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• Then Again: ‘There Shall Be No Pain’

  25-02-2018 20:00 via vtdigger.org
  A monument to Horace Wells at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut, declares “There Shall Be No Pain.” A panel on the side of the monument features the words “I Awaken to Glory.” Wikimedia Commons photo
  Editor’s note: Mark Bushnell is a Vermont journalist and historian. He is the author of “Hidden History of Vermont” and “It Happened in Vermont.”The letter was everything Horace Wells could have wished. A friend was writing to report t
  
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• Gov. Phil Scott delivers action plan for maintaining safe communities and schools

  25-02-2018 15:40 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Office of Gov. Phil ScottFebruary 22, 2018
  Contact:Rebecca KelleyOffice of Gov. Phil [email protected]
  Montpelier – Governor Phil Scott today delivered a memo to the Vermont Legislature, outlining immediate and longer-term actions he’d like to work with the Legislature on to maintain the safest, healthiest and strongest communities and schools.
  Following delivery of the memo, the Governor delivered the below statement at his weekly press
  
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• VCFA’s MFA in Film program names Damon Davis as inaugural recipient of President’s Fellowship 

  25-02-2018 15:35 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont College of Fine ArtsFebruary 22, 2018
  Contact:Tim [email protected]
  Montpelier – The Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) MFA in Film program is excited to announce that award-winning multidisciplinary artist Damon Davis has been named the inaugural recipient of a new full-tuition scholarship, the President’s Fellowship for New Voices in Film. Davis co-directed and produced the 2017 documentary feature WHOSE STREETS?, which earned wides
  
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• Starr kicks clean water can down the road

  25-02-2018 15:32 via vtdigger.org
  Sen. Robert Starr, D-Essex-Orleans. Photo by Roger Crowley/VTDigger
  A bill before the Senate seeks to establish a clean-water authority that would be funded with a fee on utlity bills. The legislation would also give Vermonters the right to sue state agencies that don’t uphold environmental laws.
  But the head of the committee drafting the bill says it’s too much too soon.Sen. Bobby Starr, D-Essex-Orleans and chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, said on Wednesday that there&r
  
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• Orvis announces 2018 matching grants

  25-02-2018 15:30 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — The Orvis Company, Inc.February 22, 2018
  Contact:Jessica DonahueNancy Marshall [email protected]
  Sunderland – The Orvis Company, Inc. of Sunderland, Vermont, is pleased to announce the recipients of its annual Customer Matching Conservation Grant program. These grants are the cornerstone of Orvis’s annual commitment of five percent of its pre-tax profits to protecting nature.
  Each year, members of the Orvis Conservation Committee e
  
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• Vermont-NEA President: Governor, Attorney General, and legislative leaders right to move quickly on measures to end gun violence

  25-02-2018 15:25 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont NEAFebruary 22, 2018
  Contact:Darren Allen,Communications DirectorVermont-NEA802-224-2403
   
  Montpelier – In an extraordinary bipartisan shift on the issue of guns, Gov. Phil Scott, Attorney General T.J. Donovan, and legislative leaders today pledged to pass laws that will, as the governor said, “keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them.”
  Martha Allen, a K-12 librarian from Canaan who serves as president of Vermont-NEA,
  
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• CCV and Vermont Tech partner to support working families

  25-02-2018 15:20 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Community College of VermontFebruary 22, 2018
  Contact:Katie [email protected]
  Montpelier – Community College of Vermont (CCV) and Vermont Technical College are partnering to support working parents pursuing employment in the field of manufacturing. The two institutions are collaborating to offer the Certified Production Technician (CPT) certification program as part of the Strengthening Working Families Initiative (SWFI). Vermont Tech rec
  
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• Funding available to support Vermont’s LGBTQ communities

