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School buses line up to drop off students at the Allen Brook School in Williston in September 2020. Typical school buses run on diesel fuel. With prices at the pump remaining steadily high since September, districts are considering how to come up with the extra money.

Joseph McLynch, a migrant worker from the island nation of Jamaica, tosses a pumpkin to Sheldon Watson, also from Jamaica, as they sort through pumpkins at Allen Brothers Farm in Saxtons River on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. The farm expects to harvest about 200 bins of pumpkins this year following a strong growing season. SAXTONS RIVER — As the colors of fall take hold of Southern Vermont, the final harvest is taking place at farms across the state. Bright orange pumpkins stacked in piles line the ground as three farmworkers from the island nation of Jamaica moved through the rows, harvesting the crop and filling large bins with pumpkins destined for front porches, Halloween displays and jack-o'-lanterns. At Allen Brothers Farm Market in Westminster, the annual pumpkin harvest was underway with this year's crop offering plenty to pick from — big pumpkins, little pumpkins, smooth pumpkins, warty pumpkins and colorful, flattened varieties meant to be stacked into decorative fall displays. For owner Tim Allen, the abundance came from what he described as an especially good growing season. "It's a really good harvest," Allen said. "It's really been a great growing year.

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A Rhode Island man was arrested Sunday morning for allegedly breaking into and damaging an Attleboro middle school and assaulting multiple police officers, police said. Jamison Grover, 25, of Pawtucket, faces three counts of assault and battery on a police officer, breaking and entering in the nighttime, and other charges, Attleboro Police said. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Attleboro District Court. Grover also allegedly took property belonging to a student from the school and damaged 13 window screens, for which he faces an additional 13 counts of malicious destruction of property over $1,200, police said. Officers responded to Brennan Middle School on Rathbun Willard Drive around 4:45 a.m. on Sunday after an alarm system in the building registered motion in several locations, police said. A search of the school revealed numerous lockers had been “rummaged through,” police said. Grover was located after officers determined he had allegedly entered one of their police cruisers while it was parked outside during their investigation, police said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A National Guard member was shot and injured while trying to break up a fight in the nation’s capital, and the person suspected of firing the gun also was shot in an exchange with guard members, police said Monday. The shooting happened at about 11:10 p.m. Sunday as seven or eight guard members in a parked van were monitoring the fight on a sidewalk in southeast Washington, in the Eastern Market neighborhood, said Jeffery Carroll, interim chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington. “They exited their vehicle to try to intervene to try to stop the fight from occurring when they heard gunshots,” Carroll told reporters. “An individual that had been involved in the fight had pulled out a firearm and began shooting.”The person ran into an alley, Carroll said, and guard members immediately told the person to drop the gun. “The individual then pointed the weapon toward National Guard members, who returned fire,” Carroll said. Get Starting PointA guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter EmailHe said one guard member was struck in the leg and the suspect was shot in the abdomen.