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• Teen who threatened South Burlington schools back in jail

  17-11-2017 23:12 via vtdigger.org
  Josiah Leach, 19, leaves the federal court in Burlington after pleading guilty to making threats against students and teachers at South Burlington High School. Photo by Morgan True / VTDiggerBURLINGTON — A teenager who pleaded guilty to making a series of escalating threats against students and classmates at South Burlington High School in April is back in custody for violating the conditions of his release.
  The messages included threats of killings with guns and knives, and one contained
  
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• UVM cuts 12 courses taught by part-time faculty

  17-11-2017 22:54 via vtdigger.org
  Waterman Building, University of Vermont. Photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDiggerThe University of Vermont’s College of Arts and Sciences announced a predicted multimillion-dollar budget shortfall and canceled 12 courses taught by part-time faculty the day before registration opened Nov. 13, causing one department chair to step down from his post.The college was left with $3.7 million to $4 million less than expected due to cuts in both undergraduate and graduate budgets, according to a Nov. 13 ema
  
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• LISTEN: What Does 'Aging Well' Look Like In Vermont? dlvr.it/Q1WDXd https://t.co/ZDfHqssD0H

  17-11-2017 22:53 via twitter.com
  
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• Treating cancer with over the counter drugs and gel insoles? #VT inmate deaths raise questions about prison health… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-11-2017 22:33 via twitter.com
  Treating cancer with over the counter drugs and gel insoles? #VT inmate deaths raise questions about prison health… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vermont launches initiative to help schools test drinking water for lead

  17-11-2017 22:17 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Department of HealthNovember 16, 2017
  Media Contact:Vermont Department of Health802-863-7281
  BURLINGTON – The Vermont Department of Health, in partnership with the Agencies of Education and Natural Resources, is launching a pilot project designed to encourage schools to test drinking water for lead at each tap used for drinking or cooking, and take actions to lower lead levels.
  Sixteen schools that get their drinking water from municipal water systems were invi
  
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• Burlington & partners announce parking improvements and changes ahead of the holiday season

  17-11-2017 22:10 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Burlington DPWNovember 16, 2017
  Contact:Robert Goulding, DPW Public Information Manager802-540-0846
  Kelly Devine, BBA Executive Director802-863-1175
  Enforcement hours scaled back; Holiday Parking Promo to provide discounted parking; Structural Repairs to extend the life of College St garage by decades; LED lighting and enhanced camera system to improve safety
  Burlington, VT – In advance of a festive and busy downtown holiday season, the Burlington Department of Public
  
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• Magic Hat to release holiday stout at festive fundraiser

  17-11-2017 21:55 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Magic HatNov. 16, 2017
  Media Contact:Ben Gilbert
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  Brewery Partners with Vermont Foodbank for Feast of Fools Release
  South Burlington, VT (November 15, 2017) – Bust out the gilded goblets! Magic Hat Brewing Company is jubilating this holiday season with a limited edition release of their festive stout brewed with raspberries, Feast of Fools. Magic Hat is partnering with the Vermont Foodbank for the release, working to
  
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• Cabot man in federal court on firearms charges

  17-11-2017 21:50 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — U.S. Department of Justice United States Attorney District of VermontNovember 16, 2017
  Contact:Tim AtkinsonUnited States Attorney’s Office, District of Vermont802.951.6725
  [email protected]
  The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jeremy A. Churchill, age 37, from Cabot, Vermont, made an initial appearance on November 15, 2017 before United States Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy in Burlington on firearms cha
  
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• Christine Hallquist: ‘It is up to us to keep VTDigger and our democracy healthy!’

