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• Burlington City Council postpones high school renovation bond decision

  08-09-2018 01:14 via vtdigger.org
  A proposed renovation to Burlington High School would give the 50-year-old building a new facade. Courtesy Burlington School District
  City councilors have delayed their decision whether to put a $70 million bond to renovate the high school on the November ballot.
  The council had planned to vote Tuesday, but that meeting was canceled on Friday, in part to accommodate an outstanding petition. The delay will also give the council and the Weinberger administration more time to figure out how much de
  
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• No-stalking order against Rep. Kiah Morris’ husband rejected

  08-09-2018 01:12 via vtdigger.org
  BENNINGTON — Kevin Hoyt’s request for a stalking relief order against the husband of Rep. Kiah Morris over allegedly inflammatory Facebook posts was rejected Thursday after a hearing in Bennington Superior Court Civil Division.
  Hoyt alleged that James Lawton had incited people against him through Facebook posts that led to him being considered by some a racist and a neo-Nazi. That, in turn, apparently led to death threat notes being left where he lives and prompted him to file a repo
  
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• Bill Schubart: Con Hogan remembered

  08-09-2018 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 love working in the woods and I’ve come to know all the great trees on our land. They’re like friends – the surviving American elm that looks like a frozen geyser as it towers above the other trees, the dying butternuts in disarray, the
  
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• Daniel Regan: First day of high school 2093

  08-09-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Daniel Regan, a sociologist who lives in Hyde Park, who is accreditation officer and former dean of academic affairs at Northern Vermont University-Johnson.
  U.S. history teacher: “Our study of U.S. history will begin at the beginning; but today, we’re going to skip to the early part of the current century, right here in Vermont. Let’s focus on the roots of the current state of climate emergency. My thesis, which you can discuss and eve
  
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• FDA walks back ‘added sugar’ labelling for maple and honey

  08-09-2018 00:58 via vtdigger.org
  Attorney General TJ Donovan, center, talks about new FDA maple syrup labelling guidelines at Slopeside Syrup in Richmond. Photo by Xander Landen/VTDigger
  Vermont maple syrup makers concerned over proposed changes to nutrition labels have received positive news from the FDA, according to Attorney General TJ Donovan.
  A rule change proposed by the federal Food and Drug Administration would have required “added sugar” claims to nutrition labels for pure maple syrup bottles — even t
  
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• Bob Stannard: The kids are having a political awakening

  08-09-2018 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.
  When I graduated from high school in 1969 the Vietnam War had been raging along for a while. The kids my age were engaged and protesting the war non-stop. We went so far as to have a three-day concert, Woodstock, that made history. It was the kids who helped grind that unjust war to a halt. Unknowingly we made history.
  Over the past 50 years there
  
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• Harley Breer again accused of assaulting and kidnapping girlfriend

  08-09-2018 00:43 via vtdigger.org
  Convicted kidnapper Harley Breer. Screenshot from WPTZ footage from 2011 when he was convicted of domestic assault.
  A Marshfield man is accused of assaulting his girlfriend and not allowing her to leave his pickup truck while the pair was looking for bears on the backroads of Marshfield and Montpelier on Monday night.Harley Breer, 49, was arraigned in Caledonia County criminal court in St. Johnsbury on charges of kidnapping, first-degree aggravated domestic assault, and second-degree unlawful re
  
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