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• Monday's our 🌷 spring garden🌳 show with Charlie Nardozzi! Send your questions to ➡️ 📨 [email protected] 📲 1-8… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-05-2018 18:15 via twitter.com
  Monday's our 🌷 spring garden🌳 show with Charlie Nardozzi!Send your questions to ➡️ 📨 [email protected] 📲 1-8… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Please support storytelling that is vital to Vermont

  19-05-2018 15:30 via vtdigger.org
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  Kevin O’Connor, a Brattleboro-based writer for VTDigger, doesn’t have an easily summarized beat. He can switch easily from covering protesters against recently enacted gun control measures, to re
  
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• Governor officially calls back lawmakers, but for how long?

  19-05-2018 03:22 via vtdigger.org
  Gov. Phil Scott. File photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger
  It’s official. Lawmakers must report back to Montpelier on Wednesday, just a week and a half after they stayed up late on a Saturday to wrap up their business and deliver sentimental sendoffs until next year.Gov. Phil Scott has been telling lawmakers for months that he will not allow an increase to the state’s property tax rate, and he issued a letter on Friday exerting his authority to call a special session. Get all of VTDigger'
  
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• Revision Military moves headquarters to New Hampshire

  19-05-2018 01:30 via vtdigger.org
  Revision Military’s advanced combat helmet system. Revision Military photo
  Revision Military, a global company with 300 employees and provisional headquarters in Vermont, has selected Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for its official U.S. headquarters.
  “Revision Military was the first company I met with after being elected Governor, and today’s announcement is a testament to our pro-growth, pro-jobs agenda,” said New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu in a statement issued Thursday.
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• Bill Schubart: A resurrection for Vermont Life?

  19-05-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bill Schubart, a regular commentator for Vermont Public Radio and a former board member of the Vermont Journalism Trust, the umbrella organization for VTDigger.org. This piece was first aired on VPR.
  I grew up reading Vermont Life in the ’50s and continued reading it until shortly after the turn of the century. It always had a prominent place in our home, moving quarterly from the coffee table to the bathroom magazine rack – where its contin
  
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• Lou Colasanti: CCV by the numbers

  19-05-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Lou Colasanti, of Bristol, who is a member of the CCV faculty and its union.
  At the end of January, the newly formed union of Community College of Vermont faculty entered into negotiations with the Vermont State Colleges to bargain for a first contract. The hope and expectation was that, while there would likely be points of disagreement, the process and the outcomes would reflect an effort by all parties to negotiate in good faith and fair dealing. Tha
  
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• Bob Stannard: Music can heal all wounds

  19-05-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bob Stannard, an author, musician and former lobbyist. This piece first appeared in the Bennington Banner.
  You got to help meI can’t do it all by myselfYou got to help me, babyI can’t do it all by myselfYou know if you don’t help me darlingI’ll have to find myself, somebody else
  – Willy Dixon
  Save the Date: Saturday May 26. 7 p.m.
  So how’s your day going? For most of us the day is going just fine. You’re probabl
  
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• Woman pleads guilty to possessing ricin at retirement home

  19-05-2018 00:24 via vtdigger.org
  Guilty plea in unlikely crime in wealthy Shelburne retirement home. File photo by Gail Callahan/VTDigger
  BURLINGTON – A 70-year-old woman accused of making the deadly poison ricin and testing it on her neighbors in a wealthy Shelburne retirement community to see if it worked has pleaded guilty to a federal offense.
  A plea deal, still awaiting final approval from the judge, calls for Betty Miller to be sentenced to the time she already has served behind bars since her arrest late last year,
  
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