MONTPELIER, Vermont, Dec. 15 -- Vermont Attorney General Susanne R. Young issued the following news release on Dec. 14, 2022: The Vermont Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud and Residential Abuse Unit (MFRAU) has entered a settlement agreement with Upper Valley Services, a designated agency that provides services and supports for people with developmental disabilities in Orange County and Moretown, Vermont. The settlement resolves MFRAU's investigations into three incidents involving Upper Valley  more

CASTLETON, Vermont, Dec. 15 (TNSawa) -- Castleton University issued the following news: Third-year student Kayon Morgan began her journey to Castleton in Florida, where she had moved to from Jamaica at the age of 8. Upon joining the wrestling team in high school, her coach became a mentor figure both in and out of the ring. Her coach's son was interested in pursuing collegiate wrestling, which is how her coach became aware of the Castleton wrestling program and had an on-site visit to their are  more

MONTPELIER, Vermont, Dec. 15 -- Gov. Phil Scott, R-Vermont, issued the following news release on Dec. 14, 2022: Today Vermont Governor Phil Scott issued two proclamations announcing the ratification and adoption of 2022's Proposition 2 and Proposition 5, amending the Vermont Constitution. In a ceremony required by State law, Secretary of State Jim Condos certified to the Governor the articles of amendment had been adopted by the voters of the State. The amendments were enrolled on the parchment  more

MONTPELIER, Vermont, Dec. 15 -- Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, D-Vermont, issued the following news on Dec. 14, 2022: On December 8th, Vermont Lieutenant Governor Molly Gray and House Speaker Jill Krowinski hosted a summit of policymakers and advocates focused on working families, the caregiving economy, and universal access to paid family leave as well as child care in Vermont. The Summit was held at the Vermont State House and consisted of two panels, one dedicated to understanding universal paid fami  more

MIDDLEBURY, Vermont, Dec. 15 (TNSjou) -- Middlebury College issued the following news: The 2022 winter issue of New England Review (NER) features a wide variety of literature to explore. There's a COVID diary by Zoe Valery, Leath Tonino's defense of the American Outback, and a short play by British author Charlotte Turnbull. The new issue also includes multipage excerpts from poem sequences by Sandra Simonds and Diana Khoi Nguyen and new shorter poems by Kim Addonizio, Aumaine Rose Smith, and   more

MONTPELIER, Vermont, Dec. 14 -- Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, D-Vermont, issued the following statement on Dec. 13, 2022: * * * Lt. Governor Gray released the following statement on the enrollment of Proposition 2 and Proposition 5 into the Vermont Constitution. "Today is a historic day for Vermont. I applaud Vermonters for their leadership in passing Proposition 2 which explicitly prohibits slavery and indentured servitude and Proposition 5 which enshrines reproductive liberty in our Vermont State Co  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Dec. 15 (TNSbook) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news: As professor of history and of gender, sexuality, and women's studies at the University of Vermont, Dr. Felicia Kornbluh knows a great deal about the history of reproductive rights in America. But when she discovered that her mother, Beatrice Kornbluh Braun, drafted a law in 1968 that led to New York State decriminalizing abortion, she was both surprised and inspired. This revelation, which came just   more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Dec. 13 (TNSper) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news: How our country responds to the growing threat of climate change is a hot topic of discussion among policy makers--and now Vermont has been given a louder voice in that conversation. That's because Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences, Vermont State Climatologist, and immediate past president of the American Association of State Climatologists, has   more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Dec. 17 (TNSfund) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news: When the Gund family--UVM parents Gordon HON'95 and the late Llura HON'95 and their sons Grant '91 and Zack '93--made a $6 million gift in 2017 to launch the Gund Institute for Environment, they challenged other donors to invest an additional $8 million in the Institute, with the promise of another $4 million in matching funds from the family. Rising to the "Gund Family Challenge," more than 260 dono  more

SOUTH ROYALTON, Vermont, Dec. 15 (TNSpconf) -- The Vermont Law School issued the following news release: The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 convened in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, last month with a focus on an aggressive implementation of the Paris Agreement. Two groups of Vermont Law and Graduate School (VLGS) student delegates had the great opportunity of attending in-person and joining the delegation of the Republic of Palau to provide logistical and analytical support. VLGS is   more

SOUTH ROYALTON, Vermont, Dec. 17 (TNSgov) -- The Vermont Law School issued the following news release: The Environmental Advocacy Clinic at Vermont Law and Graduate School (VLGS) has filed an Amicus Brief in the case State of Alabama v. United States Army Corps of Engineers in the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The Clinic had previously filed an Amicus Brief in the case in a lower court. The Brief was filed on behalf of counties and individuals who live in the Apalachicola sub  more