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• On Monday, we discussed the loss of forest cover and the consequences for the health of our landscape: buff.ly/2xE89lM #VT

  30-09-2017 22:33 via twitter.com
  On Monday, we discussed the loss of forest cover and the consequences for the health of our landscape: buff.ly/2xE89lM #VT
  
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• Fact-Checking Our Vermont Dairy Industry Discussion buff.ly/2jYNGDv #VT https://t.co/3a7NqsGVjc

  30-09-2017 15:59 via twitter.com
  
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• Pomerleau feted at 100th birthday celebration

  30-09-2017 13:59 via vtdigger.org
  Real estate developer and philanthropist Tony Pomerleau celebrates his 100th birthday. Photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — The Queen City’s centenarian philanthropist, Antonio Pomerleau, was in rare form Friday at a dedication ceremony for a new community sailing center that bears his name.
  The jocular businessman, who celebrated his 100th birthday earlier in the week, sported a hat with the line “100 and still be best looking guy in the room,” and riffed off the s
  
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• Trooper cleared of wrongdoing in gunpoint stop of rabbi and family

  30-09-2017 13:47 via vtdigger.org
  Tom Anderson, the commissioner of the Department of Public Safety. Photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDiggerThe head of the state Department of Public Safety and an advisory panel say a trooper has been cleared of any wrongdoing in a traffic stop that a New York assemblyman said left a Brooklyn rabbi and his family feeling “terrorized.”
  Rabbi Berl Fink, 57, said the trooper had his gun drawn and ordered him out of his 2004 Toyota Camry, before throwing him the ground and handcuffing him as we
  
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• South Burlington teachers vote to strike

  30-09-2017 13:37 via vtdigger.org
  South Burlington Education Association Spokesman Noah Everitt, a special educator at South Burlington High School, addresses reporters. Photo by Morgan True / VTDiggerSOUTH BURLINGTON — The teachers union voted Friday to strike starting October 4, if a contract can’t be negotiated, a spokesman said.
  The South Burlington School Board voted to impose working conditions on the union August 29, and then asked the union to begin negotiating a contract for the following year. The union ref
  
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• S. Burlington teachers to strike

  30-09-2017 13:37 via vtdigger.org
  Noah Everitt, South Burlington Education Association. Photo by Morgan True/VTDiggerSOUTH BURLINGTON — The teachers union voted Friday to strike starting October 4, if a contract can’t be negotiated, a spokesman said.
  The South Burlington School Board voted to impose working conditions on the union August 29, and then asked the union to begin negotiating a contract for the following year. The union refused, saying it would not negotiate for 2019 until the imposition was lifted.
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• Ron Krupp: Light rail could enhance Burlington

  30-09-2017 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Ron Krupp, who is the author of “The Woodchuck Returns to Gardening.” It originally aired on Vermont Public Radio.
  From the redevelopment of Church Street to plans for a $30 million, 2½-mile Champlain Parkway, Burlington is reinventing itself.
  But current plans call for the parkway to dump all “incoming” traffic at the Lake Street junction, most likely creating massive gridlock on Pine Street. So as long as we’re all
  
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• John Klar: No free speech right to kneel

  30-09-2017 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by John Klar, a Vermont grass-fed beef farmer, and an attorney and pastor who lives in Westfield.
  There is no free speech right to kneel in protest at ball games. There just isn’t. The freedom to burn a flag or resist an anthem is clear — but not while you are in the paid employment of another. What if any player who wished could raise the Nazi flag during the anthem, or maybe a devout Christian who felt passionately about abortion kneeled in p
  
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• Roger Allbee: Investing in energy efficiency makes good sense

  30-09-2017 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary by Roger Allbee, CEO of Grace Cottage Family Health and Hospital in Townshend. He is a former secretary of the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets.As a major health care provider in Windham County, we’d like to share a recent success story that demonstrates how investing in energy efficiency has helped us provide better care to our community by reducing our operating costs while providing better comfort to our patients and staff.
  At Grace Cottage Family Health &
  
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• Rutland attorney heading to prison for seven months in tax case

  30-09-2017 00:38 via vtdigger.org
  Rutland attorney John Canney III. Photo by Alan J. Keyes/VTDiggerBURLINGTON – A longtime Rutland attorney has been sentenced to seven months behind bars for understating income on his federal taxes.
  John Canney III, 63, was sentenced Friday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Burlington. In addition to the seven-month jail term, Judge Christina Reiss also ordered that Canney pay a $15,000 fine and serve one year of supervised release.He was given until Nov. 14 to report to begin serving hi
  
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