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4 days ago | vtdigger.org | Austyn Gaffney

In December 2019, state agriculture investigators observed manure from Iraburg’s Nelson Farms, a dairy in the Northeast Kingdom, running into a local waterway. The staff from Vermont’s Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets were required under a 2017 interagency agreement to report the runoff to Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources immediately. But they failed to do so until four months later, according to a petition filed to federal officials by environmental advocates.

6 days ago | vtdigger.org | Mark Bushnell

If Russell Porter ever wrote a resume, recipients could be forgiven if they thought someone was playing a joke on them. At various times, he was an artist, but also an engineer. An architect, but also a cartographer. He was a builder, and a death-defying arctic explorer, while also being a ground-breaking telescope designer. In truth, Porter might never have had to write a resume and make sense of all this nonlinear bouncing between vocations and avocations.

6 days ago | vtdigger.org | Greta Solsaa

Chittenden property owner John Gerlach has been found in contempt in the latest development  of an ongoing legal battle with Mountain Top Resort. The May 22 decision came after Gerlach removed a rope barring access to one of the resort’s cross-country trails. The dispute began last summer when Gerlach and his wife, Debra, relocated two of the resort’s trails that ran through their private land.

1 week ago | vtdigger.org | Auditi Guha

The entire state of Vermont and three of its cities are listed on a new Department of Homeland Security list identifying so-called sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States — but Vermont officials say their policies adhere to federal immigration laws and help build trust with and reassure immigrants.

1 week ago | vtdigger.org | Carly Berlin

This story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public. A bill that would overhaul Vermont’s response to homelessness is headed to Republican Gov. Phil Scott’s desk, after a largely party-line vote in the House on Thursday evening. Scott and members of his administration have remained mum about whether they support its final iteration. If Scott vetoes the bill, he could effectively kill it.