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Vermont's online nonprofit news daily. Please support our reporting. Give the help we all need Two in five Vermonters have faced food insecurity in the past year, more than in 2020 or 2021. With winter approaching, everyone is facing increased fuel prices due to rampant inflation. For many, this means having to choose between essentials like heating the home or buying groceries. Please join us and support two worthy causes this season. Your gift to VTDigger during our annual fund drive will sustain our local journalism and send 10 meals to the Vermont Foodbank to combat hunger. Will you help us send 10,000 meals by Thanksgiving Day? Donate and send 10 meals Inside VTDigger You can give the help we all need by VTDigger Member Team VTDigger launches annual fund drive in partnership with the Vermont Foodbank. Read more... Looking for Vermont Covid-19 data? Visit VTDigger's Covid dashboard, updated on weekdays when new data is available. Business & Economy GlobalFoundries warns employees of job cuts by Fred Thys The company is not saying whether employees at its Essex Junction plant will be affected. Read more... Politics Billionaire supporters of Balint's primary bid find themselves at center of cryptocurrency industry collapse by Sarah Mearhoff The crypto giant FTX has plummeted to bankruptcy after lending billions of customer dollars to an affiliated hedge fund. Several FTX executives at the heart of the scandal previously bolstered U.S. Rep.-elect Becca Balint's primary campaign. Read more... People & Places 'People crossing paths': How Vermonters maintain social connectedness in unequal times by Erin Petenko Connections between lower-income and higher-income people can drive economic mobility, new research shows — but those connections are rare. Read more... Business & Economy New Hampshire firm buys historic Bennington mill complex for $5.75 million by Tiffany Tan The portfolio of the new owner, Chinburg Properties, includes multiple former mills that have been redeveloped into residential and commercial spaces. Read more... Education In Randolph, a young entrepreneur steps back from business to teach the next generation of manufacturing students by Ethan Weinstein Brian Kippen of Tunbridge founded KAD Models and Prototypes in California before expanding the advanced manufacturing business to Randolph. Now, he's teaching manufacturing and fabrication at the Randolph Technical Career Center, hoping to encourage young people to enter the field. Read more... People & Places Want less graffiti and more local color? How Brattleboro hit on a wall-encompassing fix. by Kevin O'Connor A $25,000 downtown mural collaboration between local designers and newly resettled Afghan artists is set for public dedication this week. Read more...   [News Briefs] None today.   [Obituaries] David Charles Melendy, 5th generation Vermont, Mayflower descendant, music lover He was a 5th generation Vermonter and a Mayflower descendant.   Read more Robert Mansfield Fiorenza, MIT alumnus, IBM career man, pilot, grandfather We believe he was the first person in history to play a full game of chess against the first credible computer chess program (the Kotok-McCarthy Program).   Read more   [Commentary] Scott Thompson: When war must be fought out Don't underestimate Washington's ability to fumble a golden opportunity handed to us on a silver platter by a lead-footed foe. Jennifer Lovett: Purple Paint Law should replace the annual posting of private property Posting with "signs" that are permanent and do not have to be updated every year would be beneficial for many landowners who wish to prohibit hunting on their property. Galina Chernaya: Numerous problems with the proposed Silver Lake hut There is no demonstrated need for a profit-making lodging in the Silver Lake area, which is located within the Green Mountain National Forest's Moosalamoo National Recreation Area. Rankin & Fillmore: What a telescope in Puerto Rico has to do with Vermont The plan not to rebuild the collapsed Arecibo radio telescope could have deep reverberations in the Green Mountain State. But Vermonters can help save it.   [Press Releases] Windham Aging releases report on aging, plan to create regional plan for aging Vermont's outdoor recreation leads economic recovery across all communities Library holds annual Books for Children gift campaign   [About VTDigger]   Our mission is to produce rigorous journalism that explains complex issues, holds the government accountable to the public, and engages Vermonters in the democratic process.  VTDigger is a project of the Vermont Journalism Trust, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. 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