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• Sen. Leahy announces funding for Vermont-based PTSD center

  25-09-2018 23:56 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Sen. Patrick LeahySept. 13, 2018
  Contact:David Carle(202) 224-369
  Leahy Protects Funding For Vermont-Based PTSD Research And Treatment Facility
  WASHINGTON (THURSDAY, Sept. 13, 2018) — Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced a package of appropriations bills approved by the Senate Thursday protects $40 million in funding for the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Consultation Program, run out of the National Cent
  
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• Vermont Delegation announces grants to help opioid crisis

  25-09-2018 23:50 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont DelegationSept. 14, 2018
  Contacts:David Carle (Leahy)202-224-3693
  Dan McLean (Sanders)802-862-6695
  Kate Hamilton (Welch)202-440-3340
  Vermont Delegation Announces More Than $200,000 in Grants to Help Address Opioid Crisis in Vermont
  BURLINGTON, Vt., Sept. 14 – Vermont’s congressional delegation announced Friday that U.S.D.A. Rural Development has awarded four grants totaling $204,200 to help combat the opioid epidemic in Vermont.
  “Vermonters in every
  
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• Vermont Stage announces opening of ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’

  25-09-2018 23:44 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont StageSept. 14, 2018
  Contact:Cristina [email protected]
  VERMONT STAGE OPENS ITS 25TH SEASON WITH THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
  BURLINGTON, VT – Vermont Stage opens its 25th season in October with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, adapted for the stage by Simon Stephens from Mark Haddon’s best-selling novel. Curious Incident takes the audience on an adventure alongside the play’s unlikely hero,
  
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• Phoenix Books to host James Dunn

  25-09-2018 23:38 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Phoenix BooksSept. 14, 2018
  Contact:Kristen Eaton802.872.7111 (p)[email protected]
  JAMES DUNN: BREACH OF TRUST
  Rutland, Vermont – September 14, 2018: On Thursday, October 4th at 6:30pm, Phoenix Books Rutland will host James Dunn for a talk on his new book, Breach of Trust: The Ethics Scandal That Challenged the Integrity of the Vermont Judiciary.
  Voted the number one Vermont news story for 1987, Breach of Trust chronicles the ethics scandal t
  
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• Thetford man sentenced to prison for sexual assault of elderly woman

  25-09-2018 23:36 via vtdigger.org
  Michael Paton is lead into Windsor Superior Court in White River Junction on May 10 for a change of plea hearing. Photo by Jennifer Hauck/Valley News
  This story by Jordan Cuddemi was published by the Valley News on Sept. 25.
  WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A former worker at an assisted living facility in the Upper Valley who sexually assaulted a resident with dementia will spend at least the next 15 months in prison.Get all of VTDigger's criminal justice news.You'll never miss our courts and
  
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• EB-5 investors keep alive bid to intervene in case against Quiros, Stenger

  25-09-2018 23:21 via vtdigger.org
  Russell Barr speaks to reporters outside the Lamoille County Courthouse in Hyde Park last summer. Photo by Anne Galloway/VTDigger
  The Vermont Supreme Court is allowing an attorney for a group of EB-5 investors to continue in his bid to jump into a fraud case against two Jay Peak developers that the state is seeking to settle with for more than $2 million.
  That’s the latest twist in the long-running legal tussle between the state of Vermont and attorney Russell Barr, of the Stowe-based Barr
  
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• Police analyzing iPhone of accused South Burlington killer Leroy Headley

  25-09-2018 22:43 via vtdigger.org
  Leroy Headley, left, with Anako Lumumba in a photograph posted to her Facebook page.
  South Burlington police last week began analyzing the contents of an iPhone that belonged to Leroy Headley, the accused killer of Anako Lumumba, the mother of two of his children and a nurse in the Burlington area.
  Headley has been on the run since allegedly shooting Lumumba dead in their shared home in South Burlington on May 3. Police found the Nissan Pathfinder he had been driving in Albany, New York, on May
  
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• Police analyzing iPhone of accused South Burlington killer

  25-09-2018 22:43 via vtdigger.org
  Leroy Headley, left, with Anako Lumumba in a photograph posted to her Facebook page.
  South Burlington police last week began analyzing the contents of an iPhone that belonged to Leroy Headley, the accused killer of Anako Lumumba, the mother of two of his children and a nurse in the Burlington area.
  Headley has been on the run since allegedly shooting Lumumba dead in their shared home in South Burlington on May 3. Police found the Nissan Pathfinder he had been driving in Albany, New York, on May
  
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• NAACP forums fail to draw candidates from major parties

  25-09-2018 21:51 via vtdigger.org
  Cris Ericson, independent candidate for governor and U.S. House, right, gestures during an NAACP forum in Brattleboro on Saturday. Other participants, from left: Emily Peyton, Liberty Union candidate for governor; Murray Ngoima, Liberty Union candidate for lieutenant governor; and Trevor Barlow, independent for governor. SAPA TV
  Two branches of the Vermont NAACP hosted forums last weekend designed for the candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general to discuss racial equity
  
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• Colo. consultant seeks local judgement in debt owed by Hermitage Club