  17-11-2017 20:58 via vtdigger.org
  Here at VTDigger, we strive to produce the best news in Vermont. Over the next few weeks, we will bring you the voices of our supporters – the VTDigger champions who help make our news possible.
  Christine Hallquist, CEO of the Vermont Electric Cooperative.As CEO of Vermont Electric Cooperative and one of Vermont’s pre-eminent progressive business leaders, Christine Hallquist is often a source for our reporters. She not only contributes her insight and knowledge so that readers can g
  
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• Woodford merger affirmed; Pownal recount Monday

  17-11-2017 19:42 via vtdigger.org
  WOODFORD — A recount in Woodford has upheld the town’s Nov. 7 rejection of a proposed Act 46 merger of five Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union school districts.Meanwhile, Pownal is next up for a recount of its election results, which will take place on Monday.Woodford Town Clerk Susan Wright said the Board of Civil Authority recounted the Nov. 7 ballots Thursday morning and came up with the same result: 36 to 38 against the plan.
  Coupled with Pownal’s rejection of the proposed
  
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• The Real Deal On Fake News dlvr.it/Q1Tw6T https://t.co/9eFwEctJe0

  17-11-2017 19:38 via twitter.com
  
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• Panel questions agriculture Act 250 exemption

  17-11-2017 19:24 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont dairy farm fields. Photo by Terry J. Allen/VTDiggerA legislative panel wants to hear the Agriculture Agency’s case for why farmers should continue to be exempt from environmental enforcement under Vermont’s land use law.
  The question comes from a body of six legislators who form the Commission on Act 250. The commission, which met Wednesday, is tasked with proposing fixes and updates to the state’s land use laws that will bring Act 250’s 50-year-old regulations up
  
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• Vermont officials highlight financial literacy

  17-11-2017 19:21 via vtdigger.org
  State Treasurer Beth Pearce discusses the state’s financial literacy working group at a press conference Thursday. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDiggerState officials put the focus on financial literacy this week and painted a bleak picture of how well Vermonters are prepared for retirement.
  Gov. Phil Scott and Treasurer Beth Pearce announced an effort Thursday to better deliver information to Vermonters on how to manage their personal finances. The goal of the group is to figure out what prog
  
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• Vermont Tech seeks to teach 3-D technology

  17-11-2017 19:18 via vtdigger.org
  Pat Moulton, president of Vermont Technical College. Photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger​Vermont Tech wants to raise $2.5 million to start a cutting edge center to teach students the latest in creating 3-D products, and in the process, help businesses too.
  In a three-page report, VTC lays out its pitch to boost the state’s manufacturing sector with an Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Randolph. The center would offer local businesses a competitive advantage while training s
  
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• YWP: ‘One Stormy Eve’

  17-11-2017 17:45 via vtdigger.org
  Young Writers Project, an independent nonprofit based in Burlington, engages young people to write and use digital media to express themselves with clarity and power, and to gain confidence and skills for school, the workplace and life.Check out the most recent issue of The Voice, Young Writers Project’s monthly digital magazine. Click here.Each week, VTDigger features a writing submission – an essay, poem, fiction or nonfiction – accompanied by a photo or illustration from Yo
  
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• SCOV Law Blog: Guardsman claimed deployment order cause of denial of promotion, firing

  17-11-2017 17:30 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This piece from the SCOV Law Blog is by Nicole Killoran. 
  Brown v. State, 2013 VT 112
  Creative Commons photo by walknboston via FlickrToday’s case, an employment dispute that came out a few years ago, is a fact-specific look at one soon-to-be-deployed National Guardsman’s time as a temporary correctional officer. The majority offers us a window into servicemen employment protections. The dissent gives us a peek into evidentiary infighting among the SCOV&rsqu
  
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• How are you approaching retirement? Do you plan to work past 65? buff.ly/2mzxAS1 https://t.co/D70MWWAwvA

  17-11-2017 16:34 via twitter.com
  
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• Students pocket cool million at UVM GIS lab while helping cities

  17-11-2017 15:40 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — UVMNov. 16, 2017
  Contact:Jeff Wakefield, [email protected], 802-578-8830
  The University of Vermont’s Spatial Analysis Lab has reached a significant milestone. The lab – which provides Geographic Information Systems, or GIS, services to customers around the country – has crossed the $1 million threshold in wages paid over the last five years to the UVM students who worked there.
  “It’s a significant accomplishment,” said Jarlath O&rs
  
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• Burlington mayor announces selection of Vermont Birth to Five to manage Early Learning Initiative grant process

