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• Hotel plans are taking shape at Burlington airport

  03-08-2017 23:55 via vtdigger.org
  A design rendering of a proposed hotel at Burlington International Airport in South Burlington. Courtesy of Burlington International AirportSOUTH BURLINGTON — Burlington International Airport is close to reaching a deal that would bring a 104-bedroom hotel to the site, says airport Aviation Director Gene Richards.
  For years officials have sought to bring a hotel to the airport, particularly to benefit people who drive long distances to get there.
  “Most of our flights leave early in t
  
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• 'Ahoy, Matey!': When Kid Pirates Sailed On Lake Champlain bit.ly/2v3zWJr https://t.co/S0knzbUIqa

  03-08-2017 23:53 via twitter.com
  
  'Ahoy, Matey!': When Kid Pirates Sailed On Lake Champlain bit.ly/2v3zWJr https://t.co/S0knzbUIqa
  
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• Family skeptical of suicide ruling in woman’s death

  03-08-2017 22:24 via vtdigger.org
  A young St. George mother’s death has been ruled a suicide, but the woman’s family is questioning that conclusion.
  Pamela Price, 24, died July 4 at her home from a gunshot wound to the head. Vermont State Police investigated but said early in the probe that they didn’t consider her death to be homicide.Price’s final death certificate, released Friday by the Vermont Department of Health, says the fatal shot was self-inflicted. The chief medical examiner ruled the death a s
  
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• Health care leaders brace for Obamacare sabotage

  03-08-2017 22:10 via vtdigger.org
  Tom Huebner, the CEO of Rutland Regional Medical Center, speaks as Kevin Mullin, the chair of the Green Mountain Care Board, looks on. Photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDiggerVermont’s health care leaders are bracing for what would happen if President Donald Trump makes good on his promise to dismantle the Affordable Care Act through executive action.
  The president has already started to roll back federal regulations that are meant to stabilize insurance markets, and leaders say that if the Trump
  
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• Team Two announces Frank Silfies Award recipients

  03-08-2017 21:28 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Where Hope and Support Come TogetherAugust 1, 2017
  Contact:Kristin Chandler
  [email protected](802)236-5065
  Team Two announces the recipients of this year’s Team Two Frank Silfies Award, presented to a law enforcement officer and a mental health crisis clinician who exemplify collaborative response to mental health crises.
  Team Two is a statewide training curriculum where law enforcement, police dispatchers and mental health crisis workers train together to stren
  
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• Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards recipients announced

  03-08-2017 20:53 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Agency of Natural ResourcesAugust 1, 2017
  Media Contact:Ed Antczak802-622-4111
  [email protected]
  Governor’s Environmental Excellence Awards Recipients Announced
  Montpelier, VT – Recipients of the 2017 Governor’s Awards for Environmental Excellence have been announced and will be recognized at a ceremony at the State House on August 4th. Environmental excellence awards have been given since 1993 to recognize efforts and actions of Vermonters to
  
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• Gregg: Border Patrol checks IDs of bus passengers in White River Junction

  03-08-2017 19:58 via vtdigger.org
  (This column by political columnist and news editor John Gregg was published in the Valley News on Aug. 2, 2017.)
  More than a decade ago, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. Border Patrol began running a traffic checkpoint along Interstate 91 southbound at the rest area in Hartford.
  Federal officials were looking for undocumented immigrants and potential terrorists, but the main byproduct was aggravation for Upper Valley motorists who resented being randomly questioned by government agents
  
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• New York murder plot suspect arrested in Burlington

  03-08-2017 19:48 via vtdigger.org
  Scott Hunter, 19, was arrested on a drug charge in Burlington. Police say he is wanted in connection with a murder conspiracy in Brooklyn. Burlington police photoBURLINGTON — A Tuesday traffic stop during a drug investigation led to the arrest of a young man wanted in an alleged murder conspiracy in New York City, police said.
  Scott Hunter, 19, was arrested after a foot chase following the traffic stop. Burlington detectives spoke with their counterparts in New York City and discovered the
  
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• Veterans Affairs to host Community Clergy Training Program

