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• Scott administration swarms Bennington County for Capitol for a Day

  02-09-2018 23:00 via vtdigger.org
  Wendy Knight, commissioner of the Department of Tourism and Marketing, addresses Gov. Phil Scott and members of his cabinet Thursday morning during Scott’s Capitol for a Day visit to Bennington County. Photo by David LaChance/Bennington Banner
  BENNINGTON — Gov. Phil Scott and two dozen top administration officials spread across Bennington County Thursday as part of the governor’s Capitol for a Day initiative to tour all 14 Vermont counties.
  In the Bennington area during the mor
  
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• ACLU seeks repeal of panhandling bans

  02-09-2018 22:00 via vtdigger.org
  A homeless encampment in Burlington’s South End. Photo by Mike Polhamus/VTDigger.
  The Vermont chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is calling on six Vermont towns to repeal ordinances that ban panhandling – even though most are unenforced.
  Communities around the state have struggled with how to address concerns from business owners and residents who feel harassed on the street, while balancing the First Amendment rights of panhandlers.
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• State agency offices to shuffle after National Life fire

  02-09-2018 21:00 via vtdigger.org
  Employees at National Life were evacuated after a fire in November 2017. Courtesy photo
  The state is planning to shuffle around the offices of several agencies following a fire earlier this summer at the Deane C. Davis building in Montpelier.
  Officials say ongoing extensive renovations on the fourth floor of the building, which the state leases from the National Life Insurance Company, precipitated a conversation about how the state could better use its office space.
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• Agency of Education to move to National Life building

  02-09-2018 21:00 via vtdigger.org
  Employees at National Life were evacuated after a fire in November 2017. Courtesy photo
  The state is planning to shuffle around the offices of several agencies following a fire earlier this summer at the Deane C. Davis building in Montpelier.
  Officials say ongoing extensive renovations on the fourth floor of the building, which the state leases from the National Life Insurance Company, precipitated a conversation about how the state could better use its office space.
  The administration is planni
  
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• Burst water pipe not sinking Flynn Center

  02-09-2018 19:46 via vtdigger.org
  People line up outside the Flynn theater for a sold-out Phish concert in 1994. Photo courtesy Flynn Center
  A 60-year-old water main pipe burst in the early hours of Monday morning, flooding the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts’ FlynnSpace venue and destroying curtains, lighting equipment, and sound instruments.
  Anna Marie Gewirtz, the new executive director of the Flynn Center, said the damage to the black-box theater in downtown Burlington is significant.
  “The FlynnSpace floor n
  
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• Moats: ‘The second best time is right now’

  02-09-2018 19:44 via vtdigger.org
  Sierra Club President Aaron Mair, left, and climate activist Bill McKibben endorsed Democratic candidate for governor Sue Minter at the Vermont Statehouse on Oct. 16, 2016. File photo by Andrew Kutches/VTDigger
  Editor’s note: David Moats, an author and journalist who lives in Salisbury, is a regular columnist for VTDigger. He is editorial page editor emeritus of the Rutland Herald, where he won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for a series of editorials on Vermont’s civil union law.
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• Then Again: Emma Willard’s crusade for the education of girls

  02-09-2018 18:09 via vtdigger.org
  Emma Willard, a major force in female education in early America who believed that girls deserved an education comparable to boys, started her first school in Middlebury, Vermont. 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.”Someone robbed the Vermont State Bank in Middlebury in 1812 and made off with more than $28,000, and as a result the caus
  
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• State finds violations in assisted living facility heat wave death

  02-09-2018 17:53 via vtdigger.org
  State investigators say an assisted living facility in Waterbury where a resident died during an early July heat wave was in violation of care and housing requirements.
  The state Division of Licensing and Protection’s investigation found that Kirby House violated the requirements to have a written plan of care for each resident and to provide a “safe, functional, sanitary, homelike and comfortable environment” to its clients.Get all of VTDigger's health care news.You'll never m
  
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• Hallquist sees fundraising boon after clinching nomination

  02-09-2018 17:40 via vtdigger.org
  Democratic candidate for governor Christine Hallquist. Photo by Alexandre Silberman/VTDigger
  Democratic gubernatorial candidate Christine Hallquist saw a boon in campaign contributions in the weeks after clinching the party’s nomination last month.
  In slightly more than two weeks, she brought in $71,437 in contributions — nearly a third of the total amount she has raised throughout her campaign.Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll never miss a political story with our weekly h
  
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• Hallquist sees fundraising boom after clinching nomination

  02-09-2018 17:40 via vtdigger.org
  Democratic candidate for governor Christine Hallquist. Photo by Alexandre Silberman/VTDigger
  Democratic gubernatorial candidate Christine Hallquist saw a boom in campaign contributions in the weeks after clinching the party’s nomination last month.
  In slightly more than two weeks, she brought in $71,437 in contributions — nearly a third of the total amount she has raised throughout her campaign.Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll never miss a political story with our weekly h
  
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• Solzhenitsyn’s adopted state marks his 100th

  02-09-2018 17:00 via vtdigger.org
  Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lived and worked in the Vermont town of Cavendish from 1976 to 1994. Photo from the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Center
  CAVENDISH — Search for the exiled Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn when he lived in this tucked-away Vermont town from 1976 to 1994 and the only thing you’d find is a sign at the general store that revealed “no restrooms, no bare feet, no directions to the Solzhenitsyn’s.”
  A quarter-century after the now late No
  
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• Senate candidates attack Sanders for role in Democratic Party

  02-09-2018 16:02 via vtdigger.org
  Sen. Bernie Sanders. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDiggerSen. Bernie Sanders’ opponents are taking aim at his role in the Democratic Party, but for two very different reasons.
  Reid Kane, a socialist, said Sanders is an independent in name only. Kane believes Sanders’ socialist views were not radical enough and that his political positions amounted to “a plan to preserve the power of the Democratic Party.”Get all of VTDigger's political news.You'll never miss a political
  
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