Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.
Vandals spray-painted a swastika and other racist messages around the entrance to Burlington’s middle school; Eight people have been laid off at Central Vermont Medical Center and nine vacant jobs won’t be filled as the hospital copes with a $5 million deficit; Vermont ski resorts are trying to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions; and a man with five driving-under-the-influence convictions has been charged with it again.