Vermont news

• Latest appeal denied on release of Poultney police shooting tapes

  14-09-2017 23:22 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont Department of Public Safety Commissioner Thomas Anderson has denied a request to release any video or audio state police may have of a shooting involving five troopers during a standoff earlier this month that left a Poultney man dead.
  VTDigger had requested the release of any video and audio from state police of the shooting on Sept. 1 in Poultney that killed Michael Battles, 32.
  State Police last week denied the request and VTDigger appealed to the commissioner as allowed under Vermont
  
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• Parents scramble as Burlington teachers strike

  14-09-2017 23:21 via vtdigger.org
  Burlington High School teachers respond to honks of support from passing motorists on North Avenue in front of the school on Thursday. Photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — Teachers across the city took to picket lines on the first day of a strike Thursday, as many parents of the district’s roughly 4,000 students scrambled to find child care options.
  No resolution is on the horizon. Burlington Education Association President Fran Brock said the strike would continue Friday, and
  
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• Secretary Of State Condos On Election Integrity Commission, Same-Day Voter Registration dlvr.it/Pn2F83 https://t.co/XLvuPtjE7c

  14-09-2017 21:30 via twitter.com
  
  Secretary Of State Condos On Election Integrity Commission, Same-Day Voter Registration dlvr.it/Pn2F83 https://t.co/XLvuPtjE7c
  
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• Cabot supports business adviser at Salvation Farms

  14-09-2017 20:58 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Salvation FarmsSept. 17, 2017
  Contact:Theresa SnowSalvation Farms, Executive Director802-888-3148
  [email protected]
  Cabot Creamery Co-operative is supporting Salvation Farms’ engagement of a University of Vermont Sustainable Entrepreneurship MBA (SEMBA) graduate, Diane Abruzzini. Diane will aid the nonprofit in the revision and expansion of their business plan for the Vermont Commodity Program. The Vermont Commodity Program operates Vermont’s first surplus-
  
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• Fish and Wildlife and Vermont Coverts host free hunter access seminar for Vermont landowners

  14-09-2017 20:54 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Fish & Wildlife DepartmentSeptember 13, 2017
  Media Contacts:Chris Saunders, 802-343-5487; Lisa Sausville, VT Coverts, 802-877-2777
  Hunting can be a valuable tool for private land conservation but managing hunters can be intimidating, particularly if you are not familiar with hunting or experienced problems with hunters in the past. To help, the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is holding a free seminar this summer for landowners interested in learning more
  
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• Fish and Wildlife and Vermont Coverts host fee hunter access seminar for Vermont landowners

  14-09-2017 20:54 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Fish & Wildlife DepartmentSeptember 13, 2017
  Media Contacts:Chris Saunders, 802-343-5487; Lisa Sausville, VT Coverts, 802-877-2777
  Hunting can be a valuable tool for private land conservation but managing hunters can be intimidating, particularly if you are not familiar with hunting or experienced problems with hunters in the past. To help, the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is holding a free seminar this summer for landowners interested in learning more
  
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• Vermont Folklife Center presents ‘Driving the Back Roads: In Search of Old-Time Vermonters’

  14-09-2017 20:51 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Folklife CenterSeptember 12, 2017
  Contact:Bob Hooker(802) 388-4964
  [email protected]
  Driving the Back Roads: In Search of Old-Time Vermonters
  Photographs & Stories by Ethan Hubbard
  Exhibition by the Vermont Folklife Center
  Opening Reception and Gallery Talk – Thursday, September 28th, 5-7PMExhibit on Display: September 23, 2017 through January 6, 2018
  For nearly fifty years, Ethan Hubbard drove the back roads of rural Vermont in search of ol
  
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• History of Reiki expert presents at annual conference in Burlington

  14-09-2017 20:47 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Reiki AssociationSept. 7, 2017
  Contact:Lonnie Poland, Conference Coordinator
  [email protected]
  BURLINGTON VT Sept 7, 2017 – The Vermont Reiki Association (VRA) is pleased to announce their sixth annual conference on October 14, 2017, at the Holiday Inn in Burlington, VT from 9 am to 4 pm. The VRA, is a non-profit (501c3), member organization that provides professional support for Reiki practitioners and promotes the use and understanding of Reiki
  
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• Accel-VT invites entrepreneurs to solve electric grid challenges

