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• Inside one man’s quest to bring performing arts back to Burlington’s Memorial Auditorium

  25-11-2022 23:38 via vtdigger.org
  
  Jim Lockridge stands outside the part of Memorial Auditorium that used to house teen club 242 Main in Burlington on Thursday, Nov. 17. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — In a corner of a studio space in Burlington’s South End, there is a door that goes nowhere.It might be like any other interior door except that it’s covered top to bottom with stickers, mostly promoting punk and hardcore bands. It leans against a wall, detached from its frame, displayed under soft ligh
  
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• Phil Scott launches new equity initiative focused on Vermont municipalities

  25-11-2022 19:23 via vtdigger.org
  
  IDEAL Vermont, which stands for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Action and Leadership, officially kicked off in October. Photo courtesy Vermont Office of the GovernorGov. Phil Scott announced this week that a new statewide program, called IDEAL — Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Action and Leadership — will encourage Vermont’s municipalities to focus more proactively on equity. Xusana Davis. Courtesy photoMuch of the injustice baked into the systems of the country began at
  
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• Bursts of gunfire collide with other uses on 825-acre property in Windsor

  25-11-2022 13:04 via vtdigger.org
  
  Michael Quinn, of Windsor, points to the bank where people used to set up targets that they would shoot from across the pond at the Windsor Grasslands Wildlife Management Area on Tuesday, Nov. 15. Target shooting was prohibited after the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department acquired the property. Photo by Alex Driehaus/Valley News/Report For AmericaEditor’s note: This story by Frances Mize first appeared in the Valley News on Nov. 20.State officials are warning against illegal target shoot
  
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• Vermont experts offer guidance for bringing birds, not bears, to the feeder

  25-11-2022 12:45 via vtdigger.org
  
  The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is recommending that Vermonters wait until the beginning of December to put up their bird feeders to avoid attracting bears. Photo by Aaron J Hill/PexelsThe Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is recommending that Vermonters wait until the beginning of December to put up their bird feeders to avoid attracting bears.Although bird feeding is an exciting way to get up close and personal with the neighborhood chickadees and cardinals, Doug Morin, Vermont
  
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