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Waterbury, Vt. – August 3, 2010 - September dates for Vermont’s resident Canada goose hunting season and the youth waterfowl hunt weekend have been set by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board.
A statewide open hunting season for Canada geese will occur September 7-25, 2010. The daily bag limit will be five Canada geese except in [...]
Gulf of Mexico – August 3, 2010 – During final preparations to commence with the injectivity test on Monday, BP discovered a small hydraulic leak in the capping stack hydraulic control system. The injectivity test, previously announced to take place Monday is rescheduled until the leak is repaired which is expected Tuesday says BP. As [...]
South Burlington, Vt.- March 31, 2010 – A bomb threat at South Burlington High School prompted officials to evacuate the buildings at 9 a.m. this morning to nearby FH Tuttle Middle School after a note was found at 8:50 a.m.on the first floor of the school Wednesday.
All high school students and staff were evacuated to [...]
Middlebury, Vt. – March 30, 2010 – Bret Williams, President and CEO of Green Mountain Beverage, producers of Woodchuck Draft Cider in Middlebury, Vermont, announced it has hired Jen O’Hurley as Marketing Manager of Consumer Relations.
O’Hurley is a recent graduate in Marketing from Arizona State University where she worked at Woodchuck Cider events. The company says O’Hurley will [...]
courtesy YouTube Reuters Footage – Devastation on the streets of Port Au Prince in Haiti
Montpelier, Vt. – January 12, 2010 - Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie today announced a six-day, statewide Jobs Tour, during which he will meet with large and small business owners around the state. He said his aim is to listen, and identify new ways for state government to help Vermont businesses keep existing employees and create new jobs.
Dubie echoed [...]
South Royalton, Vt. – An investigation by Windsor County Special Investigations Unit of the Vermont State Police initiated in November after receiving a report of child sexual assault has resulted in the arrest of a 27-year-old Vermont man.
South Royalton resident James Durkee, age 27, was arrested Thursday, Dec. 3, on the charge of Aggravated Sexual Assault to a 13-year [...]
Middlebury, Vt. – Middlebury Women’s Basketball team gains their first win of the season over Castleton 51-43 as Middlebury men defeat Castleton 88-58 during home games, Monday, Dec. 1, at Pepin gymnasium.
The women Panthers led wire to wire, holding off the handful of Spartan surges throughout the contest.
Middlebury jumped out to a 5-0 lead as [...]
Vergennes, Vt. - Vergennes new police chief took the helm this week as the state’s smallest city faces a tough challenge ahead following the arrest and firing of the city’s former chief of police.
New police chief George Merkel comes from Middlebury Police Department where he worked as a canine handler with 10 years full-time service and one year part-time [...]
West Point, N.Y. - President Obama addressed the country from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Tuesday evening, Dec. 1, saying he planned to deploy 30,000 additional troops during the first part of 2010.
Obama said, “They will increase our ability to train competent Afghan Security Forces, and to partner with them so that more Afghans can [...]
