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• Strolling of the Heifers to host wellness fair

  13-09-2018 23:31 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Strolling of the HeifersSept. 6, 2018
  Contact:erika elderwww.strollingoftheheifers.comoffice: 802-257-2699cell: 802-275-8059
  Strolling of the Heifers to Host the Live Local, Live Healthy Wellness Fair
  BRATTLEBORO, VT — The Live Local, Live Healthy Wellness Fair is taking place on Friday, September 14th, 2018 from 12pm – 6pm, at the River Garden at 157 Main St. Brattleboro, VT.
  “Our second-annual Wellness Fair will showcase so many wonderful local products a
  
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• Vermont Arts Council announces Governor’s Arts Awards recipients

  13-09-2018 23:15 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Arts CouncilSept. 6, 2018
  CONTACT:Kira [email protected]
  2018 Governor’s Arts Awards Recipients Announced
  Montpelier – The Vermont Arts Council, in association with Governor Phil Scott, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 Governor’s Arts Awards. These prestigious awards are presented annually to recognize outstanding individual and organizational contributions to the arts. Awards honor educators, artists, p
  
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• Addison County Relocalization Network announces Tour de Farms

  13-09-2018 22:54 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Addison County Relocalization NetworkSept. 6, 2018
  Media Contact:Lynn [email protected](802) 349-9772
  2018 Tour de Farms Bike Ride Winds Through Vergennes September 16Route Ends at Eat on the Green for a Complete Local Food Filled Day
  Vergennes, Vt. – Seven Addison County farms will play host to ACORN’s 11th annual Tour de Farms on Sunday, September 16th in Vergennes for the first time ever. The new route follows 30 miles of rolling hills and back-country r
  
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• Southwestern Vermont Medical Center partners with Dartmouth-Hitchcock

  13-09-2018 22:50 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Southwestern Vermont Medical CenterSept. 6, 2018
  Contact:Ashley Brenon JowettPhone: 802.447.5019Fax: [email protected]
  Southwestern Vermont Medical Center Partners with Dartmouth-Hitchcock for TelePharmacy Services
  BENNINGTON, VT—September 6, 2018— Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), a division of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC), has entered into a new partnership with Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Connected Care Center for
  
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• Sen. Leahy statement on FY 2019 meeting

  13-09-2018 22:46 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Sen. Patrick LeahySept. 5, 2018
  CONTACT:Jay Tilton202-224-2667
  Statement Of Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) On The Conference Meeting Of The Fiscal Year 2019 Energy & Water Development, Military Construction And Veterans Affairs, And Legislative Branch “Minibus” Appropriations Bill
  I am pleased to be here for the first conference of the FY 2019 Appropriations season. The “minibus” before us contains three import
  
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• Campaign 2018: Don Turner Seeks Move From Vt. House To Lt. Governor dlvr.it/Qk5sdJ https://t.co/ApEKfZE6Kl

  13-09-2018 21:15 via twitter.com
  
  Campaign 2018: Don Turner Seeks Move From Vt. House To Lt. Governor dlvr.it/Qk5sdJ https://t.co/ApEKfZE6Kl
  
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• In a reversal, Burlington principal allows students to publish story

  13-09-2018 21:08 via vtdigger.org
  Burlington High School on North Avenue. File photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDigger
  The Burlington School District issued a statement Thursday defending high school principal Noel Green’s decision to tell the school’s student newspaper to remove a story despite questions about whether Green had violated a new law protecting student journalists.
  At the same time, the district said Green was now inviting students to re-publish the article that had been taken down on Tuesday because local media
  
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• Burlington district backs removal of story in student newspaper

  13-09-2018 21:08 via vtdigger.org
  Burlington High School on North Avenue. File photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDigger
  The Burlington School District issued a statement Thursday defending high school principal Noel Green’s decision to tell the school’s student newspaper to remove a story despite questions about whether Green had violated a new law protecting student journalists.
  At the same time, the district said Green was now inviting students to re-publish the article that had been taken down on Tuesday because local media
  
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• Gov. Scott names September ‘disaster month’

