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• Winooski, South Burlington councils oppose F-35 basing

  18-04-2018 22:47 via vtdigger.org
  An F-35A conducts an in-flight launch of an AIM-120 C5 missile at Edwards Air Force Base in California. U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin
  The Winooski and South Burlington city councils have joined their Burlington counterpart in passing a resolution calling for an alternative mission to the F-35 fighter that are set to arrive at the local airport next year.
  The resolution was adopted on a 3-1 vote in South Burlington and unanimously in Winooski, 5-0.Get all of VTDigger's political new
  
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• LISTEN: Pass, Fail Or 'Advisory': New Rules Coming For Vt. Vehicle Inspections dlvr.it/QPzl7j https://t.co/3TGxvkiSmZ

  18-04-2018 20:39 via twitter.com
  
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  18-04-2018 20:34 via twitter.com
  
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• VTDigger launches spring membership drive

  18-04-2018 18:23 via vtdigger.org
  Anne Galloway, founder of VTDigger. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
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  Every day our reporters rush back from the Statehouse, excited from working the halls and eager to file their stories. Criminal justice reporter Alan Keays is covering major events like the governor’s signing of gun control measures. Our new business and economy reporter, Xande
  
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• Judge reverses course on felony charges in Sawyer case

  18-04-2018 17:13 via vtdigger.org
  Jack Sawyer, 18, of Poultney appears in Vermont Superior Court in Rutland on Tuesday. Pool photo by Ryan Mercer/Burlington Free Press
  A Rutland judge Wednesday morning vacated an order he issued a day earlier on whether four felony charges, including attempted aggravated murder, should stand in the case of Jack Sawyer, accused of planning to shoot up Fair Haven high school.
  Also, Sawyer’s attorneys said Wednesday morning they plan to appeal a ruling made Tuesday by Judge Thomas Zonay setti
  
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• UPDATED: Gun clubs, businesses sue state over magazine limit

  18-04-2018 16:46 via vtdigger.org
  Chris Bradley, president of the Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on gun legislation in March. Photo by Colin Meyn/VTDigger
  The Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs and four other plaintiffs are suing the state over a ban on large capacity gun magazines.
  The federation, a gun association, several sporting goods stores and a woman from Bethel allege that a new law putting a cap on magazines violates the rights of gun owners und
  
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• Gun clubs, businesses sue state over magazine limit

  18-04-2018 16:46 via vtdigger.org
  Chris Bradley, president of the Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on gun legislation in March. Photo by Colin Meyn/VTDigger
  The Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs and four other plaintiffs are suing the state over a ban on large capacity gun magazines.The federation, a gun association, several sporting goods stores and a woman from Bethel allege that a new law putting a cap on magazines violates the rights of gun owners unde
  
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• Dartmouth hosts ‘Scenes from a Life: From the Auschwitz Death March to the International Court of Justice,’ April 19

  18-04-2018 15:54 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Dartmouth CollegeApril 15, 2018
  Contact:Amy OlsonDartmouth [email protected]
  Hanover, NH – Darmouth College is hosting:
  Scenes from a Life: From the Auschwitz Death March to the International Court of JusticeThursday, April 19, 4:30pmFilene Auditorium
  Co-Sponsored by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Tucker Center, and made possible by a gift from Marina and Andrew Lewin ’81.
  Thomas Buergenthal, one of the world&rsqu
  
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• Earthjustice, Vermont Law School expand focus on community environmental justice cases

  18-04-2018 15:50 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Law SchoolApril 17, 2018
  Contact:Maryellen Apelquist, Director of CommunicationsVermont Law [email protected]
  South Royalton – In a move to advance environmental justice advocacy, the pro bono Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic (ENRLC) at Vermont Law School and Earthjustice, the largest nonprofit environmental law organization in the nation, recently hired a full-time staff attorney and initiated strategic planning to expan
  
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• NG Advantage continues to support professional growth

  18-04-2018 15:45 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — NG Advantage LLCApril 17, 2018
  Contact:Claudia Ashton, Director of MarketingNG Advantage LLC802-760-1167 ext. 514
  Colchester – NG Advantage, which is majority-owned by Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ:CLNE), communicated the advancement of Julia Pelkey and Ben Nichols to more senior positions as the company continues to develop talent and expand its operations.
  “NG Advantage is proud to attract incredibly skilled individuals who are able to build on their previous expe
  
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• Northern Vermont University-Johnson equine therapy course offered

