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Essex, Vt. – January 6, 2010 – The Vermont National Guard 101st Field Artillery B Battery departed today for Camp Atterbury, Indiana, for theater-specific training prior to deployment in Afghanistan. About 100 members of the Guard departed today after a ceremony at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex, Vt. Another group departs Friday when Chairman [...]
Burlington, Vt. – December 30, 2009 - As of Friday morning another facet of Vermont’s Lead in Consumer Products Law, Act 193, goes into effect. On January 1, 2010, the legislation limits the amount of lead allowed in plumbing supplies sold or offered for sale in Vermont. The statute applies to plumbing both inside or outside a home [...]
Montpelier, Vt. – December 30, 2009 – Due to a water main break in the Montpelier area, all State offices in Montpelier, including those at National Life and the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), will be completely closed today. As of 7:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. State offices in Montpelier,Vt., will not be open for business announced Vermont Emergency [...]
Lyndonville, Vt. – December 29, 2009 – At approximately 4:23 p.m. today, Vermont State Police received word that a bank robbery had just occurred at the Passumpsic Savings Bank on Broad Street in Lyndonville.
A lone male entered the bank wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and demanded cash at a teller’s window. He did not display [...]
South Burlington, Vt. – January 2-3, 2009 - Experience a purr-fect day with pet cats of all kinds at the Vermont Fancy Feline Show this coming weekend at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center in South Burlington. 250 Cats and many different breeds will be on site. Manx, Maine Coon, Persians, Siamese and more. The event [...]
St. Johnsbury, Vt. – December 28, 2009 – Vermont State Police received at 9-1-1 call at about 10 a.m. this morning that a woman was found unconscious in the parking lot of Green Mountain Mall in St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Rescue personnel then responded and it was determined that Anna Berwick, 45, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, was deceased and that her death [...]
West Addison, Vt. – The Champlain Bridge in West Addison, Vt. between Crown Point, N.Y. is scheduled for demolition by Advanced Explosives Emolition, Inc. (AED) at 10 a.m., Monday, December 28, 2009.
AED, Inc. claims on their website the world record for the largest building ever successfully imploded, the record for the tallest structure ever successfully [...]
Eden, Vt. – December 24, 2009 – A 46-year old Eden woman died Thursday, when the snowmobile she was riding as a passenger on crashed head-on into a tree in Eden, Vermont.
The driver, Kevin Mayo, 45, who suffered a broken arm and fractured ankle in the crash, was driving the Yamaha V-Max snowmobile on part of the VAST Trail when [...]
Essex, Vt. – December 23, 2009 – Vermont National Guard soldiers boarded chartered busses Wednesday at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, for a bus ride reuniting them with their families and friends in Vermont for the holiday season. Eleven chartered buses caravaned to Vermont throughout the night to reunite soldiers with their families at locations in Essex Junction [...]
Middlesex, Vt. - December 23, 2009 – A woman talking on her cell phone while driving on Interstate I-89 in snowy conditions, lost control and slid off the highway, striking a fire truck this morning, according to Vermont State Police. Rescue personnel and police responded to multiple motor vehicles off Interstate 89 this morning from 8 [...]
