Corey McDonald
writer @vtdigger | byline @Shelterforce | past https://t.co/dOLCA63sim, @HudsonCoView, @jerseyjournal & @njdotcom | send me tips dammit: [email protected]
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4 days ago |
vtdigger.org | Corey McDonald
At a public forum held earlier this month in Westford, parents and community members gathered to voice concerns that are being felt throughout Vermont: whether their local schools will still exist in the years to come. The forum was held to discuss a plan by the Essex-Westford School District that will move grades six through eight out of the Westford School and into neighboring Essex Middle School beginning in the fall, leaving grades pre-K through fifth grade in the Westford School.
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1 week ago |
vtdigger.org | Corey McDonald
A lawsuit filed in federal court on Monday alleges the city of Burlington and Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport officials “improperly retaliated” against a local helicopter company and its owner and violated his first amendment rights after he spoke out against the airport in local media reports.
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2 weeks ago |
vtdigger.org | Corey McDonald
Josef Lavanway began working with South Burlington’s Community Justice Center in 2016, volunteering for several years before becoming a paid employee and, eventually, the center’s director. There, he saw firsthand the benefits of pre-charge diversion, a type of restorative justice practice that has a rich history in Chittenden County, but is lacking or nonexistent elsewhere in the state.
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2 weeks ago |
vtdigger.org | Corey McDonald
Katie DeSanto, the general manager of Phoenix Books, first heard of the plans through a customer: a proposal to build a 107,000 square-foot Amazon distribution facility in Essex. Soon after, she posted on the company’s social media page where she raised concerns about the company’s business practices and their employees’ working conditions. The post drew some attention, and since then, dozens of Vermont residents have decried Amazon’s plans for a proposed distribution facility in Vermont.
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4 weeks ago |
vtdigger.org | Corey McDonald
A Superior Court judge issued a scathing ruling against the town of Colchester Tuesday, writing that town officials acted in bad faith and against the public good when the town attempted to seize waterfront property in an eminent domain proceeding. The property owner sued Colchester in 2022, after town officials started eminent domain proceedings to seize the land.
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