  14-09-2017 20:43 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Sustainable Jobs FundSept. 13, 2017
  Contact:Rachel CarterCommunications DirectorVermont Sustainable Jobs Fund802-318-5527
  [email protected]
  Vermont seizes climate change economic growth and resource renewal opportunities
  Accel-VT invites entrepreneurs from across North America to solve electric grid challenges and accelerate business growth in Vermont
  BURLINGTON, Vt., Sept. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — As national environmental protections are deregulated and challeng
  
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• LISTEN: Looming Sale, Big Questions: The Latest From Vermont Yankee dlvr.it/Pn1m8n https://t.co/Oe2xVvBeAx

  14-09-2017 20:39 via twitter.com
  
  LISTEN: Looming Sale, Big Questions: The Latest From Vermont Yankee dlvr.it/Pn1m8n https://t.co/Oe2xVvBeAx
  
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• Vermont Department of Mental Health awarded $9.9 million substance abuse and mental health services administration grant

  14-09-2017 20:30 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Department of Mental HealthWednesday, September 13, 2017
  Media Contact:Melissa Bailey, Commissioner, Department of Mental Health802-241-0100
  [email protected]
  David Carle, Office of Senator Leahy202-224-3693
  Rebecca Kelley, Office of the Governor802-828-6403
  [email protected]
  Montpelier, Vt. – The Vermont Department of Mental Health (VDMH) has been awarded a $9.9 million federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis
  
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• Fall foliage colors emerging in Vermont

  14-09-2017 20:17 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Department of Tourism and MarketingSept. 13, 2017
  Contact:Philip Tortora, Communications DirectorVermont Department of Tourism and Marketing(802) 522-7323; [email protected]
  MONTPELIER, Vt. – Vermont’s annual fall foliage show has begun and although it is still early, there is already some great fall color in every region of the state. Some individual trees throughout Vermont are already on full display in front yards; on town greens; along count
  
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• Secretary Condos celebrates National Voter Registration Month

  14-09-2017 20:11 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Secretary of State Jim CondosSeptember 13, 2017
  Contact:Eric Covey, 802-828-2148
  Encouraging Eligible Voters to Register or Update their Registration Information
  Montpelier, VT – Secretary of State Jim Condos would like to remind Vermonters that September is National Voter Registration Month.
  Voting is the foundation of our democracy. Casting a ballot, in-person on Election Day or early by mail, is one important way that Vermonters can make their voices heard in the po
  
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• Aspenti Health hosts Patient Appreciation Day in celebration of National Recovery Month

  14-09-2017 20:06 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Aspenti HealthSept. 13, 2017
  Contact:Charlotte LymanPeople Making Good PR
  [email protected](857) 284-4827
  Burlington, VT – September 13, 2017— Aspenti Health, an innovative, comprehensive clinical drug testing lab, will be hosting a Patient Appreciation Day at their Burlington Patient Service Center on September 25 in celebration of National Recovery Month. In alignment with Recovery Month’s theme of strengthening families and communities, Aspe
  
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• ‘Extended outage’ for southern Vermont weather alert station

  14-09-2017 19:52 via vtdigger.org
  Weather alert radio receivers on sale at BRW Electronics in Brattleboro. The region’s transmitter for those alerts is set for an “extended outage,” National Weather Service officials say, but alerts may be available from other transmitters depending on a listener’s location. Photo by Mike Faher/VTDiggerMARLBORO – On Friday, a southern Vermont weather-alert transmission station will go silent.
  Federal officials say the removal of the Ames Hill transmitter in Marlboro
  
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• A Closer Look At Thom Lauzon: Barre's Mayor And Top Developer dlvr.it/Pn12SV https://t.co/zD0j3Piwz0

  14-09-2017 19:27 via twitter.com
  
  A Closer Look At Thom Lauzon: Barre's Mayor And Top Developer dlvr.it/Pn12SV https://t.co/zD0j3Piwz0
  
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• Bennington Selectboard approves TIF district plan

  14-09-2017 19:17 via vtdigger.org
  This is part of the vision in a redevelopment brochure for the Putnam Block project in downtown Bennington, a key part of the town’s application for a tax-increment financing district.BENNINGTON — After a final briefing from consultants and town planning staff, the Selectboard on Monday approved Bennington’s application for a tax increment financing district for the downtown.
  The board voted unanimously to send the application and long-range plan for the economic development di
  
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• LISTEN: A Closer Look At Thom Lauzon: Barre's Mayor And Top Developer dlvr.it/Pn0sLL https://t.co/9xTCWhlc2I

  14-09-2017 19:12 via twitter.com
  
  LISTEN: A Closer Look At Thom Lauzon: Barre's Mayor And Top Developer dlvr.it/Pn0sLL https://t.co/9xTCWhlc2I
  
