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Owners of Berkshire East upgrading Vermont’s Burk Mountain after spring purchase
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (902+ words) This is a biweekly column about all things skiing and snowboarding in New England. Longtime owners of Berkshire East are expanding again and at the same time saving another struggling independent ski area in New England. In May the Schaefer…...
ICE wants to build 24/7 social media monitoring team in Vermont
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (306+ words) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to expand its abilities to surveil social media by hiring nearly 30 private contracts to monitor posts and online activity that could lead to arrests and deportations. The proposed program, first reported by WIRED, would…...
Springfield woman seriously injured in Vermont crash
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (121+ words) GUILFORD, Vermont " A 19-year-old Springfield, Massachusetts, woman was seriously injured when she crashed her car into a tree Sunday afternoon. Springfield woman seriously injured in Vermont crash GUILFORD, Vermont " A 19-year-old Springfield, Massachusetts, woman was seriously injured when she crashed…...
Frometa tallies four hits as Starfires comeback falls short in Vermont
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (712+ words) BURLINGTON, VERMONT" American International College product Josh Frometa scored two runs, drove in one, and had a season high four hits and the Westfield Starfires brought the winning run to the plate in the ninth inning, but could not quite…...
Frometa homers, Mills plates three in Starfires close game at Vermont
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (992+ words) BURLINGTON, VERMONT " Third-year Starfire Josh Frometa went yard for the first time this summer and Northwestern's Griffin Mills added three RBIs to his season total, but the Westfield Starfires fell just short to the Vermont Lake Monsters, falling 9-8 despite trailing…...
Vermont federal judge orders release of detained Columbia University student
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (524+ words) A Vermont federal judge has ordered the release of a Columbia University student arrested by federal agents during an interview on his U.S. citizenship. A judge on Wednesday ordered the release of a Palestinian man who led protests against the war…...
Government appealing judge’s order to transfer Rümeysa Öztürk to Vermont
8+ mon, 4+ day ago (356+ words) Federal prosecutors have maintained R'meysa "zt'rk's case must be heard before a judge in Louisiana, where she is currently detained. Federal prosecutors are appealing a Vermont District Court judge's order requiring the government to transfer Tufts doctoral student R'meysa "zt'rk…...
Vermont man sentenced for serious crash that injured family of 4 after day of skiing
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (194+ words) A 33-year-old man slammed his car into an SUV carrying four members of a family on Route 2 in Western Mass. as the family returned from a day of skiing in 2023. Vermont man sentenced for serious crash in Greenfield that injured…...
Arrests said to put kink in Mass., Vermont drug pipeline
11+ mon, 4+ day ago (614+ words) SPRINGFIELD " City police and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives made a dent in the Springfield-Vermont drug and gun pipeline after a joint investigation, law enforcement officials say. Five people from Western Massachusetts and Vermont have been charged…...
US Border Patrol agent fatally shot on New England highway
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (214+ words) A U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed in a shooting on Interstate 91 in Coventry, Vermont, just south of the Canadian border, according to the FBI. A suspect in the shooting was also dead. A second suspect was injured and taken into…...