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• LISTEN: How Tiny Ticks And Brainworms Are Bringing Down The Mighty Moose dlvr.it/Q8cNNP https://t.co/rFBnnnYPF0

  02-01-2018 22:57 via twitter.com
  
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• Montpelier fire forces tenants from eight-unit building

  02-01-2018 22:08 via vtdigger.org
  Photo by Cate Chant/VTDigger
  MONTPELIER — A fire that started when a maintenance person was thawing frozen pipes has forced an unknown number of tenants of an eight-unit building out of their apartments.Montpelier Fire Department Lt. Dana Huoppi said the fire broke out in the basement of the four-story building at 197 Main St., at the corner of Main and Loomis Streets,mid-morning and quickly spread between the interior and exterior walls.Two apartments on the bottom floor, which is below g
  
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• Norwich University elects new trustee, Vice Admiral Patricia A. Tracey

  02-01-2018 21:23 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Norwich UniversityJan. 2, 2018
  Contact:Daphne Larkin802-485-2886Follow us on Twitter @[email protected]
  NORTHFIELD, Vt. – Norwich University officials announced that Navy Vice Admiral Patricia A. Tracey (Retired) was elected to the Board of Trustees at the Board’s October 2017 meeting.
  In 2004, Vice Admiral Tracey, who was the first woman to reach three-star rank, left the Navy after a distinguished 34-year career. Tracey worked as and subsequently r
  
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• Gov. Phil Scott’s public schedule Jan. 2-5, 2018

  02-01-2018 21:18 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Gov. Phil Scott
  Contact:Ethan T. LatourAsst. Director of Policy and CommunicationsGovernor Phil [email protected]
  Governor Phil Scott’s Public Schedule: 1/2/17 – 1/5/18
  Tuesday, January 2
  No public events scheduled
  Wednesday, January 3
  9:00 – 10:00 AMOpen Door CoffeeGovernor’s Ceremonial Office – Vermont State House
  Thursday, January 4
  2:00-3:00 PM
  State of the State Address
  Vermont State House – House Chamber
  Friday, January 5
  
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• Green Up Vermont annual student contests for writing and poster design

  02-01-2018 21:07 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Green Up VermontJanuary 2, 2018
  Contact:Melanie Phelps, Green Up Vermont, 802-229-4586, [email protected]
  Any student K-12 may submit one entry each for Green Up Vermont’s annual contests for poster design and for writing. Entries for the poster design contest must be received by January 31st. One poster design is selected as the official Green Up Day poster, promoting Green Up Day, the first Saturday in May, which will be May 5th, 2018. Poster entries should
  
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• Vermont Law School mourns professor emeritus Gil Kujovich, civil rights leader and legal scholar

  02-01-2018 21:04 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Law SchoolJan. 2, 2018
  Contact:Maryellen Apelquist, Director of Communications, Vermont Law Schooloffice: 802-831-1228, cell: 802-299-5593, [email protected]
  SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt., Jan. 2, 2018–– With great sadness we announce the death of Gil Kujovich, Professor Emeritus of Vermont Law School. Professor Kujovich, 71, passed away after a long illness in the company of his loving wife, Joni Chenoweth, and family on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, in Boston,
  
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• Cold weather safety tips

  02-01-2018 20:47 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Department of Public Safety, Vermont Department of HealthDecember 27, 2017
  Contact:Vermont Department of Health Communication Office: 802-863-7281
  Vermont Emergency Management: 800-347-0488
  WATERBURY, VT – Sub-zero temperatures are in the forecast for Vermont over the next several days. Wind chills are expected to reach 20 to 30-degrees below zero in areas of the state.
  These temperatures can pose a danger to health and property. Hypothermia, frostbite, and oth
  
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• Second person dies from Dec. 17 house fire in Brookline