  03-08-2017 19:32 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Department of Veterans AffairsAugust 1, 2017
  Contact:Katherine Tang802-295-9363, ext. 5880
  [email protected]
  “Engaging Community Clergy To Support Veterans”
  White River Junction, VT– The VA Office of Veterans Experience has partnered with the White River Junction VA Medical Center, the VHA Office of Rural Health and the National VA Chaplain Center to deliver three programs this September called the Community Clergy Training Program. Training runs daily from
  
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• University of Vermont assistant professor named inaugural endowed professor

  03-08-2017 18:55 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — University of Vermont FoundationJuly 31, 2017
  Contact:Mark S. Ray802-656-3537 (p)802-355-0145 (m)
  [email protected]
  movemountains.uvm.edu
  Dr. Benedek Erdos invested as inaugural Martin E. Bloomfield ’56 M.D.’60 and Judith S. Bloomfield ’59Early Career Professor in Cardiovascular Research at the University of Vermont
  Burlington, Vt. – Benedek Erdos, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the Robert Larner, M.D. College
  
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• Stowe Free Library to hold Lyme disease presentation and discussion

  03-08-2017 18:31 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Northern Vermont Lyme GroupJuly 31, 2017
  Contact:Helene G. Martin(802) 253-6145
  [email protected]
  LYME DISEASE PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION AT STOWE FREE LIBRARY
  Did you know that VT is #1 per capita for Lyme Disease in the USA?
  Outdoor recreation in VT puts us at a higher risk for contracting Lyme Disease & its co-infections.
  Learn about why even non-outdoor enthusiasts are at risk.
  The Northern Vermont Lyme Group invites you to come to a free presentation and discussi
  
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• UPDATED: Firefighters battle blaze at historic UVM building

  03-08-2017 17:57 via vtdigger.org
  Firefighters work to control a three-alarm blaze at UVM’s historic Torrey Hall on Thursday morning. Photo by Alexandre Silberman/VTDigger(This story was updated Aug. 3 at 8:50 p.m.)
  BURLINGTON – Firefighters responded to a large fire at the University of Vermont’s historic Torrey Hall shortly after 8 a.m. Thursday, according to Burlington Fire Chief Steven Locke.
  No one has been reported injured or missing.
  By 2:45 p.m. officials said the fire was extinguished and Colchester Av
  
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• Firefighters battle blaze at historic UVM building

  03-08-2017 17:57 via vtdigger.org
  Firefighters work to control a three-alarm blaze at UVM’s historic Torrey Hall this morning. Photo by Alexandre Silberman for VTDigger 
  BURLINGTON – Firefighters responded to a large fire at the University of Vermont’s historic Torrey Hall shortly after 8 a.m. Thursday, according to Burlington Fire Chief Stephen Locke.
  No one has been reported injured or missing. Locke told VTDigger at 10 a.m. that the fire was still active and not yet under control.
  Several fire departmen
  
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• Clara Martin Center accepting submissions for art and poetry show

  03-08-2017 17:55 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Clara Martin CenterJuly 31, 2017
  Contact:Heidi Allen Goodrich
  [email protected] x221
  Calling All Artists and Friends of Mental Health
  Clara Martin Center is seeking submissions for their second annual art/poetry show entitled “From Green to Fall: Celebrating Creativity in Mental Health, Wellness and Recovery.” The exhibit will be open to the public from September 15 – November 5, 2017 at the Chandler Art Gallery, with an opening receptio
  
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• This video will either intrigue or terrify you. Either way, pretty cool! twitter.com/JaneLindholm/s…

  03-08-2017 17:45 via twitter.com
  This video will either intrigue or terrify you. Either way, pretty cool! twitter.com/JaneLindholm/s…
  
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• University of Vermont associate professor awarded Fulbright

  03-08-2017 17:27 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — University of VermontJuly 31, 2016
  Contact:Jon Reidel
  [email protected]
  UVM’s Barri Tinkler Awarded Fulbright to Conduct Research on Refugee Integration
  Barri Tinkler, associate professor in the College of Education and Social Services at The University of Vermont, has been named a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health at the University of Calgary, where she will examine community-based efforts by faculty to support refugee integ
  
