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Burlington College plans building project
BURLINGTON, Vt. - Plans to begin building on the Burlington College campus are in the works. The college hopes to turn the 32 acres of land purchased in 2010 into a place where students and the community can interact. The building plan will take 10 to 20 years to complete. The plan includes a community center, temporary faculty housing and student housing. The total cost of the project ...
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NH lawmakers reconcile medical marijuana bills
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- House and Senate negotiators reached a deal on a medical marijuana bill Tuesday, positioning New Hampshire to join more than a dozen other states in legalizing the drug for seriously ill ...
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2 rural Vt. counties get almost $1m for jobs
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Two of Vermont’s most rural counties are getting more than $930,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help create ...
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Vt. utility station launch 20k-item food drive
RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) - Vermont's largest electric utility and a Rutland radio station are hoping to gather 20,000-food items as part of the "2013 Pack the Paramount Food Drive." Green Mountain Power Vice President Steve Costello says that while unemployment is down, demand for food at local food shelves remains high with many still struggling, especially families with small ...
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Vermont man drowns while fishing in E. Idaho
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) - Authorities believe a medical condition may have played a role in the death of a Vermont man who drowned while fishing a trout stream in eastern Idaho. The Fremont County Sheriff's Office said 70-year-old Robert Pressley Evans of Killington, Vt., died Sunday morning. Investigators say he was alone at the time, fishing a section of the Henry's Fork of the ...
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Dredging crews back on Hudson River
FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) - Crews are back dredging the upper Hudson River after high water forced a temporary suspension last week. General Electric Co. says work on the multi-year Superfund project resumed Monday on two areas north of Albany contaminated by PCBs. Heavy rains and high water forced crews off the river late Wednesday. Crews began a fourth season of the project April 29. They are ...
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Vt. and Quebec announce electric car corridor
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and Quebec Premier Pauline Marois say they're implementing an electric vehicle charging corridor across the international boundary between the state and province. The two announced the agreement to install the stations Monday in Montreal. The corridor will initially link Burlington and Montreal with more than 20 charging stations along the ...
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Hopkinton N.Y. man accused of promoting prostitution
HOPKINTON, N.Y. - A Hopkinton, New York man is behind bars, accused of promoting prostitution. Police say Monday, they searched 60-year-old Dean Lamphere's house and business -- Lamphere's General Trucking and Repair. He's facing one count of promoting prostitution and another count of tampering with physical evidence. Police say an investigation is ongoing and no other ...
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Former Vt. trooper decertified as officer
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A former Vermont State Police sergeant in prison after pleading guilty to padding his timesheets can never serve as a police officer again in the state. The Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council has voted to decertify Jim Deeghan as a police officer. Richard Gauthier of the Vermont Police Academy tells the Burlington Free Press ...
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Former Vt. fire chief enters not guilty plea
BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A former Vermont fire chief has pleaded not guilty to fraud and embezzlement stemming from a department-sponsored ...
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Vt. man charged with firing rounds at tree cutter
NEW HAVEN, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont man who says he fired some shots to stop a man from cutting his neighbor’s trees has been accused of reckless ...
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Police Vt. man drove 102 mph in 65-mph zone
WILLISTON, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont man has been charged with speeding 102 miles per hour on northbound Interstate 89. Police said 29-year-old Vadim Davnii of South Burlington was stopped in Williston at about 10:10 p.m. Monday. The speed limit was 65 mph. Police said Davnii said he knew he was speeding. He said he was in a hurry to get home. He was issued a violation alleging careless and ...
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GMP says saving bats would cost $4 million
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The owner of Vermont's most hotly debated wind power project says fully protecting bats around the site would cost about $4 million a year in reduced power output. Vermont Public Radio reports ...
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United Way invests in building blocks
Tuesday June 18, 2013 BRATTLEBORO -- The United Way of Windham County is investing more than $214,000 in high-impact human service programs in the areas of Education, Income, and Health. Starting in July 2013, grants will begin for 24 programs to 14 organizations serving over 14,000 residents of Windham County. United Way’s community impact model guides investment decisions by basing ...