  13-09-2018 20:53 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Gov. Phil ScottSept. 7, 2018
  Contact:Rebecca [email protected]
  Mark [email protected]
  GOVERNOR SCOTT PROCLAIMS SEPTEMBER AS DISASTER MONTH IN VERMONTHighlights Importance of Emergency Preparedness
  Montpelier, Vt. – Governor Phil Scott has proclaimed September as “Preparedness Month” in Vermont in conjunction with National Preparedness Month.
  Dangerous and destructive weather events like floods, windstorms, ex
  
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• Vermont Yankee fuel move wins final NRC approval

  13-09-2018 19:59 via vtdigger.org
  Crews move the 58th and final spent fuel storage cask at Vermont Yankee earlier this summer. Entergy submitted photo
  Federal regulators have issued a final seal of approval for Vermont Yankee’s $143 million fuel move project.
  A new inspection report says Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors came up with “no findings of safety significance” after conducting observations, interviews and document reviews in connection with the 14-month transfer of the plant’s radioactive
  
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• 350Vermont plans statewide climate action

  13-09-2018 19:34 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — 350VermontSept. 7, 2018
  Contact:Lily [email protected](831) 236-6247
  350VERMONT PLANS STATEWIDE ACTIONS TO BOLSTER MAJOR CLIMATE MOBILIZATION
  Burlington, Vermont — On September 8, 350Vermont local groups and statewide partners will be holding actions as part of the global Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice mobilization. Tens of thousands of people around the world, representing faith, youth, justice and cities will be joining the Rise for Climate mobilization on
  
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• University of Vermont business school dean named 2018 Fetner Fellow

  13-09-2018 19:28 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — University of VermontSept. 7, 2018
  Contact:Jeff Wakefield(802) 578-8830
  UVM’s Sharma Named the 2018 Fetner Sustainable Enterprise Fellow
  Sanjay Sharma, dean of UVM’s Grossman School of Business, is the 2018 Fetner Fellow.
  Sanjay Sharma, dean of the University of Vermont’s Grossman School of Business, has been named the 2018 Fetner Sustainable Enterprise Fellow.
  The prestigious research fellowship is made annually to a leading international scholar in sustai
  
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• Fun And (Board) Games: The Tabletop Renaissance dlvr.it/Qk5Dkt https://t.co/vbWiuY989x

  13-09-2018 19:11 via twitter.com
  
  Fun And (Board) Games: The Tabletop Renaissance dlvr.it/Qk5Dkt https://t.co/vbWiuY989x
  
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• FCC chief’s visit aims to boost net neutrality repeal

  13-09-2018 18:57 via vtdigger.org
  FCC Chairman Ajit Pai visited Vermont on Wednesday. FCC photo
  SPRINGFIELD — FCC Chairman Ajit Pai was calm when he was lifted 20 feet in the air by a cherry picker in the pouring rain to see a communications tower at the top of a muddy hill in.
  “I wore the wrong outfit,” said Pai, who was in a suit and tie as he put on a safety helmet and strapped himself into a bucket Wednesday to see the work of VTel, the small Springfield company that provides some of the fastest internet sp
  
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• Vermont’s obesity rate inches upward in new study

  13-09-2018 17:56 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont has the 12th-lowest adult obesity rate in the United States, a new report shows.
  But that ranking masks a larger, troubling trend: The state’s adult obesity rate has continued to move upward and now stands at 27.6 percent – up from 17 percent in 2000 and 10.7 percent in 1990.Get all of VTDigger's health care news.You'll never miss our health care coverage with our weekly headlines in your inbox.Daily
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• Access, Resources, Poverty: The Challenges Of Rural Mental Health Care dlvr.it/Qk44GJ https://t.co/i1c6lDw6bO

  13-09-2018 15:38 via twitter.com
  
  Access, Resources, Poverty: The Challenges Of Rural Mental Health Care dlvr.it/Qk44GJ https://t.co/i1c6lDw6bO
  
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• Holland votes to close its only school in the face of forced merger

  13-09-2018 03:29 via vtdigger.org
  Holland voted to close its elementary school in an effort to prevent a forced merger under Act 46. Photo by Lola Duffort/VTDigger
  In a bid to avoid a forced merger under Act 46, Holland residents have voted to close their elementary school at the end of the year.
  The vote was decisive – 57 to 21 in favor.
  It’s unclear if the strategy will work. The decision to send the school’s roughly 40 kids to nearby Derby came Tuesday night despite a last-minute statement from the Vermont A
  
