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Our super preliminary round up of where voters rejected school budgets on Town Meeting Day, to be updated throughout the day -->
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Here are the dates for the Michael Hurley spring tour. Please retweet and spread the word as far as it can go. Ticket sales for these shows should go live this week.

Little light to work with, but the after work pre-spawn bite is on.

Catastrophic destruction —> new trout habitat.

A masterclass in profile writing — and not the usual kind. sevendaysvt.com/vermont/a-youn…

For the Vermont heads:

Two days after we reported that Matthew Morgan was serving 4 years due to a dismissed shoplifting charge, the state has made him eligible for furloughed release. vtdigger.org/2023/08/24/man…

John Jeremiah Sullivan's return from radio silence to write about shit but in a move you to tears kinda way harpers.org/archive/2023/0…

'Well, I'm tired of dirt roads named after...'

Noah Kahan's 'Homesick' captures the frustrations of life in small-town Vermont. This map captures the mileage of unpaved roads compared to paved roads in each VT municipality.

#vtpoli

Instead of receiving medication to treat their opioid addiction, 15 incarcerated people received opioids. Vermont’s new prison health care provider is off to a great start

How can 'Intimate details of a person's life, including any information that might subject the person to embarrassment, harassment, disgrace, or loss of employment or friends' count as a public records exemption? Being bad at your job is embarrassing.

For months, there were whispers about what the transition audit of the Orange County Sheriff's Department would reveal. Well, now we know. Kinda. The books were so messy, the auditors couldn't do their job. vtdigger.org/2023/06/26/aud…

Rooster Records went up in flames (literally) in ‘87, but Will Wright, who started the label, still lives in these hills. And he still has copies of the Michael Hurley lp he recorded in ‘83!

Body camera videos obtained by Vermont Public offer greater details into a June 2022 incident which led to criminal charges against two state police troopers.

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Every dollar counts! Help me keep catching (and reporting on!) walleye like this one vtdigger.org/2023/05/19/we-…

Top 10 best places to trespass: Gun range.