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• We're talking about the ins and outs of #beekeeping on today's show. 🐝🐝 Have questions or advice? Let us know: bit.ly/2ho7AX8

  03-08-2017 15:57 via twitter.com
  We're talking about the ins and outs of #beekeeping on today's show. 🐝🐝Have questions or advice? Let us know: bit.ly/2ho7AX8
  
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• Maple maker wins at ‘Road Pitch’ tour’s Brattleboro stop

  03-08-2017 04:48 via vtdigger.org
  Rob Hausslein, of Londonderry-based Sugar Bob’s Finest Kind, talks about his business during a Road Pitch event Wednesday in Brattleboro. Photo by Randolph T. Holhut/The CommonsBRATTLEBORO – In a food-infused entrepreneurial contest that included salsa, sriracha, syrup and elderberries, it’s probably no surprise that a guy who calls himself “Sugar Bob” ended up the winner.
  During a stop in Brattleboro on Wednesday, a team of motorcycle-riding evaluators participatin
  
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• Rail boosters celebrate progress toward expanded service

  03-08-2017 04:00 via vtdigger.org
  Brad Worthen, vice chair of the Vermont Rail Action Network, speaks at a news conference Wednesday in Burlington. Photo by Alexandre Silberman/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — Railroad officials and advocates on Wednesday praised state lawmakers’ efforts to expand passenger service in Vermont.Northern Vermont is on the cusp of implementing two significant rail expansions: restoring passenger service to downtown Burlington, and extending Amtrak’s Vermonter line to Montreal.
  At a news confer
  
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• Senate panel acts to shield medical pot programs from feds

  03-08-2017 03:51 via vtdigger.org
  WASHINGTON — Amid uncertainty over the federal government’s policy toward state marijuana laws, a U.S. Senate panel moved forward with a bill that would block the Department of Justice from cracking down on medical marijuana operations.
  As part of a broader spending bill, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed language that prohibits the department from using money to go after medical marijuana dispensaries that are acting in accordance with state law.
  Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.,
  
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• LISTEN: Is Ben & Jerry's Still On A (Social) Mission? bit.ly/2v0vZFq https://t.co/4yh4y6W1Au

  03-08-2017 01:56 via twitter.com
  
  LISTEN: Is Ben & Jerry's Still On A (Social) Mission? bit.ly/2v0vZFq https://t.co/4yh4y6W1Au
  
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• Schuyler Gould: A thorough vetting of decommissioning

  03-08-2017 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Schuyler Gould, of Brattleboro, who is a retired building contractor and is currently a trustee of New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution.
  Guy Page’s tired defense of the Entergy/NorthStar Vermont Yankee sale against the skepticism of “long-time antagonist of nuclear power,” New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution, misstates the facts of the matter at almost every turn. Contrary to Mr. Page’s accusations regarding our
  
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• Peter Berger: Students and First Amendment rights

  03-08-2017 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Peter Berger, an English teacher at Weathersfield School, who writes “Poor Elijah’s Almanack.” The column appears in several publications, including the Times Argus, the Rutland Herald and the Stowe Reporter.
  Back when James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway hung out in bars, the bespectacled Joyce would pick a fight with another patron. Then just before things came to blows, he’d duck behind his burlier friend and direct him to “
  
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• Chloe Learey: Positive outcomes from early intervention

  03-08-2017 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Chloe Learey, the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development in Brattleboro. She served on the Blue Ribbon Commission on Financing High-Quality, Affordable Child Care. You can learn more by visiting winstonprouty.org.
  If you want to spend less money on special education in public education, invest in early intervention. If you want to spend less on health issues, invest in early intervention. If you want children to be
  
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• Randolph police chief arrested on domestic assault charges

  03-08-2017 00:26 via vtdigger.org
  Daniel Brunelle was hired several months ago as Randolph’s police chief after working for the South Burlington Police Department for 19 years. File photo by Mike Donoghue/Courtesy of the Valley News(This story is by VTDigger’s Elizabeth Hewitt and Mark Johnson.)
  The Randolph police chief is facing charges of domestic assault alleging he pushed a female relative to the ground and into a refrigerator.
  Chief Daniel Brunelle was arrested in Berlin on Tuesday evening, according to Washing
  
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