  18-04-2018 15:42 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Northern Vermont UniversityApril 17, 2018
  Contact:Sylvia PlumbNorthern Vermont [email protected]
  Johnson — Northern Vermont University-Johnson will offer a three-credit equine therapy course Aug. 2-5 that is believed to be unique in Vermont and maybe the country.
  Horse trainer Tim Hayes, author of the 2015 book “Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal,” will teach the course, which is offered through the NVU Distance Le
  
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• Comments: We’re flipping the switch

  18-04-2018 15:39 via vtdigger.org
  VTDigger is changing its commenting platform to Talk, a tool created by The Coral Project. Learn more about the transition and sign up now.
  VTDigger is flipping the switch on our new commenting platform. To recap:The new system is called Talk. You’ll need a new login to participate. See below for details on how to sign up.
  Your Disqus login will no longer work on this site.
  Comments you made using Disqus will still be visible. And if you signed up for Talk using the same email address, yo
  
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• Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s CEO named one of Becker’s List of ’50 Rural Hospital CEOs to Know’

  18-04-2018 15:38 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Southwestern Vermont Health CareApril 16, 2018
  Contact:Ashley Brenon Jowett, Communications & Marketing SpecialistSouthwestern Vermont Health [email protected]
  Bennington — Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) is pleased to announce that its President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas A. Dee, FACHE, was recognized on Becker’s Hospital Review’s list of “50 Rural Hospital CEOs to Know.” Through an independ
  
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• Slow Money Vermont announces new leadership

  18-04-2018 15:30 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Slow Money VermontApril 16, 2018
  Contact:Janice [email protected] 
  Montpelier – Slow Money VT recently elected Janice Shade, co-founder of Milk Money to the position of Board Chair. With Milk Money VT’s Janice Shade taking on this leadership position, Slow Money VT is poised to further integrate its capacities for bringing together local impact investors and working lands entrepreneurs, and for providing unique learning opportunities, wi
  
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• Essex Shoppes head in a new direction

  18-04-2018 15:27 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Essex ShoppesApril 16, 2018
  Contact:Taylor VanDykePeople Making Good [email protected]
  Essex Junction – Essex Shoppes developer, Peter Edelmann, today announced a new direction of the Essex Shoppes into a community-based center featuring music, art, dining, and shops. Complete with shops, food, and entertainment, the first major addition is a multipurpose performing arts venue in the T-Rex Theater that will be open to the public at the begi
  
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• Vermont Holocaust Memorial launches arts project to commemorate youth victims

  18-04-2018 15:23 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Holocaust MemorialApril 16, 2018
  Contact:Debora SteinermanVermont Holocaust [email protected] – The Vermont Holocaust Memorial (VTHM), a non-profit organization working to advance Holocaust education throughout Vermont, launched its “Leaf Project” program to memorialize the 1.5 million child victims of the Nazi Holocaust. The program, seen here at the Jewish Community of Greater Stowe on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance
  
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• Vermont Progressive Party: House considers banning corporate contributions

  18-04-2018 15:15 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Progressive PartyApril 16, 2018
  Contact:Vermont Progressive [email protected]
  Montpelier – A few days ago we sent an action alert asking you to help encourage the House Committee on Government Operations to schedule a hearing on S. 120, the bill banning corporate contributions to candidates and political parties in Vermont. Well, your calls and emails worked! The committee scheduled a hearing on the bill for this Friday, April 20th. This is a huge
  
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• Grant from Community Bank N.A. helps Vermonters advance through education

  18-04-2018 15:05 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Central Vermont Adult Basic Education, Inc.April 16, 2018
  Contact:Joanne FitzgeraldCVABE Development [email protected]
  Montpelier – Community Bank N.A. has donated $5,000 in support of Central Vermont Adult Basic Education’s (CVABE’s) free basic academic instruction for residents in Washington, Orange and Lamoille Counties. The donation will support CVABE’s Functional Literacy Program, which helps approximately 200 adults an
  
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• Lawmakers look to revise state attempt law after Sawyer decision

  18-04-2018 03:46 via vtdigger.org
  John Campbell, executive director of the Department of State’s Attorneys and Sheriffs. File photo by John Herrick/VTDigger
  Six days after the Supreme Court ruled that an 18-year-old former Fair Haven High School student’s alleged plan to shoot up the high school did not constitute an attempt to commit a crime under existing Vermont law, state lawmakers set out to change the law, and discard a century-old legal precedent.Gov. Phil Scott has announced that he wants the revised law read
  
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• Senate advances proposal to stop employers from seeking salary history