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• Northern Stage to open 21st season with rotating repertory for the first time in company’s history

  14-09-2017 18:23 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Northern StageSeptember 13, 2017
  Media Contact:Irene Green
  [email protected] x126
  Northern Stage to Open 21st Season with Rotating Repertory for the First Time in Company’s History
  Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Robert Frost: This Verse Business by A.M. Dolan play in repertory live on stage at the Barrette Center for the Arts in White River Junction, VT, September 20 – October 29. For tickets and information, call 802-296-7000 or
  
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• Report: 40 percent of Vermonters live in child care ‘deserts’

  14-09-2017 18:17 via vtdigger.org
  Robyn Freedner-Maguire, campaign director for Let’s Grow Kids. Courtesy photoOne half of all Americans and nearly 40 percent of Vermonters live in communities without any child care or with so few providers there aren’t enough slots, according to a Center for American Progress report released last week.“We want to change the data. We want the deserts to shrink,” said Robyn Freedner-Maguire, campaign director at Let’s Grow Kids, an advocacy organization focused on th
  
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• Bennington charter group delays talk of mayor option

  14-09-2017 17:54 via vtdigger.org
  Bennington officesBENNINGTON — The Charter Review Committee decided Wednesday to put off discussion of the mayoral form of government until after a scheduled public meeting on the ongoing review of amendment options.
  The committee also discussed term limits for Selectboard members and a removal process for those who are absent from meetings for extended periods before tabling those issues pending receipt of more information. The group also will seek input from charter consultant and attorn
  
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• Scott administration questions rationale for Silvio O. Conte Refuge expansion

  14-09-2017 17:51 via vtdigger.org
  A moose at the Nulhegan Basin Division of the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge in Essex County. The West Mountain Wildlife Management Area is just south of the Nulhegan Basin. Photo by David Govatski/USFWS via FlickrScott administration officials say they are not trying to reverse plans by the federal government to expand the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge.
  But in a letter to the federal government, Gov. Phil Scott echoes the logging industry when he says he&r
  
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• Improvements to Vermont Building at Big E help showcase agricultural products

  14-09-2017 17:51 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & MarketsSept. 1, 2017
  Contact:Trevor AudetVermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets
  http://agriculture.vermont.govTel: 802-522-4725
  Vermont will once again share its culture and heritage with more than one million attendees at the Big E, New England’s largest agricultural fair, which commences this week in West Springfield, Massachusetts. The fair will run from September 15 – October 1.
  An already popular Big E att
  
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• Call to submit proposals and to register for ALARA 2018 World Congress

  14-09-2017 17:38 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Norwich UniversitySept. 14, 2017
  Contact:Daphne LarkinPhone#: 802-485-2886Email:[email protected]
  online.norwich.edu/ALARA
  The Action Learning, Action Research Legacy for Transforming Social Change
  NORTHFIELD, Vt. (Sep. 14, 2017) – ALARA is putting out a call for proposals to contribute to the global body of experiential learning knowledge that brings about meaningful change through new understandings and building of communities of practice through action learni
  
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• Margolis: Clinton’s grudging admiration for Sanders

  14-09-2017 16:48 via vtdigger.org
  Hillary Clinton posted a Twitter photo of herself and Sen. Bernie Sanders after he officially endorsed her presidential run in July 2016.So Hillary Clinton didn’t trash Sen. Bernie Sanders in her book “What Happened” after all.
  Or at least her condemnations were balanced by her praise.
  Sanders was “a disciplined and effective politician,” Clinton writes, who “tapped into powerful emotional currents in the electorate.”
  Was that wistful admiration, if not
  
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• Looming Sale, Big Questions: The Latest From Vermont Yankee dlvr.it/PmyhVr https://t.co/NjwXYgHcds

  14-09-2017 15:50 via twitter.com
  
  Looming Sale, Big Questions: The Latest From Vermont Yankee dlvr.it/PmyhVr https://t.co/NjwXYgHcds
  
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• Vermont Life magazine up for sale

  14-09-2017 12:05 via vtdigger.org
  A spread in the summer issue of Vermont Life.The storied state magazine Vermont Life is up for sale.The Scott administration is accepting bids for the purchase of the publication. The state will also consider licensing or partnership agreements with a private publishing company.The state-run, glossy magazine that has promoted the Vermont lifestyle for more than 70 years has been in operating in the red over the past decade. Accumulated deficits ran to $3 million this year. RELATED STORIESVermont
  
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• Teacher strike is on in Burlington after last-ditch talks fail

