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The Sterling College campus in Craftsbury.

TeleED hub: Alison Kapadia, MD, and Daryl Holthoff, RN, providing emergency care to patients via the TeleED hub.

This commentary is by Benjamin Hoffer, an environmental engineering master’s student at École Polytechnique de Paris.

The Federal Building in Burlington in Sept. 2025.

Harry Jeppe, a firearms examiner with the Vermont Forensic Laboratory, testifies in Chittenden Superior criminal court in Burlington on Tuesday, September 15, 2026.

The University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington on Monday, November 23, 2020.

Dear Editor, Vermont has the highest share of households unable to afford the median-priced new home, according to the National Association of Home Builders, with approximately 92% of its households falling short of the income requirement.

Illustration by Taylor Haynes/VTDigger VTDigger has launched its 2026 Election Guide ahead of this year’s general election.

Vermont’s general election is Tuesday, Nov. 3.

Jason Eaton watches as Hisham Awartani arrives to testify in Eaton’s trial inChttenden Superior criminal court in Burlington on Monday, September 14, 2026.

Buses pick up students at the end of the day at the Westford School in Westford on Thursday, April 17, 2025.

Supporters of Brattleboro Memorial Hospital’s birthing center march in the town’s Fourth of July parade.

Traffic flows along a temporary bridge across the Great Brook after the original was washed away in this summer’s flooding on Mill Street in Plainfield on Monday, September 23, 2024.

Born: 02/05/1943 Plainfield, New Jersey Died: 09/01/2026 Windsor, Vermont Details of service: Curt Crowell Peterson of Hartland, Vermont, formerly of Weston, Massachusetts, passed away from prostate cancer on September 1, 2026.

Dear Editor, I read Carly Berlin’s recent story in VTDigger about Vermont’s new homelessness assistance policy with sadness.

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This commentary is by Dan Jones, who has worked for many years on sustainability and resilience in Montpelier and was the founder and director of the Sustainable Montpelier Coalition.

This commentary is by Selin Tukel, a medical student at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine who is an advocate for equitable healthcare with an interest in obstetrics and women’s health.

Defender General Matthew Valerio testifies before the Joint Legislative Justice Oversight Committee at the statehouse in Montpelier in September 2025.

The farmhouse restoration project at the Pittfsord Village Farm features two rental apartments, a childcare center and a retail operation.

Annette Spaulding prepares to dive in the Connecticut River on Aug. 15, 2025.

“Real Vermonters Don’t Milk Goats,” the state’s all-time bestselling humor book, is set to return to stores this fall in a 43rd anniversary edition.

An artist’s rendering of the Upper Valley Haven’s low-barrier shelter to be built at the intersection of Routes 5 and 4 in White River Junction, Vt.

New Americans take their citizenship oaths during a naturalization ceremony at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Friday, September 11, 2026.

Attendees at VTDigger’s Rutland event with Southern Vermont Reporter Greta Solsaa on Wednesday, March 26, 2025.

Creative Commons photo by jasleen_kaur via Flickr.

Groton, Vermont, viewed from the southeast.

A stack of Volume V of the Vermont Almanac, sitting in Next Chapter Bookstore in Barre in November 2024.

This commentary is by Henriette Mantel, a Vermont-raised writer, actress and producer, best known for playing Alice Nelson in the “Brady Bunch” movies and for co-writing and directing the Sundance documentary “An Unreasonable Man.”

Passenger jets on the tarmac at the Burlington International Airport in South Burlington in Sept. 2022.

Supporters of Brattleboro Memorial Hospital’s birthing center march in the town’s recent Fourth of July parade.

Hand of an elderly woman with her caregiver.

Jason Eaton listens as Chttenden State’s Attorney Sara George, right, speaks during a hearing in Chittenden Superior criminal court in Burlington on Friday, August 28, 2026.

A Port Authority police officer lays a flower at the Sept. 11 Memorial in New York, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015.

This commentary is by Jessica Bakowski, the northeast regional forester for Chestnut Forest Carbon Works.

Dear Reader, This summer, Vermonters turned to VTDigger in growing numbers to prepare for the primary election.

Dear Editor, The current administration, which I believe will do unthinkable things to stay in perpetual power, has long been undermining and delegitimizing free and fair elections.