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• Despite state’s concern, Gifford says senior housing on track

  12-08-2018 21:30 via vtdigger.org
  Gifford Health Care’s 49-unit Strode Independent Living Facility in Randolph Center. Photo by Mike Faher/VTDigger
  RANDOLPH — When it comes to Gifford Health Care’s new Strode Independent Living complex, state regulators seem to be of two minds.
  On one hand, the Green Mountain Care Board has imposed additional reporting requirements on the Randolph-based health care provider after expressing concern about the facility’s permitting process and its financial losses.Get all o
  
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• Sleepy turnout expected for Tuesday’s primaries

  12-08-2018 21:00 via vtdigger.org
  Kathleen Bartlett of Putney drops her ballot into a box during last November’s election. File photo by  Kristopher Radder/Brattleboro Reformer
  On Tuesday, Vermonters will head to the polls to cast ballots in the 2018 primary elections, determining the future of the state’s federal races as well as this year’s major party state and local contests. But not many voters are expected to show up.
  Primaries, particularly in off-years without presidential races, don’t tend t
  
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• Wired for Safety: Parental controls

  12-08-2018 20:10 via vtdigger.org
  A teenager using a smart phone. Photo by Flickr user Brandon Warren (brandoncwarren).
  Editor’s note: Wired for Safety is a column on cybersecurity and other tech issues. Duane Dunston is an assistant professor of cybersecurity and networking at Champlain College. He received his bachelor’s and master’s of science from Pfeiffer University. From 2001 to 2011 he worked in cybersecurity for NOAA. He is a doctoral student at Northeastern University with a concentration in Curriculum
  
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• Lowell, Eden mulling how to spend asbestos mine settlement

  12-08-2018 18:30 via vtdigger.org
  Asbestos waste pile on Belvidere Mountain. Stowe Reporter photo
  This story by Tommy Gardner was published by the Stowe Reporter on Aug. 9.
  What’s the best way to use $850,000 from a settlement with the former owner of an inactive asbestos mine that straddles the towns of Eden and Lowell?
  State and federal officials are looking for opinions.
  The money is meant to compensate the public for environmental damage caused by the Vermont Asbestos Group mine, which takes up 1,550 acres on Belvidere
  
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• ‘I was doing what thousands of athletes have done’

  12-08-2018 18:23 via vtdigger.org
  Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo with the bike he crashed in the Adirondacks in June. Photo by Mark Johnson/VTDigger
  Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo remembers the front wheel on his custom-made racing bicycle violently wobbling. He checked his speed, 45 miles per hour, as he neared the end of a four-mile-long steady descent through Cascade Pass, and tried to slow. He was 51 miles into a 56-mile triathlon training run in the Adirondacks. It was early evening, about 5:30, the midd
  
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• Candidates for Bennington prosecutor agree on little

  12-08-2018 18:00 via vtdigger.org
  Incumbent Erica Marthage and Arnold Gottlieb are vying for the Democratic nomination for Bennington County state’s attorney in Tuesday’s primary. Submitted photos
  BENNINGTON — With Tuesday’s Democratic primary looming, incumbent Bennington County State’s Attorney Erica Marthage and her challenger, Arnold Gottlieb, remain worlds apart on key issues.
  Gottlieb, 66, launched his campaign in April, contending that under Marthage since 2007, the Bennington office has fost
  
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• ‘As Salisbury goes, so goes the state’

  12-08-2018 17:00 via vtdigger.org
  Clothes hang from a line in the Addison County town of Salisbury. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger
  SALISBURY — Search out TripAdvisor.com’s “15 Best Things to Do” in this small Vermont town and you’ll only find three — Lake Dunmore, its beach and its dockside — for lack of much else. But that doesn’t stop residents from remembering when their Addison County community of farmhouses and vacation cottages served as the state’s politic
  
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• Major renovation bond proposed for Burlington High

  12-08-2018 16:12 via vtdigger.org
  Burlington High School. Photo by Alexandre Silberman/VTDigger
  Burlington High School’s campus stands as a relic of the past. Considered state-of-the-art when it first opened its doors in 1964, the structure is now viewed as a piece of aging infrastructure, the result of years of deferred maintenance.
  Burlington community members have talking of ways to address problems at the high school for years, and finally have a plan that aims to receive the support of voters this fall.
  The Burlington
  
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• Then Again: The Battle of Bennington gave Americans a much-needed victory

  12-08-2018 16:00 via vtdigger.org
  Gen. John Stark, who led Continental forces at the Battle of Bennington, is memorialized by a statue at the base of the monument celebrating the key American victory. A second statue honors Col. Seth Warner, whose regiment helped secure the victory. Wikimedia Commons
  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.”John Spargo didn’t flinch at defending the Battle o
  
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• Northern Vermont counties get development funds

  12-08-2018 15:31 via vtdigger.org
  Christine Frost speaks at Friday’s grant announcement. Photo by Kit Norton/VTDigger
  FAIRFAX — Vermont has received $2.8 million in federal grant money to help fund 14 economic development projects in the state’s six northernmost counties.
  The announcement was made Friday by Gov. Phil Scott in a renovated Scrabble game tile factory that is now home to the Runamok Maple syrup business. Scott was joined by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., who also addressed
  
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• Cyanobacteria blooms close Burlington beaches

  12-08-2018 15:15 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Burlington Department of Parks, Recreation and WaterfrontAugust 3, 2018
  Contact:Robert Goulding802-540-0846
  FACT SHEET ON CYANOBACTERIA (“BLUE-GREEN” ALGAE) BLOOMS IN BURLINGTONNorth Beach closed due to presence of blooms
  All other beaches are open and available for recreationToday (8/3/18), Burlington Parks, Recreation & Waterfront saw visual indications of cyanobacteria at North Beach, resulting in a closure. North Beach has historically been more vulnerabl
  
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• World-renowned cross-country skier coming to Burlington

  12-08-2018 15:10 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — SkirackAugust 3, 2018
  Contact:Colleen [email protected]
  World’s fastest cross country skier Ludvig Søgnen Jensen comes to Burlington on Friday, August 10
  NENSA (New England Nordic Ski Association) and Skirack are very excited to announce that we are bringing Ludvig Sognen Jensen of Norway to Burlington for a weekend of high visibility rollerski events. Known to some by his social media handle @luddeyo, Jensen is the world’s fastest cross
  
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• Brattleboro Retreat raises $40K to benefit kids

  12-08-2018 15:00 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Brattleboro RetreatAugust 3, 2018
  Media Contact:Konstantin von [email protected]
  BRATTLEBORO, VT (August 3, 2018)—More than 90 golfers played through rainy weather at the Brattleboro Country Club on Wednesday, August 1st, to help make the Brattleboro Retreat’s 13th Annual Golf Tournament a success.
  The event netted more than $40K for the Brattleboro Retreat’s programs for children and adolescents. Tournament proceeds help fund therape
  
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