE: Later Sunday evening, more than 250 people gathered in front of Burlington City Hall to condemn what they called a hate crime. The demonstrators lit candles for the victims and vowed to press the Palestinian cause even more vigorously #btv
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Middlebury College has made good on its threat to rescind the honorary doctor of laws degree that it conferred upon Rudy Giuliani in 2005
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BREAKING: Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, a Progressive state representative, has been elected the next mayor of Burlington. In unofficial results, Mulvaney-Stanak earned 51.4 percent of the vote, besting Democrat Joan Shannon, a longtime city councilor #BTV
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Neighbors in Action, a small nonprofit that provides thousands of meals and other help, will receive a gift from an unusual funding source this year: the $30,000 that actor Luis Guzmán took home last week during an appearance on "Wheel of Fortune."
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Here's former Vermont gov. @MadeleineKunin congratulating @SueMinterVT on her primary win. Photo: @jamesbuck #vtpoli
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Joe Biden is the president, but Bernie Sanders is an icon
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"He's just such a powerhouse," said Amelia Pollard, 21, who works on the Middlebury student newspaper, the @middcampus , with @bhrenton . "He's totally unparalleled."
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After a 69-year absence, passenger rail service between Burlington and New York is set to return this summer, and rail advocates are giddy with anticipation
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From late January through April, Burlington High School sophomore Ailsa — aided by her brother Gus during busy times — booked more than 300 vaccine appointments, mostly for New Jersey residents.
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A family of Syrian refugees arrived in Rutland Wednesday as long-awaited resettlement begins this week
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Vermont Trooper Suspended for Social Media Posts Supporting D.C. Insurgency
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Hundreds Gather in Vergennes to Protest Anti-Trans Speaker
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Gov. Phil Scott on Monday signed legislation that allows mail-in voting for all future general elections, making permanent a pandemic-era rule designed to increase voter participation amid the public health crisis
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The new Burlington mask mandate has prompted coffee shop Muddy Waters to require vaccination.
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BREAKING: Vermont schools should stop contact tracing and PCR surveillance testing for students and staff, the Agency of Education said Friday in an email to school administrators announcing an "imminent policy shift"
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Three recent Burlington High School grads have won seats on the city's 12-member school board, adding youth to a body that traditionally has been the domain of much older people #btv
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Volunteers Paint 'Black Lives Matter' on Main Street
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After Trump's travel ban was suspended, these Bhutanese refugees were reunited with family in Burlington.
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Scott Names Former Political Rival Hallquist to Lead Broadband Expansion
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Two makers in Poultney created a "rest and recharge station" that offers free hot drinks outside of their building at 169 Main Street, which sits just off the popular D&H Rail Trail
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It actually happened. For three-plus glorious minutes, the moon blotted out the sun, casting northern Vermont in dusk-like darkness — in the middle of the afternoon.
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A man claiming to work for a private intelligence agency contacted Vermont Law School professor @jentaub and offered to pay her for dirt on Special Counsel Robert Mueller. One (of many) problems: She's never met the guy
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A bill @GovPhilScott signed into law Monday grants free and permanent hunting and fishing licenses to the approximately 6,000 members of Vermont's four officially recognized Native American tribes #vtpoli
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Vermont Gov. Phil Scott told reporters Tuesday afternoon that he cast his presidential ballot for Democratic nominee Joe Biden
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Vermont's two U.S. senators, @SenatorLeahy & @senatorsanders , condemn Obamacare repeal vote: #vtpoli
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Each rose represented one of the more than 200 Vermonters who have died from COVID-19 since the disease struck the state nearly a year ago
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St. Albans culinary instructor Adam Monette has won the Food Network's Holiday Baking Championship.
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Burlington Dominican fusion restaurant and market Café Mamajuana is a semifinalist in the Best New Restaurant category of the 2022 James Beard Awards.
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Burlington's Penny Cluse Café will close permanently this year.
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More than a year after she launched her campaign for U.S. House — and following a week in Washington, D.C., that felt like an eternity — Becca Balint can officially call herself Vermont’s first congresswoman
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Burlington Beer Company is moving its taproom to Flynn Avenue. Cheers to more beer in the South End!
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U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona told a group of Champlain Elementary School students that he was there on a special assignment. Saturday is President Joe Biden’s birthday, he told the kids, and he wanted to bring him a card made by professionals
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Several state lawmakers awoke Friday morning to find their houses defaced with messages protesting the end of a state program that provided motel rooms to the homeless. "Isn't it nice to have a home" was scrawled on Rep. Martin LaLonde's garage door.
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The world's top brewer, Vermonter Shaun Hill, is reconsidering his values and priorities. "I see my own pursuit and learning as that of blending new-world with old-world traditions," he wrote by email.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will speak via video at @GovPhilScott 's press briefing tomorrow. He'll also take questions
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Becca Balint is officially one step closer to becoming the first woman elected to Congress in Vermont’s history, defeating Lt. Gov. Molly Gray in the Democratic primary for U.S. House
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A bill to make universal mail-in ballots a permanent feature of Vermont general elections, and to make it easier for voters to fix mistakes on those ballots, cleared a key legislative hurdle on Tuesday
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Breaking: Acting Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad threatened to arrest a trauma surgeon who was treating a gunshot victim last summer. Murad’s behavior, the surgeon said, “did interfere with the care we were providing.” #BTV
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The Vermont House and Senate adopted a joint resolution supporting transgender youth and their parents who seek medical care for the treatment of gender dysphoria, saying patients, parents and doctors should make such decisions — "not politicians"
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Green Mountain Foster Bikes has fixed up and given away more than 100 bikes. Each kid gets a helmet, an air pump and some chain oil to keep their two-wheeler serviceable for years to come
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"Honestly, what the @VermontGreenFC are building, I hope it's the future of football," said @MenInBlazers co-host Roger Bennett.