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Chimney Hill Clubhouse under renovation
Tuesday June 18, 2013 WILMINGTON -- The Chimney Hill Clubhouse will be open to its members again on June 22, after about a month of renovations. "We’re doing an expansion, improvements and updating to the facility," said Chimney Hill Owners Association President Ken Spicer. "It brings us more in line with amenities offered in similar developments within the area. We wanted ...
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Memorial Hall insulation bid awarded
Tuesday June 18, 2013 WILMINGTON -- Town Manager Scott Murphy announced that the bids for insulation work in Memorial Hall have been awarded to LineSync Architecture. LineSync had been one out of two reasonable bids that came in during the request for proposal bidding process, he said. The company is owned and run by Julie Lineberger and Joseph Cincotta. Their office is located in Wilmington. ...
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Funds still available to communities for hazard mitigation projects
Tuesday June 18, 2013 BRATTLEBORO -- Vermont cities and towns became eligible for funding from the federal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program following Tropical Storm Irene and the money goes away after July. In total, $11 million in federal funds is still there for the taking. HMGP funds help communities make improvements to public infrastructure and private property that are designed to ...
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Bellow Falls celebrates end of middle school project
Tuesday June 18, 2013 BELLOWS FALLS - Rockingham School Board Chairman Jim McAuliffe has been waiting five years to cut the ribbon in front of the Bellows Falls Middle School. The school board first started talking about the need to renovate the historic 1926 building in the center of the village in 2008 and voters approved the $10.5 million bond for the project in 2011. Since then there have ...
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Dental hygienist goes to Haiti to help orphans finds a life calling
Tuesday June 18, 2013 PUTNEY -- When Julie Winchester first went to Haiti, back in 2007, she wanted to open up her 14-year-old daughter’s world. But then it became more of a life calling. "The connections that have happened since have been crazy," said Winchester, who will be returning to Haiti on Aug. 5. Winchester grew up in Halifax with her grandparents raising her. She ...
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Instilling passion for social change Tim Kipp retires after nearly four decades of teaching
Tuesday June 18, 2013 BRATTLEBORO -- Tim Kipp, who teaches history, law and a political science course at Brattleboro Union High School, has packed up his briefcase. He is retiring after a career that has spanned 39 years, 27 of them at BUHS. "I taught at Leland & Gray and then at Keene State in the Upward Bound program," he said during a recent interview. "I was assistant ...
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Jamaica considers digging well for Town Hall
Tuesday June 18, 2013 JAMAICA -- The Selectboard is looking into replacing the current water system of the Town Hall building. "The Town Hall has a spring right now," said Jamaica Selectboard Chairwoman Lexa Clark. "It’s not drinkable. In the summer, when there’s not a lot of rain, the spring kind of dries up, so there’s not a lot of water." On June 10, ...
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Post-Irene area chambers team up on marketing
Tuesday June 18, 2013 BRATTLEBORO -- A professional marketing group is touring the area and meeting with tourism stakeholders this week as part of any effort to create an economic development brand in southern Vermont. The Windham Regional Commission and Bennington County Regional Commission have contracted with Denver-based Atlas Advertising to create and market an economic development brand. ...
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Town serves up new food truck ordinance
Tuesday June 18, 2013 BRATTLEBORO -- Over the past few years the number of food trucks in Brattleboro has increased and on any given day a hungry customer can get a hot dog, a maple syrup shake or food from Jamaica, Vietnam or Thailand. But if you are looking for some zoning ordinances to go with your banh mi they can’t be found. Now the Planning Commission is cooking up a recipe to fix ...
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GMP seeking permit for bat kill
LOWELL, Vt. - Green Mountain Power wants a permit to kill bats.When the Lowell Mountain Wind project went online -- Little Brown Bats were not an endangered species. Now they are and killing them is illegal. But GMP says changing wind currents at the turbines can cause some bats to die. Utility officials estimate it kills about seven bats a year four of which are the endangered bats. GMP says ...
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Expired parking meters could cost you more in Burlington
BURLINGTON, Vt. - When it comes to parking in downtown Burlington empty spaces can be tough to find. "I go up to the mall parking lot," said Ian Gould. "It's just so much easier to park there. You don't have to bring change every day." Scrounging for change could become even more important – a proposed $3 jump for an expired meter means you would owe ...
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