Vermont news

• John Klar: The fame effect

  11-03-2018 23:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by John Klar, a Vermont grass-fed beef farmer, and an attorney and pastor who lives in Westfield.
  The recent backlash against guns in the wake of the Florida school shooting has a distressing aspect: The media named this offender by name, vaunted him as “No. 2” in history, and amped up the gun hype that creates dangerous gun infatuation in the mentally ill.
  I appreciate that gun violence is horrifying, but it always has been. What is new is thi
  
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• Gun management law would open way for state firearm sales

  11-03-2018 22:44 via vtdigger.org
  State Treasurer Beth Pearce has warned the state to beware of liability issues before it goes into the business of selling guns. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
  Before it became the vehicle for universal background checks and increasing the legal age to purchase guns, Senate bill S.55 had a fairly simple purpose: clear the way for the state to get rid of hundreds of abandoned or unlawful guns currently in storage.
  While the initial aim of S.55 was straightforward, figuring out how to sell
  
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• Vermont senators oppose bill favored by small banks, credit unions

  11-03-2018 22:07 via vtdigger.org
  Senators Sanders and Leahy. File photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger
  WASHINGTON — Vermont’s two senators are opposing a banking regulation reform bill that is favored by many banks and credit unions in the state.
  Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., both oppose the measure because of concerns that it lifts regulations on some of the biggest financial institutions in the country. They both voted against advancing the measure Tuesday.Get all of VTDigger's political news.Y
  
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• Foreign investment gets Mount Snow through ‘volatile’ winter

  11-03-2018 21:44 via vtdigger.org
  Mount Snow resort in Dover. File photo by Rob Bossi/Courtesy of Mount Snow
  Mount Snow executives say hard work and expertise are helping the Dover resort thrive this winter in spite of “volatile” weather.
  But there is another factor – EB-5.
  The pay-to-stay foreign investment program paid for Mount Snow’s new West Lake snowmaking system. And administrators say the $30 million project, completed just before the start of the ski season, paid off by allowing the resort to ope
  
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• Protesters speak out against prison plan and deadly shootings by police

  11-03-2018 21:04 via vtdigger.org
  Protesters gathered in Waterbury on Saturday to oppose a plan for a new prison complex in Vermont and to express outrage over three deadly officer-involved shootings in the state over six months. Photo by Alan J. Keays/VTDiggerWATERBURY – A group of protesters marched Saturday along South Main Street in Waterbury, in a display of opposition to a proposed new prison complex in the state and to express outrage over three officer-involved fatal shootings in Vermont in six months.
  The continge
  
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• South Royalton man arrested for the fatal shooting of his estranged wife

  11-03-2018 20:17 via vtdigger.org
  Frank Sanville will be charged with first degree murder in the fatal shooting of his estranged wife.
  South Royalton — A South Royalton man accused of the fatal shooting of his estranged wife last weekend was taken into custody by police on Thursday immediately upon his discharge from the hospital, where he was being treated for injuries sustained after the shooting.
  Frank Sanville will be charged with first-degree murder, Vermont State Police Commander Dan Trudeau said in a news release on
  
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• Permanent filtering system proposed as solution to PFOA pollution

  11-03-2018 19:09 via vtdigger.org
  The enclosed carbon filtering system, to the left of the Pownal Fire District 2 wellhead, off Route 346, has been seen as temporary. Photo by Jim Therrien/VTDigger
  POWNAL — With negotiations over a site for a replacement well seemingly stalled, the consultants responsible for helping tiny Fire District 2 secure a new safe water source have proposed instead the installation of a permanent carbon filtering system to reduce the level of the pollutant perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, in town d
  
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• Mayor Miro Weinberger’s schedule for the week of March 12

  11-03-2018 17:12 via vtdigger.org
  Mayor Miro Weinberger’s public appearance schedule for March 12 – 16, 2018:
  Monday, March 125:30 pm Board of Finance Meeting – Conference Room 127:00 pm City Council Meeting – Contois Auditorium
  Tuesday, March 13
  No public appearances scheduled
  Wednesday, March 148:00 amMornings with Miro – The Bagel Café, 1127 North Avenue
  12:00 pm Queen City Police Foundation and Burlington Rotary Annual Award Luncheon – Hilton Burlington, 60 Battery Street
  Thursday,
  