  25-09-2018 20:48 via vtdigger.org
  The Hermitage Club in Wilmington. File photo by Kristopher Radder/Brattleboro Reformer
  Editor’s note: This story by Chris Mays was published by the Brattleboro Reformer on Sept. 25.
  NEWFANE — Consultants in Colorado want their money for work done on behalf of the Hermitage Club as company officials eye a loan to get the company back on its feet in time to open its members-only ski resort this winter.RELATED STORIESHermitage Club working on $30 million loan for reopening this seasonHe
  
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  25-09-2018 20:38 via twitter.com
  
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• Burlington council gives strong backing to high school renovation bond

  25-09-2018 17:33 via vtdigger.org
  Burlington High School was built in 1964. Photo by Alexandre Silberman/VTDigger
  Burlingtonians will have the opportunity to vote on a $70 million bond for renovation of Burlington High School after the city council adopted a motion late Monday to put the issue on the November ballot.
  Approval came on an 11-1 vote, with council president Kurt Wright, R-Ward 1, the lone dissenter. He said that while everyone on the council agrees with the need for a new high school, he thought the process was rush
  
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• Burlington hires consultant to oversee $242 million CityPlace development

  25-09-2018 03:32 via vtdigger.org
  A sign at the CityPlace construction site last month. Photo by Alexandre Silberman/VTDigger
  The City of Burlington is hiring a consultant to oversee the $242 million CityPlace Burlington development and coordinate between the city and developer Don Sinex.The project will include nearly 300 residential units and retail and office space, using $220 million in private funding and in $21.8 million in public money. City Council gave Sinex approval to pour the site’s foundation in August, but th
  
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• No easy, or cheap, answers to Vermont’s wastewater problems, legislative panel told

  25-09-2018 03:19 via vtdigger.org
  Sen. Chris Bray, D-Addison, kicks off a Senate Natural Resources Committee meeting last week on what to do about combined sewer overflows at the ECHO Center. Photo by Elizabeth Gribkoff/VTDigger
  BURLINGTON — A summer of high profile wastewater releases has shed light on the need for expensive upgrades to that component of Vermont’s aging infrastructure.
  But municipal wastewater treatment managers are concerned that a focus on eliminating sewer overflows will take away funding from an
  
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• Gone fishing: An epic legal battle epitomizes a ‘reflexive instinct’ to block records

  25-09-2018 02:55 via vtdigger.org
  Former Attorney General William Sorrell, right, fishing in 2015, in a photo posted to his Facebook page.
  Attorney Brady Toensing says the only fishing expedition he’s interested in pursuing occurred in 2016 when former Attorney General William Sorrell’s cell phone — and all the text messages Toensing wanted reviewed — was ruined by water while casting in Connecticut.
  Three years after making his initial request — just weeks from the one year anniversary of a unanimo
  
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• Vermont cannabis business jeopardized as Quebec and Mass. open retail stores

  25-09-2018 02:36 via vtdigger.org
  The Vancouver Global Marijuana March in 2015. Photo by Jeremiah Vandermeer via Flikr
  Retail sale of cannabis will soon be legal to Vermont’s south and to its north but that won’t be much help to Vermont marijuana buyers, and the state might take a financial hit, some say.
  Cannabis possession became legal in Quebec in June and retail sales will begin Oct. 17. In Massachusetts, possession has been legal for two years and the first retail outlets are expected to open by the end of the y
  
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• Stenger backers upset over blown surprise for birthday bash

  25-09-2018 01:17 via vtdigger.org
  The front of the invitation to Bill Stenger’s birthday party at Jay Peak.
  The surprise is blown and VTDigger is to blame.
  That’s the take from Bill Stenger’s attorney as well as his son in response to a story from the news organization published online this weekend about a 70th birthday party planned at Jay Peak for the former resort president who regulators say nearly sent the facility into financial ruin.
  “To run a story today about a surprise birthday party that my sis
  
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• Phil Scott: It’s time to rise above

  25-09-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican.
  In his farewell to the nation, Sen. John McCain reminded us of the exceptional capacity of American optimism and challenged us to recognize that “we weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe.”
  I couldn’t agree more.
  Political polarization – what Sen. McCain called “tribal r
  
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• Lawrence Zupan: Sanders owes Vermonters debates

  25-09-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Lawrence Zupan, who is the Republican nominee for United States Senate.
  Local media is vital to Vermont’s political process. Issues that aren’t on the radar in the pressrooms of NYC, D.C. or LA are often of the utmost importance to Vermonters, and it’s our local media that can and does hold our candidates accountable on those issues. We have a unique advantage in our less populous state: the opportunity for local journalists to play an
  
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• John McClaughry: The school consolidation big hammer

  25-09-2018 00:55 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by John McClaughry, the vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute.For over half a century, the managers of Vermont’s public education system have yearned to consolidate school districts, get rid of “inefficient” small schools, and install progressive ideas that the locals were too obtuse to grasp and implement themselves.
  Until 2009 those efforts repeatedly failed. But in that year Education Commissioner Armando Vilaseca aggressively re
  
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