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• OneCare now sharing CEO with New York company

  05-10-2017 23:58 via vtdigger.org
  Todd Moore is chief executive officer of OneCare Vermont and now of Adirondacks ACO as well. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDiggerVermont’s biggest health reform company has begun to combine some of its operations with a similar company in upstate New York.OneCare Vermont, which is jointly owned by the University of Vermont Medical Center and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, is now sharing its CEO with a company called Adirondacks ACO.
  The move is the beginning of a plan to share more s
  
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• Local officials told: When in doubt, err on side of transparency

  05-10-2017 23:40 via vtdigger.org
  Carl Andeer, a staff attorney with the Vermont League of Cities and Towns, leads a presentation Thursday in Killington on the “Open Meeting Law and Social Media.” Photo by Alan J. Keays/VTDigger
  KILLINGTON — A lawyer for an organization that represents municipalities in Vermont told officials at the local level Thursday that when it comes to the state’s open meeting law it’s best to err on the side of openness.
  “The main goal here is accountability and transpa
  
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• Vermont officials tout electric cars as key to ‘energy revolution’

  05-10-2017 23:29 via vtdigger.org
  Mary Powell, CEO of Green Mountain Power, Neale Lunderville, of Burlington Electric Department, and Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger appear at an event touting electric cars. Photo by Mark Johnson/VTDiggerIf Neale Lunderville’s smiling enthusiasm was a bit like that of a car salesman, there was a good reason for that.
  The onetime top aide to former Gov. Jim Douglas, now general manager of the Burlington Electric Department, was emceeing an event celebrating electric cars, and rebate progra
  
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  05-10-2017 23:21 via twitter.com
  
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• Front Porch Forum awarded grant to explore social capital in Vermont

  05-10-2017 22:25 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Front Porch ForumOct. 4, 2017
  Contact:Lynn Espey
  [email protected]
  Burlington, VT, September 25: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently awarded a grant to Front Porch Forum to study how Vermonters use FPF to build community.
  “When the Foundation approached us to do this work, it was a wonderful surprise and great honor,” said FPF co-founder Michael Wood-Lewis.
  A leading national social networking research organization, Network Impact, recently cond
  
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• Nearly $6 million awarded for municipal stormwater mitigation

  05-10-2017 22:18 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Agency of TransportationOctober 4, 2017
  Contact:Joel Perrigo, Municipal Assistance Bureau Project Manager, 802-828- 2583, [email protected]
  Montpelier, Vt. – The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) is pleased to announce the award of nearly $6 million in federal and state grant funds to assist municipalities in their mitigation efforts through the Municipal Highway and Stormwater Mitigation Program.
  “These grant funds will help support critic
  
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• City of Winooski names new fire department chiefs

  05-10-2017 21:52 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — City of WinooskiWednesday, October 4th 2017
  Contact:Jessie Baker, Winooski City [email protected]
  The City of Winooski is proud to announce a new leadership structure within the Winooski Fire Department.
  John J. Audy Jr., who spent the last 3 years serving Winooski as Health Administrator, Zoning Administrator, and Fire Marshal, has accepted the role of Fire Chief. John’s 27 years of public safety experience provides a tremendous value to the C
  
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• Norwich receives Vermont Department of Labor grant for student internships

  05-10-2017 21:47 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Norwich UniversityOct. 4, 2017
  Contact:Daphne Larkin802-485-2886
  [email protected] us on Twitter @NorwichNews
  NORTHFIELD, Vt. – Norwich University’s Career and Internship Center has received $15,000 in grant funding from the Vermont Department of Labor to support student internships by providing partial reimbursements for gas mileage.
  The funding will support about 50 students with up to $800 in mileage reimbursement during the calendar year of 2018. Stud
  
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• Green Mountain Power launches round two of its InspireSpace Contest

  05-10-2017 21:37 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Green Mountain PowerOct. 4, 2017
  Contact:Kristin Carlson, Green Mountain Power802-229-8200
  [email protected]
  Unveils Co-working Space Now Open to Vermont Public
  Colchester, Vt – Green Mountain Power is excited to launch its second Inspire Space contest to attract the next round of energy entrepreneurs to Vermont after a wildly successful first year. Winners receive a year of working space at GMP’s state-of-the-art open concept space in Colche
  
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• Gov. Phil Scott signs proclamation designation October as Employee Ownership Month

  05-10-2017 21:33 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Office of the GovernorWednesday, October 4, 2017
  Media Contact:Rebecca Kelley, Office of the Governor802-622-4047
  [email protected]
  Proctor, Vt. – At a signing ceremony Wednesday, Governor Phil Scott proclaimed October as Employee Ownership Month in Vermont.
  The proclamation recognizes the value of employee ownership to Vermont’s economy and in creating opportunities for Vermont workers.
  “Employee-owned companies play an important role in our econo
  
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• Brattleboro Retreat worker charged with child sexual assault of a patient

  05-10-2017 18:47 via vtdigger.org
  Brattleboro resident Robert Havens appeared with his attorney, Bettina Buehler, in Windham County Superior Court, Criminal Division, on Wednesday on charges of sexual assault, lewd and lascivious conduct with a child, kidnapping and unlawful restraint. Photo by Kristopher Radder/Brattleboro Reformer(This story by Harmony Birch was published in the Brattleboro Reformer on Oct. 5, 2017.)
  BRATTLEBORO — A mental health worker at the Brattleboro Retreat has been charged by police with sexuall
  