  18-04-2018 03:39 via vtdigger.org
  Becca Balint, D-Windham. Brattleboro Reformer photo
  The Senate gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a bill that would prevent employers in Vermont from inquiring about the salary histories of prospective employees.H.294 passed the Senate unanimously. It has been championed by lawmakers, advocates and the Scott administration as a way to help close the state’s gender wage gap; women earn only about 86 cents for every dollar a man makes in the state.
  “When women are offered salaries ba
  
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• Senate advances gender-neutral bathroom bill

  18-04-2018 01:11 via vtdigger.org
  A gender-neutral bathroom in the Vermont Statehouse. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger
  After a long hiatus, Vermont lawmakers are once again advancing a bill requiring that single-occupancy public restrooms be designated as “gender free.”
  The Senate has given preliminary approval to H.333, which says all public bathrooms designed for one user at a time must be “available for use by persons of any gender” and labeled as such.Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll
  
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• Claire Maroney: Want safe schools? Start with student mental health

  18-04-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Claire Maroney, age 20, an Environmental Studies Major at the University of Vermont.
  On March 29, 12 of my University of Vermont classmates and I went to the Vermont Statehouse to talk to Governor Phil Scott about gun control. For thirty minutes, we sat in his office and shared our concerns, ideas and research. Within minutes, the conversation shifted from guns to the issues underlying gun violence, specifically mental health. Gov. Scott said that passing new gun reform bil
  
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• Steven Berry: Even at $15 an hour, minimum wage is poverty pay

  18-04-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by the Rev. Dr. Steven E. Berry, a former Vermont legislator who is minister of the Congregational Church of Rupert.
  An Open Letter to Our State LegislatorsTo argue the merits of $10.50 per hour for a 40-hour work week underscores the problem with S.40, An Act Relating to Increasing the Minimum Wage to $15 per hour. Rationalizing against supporting S.40 when $15 is far below what it costs to live in our state speaks poorly to what should be one of our top
  
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• Chloe Learey: For our future leaders, look to the ‘march for our lives’

  18-04-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Chloe Learey, executive director of the Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development in Brattleboro, and a member of the Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council. The Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce recently named her Entrepreneur of the Year.
  Regardless of where you fall on the political continuum as it relates to the issue of gun control or gun rights, witnessing high schoolers from coast to coast demonstrating leadership on these
  
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• Sanders bill would hold drug firms accountable in opioid crisis

  18-04-2018 00:50 via vtdigger.org
  Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, introduced a bill Tuesday to fight the nation’s opioid epidemic, a topic he addressed in November at Burlington High School. File photo by Cory Dawson/VTDigger
  WASHINGTON — A new bill from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., seeks to penalize pharmaceutical companies that were aware of health risks of prescription opioids.
  Under the proposal, companies found to be responsible for drug crisis would face fines of $7.8 billion, and executives of companies involved in
  
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• Jim Hyde: Mentoring is where magic happens

  18-04-2018 00:50 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jim Hyde, a Charlotte resident and a volunteer mentor with the Connecting Youth programs at Charlotte Central School and Champlain Valley Union High School. He was recently named the 2018 Vermont Mentor of the Year by Comcast and Mobius.
  Chances are if you are like many of us, there was someone you met along the way growing up who made a major difference in your life. Perhaps it was your aunt, a soccer coach, a neighbor, or a teacher at school. Whoever
  
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• UPDATED: Sawyer may soon be free on $100,000 bail, but not today

  18-04-2018 00:17 via vtdigger.org
  Jack Sawyer, 18, of Poultney appears in Vermont Superior Court in Rutland on Tuesday. (Pool photo by Ryan Mercer/Burlington Free Press)
  RUTLAND – An 18-year-old Poultney man accused of planning to shoot up his former high school in Fair Haven may soon be out of jail on bail, but it won’t be today.
  Judge Thomas Zonay set $100,000 bail for Jack Sawyer, and if posted, ordered that he be released into the custody of his father.
  Should the bail be put up, the judge prohibited Sawyer from
  
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• Judge sets bail at $100,000 for Sawyer; attorney says it won’t be posted today

  18-04-2018 00:17 via vtdigger.org
  Jack Sawyer, 18, appears in Vermont Superior Court in Rutland on Feb. 16, 2018. Pool photo/Ryan Mercer/Burlington Free Press
  RUTLAND – A Rutland judge set bail at $100,000 for an 18-year-old Poultney man accused of planning to shoot up his former high school in Fair Haven, and if posted ordered that he be released into the custody of his father.
  Should the bail be put up, Judge Thomas Zonay prohibited Jack Sawyer from entering the town of Fair Haven.
  The amount set by the judge was twice a
  
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