  17-11-2017 15:40 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Office of Mayor Miro WeinbergerNovember 16, 2017
  Contact:Katie Vane802.734.0617
  VB5 Seeking Grant Applications
  Burlington, VT – Today Mayor Miro Weinberger announced that the City of Burlington concluded the Request for Proposal (RFP) process for a group to help manage the Early Learning Initiative grant process with the selection of Vermont Birth to Five (VB5). VB5 will manage the grant-making program in collaboration with the City’s Community and Economic Devel
  
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• TruexCullins wins Gold Key Award for Excellence in Hospitality Design

  17-11-2017 15:35 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — TruexCullinsNov. 15, 2017
  Media Contact:Julie Bellino, Marketing Coordinator
  [email protected]
  truexcullins.com
  Mountain Modern Motel Recognized for Best Lobby in Budget/Focused Service Category
  BURLINGTON, VT, November 15, 2017– TruexCullins Architecture + Interior Design won the 2017 Gold Key Award for Excellence in Hospitality Design, Best Lobby – Budget/Focused Service for the contemporary redesign of the Mountain Modern Motel in Jackson,
  
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• Early season updates at Vermont resorts

  17-11-2017 15:30 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Ski VermontNov. 16, 2017
  Contact:Chloe ElliottCommunications Manager, Ski Vermont802-223-2439, [email protected]
  Mount Snow Resort’s Opening Day was November 11, 2017
  When Mother Nature hands out cold weather, Vermonters make snow with it, and November’s chilly temperatures coupled with the Green Mountain State’s world class snowmaking power allowed for Vermont’s resorts to open early and open strong for the 2017-18 season.
  Killington Resort stayed
  
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• Rutland welcomes new art spot: 77 Gallery

  17-11-2017 15:20 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — 77 GalleryNovember 15, 2017
  Contact:Bianca Zanella(603) [email protected]
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  Rutland, Vermont – November 15, 2017: The grand opening of 77 Gallery, located on 77 Grove Street in the City of Rutland, will take place on Sunday, November 19, 2017 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  The inaugural exhibition is made up of 34 local artists from all over Rutland County with work ranging from landscape paintings to conceptual sculptures to collag
  
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• 13th annual Wheels for Warmth raises record amount for emergency fuel assistance programs

  17-11-2017 15:15 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Capstone Community ActionNovember 15, 2017
  Contact:Yvonne Lory, Capstone Community Action802-477-5123
  Tire recycle and re-sale program breaks $400,000 raised since 2005
  Barre, Vt. – Wheels for Warmth, a program that helps keep Vermonters safe on the roads and warm in their homes, announced today it raised a record $66,000 for emergency fuel assistance programs through its 2017 tire collections and sales.
  This year, 1,845 safe, DMV-inspected tires were sold at affordabl
  
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• Leahy Statement on VA efforts to prevent opioid overmedication

  17-11-2017 15:10 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Sen. Patrick LeahyNov. 15, 2017
  Contact:Jay Tilton202-224-2667
  Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.),Vice Chairman, Senate Appropriations CommitteeMilitary Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee HearingOn VA Efforts to Prevent and Combat Opioid Over MedicationNovember 15, 2017
  The opioid epidemic has reached every state – every community – in the country. It is impacting sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, friends and coworkers. And it is impact
  
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• Vermont Futures Project data supports Gov. Scott’s initiative to put workforce at center of economic growth

  17-11-2017 15:05 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Futures ProjectNov. 15, 2017
  Contact:Betsy Bishop, 802-229-2209Bill Shouldice, 802-282-2683
  Today’s announcement by Governor Phil Scott to elevate the importance of workforce is welcome news to the Vermont Futures Project which has identified a nearly 11,000-person workforce supply gap.
  “The Vermont Futures Project has done the analysis and recognizes the need to put the workforce as a priority for economic growth. We applaud Governor Scott for not only e
  
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• Southern Vermonters demonstrate support for new U.S. citizens