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• House to finalize state budget cuts this week

  11-03-2018 16:39 via vtdigger.org
  House Appropriations Chair Rep. Kitty Toll, D-Danville. Photo by Anne Galloway/VTDiggerThis week a key House panel lawmakers will make final decisions on the Big Bill.In its initial vetting of the Scott administration’s budget, the House Appropriations Committee has pushed back on a number of proposals. Dozens of items have been temporarily restored until legislators can review the $44 million “wish list” and determine which programs will be fully funded, which will be eliminat
  
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• Then Again: The Abenaki warrior who relentlessly resisted colonial expansion

  11-03-2018 16:00 via vtdigger.org
  A wooden sculpture in Burlington’s Battery Park honors Grey Lock. The image is an artist’s interpretation, since no actual images of the chief exist. 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.”Grey Lock was a creator of nightmares. His violent forays along what was then the frontier of New England brought fear to the hearts of whi
  
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• Gov. Phil Scott’s public schedule for the week of March 11

  11-03-2018 15:55 via vtdigger.org
  Governor Phil Scott’s Public Schedule: 3/10/18 – 3/16/18
  Saturday, March 10
  11:00 AM
  6th Annual NEK Veterans Summit
  Lyndon State College, 1001 College Road, Lyndonville, VT
  Sunday, March 11
  No public events scheduled
  Monday, March 12
  7:30 – 8:45 AM
  Rutland County Legislative Breakfast
  Franklin Center at the Howe, 1 Scale Avenue, Rutland, VT
  Tuesday, March 13
  11:15 AM
  Governor’s Weekly Press Conference
  Governor’s Ceremonial Office, Vermont State House, Montpelier, VT
  
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• Short takes: Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

  11-03-2018 15:54 via vtdigger.org
  Annette Bening as 1950s actress Gloria Grahame with Jamie Bell as her lover Peter Turner.Running Time: 1:45 minutesRating: R
  The Hollywood culture of the 1950s is on full display in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool. Wrapped in the calculated mannerisms of the era, sexpot actress Gloria Grahame won a supporting actress Oscar in ‘52. For female film stars of that era, 25 was retirement age. There were legends who were exceptions, but most young women, lik
  
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• Thousands on disabilities services face cuts under Scott’s budget

  11-03-2018 15:26 via vtdigger.org
  ​Monica Hutt, the commissioner of the Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDiggerMore than 3,000 Vermonters with developmental disabilities would see cuts to the services they receive from the state under Gov. Phil Scott’s proposed budget, while another program for the severely disabled faces elimination.
  Under the budget proposal, a waiver program that gives developmentally disabled Vermonters residential support, employment assist
  
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• Margolis: Lawmakers deserve more credit

  11-03-2018 15:18 via vtdigger.org
  Rep. Tom Stevens, D-Waterbury, the vice chair of the House General Affairs Committee, talks with Rep. Helen Head, D-South Burlington, the committee chair. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger
  Hardly anyone who has spent time around any state legislature – and almost no reporter who ever covered one – is unfamiliar with the old line that “no man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
  So said Gideon J. Tucker (1826-1899), who &nda
  
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• Mayor Miro Weinberger’s public appearance schedule for March 12-16, 2018

  11-03-2018 15:00 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Office of Mayor Miro WeinbergerMarch 8, 2018
  Contact:Katie Vane802.734.0617
  Mayor Miro Weinberger’s public appearance schedule for March 12 – 16, 2018:
  Monday, March 125:30 pm Board of Finance Meeting – Conference Room 127:00 pm City Council Meeting – Contois Auditorium
  Tuesday, March 13
  No public appearances scheduled
  Wednesday, March 148:00 am Mornings with Miro – The Bagel Café, 1127 North Avenue
  12:00 pm Queen City Police Foundation a
  
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• Distinguished Castleton Professor earns VSCS faculty fellow award