  14-09-2017 04:56 via vtdigger.org
  Burlington Education Association President Fran Brock addresses reporters last fall. The union plans to strike Thursday, roughly a year after another walkout was averted. File photo by Morgan True/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — City teachers will go on strike Thursday, after mediated contract talks failed to yield a compromise between the union and school board.
  As of late Wednesday, the school district had not released any information as to whether schools would be closed Thursday, but school board
  
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• Vermont student proficiency sees slight drop

  14-09-2017 02:57 via vtdigger.org
  Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe. File photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDiggerThe number of Vermont students scoring proficient on the statewide test dipped this year, and a stubborn gap remains between students of means and those struggling with poverty.
  State education officials said they do not know why scores went down.“We were disappointed to see those score declines,” said Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe. She attributed any narrowing of the achievement gap between low-income st
  
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• UVM Health Network affiliate to build new facility in NY

  14-09-2017 02:41 via vtdigger.org
  Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh will spend $4.7 million on a new primary care building in partnership with local community health centers, a spokesperson says.
  Construction is set to start this fall on a 19,000-square-foot primary care office building in Plattsburgh in partnership with Hudson Headwaters Health Network, a Queensbury, New York-based group of federally qualified community health centers.UVM President Tom Sullivan, left, and UVM Health Network CEO John Brumsted.
  
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• Welch among lawmakers who meet with Trump

  14-09-2017 01:56 via vtdigger.org
  WASHINGTON — Tax reform and immigration were among the topics of discussion when Vermont’s sole House member sat down with President Donald Trump and other lawmakers Wednesday.
  “It’s good news, bad news,” Welch said shortly after the hourlong meeting at the White House.
  The good news, Welch said, is that the president “stated quite explicitly the tax bill would not include tax cuts for the wealthy.”
  Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., in his congressional office. F
  
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• Sanders unveils ‘Medicare for all’ to cheers, but dim prospects

  14-09-2017 01:38 via vtdigger.org
  Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., introduces his Medicare-for-all bill Wednesday, flanked by Democratic co-sponsors. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDiggerWASHINGTON — After a months-long tease, Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., unveiled legislation to overhaul the American health care system to a Capitol Hill committee room crowded with journalists and activists Wednesday.
  “Today we begin the long and difficult struggle to end the international disgrace of the United States, our great nation, being
  
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• Police release video, but have no audio, of stop in fake-cop case

  14-09-2017 01:18 via vtdigger.org
  RUTLAND — A video of a traffic stop that led to a Rutland firefighter being charged with impersonating a police officer yields few clues because no audio was recorded.A Vermont State Police trooper said in court records that after he pulled over Brent M. Garrow, 31, for speeding on Aug. 12 Garrow showed him a badge and told him he worked as an officer in Pittsford.The video taken from the dash cam of the trooper’s cruiser is too far away to capture Garrow showing a badge, and with n
  
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• Gaye Symington: Listening to Irma, reflecting on Irene

  14-09-2017 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Gaye Symington, who is president of the High Meadows Fund, based at the Vermont Community Foundation. She is a former speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives and was the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 2008.On Sunday, driving home from Massachusetts, I listened to two hours of radio reports tracking the destructive path of Hurricane Irma from the Florida Keys up the state’s west coast. I remembered the many lives upended six years ag
  
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• Gil Livingston: In Burlington, open space combines with livable neighborhood

  14-09-2017 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Gil Livingston, who is the president of the Vermont Land Trust.
  Burlington’s wealth of public parks, beaches, community gardens and open spaces makes our city so unique. One of the most defining and treasured features of the greater Burlington area is the publicly accessible and protected waterfront. The waterfront is the backbone of the Queen City: the bike path, public beaches, lakefront parks and water access provide residents and visitors with
  
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• Vermont border at center of phone confiscation suit

  14-09-2017 00:57 via vtdigger.org
  Searches by federal agents at a customs station on the Vermont-Quebec border are cited as examples in a lawsuit challenging the practice of unwarranted examinations of travelers’ cellphones and other electronics as they enter the country.
  The American Civil Liberties Union, its Massachusetts affiliate and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston challenging policies under which Customs and Border Patrol Agents can search electronic devices wi
  
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• David Russell: Americans waking up

  14-09-2017 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by David Russell, of Perkinsville, who is retired renewable energy and securities consultant and whose writing appears in venues including the The Hill and Huffington Post.For those dwindling numbers of Americans who support Donald Trump there are many things to cheer about. For those who do not support him, there is nothing. The good news is that there really is at least one good thing about his presidency that has been a benefit and can be looked upon as
  
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