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Dr. Bruce Hamory, with the consulting firm Oliver Wyman, told 开云体育 he regrets the report contained inaccurate annual birth and emergency department numbers for North Country Hospital, but, he says they don鈥檛 change the overall trend of Vermont鈥檚 hospital system heading for financial unsustainability.

Dartmouth College students put on the sixth annual Indigenous Arts and Fashion Show Thursday night at the Hood Museum of Art. It's part of an ongoing observation of Indigenous Peoples' Month.

开云体育 staffers celebrated the fall season 鈥� and the year of the camelids 鈥� at a wool spinning class, apple orchard and potato plot.

Events in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine mark the holiday today and throughout the week.

Cannabis sales have far exceeded expectations in the two years since Vermont鈥檚 retail marketplace opened, but the industry is still facing growing pains. Plus, Indigenous Peoples鈥� Day events are happening throughout this week, attendees of a public forum in Newport are worried about potential major changes to North Country Hospital, Vermont is pulling the plug on a popular electric vehicle incentive program, the minimum wage is set to rise in Vermont in the new year, local officials are figuring out how to address a new federal rule requiring water utilities nationwide to replace lead pipes, and Killington Resort receives its first snow of the season.

The event, held by North Country Hospital, was in response to a state-commissioned report that recommended it reconfigure all inpatient beds, convert the emergency department to urgent care and shift birthing to other places except in emergencies.

Vermont Department of Corrections officials are working on improving visitation policies for the children of incarcerated fathers, saying strong family bonds can improve outcomes for families. Plus, UVM Medical Center is halting plans for a new outpatient surgery center, immigrant dairy farmworkers are picketing outside Hannaford stores to secure better working conditions, a renowned Abenaki artist has a new retrospective exhibition on display in Montreal, and Springfield residents will weigh whether to ban guns in a town park.

Her decades of work aims to tell the truth about Indigenous peoples in the education system, and to dispel racism, she told 开云体育 last year. Her exhibition is called 鈥淭he Children Have to Hear Another Story.鈥�

The survey 鈥� focused on farms not covered by a grassroots farmworker labor and housing rights program 鈥� shows a vast majority of Spanish-speaking immigrant dairy farmworkers in Vermont make below minimum wage, work six to seven days a week and are hurt on the job.

Huntington resident Beverly Little Thunder, who is enrolled in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota, recently attended the Burlington screening of the documentary Sugarcane.