  25-02-2018 15:15 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — The Vermont Community FoundationFebruary 22, 2018
  Contact:Lauren BrunoThe Vermont Community Foundation802-388-3355 ext. [email protected]
  Montpelier – Funding is now available for new or existing projects, programs, and organizations that serve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities in Vermont through the Samara Fund at the Vermont Community Foundation. The Samara Fund’s mission is to help create vibrant Vermont LGBTQ commun
  
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• Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos attends National Association of Secretaries of State winter conference

  25-02-2018 15:10 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Secretary of State’s OfficeFebruary 22, 2018
  Contact:Eric Covey, Chief of StaffVermont Secretary of State’s Office802-828-2148
   
  Montpelier – Secretary of State Jim Condos and Deputy Secretary Chris Winters travelled to D.C. this past weekend to attend the annual National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) 2018 Winter Conference. They joined 34 other Secretaries of State and Lieutenant Governors, 300 senior state government staff,
  
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• Burlington Electric launches new financing program to make electric vehicles more affordable

  25-02-2018 15:05 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Burlington Electric DepartmentFebruary 22, 2018
  Contact:Mike KanarickBurlington Electric Department802-735-7962
  Burlington, VT – Burlington Electric today, in partnership with three local credit unions, launched a first-in-Vermont, new financing program to help make electric vehicles (EVs) more affordable for its customers. The credit unions – Green Mountain Credit Union, Vermont Federal Credit Union, and VSECU – are offering low- and, under certain circums
  
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• Writer Oppenheimer this year’s Rabbi Wall speaker at St. Michael’s College

  25-02-2018 15:00 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Saint Michael’s CollegeFebruary 22, 2018
  Contact:Mark TarnackiSaint Michael’s [email protected]
  Colchester – Mark Oppenheimer, PhD, writer, religion scholar, former “Beliefs” columnist for the New York Times and host of the podcast Unorthodox, will present a talk titled “Judaism in the Year 2118: Where will we be in 100 years?” as this year’s program for the Annual Rabbi Max B. Wall Lecture Series on Thursd
  
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• Farm agency blocks crisis intervention on Lake Carmi

  25-02-2018 14:50 via vtdigger.org
  Lake Carmi was closed for three months in late 2017 because of toxic algae blooms caused by pollution from local dairy farms.New pollution limits are aimed at keeping Lake Memphremagog from meeting the same fate. Photo by Mike Polhamus/VTDigger
  One of the most polluted lakes in Vermont is likely to see improvement within the next two years as farms in the watershed face increasing pressure to sell off herds, an agriculture agency official told lawmakers Thursday.
  Lawmakers are now considering a
  
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• Critics say Donovan’s transparency tactic goes too far

  25-02-2018 13:55 via vtdigger.org
  Attorney General TJ Donovan. File photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger
  Attorney General TJ Donovan announced earlier this month that his office had begun posting all public records requests — and the responses to them — on a new website. The intent was to make his office more transparent, he said.“We want to tell Vermonters we’re working on this,” Donovan said in his Feb. 14 Valentine to the news media and other frequent requesters of government information. “And i
  
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• Nearly 600 added to gun background check database

  25-02-2018 13:22 via vtdigger.org
  Over a two year period, hundreds of people who were ordered by the courts to receive mental health treatment have been added to a database that is used to restrict gun purchases, according to a report from the Vermont court system.Under a new state law enacted in 2015, the courts are required to report people who are put in the custody of the Department of Mental Health to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System — a federal database that gun stores are required to check befor
  
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• State rejects Saint Gobain PFOA study

  25-02-2018 12:45 via vtdigger.org
  The former ChemFab plant in North Bennington is considered by state officials to be the source of PFOA contamination of groundwater supplies in a wide area around the factory. Photo by Ben Garver/Berkshire EagleBENNINGTON — State environmental officials have rejected the conclusions of an engineering report for Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics. The engineers claim PFOA pollution that has tainted soil and groundwater in the area didn’t come from two former teflon-coating plants.Barr
  
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