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A 900-foot airstrip at the home of BETA founder Kyle Clark in Lincoln seen on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.

Dear Editor, We are practicing clinicians, trainees and recently retired doctors who serve on the Vermont Medical Society’s board and are deeply concerned about healthcare affordability and access in the state.

Poll workers await the next voters at the Essex Town polls on Town Meeting Day in March 2023.

This commentary is by Meghan Masterson, executive director of KidSafe Collaborative, and Lauren Porell, director of program services for Steps to End Domestic Violence, who are writing on behalf of the Chittenden County Children Exposed to Domestic Violen…

The Rutland City Police Department seen on Thursday, September 10, 2026.

Candidate for governor Amanda Janoo speaks during a Democratic Party unity rally in Burlington on Wednesday, August 12, 2026.

Think back to middle school.

Motel 6 in Colchester on Oct. 20, 2026.

The floor of Beta Technologies’ production facility in South Burlington.

Vermont Information Processing in Colchester seen in August 2023.

Supporters of Rutland City police officer Jessica Ebbighausen attend a hearing for Tate Rheaume in Rutland County Superior criminal court in April 2024.

Zaaina Mahvish-Jammeh, 42, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder during a hearing at Windham Superior Court, Criminal Division, on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026.

Dear Editor, What the heck do the few people running for office who use bad language in public think they gain?

Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department staff and TNC partners conduct an annual hibernaculum bat count for a partner university’s white-nose research in 2024.

This commentary is by Matt Rkiouak, founder of Hunger Mountain Intelligence, a growth and automation consultancy for small and mid-sized businesses.

Born: 04/16/1938 Troy, New York Died: 10/17/2026 South Burlington Details of service: Lewis Meredith Holmes lived an engaged life as both a scientist and a humanist, with respect for the mind, the earth and the many people with whom he shared his life.

The Brattleboro Memorial Hospital campus on Belmont Avenue.

Born: 04/06/1937 Burlington, VT Died: 10/12/2026 Richford, VT Details of service: A service to honor Ted’s remarkable life will be held on October 25, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. at the Fairfax United Church in Fairfax, Vermont.

A Department of Homeland Security office off Industrial Avenue in Williston on Tuesday, October 7, 2025.

FILE – In this undated and unknown location photo released by the Department of Homeland Security shows Border Patrol Agent David Maland posing with a service dog.

Two flat granite stones engraved with the names of men who died while incarcerated at Southern State Correctional Facility are set in the grass at the end of a row of white crosses.

This year, VTDigger is teaming up with Henry’s Weather Channel to help answer the annual question of when and where peak foliage will make its appearance across the state.

This commentary is by Johanna Doren, the direct markets and local food access director at the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont.

This commentary is by Neil Ryan, a third-generation Vermont farmer and consultant helping brands and nonprofits in Corinth.

By Leslie Swackhamer, Executive Director, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and Jay Wahl, Executive Director, the Flynn We began with an impossibly large question: What is the current state of democracy in America?

The Times Argus newspaper of Nov. 7, 1962, announces Phil Hoff’s stunning victory.

Dear Editor, If Vermont schools hadn’t overlooked the current pool of stateside kids looking for a quality Vermont college, enrollment at those places wouldn’t have collapsed as it has.

Democratic incumbent Sen.

A movie crew films Alfred Hitchcock’s comic mystery “The Trouble with Harry” in the Northeast Kingdom town of Craftsbury in the fall of 1954.

Hinesburg Town Hall seen in November 2021.

Debbie Scherrer greets visitors to Saturday’s pop-up café on the porch of Rochester’s Kimball building.

Democratic nominee for governor Amanda Janoo, left, and Republican Gov.

These officials represent organizations that will deploy the $3 million grant, recently won by United Way of Addison County, to boost services for people struggling with substance use disorder.

Gerald Malloy, Republican candidate for Vermont’s U.S.

Eric Lipton, a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and investigative reporter for The New York Times, talks to an audience at the Delta Hotel in South Burlington on 9 October 2026.

The view looking southeast from Brousseau Mountain in Norton on September 4, 2021.

This commentary is by Loralee Tester, executive director of the Northeast Kingdom Chamber of Commerce.

An armed guard walks around the fortified Lawrence William Judicial Center as the sentencing phase for Maj.

The playground at Wobby Park in Barre City’s North End will be redeveloped into 17 townhomes.

Michael Goldberg, the court-appointed receiver in the EB-5 fraud case, speaks at a Statehouse news conference in 2017.

Dear Editor, Every attempt at public involvement in healthcare in Vermont in the last 25 years has not only failed, but left Vermont with some of the highest-cost healthcare and insurance in the world — though not the best outcomes.

Fallen leaves cover a picnic table in Jericho Center on Wednesday, October 14, 2026. .

This commentary is by Ben Falk, a land planner and the founder of Whole Systems Design.

Helene Rassias-Miles, Executive Director of the Rassias Center for World Languages and Cultures, leads a training session with her team while refining future lesson plans in Hanover, Nh., on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026.

Photo via Adobe Stock WILLISTON — Questions linger after authorities say a Williston police officer shot and injured a man early Thursday.

Top from left: Janie Chase Cozzi, Eli Brookens; bottom from left: Cyrus Zschau, Mary Harris, Liam Hale.

Hospital staff tend to a patient on a gurney.

School buses line up to drop off students at the Allen Brook School in Williston in September 2020.

Dear Editor, As I sit here on the south shore of Lake Memphremagog in Newport on this gorgeous autumn day, gazing east into rural Vermont farmland, north into rural Quebec and west into rural Vermont, and having researched Jay Stroud, the headmaster extra…