Dr. Dan Barkhuff: Just send ‘them’ all to the ED, and let the ED figure it out

This commentary is by Dan Barkhuff, one of the physicians at the UVM Medical Center emergency department. “Yeah, I know him,” I say to the off-going attending physician during signout, the 30 minutes-or-so period in between shifts at the University of Vermont emergency department where we discuss patients who — either through time of check-in…

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Kevin Ellis: We’ve been unwilling to actually solve the homeless problem

This commentary is by Kevin Ellis, a communications consultant based in Montpelier.  Dear Democrats: You are in the midst of handing your political opponents a massive issue that threatens your ability to win elections. As is frequently the case, you are torn between your desire to do the right thing and what resonates with voters.…

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Stoni Tomson: Future of land, food, community on the line in 2023 Farm Bill

This commentary is by Stoni Tomson, a vegetable farmer in Richmond at New Tradition Farm and a member of the Young Farmers Coalition, a grassroots membership-based organization that advocates for a new generation of working farmers.   Like most bootstrapping young farmers, I regularly work through 80-hour weeks on razor-thin margins because I have a deep…

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How to get rid of your Christmas tree in Chittenden County this year

Drop your tree off to be composted or burned or leave it on the curb for pickup.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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PHOTOS: Essex boys hockey skates past South Burlington

Photos from Saturday night’s boys hockey match between Essex and South Burlington.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Vermont H.S. scores for Jan. 7: See how your favorite team fared

Vermont high school sports scores and results as reported to the Burlington Free Press sports department.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Six weeks, one bed, ten lives: A Newport recovery center provides space for hope in the opioid crisis

Executive Director Lila Bennett and some of her staff stand in the new “social detox” room at the Journey to Recovery Community Center in Newport. Courtesy photo The furniture is not fancy — a single bed bumps up to a leather recliner just steps from a small desk. But sunlight pours in from a large…

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Then Again: After the Revolution, debt crisis triggered extreme unrest

A debtor and a tax collector scuffle outside the courthouse in Springfield, Massachusetts. Indebtedness — and the foreclosures that sometimes followed — became a major issue in the years immediately following the American Revolution. The issue spurred a popular revolt in Massachusetts known as Shays’ Rebellion, as well as a series of physical clashes at…

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Dr. Ben Smith: Health care ‘data’ startlingly divorced from the realities

This commentary is by Ben Smith, an emergency doctor and director of the emergency department at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin. He lives in Duxbury.   As an emergency doctor and the director of a small Vermont emergency department, I am glad to see some of Vermont’s health policy thinkers embracing investment in outpatient services…

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How to salt your driveway responsibly this winter to protect Lake Champlain

Use these tips to salt pavement efficiently and sparingly this winter to help Lake Champlain stay healthy.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Power plants face millions in penalties after failure during Christmas Eve storm

A grid capacity deficiency occurred while swaths of New England experienced widespread power outages as a result of the Christmas weekend storm.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Vermont hockey, basketball: How Catamount teams fared Jan. 6-8

Results and schedules for University of Vermont womens and men’s hockey and women’s basketball teams from Jan. 6-8, 2023.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Becca Balint sworn into Congress after days of chaos over speaker vote

Becca Balint celebrates her election to the U.S. Congress on Election Day, Tuesday, November 8, 2022. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Democratic U.S. Rep. Becca Balint was sworn into office Saturday morning, more than three days after she was expected to take her seat as Vermont’s sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Balint…

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Ann Marie (Bissonette) Curran

Born Buffalo, New York Died 12/24/2022Burlington, Vermont Details of servicesA memorial service will be held in the spring. Ann Marie (Bissonette) Curran, 77, died unexpectedly at the University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vt., on Saturday, December 24, 2022. Ann was born in Buffalo, N.Y., the daughter of Larry and Mary Bissonette. She graduated from Mount St.…

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Final Reading: U.S. Rep.-elect Becca Balint waits ‘to get to work’

A child lies on the floor to watch members of the Vermont House of Representatives take their oaths of office on the first day of the legislative biennium at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Wednesday. The U.S. House still hasn’t gotten its act together. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Vermont’s U.S. Rep.-elect Becca Balint still isn’t…

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New restaurants in Vermont: Five fresh eateries to try in 2023

The end of 2022 came with the beginning of new restaurants in communities including Essex Junction, Stowe, Richmond and St. Albans.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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CVU’s Sumner named Vermont’s Gatorade football player of the year

Champlain Valley’s Jackson Sumner was named Gatorade football player of the year for Vermont, according to a news release Friday morning.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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London museum shows off Vermont’s famous ‘Snowflake’ Bentley’s images in online book

More of Wilson Bentley’s snowflake pictures are permanently available for the world to enjoy now that a London museum has digitized an 1899 book.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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Dr. Paul Manganiello: Unrelenting death by suicide need not happen

This commentary is by Paul Manganiello, M.D., a resident of Norwich who is emeritus professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and co-medical director of the Good Neighbor Clinic in White River Junction. From the Vermont Department of Health, the latest data on death by suicide 2020 shows Vermont has…

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Peter Sterling: A Vermont solution to fighting climate change: 100% renewable energy

This commentary is by Peter Sterling, executive director of Renewable Energy Vermont, a trade association of businesses working to get Vermont to a 100% renewable energy future. It’s 2023 and the question is no longer “is climate change here” but “what is Vermont going to do to stop it?” A proven way for Vermont to…

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Tom Evslin: The nuclear fusion breakthrough is very good news

This commentary is by Tom Evslin of Stowe, an entrepreneur, author and former Douglas administration official. His blog is here. For more than 50 years, scientists have hoped to use nuclear fusion to produce electricity in great quantities, cheaply, and without environmentally harmful byproducts.  Progress had been painfully slow until two weeks ago, when Livermore…

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John Becker’s biggest wins of record tenure with UVM men’s basketball

UVM coach John Becker needs one more victory to surpass Tom Brennan. Ahead of that moment, the Free Press looks back at Becker’s most memorable wins.        Top Featured Tags: – Vermont News Press Release Distribution Service

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