Erin Petenko
Data Reporter at VTDigger
Data reporter for @vtdigger. Past: @njdotcom, @dailytargum. She/her.
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2 days ago |
vtdigger.org | Erin Petenko
Two-term Barre City Councilor Samn Stockwell lost her Ward 3 seat in a tight race against newcomer Don Routhier in the city’s Town Meeting Day election Tuesday. Routhier won the race with a vote total of 124 to Stockwell’s 110 votes. Routhier, a local business owner, campaigned on a platform of cracking down on crime and supporting Barre’s North End, a neighborhood in Ward 3 that was hit hard in the 2023 flood.
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1 week ago |
vtdigger.org | Erin Petenko
If there‚Äôs anything Barre City‚Äôs Ward 3 City Council candidates can agree on, it‚Äôs that Barre is struggling.¬†‚ÄúBarre has a really high poverty rate, and with the floods, that’s only gone up,‚ÄĚ incumbent Samn Stockwell said.¬†‚ÄúI do believe that Ward 3 has been kind of forgotten,‚ÄĚ her challenger, Don Routhier, told the podcast 802 Scoop last month.
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1 week ago |
vtdigger.org | Erin Petenko
The most fateful decision made about Barre City’s fiscal future might not be made by voters at its Town Meeting Day election on May 13. Rather, it’s the decisions made by state lawmakers, federal agencies and the Trump administration at large that have already affected Barre’s coffers as it slowly pulls itself up from two major flood events. “Our recovery and the impacts (are) not felt across just one year.
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2 weeks ago |
vtdigger.org | Erin Petenko
A 43-year-old Barre woman was charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a 45-year-old Barre man last week. The Vermont State Police arrested Donna Robinson last week for allegedly shooting Franklin Driscoll at a home on 879 N. Main Street in Barre on Thursday around 5:25 p.m., the state police said in a press release. Robinson pleaded not guilty to the charges against her and is being held without bail at the Chittenden County Correctional Facility.
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1 month ago |
vtdigger.org | Erin Petenko
James Ingerson, a 54-year-old man from Hartford, died Saturday while incarcerated at Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport. Ingerson had reported not feeling well and was receiving care for an unspecified medical issue prior to his cellmate discovering him unresponsive Saturday morning, according to a Vermont State Police press release.
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