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Deven Moffitt was convicted of his three federal charges on Thursday.

More than a week after similar encampments disbanded at UVM and Middlebury College, students at the Craftsbury Common school are still pushing for their college to meet their demands.

Ella Mae Woods, 75, appeared in federal court in Burlington on Friday in connection with a decades-long scheme that followed the1994 death of her mother, a Brattleboro resident.

After the federal court hearing, an attorney with a national conservative Christian legal advocacy group told reporters that the centers are being targeted because they “don’t agree with the radical pro-abortion views of the state of Vermont.”

The nationwide consolidation proposal is meant to improve efficiency and lower operating costs, but it’s been heavily criticized in Vermont by residents, postal employees and politicians.

Paul's life was marked by remarkable service and achievements.

“Really, what legislators felt is, they didn't want to go into an election cycle where they're alienating half the people,” one lobbyist said.

Once-globetrotting music professor David Feurzeig is demonstrating how locals can fight climate change and promote community in his “Play Every Town Project.”

“She knows the sport intimately, she’s been doing it for I don’t even know how many years at this point, and she has a style that draws people in, gets them fencing quickly.”

This week’s Young Writers Project entry is “My mother: the Earth,” by Cynder Malin-Stremlau, 14, of Sharon. Artwork is “Florida Fisherman,” by Elise Ryan, from the YWP Media Library.