A 21-year-old man from Burlington died on Saturday after leaping from rocks at the Bolton Potholes, Vermont State Police said in a press release. At about 12:30 p.m., police received Read the story on VTDigger here: Burlington man dies at Bolton Potholes.

Keith Longmore, who serves on St. Albans City’s Belonging, Equity and Inclusion Committee, called the group “a fraud and an affront” at its third meeting May 10. His comments have frustrated other committee members. Read the story on VTDigger here: St. Albans equity committee contends with sitting member’s derision.

“Mr. Lewis would not have been killed if the primary attachment lanyard had been replaced due to aging and (wear) of the lanyard,” a report by the Vermont Occupational Safety and Health Administration concludes. Read the story on VTDigger here: State finds Vail Resorts’ failure to replace equipment contributed to Stowe zipline employee’s death.

The Vermont Center for Ecostudies has pinpointed thousands of potential vernal pools, but until they’re confirmed, the pools aren’t protected. To that end, the organization is looking for help from Vermonters. Read the story on VTDigger here: Help wanted: Citizen scientists to assist in tracking vernal pools.

The state could soon join the rest of the nation in electing a woman to Congress. But it had yet to vote a female candidate into any top office when Madeleine Kunin faced questions of “gender liability” in her precedent-setting 1984 run for governor. Read the story on VTDigger here: How a ‘tea party’ campaign shattered Vermont’s political glass ceiling.

The Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum comprises all of two rooms covering barely 2,000 square feet. It is the only presidential library located in a public library. Read the story on VTDigger here: Then Again: Calvin Coolidge’s presidential library is actually inside a library.

No branch of state government or individual should get preferential treatment when it comes to the duty of ethical conduct owed to the public, or to each other. Read the story on VTDigger here: Paul Erlbaum: Finally, a code of ethics for Vermont’s state government.

5,645 are with the Department of Corrections; about 7,000 are in recovery from addiction, drugs and alcohol, with 7,000 more waiting to get in; and 715 died of overdoses in the past five years. Read the story on VTDigger here: Don Keelan: Where are all the young men and women? .

Humility will be required to admit that the Global Warming Solutions Act is a failure; courage will be required to repeal it. Neither animates Montpelier. Read the story on VTDigger here: Meg Hansen: Bad policy begets worse; repeal Global Warming Solutions Act.

The insensitivity, judgmental language, assumptions, and lack of empathy and context among some diagnosticians is nothing short of staggering. How can one practice psychiatry devoid of the emotional intelligence necessary to accompany someone on the long, sad journey of grief? Read the story on VTDigger here: Elayne Clift: Pathologizing grief: How long can you be sad?.