  02-01-2018 20:41 via vtdigger.org
  (This story was published first by the Brattleboro Reformer on Jan. 2, 2018.)
  A fire in Brookline on Dec. 17 has claimed its second victim.
  The Vermont State Police issued a news release Tuesday saying Bruce R. Cutts, 70, of Brookline, died at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as a result of injuries he sustained in a house fire.
  Firefighters from around the region went to the home about 2 a.m. on Dec. 17. They learned that although Cutts and his wife, Sally Cutts, 63, were able to escape
  
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• No bidders emerge for Pownal land eyed for conservation

  02-01-2018 20:17 via vtdigger.org
  A sign in Pownal marks the beginning of forestland owned by the city of North Adams, Mass., which asked for proposals to purchase about 218 acres. File photo by Jim Therrien/VTDigger
  POWNAL — No bids came in for 218 acres of forested land in Pownal that the city of North Adams, Massachusetts, is looking to sell.
  “Strangely, no proposals were received,” said Michael Nuvallie, the city’s Community Development office special projects coordinator. Responses to a request for p
  
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• 2017 saw progress on PFOA issues in Bennington

  02-01-2018 03:28 via vtdigger.org
  Gov. Phil Scott, center, Bennington area lawmakers and other officials toast the installation in late 2017 of a section of municipal water line to address PFOA contamination of local wells. The year began with many questions. File photo by Holly Pelczynski/Bennington Banner
  BENNINGTON — The past year was one in which some of the trauma began to subside for residents whose wells and yards were found in 2016 to be contaminated with PFOA.
  Two meetings in North Bennington early in 2017 illustr
  
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• Bills to watch: Pot, parentage and prisoners in Judiciary spotlight

  02-01-2018 03:00 via vtdigger.org
  Rep. Chip Conquest, D-Wells River, is vice chair of the House Judiciary Committee. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger ​The House Judiciary Committee isn’t wasting any time.
  On Day 1 of the 2018 legislative session Wednesday, the panel will get to work on H.511, known as the marijuana legalization bill. RELATED STORIESBills to watch: Pot, parentage and prisoners in Judiciary spotlightBills to watch: Special ed, interstate districts and taxes top education agendaVermont legislative
  
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• Gov. Scott’s first year: Holding the line and pushing back

  02-01-2018 01:59 via vtdigger.org
  Gov. Phil Scott. File photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDiggerWhen you’re in a hole, stop digging.
  That’s the philosophy supporters saw Gov. Phil Scott follow during his first year in office, a post the moderate Republican assumed after six years of Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin, whose party continues to boast a large majority in the Legislature. Spending under Shumlin and his predecessor, Republican Jim Douglas, regularly outpaced inflation; some budgets were aided by large infusions of feder
  
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• John McClaughry: The difficult legislative agenda of 2018

  02-01-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by John McClaughry, the vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute.The biennial session of the Legislature that convenes this week will face more than its share of hot button issues. Here’s a quick survey of the 2018 agenda.
  State finances: The Legislature faces a FY 2019 general fund budget deficit projected to surpass $40 million. The bright side of this coin is that covering a deficit puts a strong damper on ever-present demands for new spending
  
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• Joseph McSherry: State’s report on marijuana misrepresents NHTSA report

  02-01-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Joseph McSherry, M.D., Ph.D., who is an associate professor of neurological sciences at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont.Dear Honorable Governor Scott, Roadway Safety Subcommittee, Commissioners, and other participants,
  The recent report “Health and Safety Endpoints: Injury and Death, and Crime Rates” provided by the Roadway Safety Subcommittee (of the Governor’s Marijuana Advisory Commission) Nov. 9, 2017, p
  
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• Rosanne Greco: The myth of growth as good

  02-01-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Rosanne Greco, a retired Air Force colonel who is the former chair of the South Burlington City Council and a current member of the board of the South Burlington Land Trust. The views expressed are how own.
  What’s enough? Almost every week, there is someone either advocating for more growth or lamenting the lack of growth. This deification of growth — and the accompanying calls for more housing — perpetuates the falsehood that we need
  
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