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• FAA shutdown of runway at Coventry airport restricts flights

  13-09-2018 03:23 via vtdigger.org
  The Northeast Kingdom International Airport in Coventry. Vermont Agency of Transportation photo
  Federal authorities have shut down the main runway at the Northeast Kingdom International Airport, substantially restricting commercial traffic, because of safety concerns caused by trees the state of Vermont was supposed to have already removed.
  The Federal Aviation Administration issued a notice to pilots late Tuesday that runway 36 was closed for landings at speeds greater than 50 knots, eliminatin
  
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• State ethics panel issues ‘weak’ opinion on Scott’s alleged conflict of interest

  13-09-2018 03:09 via vtdigger.org
  Gov. Phil Scott says he is not involved with his former construction company, though it still owes him more than $2 million. Photo by Kristopher Radder/Brattleboro Reformer
  The director of a state ethics panel issued an opinion Wednesday saying the body does have the investigative authority to determine whether Gov. Phil Scott has violated any ethical rules by maintaining a financial relationship with his former company.
  Brian Leven, the executive director of the Vermont State Ethics Commission,
  
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• Bennington state’s attorney challenger rips into incumbent

  13-09-2018 02:36 via vtdigger.org
  Bennington State’s Attorney Erica Marthage, left, and challenger Christine Rainville. Courtesy photos
  BENNINGTON — Christina Rainville, a candidate for Bennington County state’s attorney, has escalated her attacks on her former boss, three-term incumbent Erica Marthage.
  Rainville alleges in a release that she was forced from her job as chief deputy in the office in 2016, and contends that Marthage has mismanaged the office during her 11 years as the county’s top prosecuto
  
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• Jim Fitzgerald: I’m not leaving the Democratic Party, it has left me

  13-09-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jim Fitzgerald, of St. Albans, who is a Republican candidate for the Franklin 3-1 House seat. He is a former Democratic state legislator and former mayor of St. Albans.As a proud Democrat, I was elected to represent St. Albans in the Vermont state Legislature for six years, and after that I served as mayor of St. Albans for four years. This year I’m running for the Legislature again … but as a Republican.
  Yes, a Vermont Republican.Why? Beca
  
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• Robby Porter: The divine right of Trump

  13-09-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Robby Porter, of East Montpelier, a self-employed woodworker and the owner and partner in small scale hydroelectric projects. He is the author of “Doodlebug, A Road Trip Journal.”
  In late 1979, “The Gambler,” sung by Kenny Rogers, crossed over from country to pop radio and got played repetitively on our school bus route. I was about 14 and I didn’t like the song. I especially didn’t like the gambler’s pointless,
  
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• Scott Thompson: Rule #1: Don’t be vicious

  13-09-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Scott Thompson, of Calais, who is a U-32 board member, Act 46 survivor, and recovering elitist.
  If you have had better things to do over the summer than follow the latest plot twists in the saga of Act 46 (the 2015 law promoting school district consolidation in Vermont) — and I hope you have — you may not be aware that the Scott administration is proposing to force mergers on districts where consolidation will do demonstrable harm.
  The battl
  
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• UVM initiates search for president with an emphasis on diversity

  13-09-2018 00:37 via vtdigger.org
  Two hundred students marched in September 2017 to the Waterman Building, demanding that President Tom Sullivan expel a freshman who stole a campus Black Lives Matter flag. Photo courtesy of Elias Periera, a UVM student.
  The University of Vermont plans to expedite the search process for a new president.
  The presidential search committee met for the first time on Tuesday and made a commitment to naming the next UVM leader by February. The panel stressed the need to attract diverse candidates.
  The
  
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• VTDigger Minute: BHS licensing charges, Register censorship, landfill resistance

  13-09-2018 00:16 via vtdigger.org
  VTDigger Minute is a weekly news digest from Vermont PBS. Tune in every Wednesday at 6 p.m. and Thursday at 6:30 a.m. to hear about the week’s top stories.
  This week on the Minute:
  Agency urges suspension of BHS guidance director
  The Vermont Agency of Education wants a one-year suspension for Burlington High School guidance director Mario Macias after charging that he created a hostile work environment for colleagues. A state board will decide whether those charges should cost Macias
  
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