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• What space stories of 2017 stand out to you? @astronomeara joined us on Monday to take a look back on this past yea… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-12-2017 20:34 via twitter.com
  What space stories of 2017 stand out to you? @astronomeara joined us on Monday to take a look back on this past yea… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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  09-12-2017 12:05 via vtdigger.org
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• Explosion at UTC Aerospace injures three people

  09-12-2017 12:01 via vtdigger.org
  An explosion at the UTC Aerospace Systems in Vergennes Friday injured three people on Friday, according to the Vermont State Police.The injuries were non-life threatening, police say. The individuals were hospitalized at Porter Hospital in Middlebury and UVM Medical Center in Burlington. Two of the individuals have been released.
  All employees were evacuated from the plant.The Vergennes Fire Department and the fire investigative unit of the Department of Public Safety responded to the scene. The
  
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• DNA evidence remains under review in Arlington murder case

  09-12-2017 11:36 via vtdigger.org
  Bennington County State’s Attorney Erica Marthage and Major Glenn Hall, commander of the Criminal Division of State Police, speak at a news conference after a murder charge was entered against Timothy Butler in an Arlington homicide. Photo by Holly Pelczynski/Bennington BannerEditor’s note: This story by Ed Damon first appeared in the Bennington Banner on Dec. 8.BENNINGTON — Forensic evidence in the case of a Sunderland man charged with the death of an elderly Arlington woman i
  
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• William Mathis: Dangers in the brave new world

  09-12-2017 01:08 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by William J. Mathis, who is vice chair of the Vermont State Board of Education and managing director of the National Education Policy Center. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of any group with which he is affiliated.
  Just as we were thinking that “The Matrix” and “The Terminator” were science fiction, the evening news shows us a different reality. We are being tracked by our own personal devices. Camera
  
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• Walt Amses: Surfing the Andes

  09-12-2017 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: Walt Amses is a writer and former educator who lives in Calais.
  I was convinced I was the only sane one on the bus, including the driver. We were on a seven-hour trip through the Central Andes headed for Cuenca Ecuador as it slowly dawned on me that the entire route included no straight flat sections of road and produced the kind of G forces common in alpine ski racing or NASA training. Everyone else seemed strangely calm in a Stepford Wives sort of way while I was as agitat
  
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• John Killacky: ‘The Nutcracker’ comes to the Flynn

  09-12-2017 01:01 via vtdigger.org
  John Killacky with Vermont Ballet Theater dancers Eleanor Kinney and Lissome Hall who will be alternating as “Clara.” Courtesy photo by Frédéric SilbermanEditor’s note: This commentary is by John R. Killacky, executive director of the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts. It first aired on Vermont Public Radio.
  Growing up in a working-class family in Chicago, I did not experience a lot of culture — but a school trip to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ch
  
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