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- The Vorsteveld Farm is seeking to add 580 cows, reigniting existing concerns about Lake Champlain’s degrading water quality.
- OPINION — "Trust and respect for people’s data isn’t just ethical — it’s crucial to the long-term success and sustainability of any business," Vermont small business owners write.
- OPINION — "We should all rejoice that we live in a country where citizens have the right and ability by law to challenge government decisions," Speth writes.
- Kseniia Petrova has been held in ICE custody for roughly three months, including for a week at a Vermont prison, after authorities say she failed to declare frog embryo samples when she arrived by plane from France.
- The Trump administration is continuing its effort to deport the Palestinian student activist. For now, he can continue his fight for freedom outside of prison.
- “Today, as an adult, I am still working on the side effects,” said one former altar boy at a Wednesday hearing on past clergy misconduct in the state’s largest religious denomination.
- The House Environment Committee is starting to explore how the state could reintroduce an apex predator.
- Housing advocates say a cap on the amount of state tax revenue set aside for the new CHIP program would severely limit the number of homes that could be built with its help, among concerns about other restrictions.
- The city also passed its $14 million budget and a ballot item to repair sidewalks and roads.
- The teachers’ union voted to strike last week and intended to walk out of the job Wednesday if no deal was reached.