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• For @NPRItsBeenAMin, @samsanders asks people to share the best thing from their week. He joins us today as we put t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 15:45 via twitter.com
  For @NPRItsBeenAMin, @samsanders asks people to share the best thing from their week. He joins us today as we put t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• UVM Medical Center to expand use of helicopters

  05-10-2017 12:48 via vtdigger.org
  UVM Medical Center. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDiggerThe University of Vermont Health Network says its flagship hospital will start paying to staff a helicopter in order to transport critically ill patients in Vermont and upstate New York.The network announced this week that it is in negotiations with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, to use one of Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s helicopters for transporting patients.
  The network’s flagship hospital, the UVM Med
  
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• Judge signs PFOA settlement agreement

  05-10-2017 12:36 via vtdigger.org
  This map by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation shows drinking water wells that tested positive for PFOA. Red icons indicate the highest concentrations of the chemical.BENNINGTON — Superior Court Judge William Cohen has signed a settlement agreement under which Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics will fund $20 million in water line extension work and other costs associated with PFOA contamination in Bennington.
  During a status conference on Sept. 27, the judge asked attorney
  
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• Green Mountain Power’s blown deadline brings official rebuke

  05-10-2017 02:51 via vtdigger.org
  Regulators gave a dressing-down to the state’s largest utility Wednesday, after Green Mountain Power missed a key deadline for what company representatives describe as a relatively minor filing.
  The utility, a subsidiary of the Canadian natural gas firm Gaz Metro, was supposed to have submitted a filing on proposed rates for a small number of customers by mid-August, according to the Vermont Public Utility Commission. Instead, on Sept. 27, only three days before the rates were to take effe
  
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• Companies given edge over local Burlington Telecom suitor

  05-10-2017 02:39 via vtdigger.org
  Financial and legal documents released Wednesday carry opinions that favor two established telecommunications companies over a local group in the sale of Burlington Telecom.
  A certified public accountant and the city’s legal counsel both raise concerns about Keep Burlington Telecom Local, a local group that wants to buy the municipally run and controlled internet and TV provider for $12 million and operate it as a member-owned cooperative. The city would retain an ownership interest.
  Burli
  
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• Entergy, NorthStar want critical comments nixed

  05-10-2017 02:03 via vtdigger.org
  Arnie Gundersen, a Burlington-based nuclear engineer, speaks before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during a hearing on the decommissioning of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in 2015. File photo by John Herrick/VTDigger
  VERNON – Two prominent nuclear critics sent state officials sharply worded criticisms this summer of NorthStar Group Services’ proposal to buy and decommission Vermont Yankee.
  NorthStar and Entergy, the Vernon plant’s current owner, now want state regulators
  
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• Join us on Thursday as we come together to share in each other's joys & try to lift one another's spirits. Have joy… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 01:40 via twitter.com
  Join us on Thursday as we come together to share in each other's joys & try to lift one another's spirits. Have joy… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Judge: Sorrell must sit for deposition in public records case

  05-10-2017 01:32 via vtdigger.org
  Former Attorney General William Sorrell. File photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — Vermont’s former attorney general has been ordered to answer questions under oath about the possible existence of public records that the state says are confidential.The legal decision Wednesday was a major victory for a nonprofit that is suing Vermont for records related to a probe of Exxon Mobil. The decision came hours after former Attorney General William Sorrell failed to show up for a s
  
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• Bill Schubart: Drawing the line on guns

  05-10-2017 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bill Schubart, a regular commentator for Vermont Public Radio and a former board member of the Vermont Journalism Trust, the umbrella organization for VTDigger.org. This piece was first aired on VPR.
  When I was 8, I took the NRA safety and target training at a camp in Maine. Two years later, my parents gave me a Winchester .22 long rifle. We kids would pedal our bikes up to the dump after it closed on Saturday to “pop” rats. During deer seas
  
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• Green group threatens state with suit over Hosmer Pond rule

  05-10-2017 01:04 via vtdigger.org
  Craftsbury Outdoor Center coach Carol Bower, a member of the 1980 and 1984 U.S. Olympic Team, sculls on Great Hosmer Pond. Photo by Mike Polhamus/VTDigger.A leading Vermont environmental group is threatening to sue the state, saying a proposed rule limiting rowing and sculling on Craftsbury’s Great Hosmer Pond fails to meet several requirements set out in state law.
  A letter by Jon Groveman, policy and water program director for environmental group Vermont Natural Resources Council, to Emi
  
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• Jules Rabin: A glut of guns

  05-10-2017 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jules Rabin, who came to Vermont in 1968 to teach at Goddard College and 10 years later shifted to baking bread in a wood-fired oven. He lives in Plainfield.A glut of guns is what Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas shooter extraordinaire, lived with — lived with, lived for, and ultimately died by.
  In Paddock’s killing perch in a luxurious site on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Hotel in Las Vegas, police found 23 guns. At his quiet home in Mesqui
  
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• Dustin Lang: The face of wind in Vermont

  05-10-2017 00:59 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Dustin Lang, of Franklin, a former resident of Swanton who moved from a home that was 2,000 feet from the proposed Swanton Wind project.
  The wind industry in Vermont, which is represented by two law firms and two paid lobbying organizations, Renewable Energy Vermont and the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, has been complaining recently about what they refer to as “unnecessary scrutiny” by the Public Utility Commission (formerly the Pu
  
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