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• Bernie Sanders’ book tour skims past Vermont

  27-08-2017 23:29 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ new title for teen readers, “Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution,” is pictured at Everyone’s Books in Brattleboro. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDiggerDUBLIN, Ireland — The Green Mountains are a 3,000-mile stretch from the Emerald Isle. But when Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders scheduled a recent book reading in this European city, fans snatched up all 2,000 tickets in a scant three minutes.
  “His title has been huge
  
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• LISTEN: Who Is Antifa? What We Know About The Anti-Fascism Movement one.npr.org/i/545865752:54…

  27-08-2017 20:42 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Who Is Antifa? What We Know About The Anti-Fascism Movement one.npr.org/i/545865752:54…
  
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• Then Again: Barnard farm lured famous couple, but couldn’t bind them

  27-08-2017 19:02 via vtdigger.org
  Writer Lewis Sinclair and journalist Dorothy Thompson, shown circa 1938, spent their summers at their large homestead in Barnard, now an inn called Twin Farms. Photo courtesy of University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries(“Then Again” is Mark Bushnell’s column about Vermont history.)
  Sinclair Lewis proposed to Dorothy Thompson in Germany, but wooed her with talk of Vermont.
  He popped the question – and spoke of the wondrous house they could buy in the Vermont countrysid
  
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• Gov. Phil Scott’s public schedule for the week of August 27

  27-08-2017 16:26 via vtdigger.org
  Governor Phil Scott’s Public Schedule: 8/26/17 – 9/1/17
  Saturday, August 26
  Attending the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers ConferenceCharlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Sunday, August 27
  Attending the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers ConferenceCharlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Monday, August 28
  Attending the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers ConferenceCharlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Tuesday, August
  
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• Gov. Phil Scott’s public schedule for the week of Aug. 27

  27-08-2017 16:26 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Gov. Phil ScottAug. 25, 2017
  Contact:Ethan Latour
  [email protected]
  Governor Phil Scott’s Public Schedule: 8/26/17 – 9/1/17
  Saturday, August 26
  Attending the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers ConferenceCharlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Sunday, August 27
  Attending the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers ConferenceCharlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Monday, August 28
  Attending the New England Governors and
  
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• Did you miss our reptile and amphibian chat earlier this week? Fear not! Find the podcast audio here: bit.ly/2g2o72X #VT

  27-08-2017 16:25 via twitter.com
  Did you miss our reptile and amphibian chat earlier this week? Fear not! Find the podcast audio here: bit.ly/2g2o72X #VT
  
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• Windham Southeast merger moves ahead

  27-08-2017 15:38 via vtdigger.org
  Lyle Holiday, Windham Southeast Supervisory Union superintendent, looks over a four-town school merger plan at a meeting Thursday night in Brattleboro. Photo by Mike Faher/VTDiggerBRATTLEBORO – Voters finally may get a chance to consider a four-town school district merger in Windham Southeast Supervisory Union.
  The union’s Act 46 study committee has approved a proposal for combining districts in Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford and Putney into one new district governed by one board.
  
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• In Warren, renowned Vermont architect designs concrete house

  27-08-2017 15:26 via vtdigger.org
  Nationally known architect David Sellers is building this 2,000-square-foot all-concrete home in Warren. Photo by Jon KalishEditor’s note: This story is by Jon Kalish, a freelance reporter and radio journalist, based in New York City.Construction is nearing completion on a net zero house in Warren that is made almost entirely of concrete.Architect Dave Sellers, whose nationally renowned studio is also in Warren, designed the 1,800 square foot structure on Prickly Mountain, which has been d
  
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• Margolis: Improbably, socialism gains ground in Trump’s America

  27-08-2017 15:11 via vtdigger.org
  Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to reporters at senior center in St. Albans. Photo by Alexander Silberman/VTDiggerEditor’s note: Jon Margolis is VTDigger’s political columnist.Something new is going on in American politics and Vermont – or at least one Vermonter – gets some of the credit.
  Or blame, depending on one’s outlook.
  What’s happening is a resurgence of interest in (and some support for) that once-reviled political creed: socialism.
  Last month some 2,000 su
  
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• Organic milk prices plummet

  27-08-2017 14:59 via vtdigger.org
  Jersey calf. Photo courtesy of Pennie Rand.A once-hot market for organic milk has cooled, and farmers are paying the price.
  In the face of a market glut, companies are paying Vermont’s organic dairy farmers less for their product, at a cost of tens thousands of dollars to each farm.
  Organic Valley, which buys milk from more than half of Vermont’s roughly 200 organic dairy farms, will be accepting less milk from farmers at its highest price and paying discount rates for additional mil
  
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• Ex-Rutland City attorney appeals new prison sentence

  27-08-2017 14:39 via vtdigger.org
  Christopher Sullivan, former city attorney in Rutland, appears in Rutland Superior Court on Thursday for his sentencing in a fatal hit-and-run crash. Pool photo by Robert L. Layman/ for the Rutland HeraldRUTLAND — A former municipal attorney in Rutland is heading back to the Vermont Supreme Court, asking the justices to overturn the same sentence for a second time in his fatal hit-and-run case.
  In his application for a public defender to handle the appeal, Christopher Sullivan, 57, wrote,
  
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