  17-11-2017 15:00 via vtdigger.org
  Press Release -Windham County ACLU People PowerNovember 15, 2017
  Contact:Ann Schroeder802-257-7686
  Windham County Residents Travel to Rutland’s Naturalization Ceremony
  Christ the King School in Rutland, VT was the host of today’s Naturalization Ceremony, where 35 people from 13 countries became citizens. As people entered and departed, they were greeted by Windham County residents with signs saying “Congratulations” and “New Citizens Make Our Country Stronger.&rdquo
  
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• Scott starts early on school funding debate

  17-11-2017 02:33 via vtdigger.org
  Gov. Phil Scott. File photo by Jim Therrien/VTDiggerNearly a year after facing criticism for a late start in Vermont’s annual school funding debate, Gov. Phil Scott is looking to get his oar in the water earlier this year.
  In a letter to Vermont’s education leadership, the governor made a pre-emptive strike this week, identifying his thinking on school spending now, during the school budgeting season, instead of during his State of the State speech as he did last winter. That timing
  
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• Delegation lambastes House-passed Republican tax plan

  17-11-2017 02:09 via vtdigger.org
  From left, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
  Vermont’s three members of Congress panned a tax reform plan that the U.S. House passed Thursday, with Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy calling it a “hodgepodge collection of broken promises to middle-class Americans.”
  Leahy, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., complained that the Republican-crafted package would result in 13 million Americans losing
  
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• The Deeper Dig: The Amazon effect in Vermont

  17-11-2017 01:37 via vtdigger.org
   Stacy Mitchell, the co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, says Amazon.com is more than a retail giant. The company now produces original TV shows, handles food delivery in cities, and even acts as a defense contractor, managing data storage for U.S. intelligence agencies.
  Mitchell is the co-author of a report called “Amazon’s Stranglehold: How the Company’s Tightening Grip on the Economy Is Stifling Competition, Eroding Jobs, and Threatening Communities.&
  
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• Mount Snow gets go-ahead for independent EB-5 center

  17-11-2017 01:08 via vtdigger.org
  Mount Snow resort in Dover. File photo by Rob Bossi/Courtesy of Mount Snow
  DOVER – Federal officials have approved a new privately managed EB-5 regional center that can provide a conduit for millions of dollars in foreign investment to flow to Mount Snow and affiliated ski resorts.
  Peak Resorts, Mount Snow’s Missouri-based parent company, announced Thursday that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has OK’d creation of the Great North Regional Center to manage EB-5-funded
  
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• Anne Dixon: Vermont needs radon laws

  17-11-2017 01:03 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Anne Dixon, MD, who is director of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Vermont Medical Center.
  November is Lung Cancer Awareness month. As a health professional and a volunteer for the American Lung Association, I will spend a good part of November raising awareness of about a variety of factors that might increase the risk of lung cancer. One such factor, that we in Vermont must take more seriously as a community, is radon
  
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• David Mears: Clean water funding cannot wait

  17-11-2017 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by David Mears, of Montpelier, who is associate dean of environmental programs at Vermont Law School and the former commissioner of the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation. The views expressed belong to the author alone.
  Vermonters depend upon clean water for our prosperity and health. Yet when it comes to investing in clean water, the state of Vermont appears headed towards abandoning recent progress and returning to a failed strategy of kick
  
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• Margaret Maclean: Respecting the will of the people on Act 46

  17-11-2017 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Margaret Maclean, of Peacham, who is an international education consultant, a Vermont principal of the year and a former member of the Vermont State Board of Education.
  November is a time we associate with voting. Although this November’s votes did not create quite as much stir as the 2016 elections (what could?), Vermonters are making their voices heard on important issues.
  Voting took place in Vermont towns last week related to Act 46. Among the
  
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• Scott hits back at Justice Department over threatening letter

  17-11-2017 00:01 via vtdigger.org
  Gov. Phil Scott speaks at a news conference Thursday. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
  Gov. Phil Scott insisted Thursday that Vermont is in compliance with federal laws and asserted the U.S. attorney general “had not done his homework” before including the state on a list of so-called sanctuary sites threatened with the loss of federal funds.
  “We believe we’re on safe ground,” Scott said.The governor said the state law that triggered a warning letter from the U.S. J
  
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