  11-03-2018 14:40 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Castleton UniversityMarch 9, 2018
  Contact:Courtney Widli, Assistant Director of University RelationsCastleton [email protected]
  Castleton – The Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees recently honored Castleton History, Geography, Economics, and Politics Professor Andre Fleche as the VSCS Faculty Fellow for the 2018-2019 academic year. The fellowship award honors tenured faculty who represent outstanding accomplishments in teachin
  
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• Public meeting concerning emerald ash borer detection in Orange County, March 15

  11-03-2018 14:30 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and MarketsMarch 9, 2018
  Contact:Emilie Inoue, State Pest Survey CoordinatorVermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and [email protected]
  Barbara Schultz, Forest Health Program ManagerVermont Department of Forests, Parks and [email protected]
  Montpelier – There will be a public meeting in Barre on Thursday, March 15th, 2018 to discuss the discovery of emerald ash borer in Orange C
  
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• Norwich Writers Series presents poet Karin Gottshall to kick off Poetry Month

  11-03-2018 14:25 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Norwich UniversityMarch 9, 2018
  Contact:Daphne LarkinNorwich [email protected]
  NORTHFIELD, Vt. – Norwich University’s Writers Series presents award winning author Karin Gottshall on Monday, April 2, at 4 p.m. in the Kreitzberg Library Todd Multipurpose Room. This visit kicks of Poetry Month for Norwich University.
  Gottshall teaches at Middlebury College and directs the New England Young Writers’ Conference at Bread Loaf. She released
  
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• VSAC asks ‘what are you doing after high school?’

  11-03-2018 14:20 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — VSACMarch 8, 2018
  Contact:Sabina [email protected]
  Winooski – High school sophomores, juniors, seniors and their families who are thinking about what comes after high school graduation should attend College & Career Pathways, the free, half-day conferences hosted by Vermont Student Assistance Corp.
  It happens only once a year; this year’s events will be held March 17 at Saint Michael’s College, from 9 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.; March 24 at
  
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• Lamoille Economic Development Corporation hosts business sale workshop, March 21

  11-03-2018 14:15 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Lamoille Economic Development CorporationMarch 8, 2018
  Contact:John MandevilleLamoille Economic Development Corporation802-888-5640
  Morrisville – There is no doubt that one of the most difficult tasks that all business owners and prospective business buyers face, is how to accurately value the business they are selling or the business they are looking to buy. This three hour long workshop will provide both business sellers and business buyers with the tools necessary t
  
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• Norwich University to hold 23rd annual Military Writers’ Symposium in April

  11-03-2018 14:10 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Norwich UniversityMarch 8, 2018
  Contact:Daphne LarkinNorwich [email protected]
  Northfield – Norwich University will hold the 23rd Annual William E. Colby Military Writers’ Symposium April 11-12, 2018, on the theme of “Won the War, Lost the Peace: The U.S. Legacy in Iraq.”
  The Colby is a two-day event hosted at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. The only program of its kind at an American university, this unique and powe
  
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• Bennington Rights and Democracy hosts forum on Vermont’s new health care system

  11-03-2018 14:05 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Bennington Rights & DemocracyMarch 7, 2018Contact:Bob [email protected]
  Bennington – Bennington Rights and Democracy is sponsoring a forum where people can learn about Vermont’s new health care system called “All Payer,” that was implemented on January 1. Some people in Vermont now get their health care, or at least some of it, through an “Accountable Care Organization,” or ACO. You may already be in an ACO–y
  
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• Norwich University School of Architecture + Art presents writer Sarah Sentilles

  11-03-2018 14:00 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Norwich UniversityMarch 8, 2018
  Contact:Daphne Larkin, Director of Media Relations & Community AffairsNorwich [email protected]
  Northfield – Norwich University School of Architecture + Art welcomes Sarah Sentilles, author of “Draw Your Weapons,” to speak about art, war, peace, and the possibility of justice on Friday, March 23, at 4 p.m. in Chaplin Hall Gallery.
  Books will be available for sale and a book signing will follow
  
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