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Two weeks after the state confiscated 39 horses from a horse farm in Townshend, Vt., all the horses are stable, but some have a longer “road to recovery” than others, according to Jen Straub, executive director of Dorset Equine Rescue.

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A Superior Court judge dismissed, in part, the Pownal Center Community Church’s complaint against the town in an ongoing property rights dispute.

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In the latest development in an ongoing animal cruelty investigation, the owner of the Friesians of Majesty horse farm was charged last week with animal cruelty and violating conditions of release. Authorities seized more than three dozen horses from the property.

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Next week, Benningtonians might catch a glimpse of people suspended in midair, rappelling from the state’s tallest manmade structure, as a crew works to clear away crumbling stone from the Bennington Battle Monument.

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In a small town in the southwestern corner of the state, the ownership rights to a historic church property are in dispute. 

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Chittenden, Vt., 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.

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The probable cause of a plane crash atop Mount Equinox on Feb. 6  was the pilot’s “improper decision” to continue flying despite poor visibility due to weather conditions, according to a report from the National Transportation Safety Board released May 9.

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CHITTENDEN, Vt. — Twenty new citizens originally from 11 different countries took an oath of allegiance to the United States at a naturalization ceremony Tuesday held in the gymnasium of Barstow Memorial School in Chittenden, Vt.

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Amid a wave of directives from the administration of President Donald Trump authorizing increased logging on the nation’s forests, Vermonters are assessing what impacts these actions could have on the state’s environment and economy.

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A Vermont Superior Court judge recently issued a ruling in favor of Middlebury College, closing a longstanding dispute over the Middlebury Chapel. 

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Tom Huebner, who died Wednesday at Massachusetts General Hospital at age 71 following a brief illness, served many roles across Vermont’s health care system, taking a human-centered approach and offering a visionary path forward for improving health care access, former colleagues recalled.

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When Laura Martin bought her home in south Bennington, Vt., seven years ago, she was well aware of the problems of PFAS contamination in Bennington’s private well supply and groundwater.

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Middlebury College is among 60 higher education institutions that received a letter from the U.S. Department of Education on Monday, warning of “potential enforcement actions” if the schools do not take sufficient action to protect Jewish students on their campuses. 

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After decades of deferred maintenance, the 306-foot Bennington Battle Monument, with its stone sodden in approximately 66,000 gallons of water, is in desperate need of restoration work.

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The Mill River Unified Union School District, under the banner of its mascot minutemen touting muskets, is now caught in a battle of its own over whether certain firearm imagery is appropriate in a yearbook photo. 

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Following a report that Middlebury College sent to federal authorities last year disclosing its own lapses in laboratory research work and outlining a remediation plan, an animal research watchdog group is calling on the college to take tougher measures.

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Landmark College — the first institution of higher education that serves exclusively neurodiverse individuals — will receive the bulk of an $8 million federal grant intended to promote STEM education and research in southern Vermont.

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The Vermont Supreme Court recently overturned a lower court’s decision, ruling that student records regarding restraint and seclusion practices are entirely exempt under the state’s public records law.

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On winter solstice, around 30 people gathered to enjoy hot chocolate and roasted chestnuts as they gazed out on handmade luminaries snaking along Rupert’s town green, white with snow.

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For two years, the only spots in Brandon, Vt., with a parking meter racking up fees were the electric vehicle charging spaces. That seemed “fundamentally unfair” to Tom Guiles, a town selectboard member and EV owner.At a Brandon selectboard meeting...

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Police are investigating an incident last summer at a North Springfield slaughterhouse in which a federal investigator witnessed what it described as “inhumane” animal handling. On June 3, a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspector reported observing...