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Students Lead the Way in Hinesburg's First-Ever Pride Parade
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After nearly 10 hours of debate, the House backed a bill that would: → mandate universal background checks → raise the minimum age for firearm purchases to 21 → ban bump stocks and high-capacity magazines. They'll vote on final passage next week. #vtpoli
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The Vermont House approves sweeping gun legislation on an 85-59 vote: #vtpoli
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Vermont Senate Votes Down Ed Secretary Nominee Zoie Saunders
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Holy fireball! @BTVAirport cameras captured this video of a huge meteor this morning #btv
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Burlington's Fletcher Free Library plans to open on Thanksgiving Day and hand out free, prepackaged roast turkey dinners. The library will be open from noon to 4 p.m., and patrons can also check out books and use the computers #btv
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Lawmakers are hoping to get the attention of GPS companies that are routing truck drivers up the long, winding road through Smugglers' Notch. A bill would fine them $2,000 for failing to show drivers that Route 108 is closed to trucks and buses
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Sophie, a 15-year-old shih tzu from Burlington, has made canine history: She's likely the first pup to have peed in nearly every town in the state — and she appears to be the first pooch to have visited each one
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The Vermont legislature gave final approval on Tuesday to a bill that would make mail-in ballots a permanent fixture of voting in the state and would let voters fix their ballot if they make a mistake
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Harmony Edosomwan held up a clear gallon jug filled with a red liquid. She dumped it onto the pavement at the feet of Burlington police leaders. "Their blood is on your hands," she said, referring to people killed by cops #btv
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Starting on Thursday, buying a box of tampons or pads in Vermont will be a slightly less costly proposition. That's when Act 73 goes into effect. It exempts tampons, sanitary napkins, panty liners and menstrual cups from the state’s 6 percent sales tax
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Burlington mourns beloved bartender Monique Ford
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Thanks to additional federal funding and local advocacy, Vermont kids under age 18 will have access to free meals through June of next year
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The Kismayo Kitchen chef-owner, a Somali refugee and father of two, is remembered as a warm, energetic and ambitious man who seemed to beam with a perpetual smile. ,
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After pandemic restrictions were lifted @RedHenBaking staff noted an uptick in rude customers. So they made signs reminding patrons that “the person on the other side of the counter is a human being with hopes and dreams and feelings, just like you.”
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On October 3, Jocelyn Hebert stood at the Vermont-Canada border after thru-hiking the 272-mile Long Trail for the fourth time. "I went 27 days without a shower," she said with a laugh. "I'm very proud of that."
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Gov. Phil Scott on Wednesday allowed H.165, which makes school breakfast and lunch free for all Vermont students, to become law without his signature
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Brothers-in-law Priyank Shah and Sikander Badhan to open new Indian restaurant in Burlington
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. @AlisonBechdel is the new Vermont Cartoonist Laureate after today's ceremony at the Statehouse.
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Vermont will join a coalition of states in the U.S. Climate Alliance, @GovPhilScott announced yesterday #vtpoli
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A charter bus ferrying 50 or so Vermont Trump supporters from the nation's capital pulled into a pitch-black parking lot in South Burlington after 3 a.m. this morning. @derekwbrouwer was there to greet them
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The police supervisor who shot and wounded a suicidal man in Burlington’s Old North End earlier this month was trained to handle mental health calls and leads the department’s crisis negotiation team
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BREAKING: A 41-year-old Vermont man was arrested on Wednesday for his involvement in the January 6, 2021, insurrectionist riot at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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It might be the biggest soccer match Vermont has ever seen. Next Tuesday, March 19, the upstart Vermont Green FC, a Burlington semipro squad formed in 2022, will host a professional team from Kentucky
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"In his heyday, he was the fastest grill guy anyone had ever seen," said Al's French Fries co-owner Shane Bissonette of McHugh, who worked his final shift on Sunday — 45 years after his first one.
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The Champlain Housing Trust is converting a Marriott hotel in Williston into 72 apartments for formerly homeless and low-income Vermonters. The studio and one-bedroom apartments are expected to open by next summer
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On this week's cover: Turning the mic around on @JaneLindholm , @vprnet 's most recognizable voice
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Bienvenue! 🍁 It's our first ever Québec issue! Including our field guide to visiting Québec, some tips to get you across the border, and eating through the city of Montréal. Grab it wherever you get Seven Days or read it online:
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The FBI continues to investigate the land deal Jane O'Meara Sanders orchestrated for Burlington College @paulheintz
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South Burlington nightclub @HigherGround will require all patrons for indoor shows "to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19, or a negative test from the past 72 hours, along with a matching photo ID," according to marketing director Amy Wild.
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. @benandjerrys has a new flavor honoring activist @Kaepernick7 . The 33-year-old former NFL quarterback is a vegan, and his “Change the Whirled” flavor will be too
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Today is the 75th anniversary of iconic Burlington diner @handyslunch . So maybe give Earl Handy a call and order up a Texas Cheeseburger, McHandy breakfast sandwich or a Macho Man for takeout.
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South Burlington science teacher Greg Wolf has used his TikTok account to teach about everything from how siphons work to whether Double Stuf Oreos are really double-stuffed. Along the way, he’s amassed almost 300,000 followers and had three viral videos
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